# Bamboo

- By: Zhengxing (bijnaam Wuzhai)
- Date: c. 1675 - c. 1750
- Medium: paper, ink, silk
- Classification: hanging scroll
- Dimensions: diameter 47 mm
- Credit line: On loan from the Royal Asian Art Society in The Netherlands (gift of Maartje Draak, 1993)
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/AK-MAK-1455-D--a9eaf0ce495ec40f9a08f300b1843685)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/016b14a039680e4417738eded314ae14.jpg
- Who can see it: Little Ones profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

These four hanging scrolls are examples of Chinese bamboo painting. Central to this genre is mastery of the brush. The bamboo stem segments as well as the individual leaves are all rendered with just a single brushstroke. The artist worked fairly wet and, in addition to grey tints, made ample use of an undiluted deep black ink to create an atmosphere of lush and moist vegetation.