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Fan Kuan (381 words) |
 | A Taoist recluse, Fan Kuan is best known as the painter of Travelers Among Streams and Mountains, the greatest single example of the monumental-landscape style of painting and a model for all Chinese artists. |
| Fan's style -- reducing human figures to minute proportions and dramatizing the awesome power of nature -- has led critics to compare his creative powers with those of nature itself. |
| Fan Kuan was listed as the 59th of the 100 most influential people of the last millennium by the Life Magazine in 2004. |
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Fan Kuan - Search Results - MSN Encarta (144 words) |
| Fan Kuan (范寬 pinyin : Fàn Kuān; 990 - 1030) was a Chinese landscape painter during the Northern Song Dynasty. |
| Fan is listed as the 59th of the 100 most important people of... |
| Fan Kuan [Chinese Painter, ca.990-1030 A.D.] Guide to pictures of works by Fan Kuan in art museum sites and image archives worldwide. |
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