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Culture Month! Painting in Premodern China

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The Art of Guangdao Shung

Wang Hui painted for his mentor, Wang Sherman. He was born to a professional painting family; he got training at home but not for the kind of literati landscape painting that he went on to produce. And this album from 1674, it preserves 10 leaves of what we think is a 12 leaf artworks by Wang Hui. It's very much the type of album that these guys in this circle-called Orthodox school made for each other. Each lead has a different old master style and they're all basically copying each other.

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