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Culture Month! Painting in Premodern China

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Zhao Mengfu's Horse

The Zhao Mengfu horse is in this really weird three-quarter pose, it's very sort of bulbous. It began its life as just a single painting and then that was mounted to a hand scroll. Later additional pieces of paper were added after Zhao Yong and Zhao Li'in made their own scrolls. And so you'll see the seams in the paper when you get there. This is kind of iterative process that's theoretically limitless.

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