Wuhu iron painting, orchid and scholar's rock, handcrafted iron wall art decorative hanging picture

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Orchid and Scholar's Rock is the quietest pairing in Chinese painting: orchid leaves slender and long, the rock blunt and heavy—one soft, one firm. The orchid leaves must be cut from thin iron sheet and then forged; any thicker and they look stiff. The rock's planes are struck with the back of a hammer, leaving the rough forging marks intact. The whole piece has only a few main lines, and the direction of each line must be exactly right—this is the hardest type of iron painting to make, because it has been reduced as far as it can go. Wuhu iron painting originated in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties and was inscribed in 2006 on China'…

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