Luo Mu’s Landscape in the Styles of Ni Zan and Huang Gongwang

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Ching-Ling Wang explains how Chinese painters learned their craft by imitating the styles of esteemed masters from the past. A landscape painting with an inscription by Luo Mu in the Rijksmuseum collection reveals that there was also a pursuit to find a disctinctive, personal painting style.