Oriental drybrush landscape

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Rusty

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A customer has presented an oriental dry brush landscape painting (15 5/8 x 18 1/4) for framing. She indicated that " I found one painting with the mat cut wider at the top, so I measured and found that the top is 5'', the sides 2 1/2'' and the bottom 3 1/2". This picture is somewhat smaller but is a rectangle like the landscape. Why don't you and Russ do whatever you think will look best for this particular painting. I tried to find information about this style of framing in my sources, but could not and don't think I'll spend the time searching through books trying to find any info."

Based on that, I presumed that she wanted the picture matted "top heavy", but felt it looked odd. Is anyone familiar with matting/framing this type art and what the generally accepted mat widths are?

Thanks in advance ..
 
I think may have something to do with the way some oriental pictures were hung on a wall unframed. A large border was left at the top so that it covered and protected the image when rolled up. Doesn't really apply to matted work. Long-thin upright pictures can look good with fairly narrow side margins, wider top with a bottom margin in proportion. Something like in a ratio 1:2:3.
This acccentuates the long-thiness and can look quite elegant.

The perspective in oriental landscape art can look odd to western eyes, so the mat design doesn't have to follow western conventions.
 
Welcome to the Grumble, Rusty! :icon21:

We're glad to have you here. I've never heard of this type
of presentation, and it's been interesting to read what our
guys have written here. Thanks for asking the question.
 
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