Art Reboot

79 original length of the painting as it was mounted and remounted over the centuries, acquiring ever more colophons. Sometimes comments and collectors’ seals became a blizzard of accretions recording ownership, participation and responses. Colophons on older works can be traced back to as early as the Tang dynasty (618–906). For centuries, Chinese artists and audiences have conversed, over tea or wine, in the gardens of art process.