Archival Note Card | Chinese Opera Masks - #13

Dark green-black mask peers from beneath a drooping red hood.

This archival note card from the chinese opera masks series, no. 13, titled "four eyes". It is paper. In many Chinese opera traditions, a red painted face is generally read as loyal and upright and a white one as cunning, though conventions vary by regional style. Portrait card where the face is mostly deep olive and black with pale pink around one eye. A long, finely lined black beard hangs over the chest, and dark red cloth frames the head. Script sits at the lower right. It is 4.25 inches long and 5.5 high.

Gloomy, tidy, and just a little mysterious.