How does the style and iconography of Shen Zhou's Poet on a Mountaintop exemplify the aesthetic ideals of the literati during the Ming dynasty?
What will be an ideal response?
The ideal Answer should include:
1. In Shen Zhou's Poet on a Mountaintop, the figure is a poet that has climbed a mountain and dominates the landscape.
2. Before his gaze, a poem hangs in the air, like a projection of his thoughts.
3. Both the poem and the landscape painting are vehicles for Shen Zhou's self-expression, having more to do with his response to nature than with the physical world itself.
4. Like Ming literati painting, it represents the harmony of mind and landscape through the combination of poetry, calligraphy, and landscape painting.
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