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Also Known As Yuanzhang • Haiyue shanren • Xiangyang jushi • Mi Fei
Born 1051
Died 1107 (aged 56) • China
Notable Works “Baozhang Daifang Lu” • “Haiyue Mingyan” • “Haiyue Tiba” • “Hua Shi” • “Tower of the Rising Clouds”
Movement / Style Mi dots • pomo
Subjects Of Study calligraphy • painting • aesthetics

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Tower of the Rising Clouds, colour on silk by Mi Fu; in the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
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Dong Qichang
Chinese artist
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Qi Baishi
Chinese painter
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Wang Wei
Chinese author and artist
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Jing Hao
Chinese artist
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Wu Changshuo
Chinese artist
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Chen Shizeng
Chinese painter and critic
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Shitao
Chinese painter
Admonitions of the Court Instructress
Gu Kaizhi
Chinese painter
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Wen Zhengming
Chinese artist
Zhao Mengfu: Twin Pines, Level Distance
Zhao Mengfu
Chinese painter
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Xie He
Chinese painter and critic
James McNeill Whistler
James McNeill Whistler
American artist
Poet and painter Edward Lear
Edward Lear
English painter and writer
La Farge, John: Flowers on a Japanese Tray on a Mahogany Table
John La Farge
American painter
Paul Signac
Paul Signac
French painter
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Arthur David Waley
British translator
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
Hu Shih
Hu Shih
Chinese leader and scholar
Ma Yuan: Scholar by a Waterfall
Ma Yuan
Chinese painter
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Lu Yanshao
Chinese painter

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