Mi Fu

Mi Fu米 芾( Mǐ Fú ), The Old Mi ( * 1051 in the province of Jiangsu, † 1107 in Kaifeng ), also Mi Fei was a famous Chinese painter.

He was a contemporary of the famous literati painter Su Dongpo, he has made ​​but rarely in person. His son, the young Mi was Mǐ Yǒurén (米 友仁).

Mi Fu developed a completely new style of his time, one reminiscent of the western watercolor ink technology. The style was so similar exercised by his son, that you are often simply referred to as the " two Mi" and a Mi- style. As a precursor is in the Mustard Seed Garden Dǒng yuan ( 962 ~ 934 ~ ) specified.

Anecdote

An anecdote tells of a meeting of the two. Mi Fu Su Dongpo received by two tables was set up in a large room, where brush, ink and three hundred sheets of paper documents. On a side table were prepared food and beverages. As Su came he sat down without losing a word to one of two tables. Mi Fu followed his example. The servants came out with the rubbing of the ink after barely as fast as the poems and calligraphy created. As at midnight, drinks and paper had run out, the two exchanged their works, and took leave of each other.

Weblink

• Works by Mi Fu. In: Zeno.org.

• Chinese Painter
• Song Dynasty
• Born in 1051
• Died in 1107
• Man