Image Credits & Acknowledgements
Each of the 64 Guardian Cards in DEC.12 uses a classical Western painting chosen to echo that hexagram's meaning. All of the works below are in the public domain (the original artworks are old enough that copyright has expired, and faithful photographic reproductions of two-dimensional public-domain art do not carry a new copyright). Most images are sourced via Wikimedia Commons; the app icon is used courtesy of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, under its Open Access (CC0) program.
Guardian Card Artworks
- 01. 乾為天 Michelangelo - The Creation of Adam Source ↗
- 02. 坤為地 Jean-François Millet - The Gleaners Source ↗
- 03. 水雷屯 Jean-François Millet - The Sower Source ↗
- 04. 山水蒙 Johannes Vermeer - The Astronomer - 1668 Source ↗
- 05. 水天需 Caspar David Friedrich - Wanderer above the Sea of Fog Source ↗
- 06. 天水訟 Louis david, le sabine, 1799 Source ↗
- 07. 地水師 Rembrandt van Rijn - The Night Watch Source ↗
- 08. 水地比 Pierre-Auguste Renoir - Luncheon of the Boating Party Source ↗
- 09. 風天小畜 Claude Monet - Impression, Sunrise Source ↗
- 10. 天澤履 Ave Caesar! Morituri te salutant, by Jean-Léon Gérôme Source ↗
- 11. 天地泰 Sandro Botticelli - Primavera Source ↗
- 12. 天地否 Joseph Mallord William Turner 081 Source ↗
- 13. 天火同人 Raphael - The School of Athens Source ↗
- 14. 火天大有 Vincent van Gogh - The Harvest Source ↗
- 15. 地山謙 JEAN-FRANÇOIS MILLET - El Ángelus Source ↗
- 16. 雷地豫 Edgar Degas - The Dance Class Source ↗
- 17. 澤雷隨 J.M.W. Turner - The Fighting Temeraire Source ↗
- 18. 山風蠱 Hieronymus Bosch - The Ship of Fools Source ↗
- 19. 地澤臨 Rembrandt - The Sampling Officials Source ↗
- 20. 風地觀 Caspar David Friedrich - Monk by the Sea Source ↗
- 21. 火雷噬嗑 Richard Westall's Sword of Damocles, 1812 Source ↗
- 22. 山火賁 Johannes Vermeer - The Art of Painting Source ↗
- 23. 山地剝 Caspar David Friedrich - Winter Landscape Source ↗
- 24. 地雷復 Claude Monet - The Magpie Source ↗
- 25. 天雷無妄 John Constable - The Hay Wain Source ↗
- 26. 山天大畜 Pieter Bruegel the Elder - The Harvesters Source ↗
- 27. 山雷頤 Diego Velázquez - The Waterseller of Seville Source ↗
- 28. 澤風大過 Gustave Courbet - The Wave Source ↗
- 29. 坎為水 Hovhannes Aivazovsky - The Ninth Wave Source ↗
- 30. 離為火 Georges de La Tour - Magdalene with the Smoking Flame Source ↗
- 31. 澤山咸 Klimt - The Kiss Source ↗
- 32. 雷風恆 Gustav Klimt - The Tree of Life Source ↗
- 33. 天山遯 Two Men Contemplating the Moon, Metropolitan Museum of Art Source ↗
- 34. 雷天大壯 Théodore Géricault - The Charging Chasseur Source ↗
- 35. 火地晉 J.M.W. Turner - Sunrise Source ↗
- 36. 地火明夷 Philosopher in Meditation by Rembrandt Source ↗
- 37. 風火家人 Jan Steen - The Happy Family Source ↗
- 38. 火澤睽 Caravaggio - The Fortune Teller Source ↗
- 39. 水山蹇 Pieter Bruegel the Elder - Hunters in the Snow Source ↗
- 40. 雷水解 Claude Monet - Break-up of Ice Source ↗
- 41. 山澤損 Paul Cézanne - Still Life with Apples Source ↗
- 42. 風雷益 Sandro Botticelli - The Birth of Venus Source ↗
- 43. 澤天夬 Charles I at the Hunt - Anthony van Dyck, c. 1635 Source ↗
- 44. 天風姤 Jean-Honoré Fragonard - The Stolen Kiss Source ↗
- 45. 澤地萃 Pieter Bruegel the Elder - The Tower of Babel Source ↗
- 46. 地風升 Thomas Cole - The Arcadian or Pastoral State Source ↗
- 47. 澤無水困 Edvard Munch, 1893, The Scream Source ↗
- 48. 水风井 John William Waterhouse - A Tale from the Decameron Source ↗
- 49. 澤火革 J.M.W. Turner - Slavers throwing overboard the Dead and Dying Source ↗
- 50. 火風鼎 Diego Velázquez - An Old Woman Frying Eggs Source ↗
- 51. 震為雷 El Greco - View of Toledo Source ↗
- 52. 艮為山 James Abbott McNeill Whistler - Nocturne: Blue and Gold Source ↗
- 53. 風山漸 Camille Pissarro - The Hay Harvest, Éragny Source ↗
- 54. 雷澤歸妹 Jan van Eyck - The Arnolfini Portrait Source ↗
- 55. 雷火豐 Paolo Veronese - The Wedding at Cana Source ↗
- 56. 火山旅 Rembrandt - The Return of the Prodigal Son Source ↗
- 57. 巽為風 Jean-Honoré Fragonard - The Swing Source ↗
- 58. 兌為澤 Pierre-Auguste Renoir - Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette Source ↗
- 59. 風水渙 J.M.W. Turner - Snow Storm: Steam-Boat off a Harbour's Mouth Source ↗
- 60. 水澤節 Nicolas Poussin - Landscape with Diogenes Source ↗
- 61. 風澤中孚 Georges de La Tour - The Education of the Virgin Source ↗
- 62. 雷山小過 Henri Rousseau - The Sleeping Gypsy Source ↗
- 63. 水火既濟 Raphael - The Parnassus Source ↗
- 64. 火水未濟 Edvard Munch - The Sun Source ↗
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