Tower of the Rising Clouds

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Tower of the Rising Clouds, colour on silk by Mi Fu; in the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Tower of the Rising Clouds

painting by Mi Fu

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Mi Fu
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Mi’s paintings, such as Tower of the Rising Clouds, represented a break with the past. Before the period of the Song dynasty, landscape painting in China had depended essentially on line for its description of the world. Mi, however, was concerned with depicting the misty rivers and hills of…
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Mi’s paintings, such as Tower of the Rising Clouds, represented a break with the past. Before the period of the Song dynasty, landscape painting in China had depended essentially on line for its description of the world. Mi, however, was concerned with depicting the misty rivers and hills of…
Read More