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Date: 1201

Size: 26 x 27 cm

Museum: The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, United States Of America)

Technique: Silk

The Southern Song artist, eschewing the Northern Song monumental landscape traditions of "a hundred peaks and ten thousand trees," viewed nature through the microcosm of a single pair of trees and one or two rocks suspended in an infinite void. In this scene of unbounded space, vigorous wet-ink lines and dots against broad flat sweeps of ink wash define forms with startling boldness.

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