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2)1 Wing Men); {i 308-1385), Thatched
HMs cm Mount T'ai, Hanging scroll Ink
and colour on paper Yuan Dynasty.
die in peace. To the Ming wen-jen he was the ideal type of untram-
melled scholar-painter. If Huang Kung-wang was austere, then
what word can we use to describe Ni Tsan? A few bare trees on a
rock, a few hills across the water, an empty pavilion; that is all.
The forms are spare and simple. The ink is dry and of an even
greyness, touched here and there by sparsely applied ts'un, set
down, very black, with the side of the brush; it was said of Ni Tsan
that "he was as economical of ink as if it were gold." No conces-
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