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Shitao

1642–1707

Planting a Pine Tree, 1674. Detail showing Shitao; authorship of the portrait figure is debated.
Planting a Pine Tree, 1674. Detail showing Shitao; authorship of the portrait figure is debated.

Shitao freely reworked the painting of earlier masters, including Shen Zhou. Within one scroll he could combine different ways of depicting mountains, water and trees. His poems accompanied landscapes and connected natural observation with ideas of continual renewal.

Works

Outing to Zhang Gong's Grotto — ShitaoShitao

Outing to Zhang Gong's Grotto

Sources

Shitao (attribution of the portrait figure debated) · Small Self-Portrait Planting a Pine Tree — National Palace Museum, Taipei, CC BY 4.0 @ www.npm.gov.tw · National Palace Museum, Taipei · CC BY 4.0 Portrait source · Licence