Landscape by Shitao, Qing Dynasty

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This painting is an individualist painting – an expression of the artist’s personal feelings that were made in a very original styles.

Pictured is a monk, sitting in a hut in the center of the picture, looking at the mountains around him. The mountains seem to be roiling around in turmoil. Various colored dots around the picture are meant to be vegetation. The way the vegetation covers him, it makes the viewer think that the monk’s thoughts could be troubled.

This is thought to be a Buddhist painting.