Archival Note Card | Chinese Opera Masks - #1

Bright red face with fierce white brows glares from a black frame.

This is an archival note card from the Chinese opera masks series. It is paper. The painted masks and faces of Chinese opera follow established conventions of color and pattern, and viewers familiar with them can often read a character at a glance. Tall-format card with a red mask-like face, heavy white eyebrows curling upward, and a long dark beard. White and grey bubbles dot the headdress, and a grey disc sits at the cheek. A woven gold border and a small stamp of script sit below. It is 4.25 inches long and 5.5 high.

Scowls hard, but the beard keeps its composure.