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- Boating at Xishan
- Cao Zhibai was skilful at painting the landscapes of the regions south of the Yangtze River, with a clear, mellow, sparse but elegant style. This picture portrays a corner of the hills in the Tai...
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- Mandain Ducks amid Wilted Lotus
- Zhang Zhong specialized in landscape and flower-and-bird painting. This painting depicts the happy conjugal life of a pair of mandarin ducks on a lotus pond, gilt by the setting autumn sun.
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- Ink Plum
- Wang Mian specialized in plum painting. In contrast to traditional plum trees with sparse branches and few blossoms, his plum trees are exuberant growths with a mass of flowers, pioneering the...
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- A Mountain Retreat in Summer(detail)
- Wang Meng was adept at painting complex landscapes and invented for this purpose the ox hair and the released-knot texture strokes.
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