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The 29 pages that link to Literati painting, each with the reason it gives.

• Chinese paintingRelated: Its rise recast painting as a vehicle for the painter’s learning and character.

• Chinese landscape paintingRelated: Its rise shifted landscape from courtly display toward cultivated self-expression.

• Su ShiRelated: Su Shi’s writings helped articulate the ideal that painting could express a cultivated mind.

• Ink wash paintingRelated: Its ideals favored expressive brushwork over polished, purely descriptive finish.

• Dong QichangRelated: Dong championed painting as an expression of cultivated identity rather than technical likeness alone.

• Wang WeiRelated: Wang Wei’s later reputation helped associate landscape art with scholarly and contemplative life.

• Chinese art collectingRelated: Literati ideals shaped how collectors judged paintings beyond technical skill or material value.

• Chinese literatiCompared with: Its prestige established standards that distinguished scholar-artists from professional painters.

• Chinese figure paintingCompared with: Its ideals could favor suggestive line over figure painting’s demands for legible bodies and roles.

• Yosa BusonNarrower topic: This broader Chinese tradition shaped the ideals behind Buson’s painterly practice.

• Chinese artBroader topic: Its ideals linked artistic expression to scholarship and cultivated identity.

• Chinese ink paintingRelated: Its ideals helped elevate individual expression over polished likeness.

• Tang YinRelated: Tang’s painting, poetry, and calligraphy embody the literati ideal.

• Tao YuanmingRelated: Painters repeatedly invoked Tao as an emblem of integrity outside official service.

• Wu SchoolNarrower topic: Its ideals of cultivated self-expression formed the school’s shared foundation.

• Zhao MengfuNarrower topic: Zhao helped establish the literati ideal that linked painting with scholarly cultivation.

• Shen ZhouNarrower topic: Its ideals explain why Shen Zhou joined painting with poetry and calligraphy.

• The Red CliffRelated: Red Cliff imagery became a way for painters to interpret Su Shi’s literary vision.

• Wen ZhengmingNarrower topic: Its ideals shaped Wen Zhengming’s approach to painting and artistic identity.

• Gu KaizhiCompared with: Its later ideal differs from Gu’s courtly narrative figure painting and historical role.

• Guo XiCompared with: Its later ideals differ from Guo Xi’s court-centered, technically disciplined practice.

• GuqinRelated: Its ideal of cultivated expression parallels the guqin's association with inward refinement.

• ShitaoNarrower topic: Shitao adapted literati ideals while resisting their inherited formulas.

• Tang dynasty artCompared with: Its later ideals contrast with the Tang court's emphasis on public and religious imagery.

• Guan DaoshengNarrower topic: Guan’s painting joined brushwork and literary identity in ways associated with literati practice.

• Kanō MasanobuRelated: Its brushwork and landscape conventions formed part of the Chinese visual language available to Masanobu.

• Qi BaishiRelated: Qi adopted literati ideals despite beginning as a craftsman rather than a scholar.

• Chŏng SŏnCompared with: His Korean subjects and observed topography departed from reliance on Chinese landscape conventions.

• Kim ChŏnghŭiNarrower topic: This tradition joined painting to the scholarship and self-cultivation central to Kim’s practice.