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Screen

Refers to furniture or built-in features in the form of an upright partition that can be used to embellish, partition, shelter, and provide privacy. Screens are often highly decorated.

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Japanese art: the formats of two-dimensional works

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Ogata Kōrin, Red and White Plum Blossoms

18th century

Screen with the Siege of Belgrade and Hunting Scene (or Brooklyn Biombo)

c. 1697–1701

Hon’ami Kōetsu, Folding Screen mounted with poems

c. 1624–37

Masami Teraoka, American Kabuki

1986

Chaekgeori-type screen

late 19th–early 20th century

Bamboo in the Four Seasons: painting and poetry in Japan

late 15th–early 16th century

Biombo with the Conquest of Tenochtitlan and View of Mexico City

late 17th century