Archival Note Card | Chinese Opera Masks - #15

Pale face with pink cheeks and curly brows sits above a long grey beard.

This archival note card from the chinese opera masks series, no. 15, titled "the spider". 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. Standing card with a white mask, rosy cheeks, a ruffled pink nose and thick curled eyebrows. A blue and red headdress with a small white plaque crowns it, and a finely ruled beard falls below. Script marks the right edge. It is 4.25 inches long and 5.5 high.

Rosy cheeks, serious beard, no contradiction.