Boston Museum of Fine arts

The Nine Dragons by Chen Rong, is a large ink on paper scroll leveraged heavily by Daoist philosophy. By the artists admission in the poetry accompanying the work, Nine Dragons was painted wile Chen Rong was intoxicated (Sullivan, 78-111). Indeed the rough work on the piece was allegedly done with the creative persons own hat dropped in ink, with the fine details done with a customary calligrapher's brush. The significance of the work in periods of creative technique is in the increasable animation of the numbers and landscape components in the scroll. The swell and clouds seem ...