Archival Note Card | Chinese Opera Masks - #6

Cream face with dark slanted eyes, a black cap, and a long moss-green beard.

This is an archival note card from the chinese opera masks series, no. 6, titled "sinister". It is paper. Chinese opera uses painted face patterns, known as lianpu, in which color and design generally signal a character's temperament, role or moral standing. Vertical card in a muted green-gold palette. The pale face is lightly shaded, with heavy dark lines around the eyes and a firm brow. A square-cornered black hat tops the head, and the beard drops in long straight strokes. It is 4.25 inches long and 5.5 high.

Quiet, stern, and wearing a very square hat.