Archival Note Card | Chinese Opera Masks - #22

Hooded face tilts sideways with white-ringed eyes and a small orange beak of a nose.

This archival note card from the chinese opera masks series, no. 22, titled "the red triangle". 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. Lofty card with a dark blue cap and a tall grey beard drawn in blue-grey lines. Black and white patches ring the eyes, an orange triangle forms the nose, and a pale curled mustache sits above a white chin. Script runs at the right. It is 4.25 inches long and 5.5 high.

A sideways look worth the whole visit.