明 仿陳淳 雜花圖 冊, Garden Flowers, Ming dynasty (1368?1644), dated 1540, China, Album of sixteen paintings and one leaf of calligraphy; ink and color on paper, Image (six leaves) : 12 13/16 x 22 9/16 in. (32. 5 x 57. 3 cm), Paintings, After Chen Chun (Chinese, 1483?1544), Following Shen Zhou?s (1427?1509) example of treating still-life painting as uninhibited ?ink plays, ? Chen Chun strove to turn his flower paintings into spontaneous ?idea writings. ? Realistic flower paintings had been a popular subject since at least the tenth century, and Chen Chun was perhaps the greatest exponent of this genre in his time