Formerly known as Chunzhi, Wei Qing was named Lanting. Later, it was renamed Huang, and the word was born. Named Baishi, Baishishan Weng, Laoping, Hongcuo, the owner of the mountain pavilion, the old man who sent Pingtang, and the rich man of 300 lithographs.
He is a master of modern painting in China and a world cultural celebrity. He worked as a carpenter in his early years, then made a living by selling paintings, and settled in Beijing after he was 57. He is good at painting flowers and birds, insects and fish, landscapes and figures. His pen and ink are vigorous and moist, with rich and bright colors, concise and vivid shapes and simple artistic conception. Fish, shrimp, worms and crabs are full of fun.
Qi Baishi is a seal script writer, and his seal script method comes from inscriptions in Qin and Han Dynasties. His calligraphy saved Gu Zhuo's interest, and seal script became his own. He was also good at writing poems. He used to be honorary professor of Central Academy of Fine Arts and chairman of China Artists Association. Representative works include Frog Rang Ten Miles Away from the Mountain Spring and Ink Shrimp. He is the author of "Bai Shi Shi Hua" and "Bai Shi Old Man's Self-report".
Zhong Kui, the birthday girl and the immortal Buddha written by Qi Baishi are also the objects that farmers talk about. This kind of works is the natural expression of Qi Baishi's homesickness complex and childlike interest, the desire to "pass on farm tools to my descendants", and the conscious confession of farmers' consciousness different from "passing on the family with poetry and passing on the family with books".
Qi Baishi never wanted to be an official, was lazy in socializing, didn't mind his own business, and stood aloof from the world. He is always immersed in his artistic experience and hometown with a pure heart. Qi Baishi's rural heart, childlike innocence, peasant heart and local flavor in art are rooted in his working life.
Strong local flavor, simple peasant consciousness, naive and romantic childlike innocence and poetic aftertaste are the inner life of Qi Baishi's art, while warm and lively colors, strong contrast of ink color, simple and naive modeling and brushwork, extreme integration of work and writing, fair and novel composition, as his unique artistic language and visual form, are relatively the outer life of Qi Baishi's art.
Realistic emotion needs a proper form, which strengthens the expression of emotion. They need each other, grow together, depend on each other, and become the artistic life of Qi Baishi, that is, the overall style of Qi Baishi's art.
Refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Qi Baishi