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Signed: Zhang Zhao Seal: Zhang Zhao
Gift of the Alliance of the Indianapolis Museum of Art
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金陵艾宣畫翎毛花竹,為近歲之冠。既老,筆跡尤奇,雖不復精勻,而氣格不凡。今尚在,然眼昏不能複運筆矣。
Su Shi, also known as Su Dongbo, was not only a great poet of the Song dynasty, but he also became a revered calligrapher, painter and theoretician. His comments about painting helped form the basis of what is called "literati painting" or "Southern School" of painting.
Commentary on paintings became a literary genre, and here Su writes about his near contemporary Ai Xuan's animal and flower paintings, praising him as the "crown of his day."
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