Wang Baozhong's artistic anecdotes

At the age of eight, painter Wang Baozhong began to learn painting and practice calligraphy with masters Li Keran and Liu Kaiqu. As we all know, Mr. Li Keran is Qi Baishi's favorite pupil. Wang Baozhong studied calligraphy and painting with him since childhood, and benefited a lot. Mr. Wang Baozhong studied calligraphy and painting for more than 50 years, and gradually mastered the skills of painting shrimp. Look at its shrimp, it seems that you can see some shadows of Mr. Qi Baishi. For example, his representative work "Kowloon Map". This work always draws nine shrimps, and the layout is very strict, which makes the whole picture look full and substantial. Every shrimp has a different posture, including bow, stall, slippery, hard, lazy and lively. ......

Wang Baozhong's "Shrimp" gives people a smart and interesting feeling, and its different shades of pen and ink carefully depict the shrimp's body shape and slightly transparent physique. At that time, Mr. Qi Baishi painted shrimp after a long period of observation and analysis, and studied the habits and characteristics of shrimp, and finally he was able to draw shrimp to an amazing extent. I wonder if we can speculate that there is such a can of shrimp at home in Wang Baozhong.

If you carefully observe and analyze Mr. Wang Baozhong's shrimp, you will find that there seems to be something special hidden in the picture. People who know something about calligraphy will easily find this feature. Yes, Mr Wang Baozhong paints shrimps with certain calligraphy skills. Judging from the beard, "bamboo joints" and overall shape of shrimp, it is an attempt and innovation to express shrimp in the form of calligraphy.