1. Qi Baishi was greatly influenced by Chen Shizeng in painting art. Qi Baishi also absorbed the strengths of Wu Changshuo.
2. Qi Baishi specializes in flowers and birds, his pen is full of ink, and he is strong and sharp. 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.
3. The landscape composition is unique and remains the same as before, and he is full of creative spirit. His seal cutting skills are unique, and his calligraphy is outstanding, making him famous among the public. 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.
4. Qi Baishi's inscription is very humorous and clever. Qi Baishi painted two chicks 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, and when flowers fall, the world is cold." "The Picture of a Tumbler" is titled "The autumn fan is shaking, both sides are white, and the official robe is all black."
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Qi Baishi advocated that the beauty of art lies in the gap between similarity and dissimilarity. ", with the decline of the reform, formed a unique freehand Chinese painting style, with red flowers and ink leaves, especially melons, fruits, vegetables, flowers, birds, insects and fish, as well as figures, landscapes, and became famous for a while; Qi Baishi's simple folk art style Integrated with the traditional literati painting style, it has reached the highest peak of modern Chinese flower and bird painting.
Qi Baishi attaches great importance to the composition of points, lines and surfaces, so there are many wonderful compositions and rhythms of life. When Qi Baishi copied Bada Shanren's Duck, he changed the album page into a four-foot banner, with vertical inscriptions and postscripts on the upper three feet, which revealed Qi Baishi's creative ideas in composition;
The painting "Chick", Only three chicks are drawn in the lower fifth, and a poor man is placed in the upper left fifth. The three dots echo a line, turning the large blank space into a living space;
In "Lotus and Dragonfly", the intersection of a four-foot-long vertical line and a one-foot-long diagonal line completes the meaning of Qiu Si. It can't be simpler. This is Qi Baishi's fantastic composition.
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