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Also Known As Kuo Hsi
Flourished c.1060 - c.1080 • China
Subjects Of Study landscape • painting • China

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Autumn in a River Valley, silk scroll in ink and colour by Guo Xi; in the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
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Pure and Remote View of Streams and Mountains, detail of hand scroll in ink and paper by Xia Gui, early 13th century (Southern Song); in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, Taiwan.
Xia Gui
Chinese artist
Ma Yuan: Scholar by a Waterfall
Ma Yuan
Chinese painter
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Dong Qichang
Chinese artist
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Wang Hui
Chinese painter
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Shitao
Chinese painter
Wang Meng: Scholar in a Pavilion Under Trees
Wang Meng
Chinese painter
Voyage to the South, detail of a handscroll by Tang Yin, 1505; in the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Tang Yin
Chinese painter
Huang Gongwang: Dwelling in the Fu-ch'un Mountains
Huang Gongwang
Chinese painter
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Xie He
Chinese painter and critic
Wu Zhen: Fisherman
Wu Zhen
Chinese painter
Tower of the Rising Clouds, colour on silk by Mi Fu; in the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Mi Fu
Chinese artist
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Lu Yanshao
Chinese painter
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Wang Wei
Chinese author and artist
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Liu Songnian
Chinese painter
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Li Keran
Chinese artist
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Huizong
emperor of Song dynasty
Ni Zan: Maple Leaves Falling on the Wu River
Ni Zan
Chinese painter
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Jing Hao
Chinese artist
Zhu Da: Fish
Zhu Da
Chinese painter
Admonitions of the Court Instructress
Gu Kaizhi
Chinese painter

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