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Fan Kuan

He modeled his early work after that of the artist Li Cheng (919–967), but later he concluded that nature was the only true teacher.

Jing Hao

But Jing's fame was also apparent in his own era, as his work continued to be studied by Song artists such as Fan Kuan—who, like Jing, retreated into solitude and spent the last years of his life in the Shangxi mountains in order to be closer to nature.

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