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Handscroll; Ink on paper; 195cm(width)*22cm(height) This painting mimics the style of Mi Fu in its brushstrokes, successfully employing elegant inkwork and profound artistic conceptions. With a slightly exaggerated technique, Dong captures the flowing atmosphere, depicting the unpredictability of clouds, smoke, and rain to make the scene intuitive and expressive.

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"Dong Qichang was a Ming Dynasty painter known by various aliases, including Xuan Zai, Si Bai, and Si Weng. He came from Huating (present day Songjiang District in Shanghai), where he served during the Wanli period as an official in the Nanjing Rites Department, and was known after his death as Wen Min. He excelled at landscape paintings, learning from Dong Yuan, Ju Ran, Huang Gongwang, and Ni Zan, paying great attention to brushwork and ink, and valuing a grace and subtlety in style, and ""scholarly art"" in theory. He used the scriptures of Chan Buddhism to advocate the Northern and Southern schools, praising the Southern School as being most appropriate for the literati while denigrating the Northern School."

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