Emerging in the mid 19th century, the bapo, ‘eight brokens’, genre is a style of painting that creates realistic depictions of scraps of paper ephemera – documents, rubbings and pages from books – arranged in haphazard, collage-like compositions. Published to accompany the exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, this catalogue explores 70 examples, including designs on ceramics as well as paintings, from the 1860s to the 21st century.
A rediscovery and appreciation of an intriguing form of Chinese painting in the late 19th and early 20th centuries that encoded messages about modern society in realistic depictions of fragments from China's past.
Developed during the mid-19th century in China, the bapo `eight brokens' painting genre combines ingeniously realistic depictions of antique documents, such as calligraphies, rubbings, paintings, and pages from old books, sometimes alongside everyday contemporary ephemera including advertisements, receipts, and postmarked envelopes. The resulting seemingly haphazard, overlapping compositions contain coded reflections on the decay of cultural traditions, or wishes for the recipient's good fortune.
This book explores the origins of bapo in Chinese visual culture and traces how it blossomed into an intriguing and inventive tradition in the hands of many artists.
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