Lychee Fruit Painting

If you want to see how the paintings are being made, follow @asiaodkasi or Joanna M Dziedzianowicz on Instagram. Instastory updated every Wednesday. Inspired by the Indian Ocean archipelago culture. People that are from different countries of that area but can easily comunicate with common language and share common culture. I was also inspired by my grandmas trip to Ceylon nowadays known as Sri Lanka, her photographs taken back then. Cultivation of lychee began in the region of southern China, Malaysia, and northern Vietnam. Wild trees still grow in rainforests in Guangdong province and on Hainan Island. Unofficial records in China refer to lychee as far back as 2000 BC. In the 1st century, fresh lychees were in such demand at the Imperial Court that a special courier service with fast horses would bring the fresh fruit from Guangdong. There was great demand for lychee in the Song Dynasty (960-1279), according to Cai Xiang, in his Li chi pu (Treatise on Lychees). It was also the favourite fruit of Emperor Li Longji (Xuanzong)'s favoured concubine Yang Yuhuan (Yang Guifei). The emperor had the fruit delivered at great expense to the capital.[3] In the Chinese classical work, Shanglin Fu, it is stated that the alternate name, meaning leaving its branches, is so-called because once the fruit is picked it deteriorates quickly. The lychee attracted attention of European travelers, such as Juan González de Mendoza in his History of the great and mighty kingdom of China (1585; English translation 1588), based on the reports of Spanish friars who had visited China in the 1570s gave the fruit high praise:[10] [T]hey haue a kinde of plummes, that they doo call lechias, that are of an exceeding gallant tast, and neuer hurteth any body, although they shoulde eate a great number of them. The lychee was scientifically described by Pierre Sonnerat (1748–1814) on a return from his travels to China and Southeast Asia.[citation needed] It was then introduced to the Réunion Island in 1764 by Joseph-François Charpentier de Cossigny de Palma.[citation needed] It was later introduced to Madagascar which has become a major producer. If you wish to have one of my paintings, that might have been already sold you can always ask for commission. Contact Saachi Art Team to forward email to the artist jdziedzianowicz@gmail.com

Painting:Acrylic on Paper

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:8.3 W x 11.4 H x 0.1 D in

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