Zhao Mengfu or Chou Meng-fu (1254-1322), Chinese painter and calligrapher of the Yuan (Yüan) dynasty, who worked in traditional and advanced styles. Zhao was court painter and held other high government posts. His animal paintings, such as Sheep and Goat (Freer Gallery, Washington, D.C.), are in a conservative, realistic style. His landscapes and studies of bamboo, however, show a more original approach that emphasizes rapid, expressive, yet highly disciplined calligraphic brush strokes, as in Bamboo, Tree, and Rock (National Palace Museum, Taiwan).