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| | How Wen Zhengming Became an Artist (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) |
 | | Wen Jia's eulogy simply says that the great canonical figure of Zhao Mengfu (1254-1322) was his father's model in all three of the major cultural pursuits of verse, calligraphy and painting. |
 | | The Wu sheng shi shi (1640s) goes for Li Gonglin (c.1049-1106) and Zhao Mengfu, while the Ming hua lu (after 1677) tops the lot with Zhao Mengfu, Wang Meng, Huang Gongwang and Dong Yuan (d.962), the latter being the now immensely prestigious patriarch of the putative 'Southern school' of literati amateur painting. |
 | | This narrative, associated with the name of Dong Qichang, focussed long-standing ideas about the distinction between amateur and professional artists into two lineages, the apogee of the superior, amateur one being situated historically in the fourteenth century, the era when Zhao Mengfu, Ni Zan, Huang Gongwang and Wang Meng were active.(Ho, 1976: Nelson, 1983). |
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