Discuss the formal innovations of Song landscape painting. Support your response with details from a specific work.

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Song painters cast their own long shadow over the future with a focus on the landscape. The Song style of monumental landscape was largely the creation of Li Cheng. In his hands, the elements-mobile mid-air perspective, monochrome ink, vertical format, flowing water, shrouding mists, and a buildup of forms culminating in towering mountains-were gathered into a newly harmonious and spacious whole.

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