Chinese realistic painting-detailed painting. Lotus and birds.

Size: 33cm*66cm

In Buddhist symbolism, the lotus represents spirituality and illumination as if floating above the muddy waters of attachment and desire. Therefore, many deities of Asian religions are depicted as seated on a lotus flower. Zhou Dunyi, a major philosophical thinker of the Northern Song dynasty, regards lotus as "the gentleman among flowers", and admires lotus for its qualities, "I love only the lotus, for rising from the mud yet remaining unstained; bathed by pure currents and yet not seductive." Moreover, the lotus is associated with the fruitfulness of summer, and lotus seed pods symbolize fertility and offspring in Chinese traditional culture.

This series of Chinese lotus paintings is rendered in soft and elegant colors, and shows enchantingly beautiful scenes. The lotus clearly reveals light ink saturated with water, which creates an effect of gradations. The lively bird is a good complement, and adds a blessing for happiness.