Artist: Tang Yin
Date: Ming (AD 1368-1644)
Material: Ink and colour on paper

• Object Type：
  • PAINTINGS
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  • hanging scroll figure tang yin ming paper ink and colour buffalo farm

Tang Yin was good at poetry and painting, known as one of the ‘Four Literary Masters of the Wuzhong Region’ together with Shen Zhou, Wen Zhengming, and Qiu Ying. 
This piece of work is about the story of Li Mi in the Tang dynasty. In the painting, there are grand and steep mountains and ridges piled one after another. The brushwork is fine and graceful, the layout sparse and distinct and the style free and smart. As recorded Li Mi went to visit the illustrious scholar Bao Kai in Gou Mountain on his cow. He hung a volume of Book of Han on the cow's horn, reading along his way. This painting does not emphasize this plot; instead, it highlights the leisure mood of ‘unhurried ride under the pine shades’.