Zhang Daqian
Qi Baishi
Xu Beihong once said: Mr. Daqian has only one person in 500 years! Zhang Daqian's position is self-evident. Zhang Daqian's comprehensive artistry in China traditional painting and calligraphy is high, elegant and agile, and Dunhuang art is second to none. A traditional artist who belongs to a master and a big family.
Picasso once said: I dare not go to your China, because there is a Qi Baishi in China! Qi Baishi, a late bloomer, was not outstanding in his early years and did not have his own style and characteristics. Until his later years, Qi Baishi's painting style can be said to have far-reaching influence, and he can even open a school.
Zhang Daqian's works
Different styles have their own merits. Qi Baishi was originally just a folk carpenter who carved dragons and painted phoenixes. He is proficient in many skills. Practice makes perfect. He even painted vivid ink paintings, especially shrimp paintings, which are unique in ancient and modern times. Recommended by Xu Beihong, he entered the academic school, taught and educated people, and trained many rising stars! In contrast, Zhang Daqian is a romantic genius. His greatest achievement is to create splash-ink paintings, and he likes to splash ink in public.
Qi Baishi's works
Qi Baishi belongs to the traditional deepening painter, so there is not much innovation in painting. However, Qi Baishi has made a historic contribution to the perfection and deepening of content, pen and ink, and is a deep excavation of Chinese painting. Zhang Daqian is also a painter with a deep tradition. His early years are imitations of ancient paintings, which is conducive to his understanding of tradition. The paintings of these two painters are difficult to distinguish because of their different styles. They all achieved high artistic attainments in their own styles. In short, Zhang Daqian is bold and unconstrained, and Qi Baishi is graceful and restrained. Relatively speaking, Zhang Daqian's landscape figure painting is more successful, but his flower and bird painting is not as good as Qi Baishi's.
Zhang Daqian's works
Zhang Daqian is an all-round painter, and his figure painting, landscape painting and flower-and-bird painting are all excellent! Zhang Daqian did a lot of mural research and copying in Dunhuang Grottoes, and his figure paintings of Buddha statues reached the point of perfection, which is admirable! Qi Baishi's painting style in his later years meets the aesthetic needs of ordinary people. First of all, he expanded the theme of freehand brushwork flowers and birds. Fruits, vegetables, birds, insects and fish that are common in life can all be the subjects of Qi Baishi's paintings. Qi Baishi often pays attention to the characteristics of flowers, birds, insects and fish and tries to figure out their spirit.
Qi Baishi's works
Zhang Daqian will surpass Qi Baishi in terms of his position in the art world. As early as the forties and fifties, there was? Picasso in the west, Zhang Daqian in the east? Statement. Picasso is a representative figure of western painters. Van Gogh was not famous at that time, and Picasso was a leading figure in western painting. And Zhang Daqian can be as famous as Picasso, which shows Zhang Daqian's status. Picasso also has great respect for Zhang Daqian and often invites Zhang Daqian to his house for tea. As for Qi Baishi, he is about the same level as Huangzhou and Liu Haisu. Although they are all masters, Zhang Daqian is equivalent to a generation of masters, slightly higher than them.