Qi Baishi’s four unique skills are poetry, painting, calligraphy and printing. Poetry refers to poetry, painting refers to painting, calligraphy refers to calligraphy, and seal refers to seal cutting. He believes that seal cutting ranks first, and he once carved stone seals for Mao Zedong.
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Characteristics
Qi Baishi was greatly influenced by Chen Shizeng in the art of painting. Qi Baishi also absorbed the strengths of Wu Changshuo. Qi Baishi specializes in flowers and birds, his pen is full of energy and his ink is full of energy and sharpness. But the painting bug is meticulous and extremely precise. Qi Baishi also praised Xu Wei, Zhu Da, Shi Tao and Jin Nong. Yougong's paintings of shrimps, crabs, cicadas, butterflies, fish, birds, and ink are dripping with color, filled with the vitality of nature.
The landscape composition is unique and remains original, he is full of creative spirit, his seal cutting skills are unique, and his calligraphy is outstanding, making him famous among everyone. Qi Baishi's paintings are against unrealistic fantasy. Qi Baishi often pays attention to the characteristics of flowers, birds, insects and fish, and tries to figure out their spirits. Qi Baishi once said: To portray all the insects, to show off to the birds, you must draw your own face.
Qi Baishi's inscription is very humorous and clever. Qi Baishi painted two chickens fighting for a small insect, and the inscription said: "Qi Baishi calls each other in the sun." A "Cotton Picture" is titled: "When flowers bloom, the world is warm; when flowers fall, the world is cold." The title of "Roly-poly Picture" is "The autumn fan is shaking, both sides are white, and the official robes are all black.
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