Scholar on the Bridge
Ni Tian Chinese
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Ni Tian successfully imitated Ren Yi's popular style, ensuring that a second generation of Shanghai patrons could still buy Ren Yi-style works. The freely impressionistic foliage in this fan converts a conventional image of a scholar in a landscape into a fashionable fin-de-siècle production. Layers of built-up ink in the foreground trees project the branches forward in the manner of a spatial experiment undertaken by Ren Yi.
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