"Selected Works of Shi Tao's Album Leaves" Author: Shi Tao Publisher: Zhejiang People's Fine Arts Publishing House

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Shi Tao, a famous painter in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, was also known as the bitter melon monk. Together with Hongren, Kuncan and Zhu Da, he was called the "Four Monks of the Early Qing Dynasty". This collection includes more than 100 landscape and flower-and-bird works by Shi Tao, which present his personal painting style in a relatively complete manner. The ink method of landscape painting is vivid, and the flower-and-bird painting is chic and naive. He wrote "Shi Tao Painting Quotations". Shi Tao is a very important figure in Chinese painting at present. He is not only an explorer and innovator of painting practice, but also an art theorist. The True Appreciation Series of Famous Paintings of Past Dynasties is a picture album that combines copying, research, teaching and appreciation. The binding form is free, mainly loose-leaf, and can be freely spliced. The color restoration is high, the charm of the picture is not lost, and it is consistent with the atmosphere of the original.