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Also Known As Wang Mojie • Wang Youcheng
Born 701 • China
Died 761 (aged 60) • Xi’an • China
Movement / Style Southern school • pomo
Tower of the Rising Clouds, colour on silk by Mi Fu; in the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Mi Fu
Chinese artist
Admonitions of the Court Instructress
Gu Kaizhi
Chinese painter
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Qi Baishi
Chinese painter
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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Lu Yanshao
Chinese painter
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Liu Songnian
Chinese painter
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Li Keran
Chinese artist
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Wang Hui
Chinese painter
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
Wang Meng: Scholar in a Pavilion Under Trees
Wang Meng
Chinese painter
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Yun Shouping
Chinese painter
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Li Gonglin
Chinese painter
Buddhist Monastery by Streams and Mountains, hanging scroll attributed to Juran, second half of the 10th century; in the Cleveland (Ohio) Museum of Art.
Juran
Chinese painter
Life on the River, detail of paper scroll in ink and colour by Dai Jin, mid 15th century; in the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Dai Jin
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
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Li Sixun
Chinese painter
Gardening, painting in ink and colour by Shen Zhou; in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, Missouri.
Shen Zhou
Chinese painter

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