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Wang Meng was a close friend of Ni Zan, whose paintings are typically thin and spare, whereas Wang's are thick and dense with agitated forms and much ink. His brushstrokes piled one on another to produce masses of texture combined in dense and involved patterns. Like those of Ni, however, his paintings show less interest than those of his Yuan predecessors in deliberately opposing the pictorially splashy Southern Song (1127–1279) academic traditions through the conscious exploitation of archaic pictorial means; instead, they place more emphasis upon uniqueness and privacy of vision, an individual attitude encouraged by the revolution brought about in the earlier landscape painting of the Yuan dynasty. Artworks by Wang Meng (view the entire painting gallery) |
