Mi Fu paints in the Song academy

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The eccentric Chinese painter and calligrapher Mi Fu, famous for bowing to unusual rocks and refusing to sit where an ordinary man had sat, developed his misty ink-wash landscapes under imperial patronage. His techniques would be studied and imitated for a thousand years. Mi Fu's method of building mountains from horizontal ink-dots rather than outlines revolutionized the literati painting tradition and earned him a place alongside the greatest Song masters.