Portrait of Mi Fei

Mi Fei's Most Famous Paintings: All 4, Ranked

Updated oktober 2026 · ranked by our popularity score (searches, visits and orders for each work) · 4 works by Mi Fei in our catalogue

In short

The Mi Fei painting most people know is Title(Japanese): 草書四帖 (1000), and you can see it at the Pokrajinski muzej lepih umetnosti v Osaki, Osaka. Right after it come Model Calligraphies of Yingguang Hall (Yingguangtang tie)\n\nImage 1 of album 1 (1200) and Poem Written in a Boat on the Wu River (1095). Out of 4 works by Mi Fei in our catalogue, these 4 are the best known. Each one comes with its year, its museum and a short note on what makes it stand out.

1051 – 1107, Džjangsu Most works: Pokrajinski muzej lepih umetnosti v Osaki

Mi Fei's top 10: the pieces everyone knows

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Poem Written in a Boat on the Wu River (1095) by Mi Fei

Poem Written in a Boat on the Wu River

1095

Sun Guoting"s Manual on Calligraphy (687) states that calligraphy reveals the character and emotions of the writer. Few works demonstrate this principle as clearly as this handscroll by Mi Fu, the leading calligrapher of late Northern Song. Mi wrote Sailing on the Wu River with a suspended arm, working from the elbow rather than the wrist. It was not his aim to form perfect characters; instead, he entrusted his writing…

Where you can see Mi Fei's paintings

The 2 museums that hold the most of the paintings on this page.

Museum City Works by Mi Fei Paintings from this list
Pokrajinski muzej lepih umetnosti v Osaki, OsakaPokrajinski muzej lepih umetnosti v Osaki Osaka 1 Title(Japanese): 草書四帖
Yale University Art Gallery, New HavenYale University Art Gallery New Haven 1 Mountains and Water

The famous Mi Fei pieces of each year

1095 is when every dated Mi Fei piece on this page was made. Here they are, most famous first.

Works per year

Pick a year to see its pieces.

Mi Fei paintings: what people want to know

What painting is Mi Fei best known for?See the answer

Top of the list is Title(Japanese): 草書四帖 (1000), Pokrajinski muzej lepih umetnosti v Osaki, Osaka. Right behind it: Model Calligraphies of Yingguang Hall (Yingguangtang tie)\n\nImage 1 of album 1 (1200) and Poem Written in a Boat on the Wu River (1095).

How many Mi Fei works are there?See the answer

We have 4 works by Mi Fei in our catalogue.

Which museums have Mi Fei's best-known paintings?See the answer

You'll find most of them in Pokrajinski muzej lepih umetnosti v Osaki (Osaka) and Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven). The museum list above has the full breakdown.

Can I order a Mi Fei reproduction for my home?See the answer

Yes. Every painting on this page is available as a hand-painted oil reproduction or a print, in the size that suits you. Just open the painting's page to order.

Meet Mi Fei

življenjsko obdobje in kariera

Mi Fei, kitajski slikar, pesnik in kaligraf, se je rodil leta 1051 v Taiyuanju med dinastijo Song. Njegovo zgodnje življenje je bilo zaznamovano z izpostavljenostjo umetnosti in literature ter izjemnimi spominskimi sposobnostmi. Ker je pripadal družini z tesnimi povezavami z imperialno hišo, je imel privilegij bivanja v kraljevih palačah, kjer se je njegova pot začela kot revizor knjig ter profesor slikarstva in kaligrafije.

umetniški slog in dediščevo

Mi Fei je zaslujil z svojim specifičnim slogom slikanja megličnih pejzažev, znanim kot slog "Mi Fu", ki je temeljil na uporabi velikih, mokrih točk mựcu, nanaščenih s ploščim čopičem. Ta edinstvena tehnika mu je prinesla slavo enega od štirih največjih kaligrafov dinastije Song, ki so ga dopolnjevali Su Shi, Hung Tingjian in Cai Xian. Njegov sin, Mi Youren}, je prav tako postal izpostavljen slikar, ki je prevzel očetov način uporabe velikih mokrih točk mựcu, kar je kasneje dobilo pripevno ime "Mi točke".

izpostavljena dela in kolekcije

Njegov vpliv na umetnost je viden skozi obdobja, kar dokazujejo izjemna dela, kot je Zhao Mengfu: jahači vodijo belega konja (Indianapolis Museum of Art, svila), ki prikazuje vpliv Mi Feija na naslednje generacije umetnikov, ter Wen Zhengming: studio pravega uživanja (Zhen Shang Zhai) (China Modern and Contemporary Art Document Research Center, papir), ki demonstrira trajno prisotnost njegovega stila v kitajski umetnosti.

osebnost in pozna leta

Mi Fei je bil znan po svoji ekscentrični osebnosti, ki je vključevala manijo za čistočo in obsesijo pri zbirovanju kamenov, zaradi česar je zaslužil pripetek "čezdrgani Mi". Bil je tudi ljubimec močnega pijačev. Kljub tem je z nesamostno voljo nadaljeval ustvarjati izjemna umetniška dela, s čimer je zapustil dediščino enega najbolj slavnih kitajskih umetnikov. doživite enigmatični svet umetnosti Mi Fei, kjer oživijo meglični pejzaži in kaligrafsko mojstvo.

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