Appreciation of Qi Baishi's Shrimp Works

Qi Baishi's shrimp painting can be said to be a must in the painting world, which is vivid, vivid and full of charm. He used light ink to draw a body with infiltration color, and the shrimp body was crystal clear. Take the vertical point of rough ink as the eye, write horizontally as the brain, drop ink into gold, and use a pen to convey the spirit. The meticulous brushwork on the beard, claw and big claw combines rigidity with softness, concise and vivid, which shows the painter's superb calligraphy skills. The painter writes shrimp from life, but it goes beyond life, boldly generalizes and simplifies it, and is more vivid.

Qi Baishi's shrimp paintings show the shape of shrimp, which is lively, sensitive, alert and vital. Because Qi Baishi mastered the characteristics of shrimp, he painted with ease. A few strokes, combined with a light pen and ink, show a sense of movement.

A pair of heavy ink eyes, a little Jiao Mo in the middle of the head, and two light inks on the left and right, which makes the shrimp head varied. Hard shell is transparent, from deep to shallow. And shrimp loin, one section at a time, several strokes in a row, forming the rhythm of shrimp loin from thick to thin.

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Qi Baishi lived by a pond since childhood and often fished for shrimps. Began to draw shrimp when I was a child; After the age of 40, I copied shrimps painted by painters such as Xu Wei and Li Futang in Ming and Qing Dynasties. At the age of 63, the shrimps painted by Qi Baishi were very similar, but not "alive" enough, so he raised several long-legged shrimps in a bowl and put them on the drawing. The method of drawing shrimp has also changed, and shrimp has become one of the representative artistic symbols of Qi Baishi.

The change of Qi Baishi's pen makes the shrimp waist present various abnormal States, some bow forward and some swim straight. There are also people who bend over and crawl. The shrimp tail is also a few strokes, which is both elastic and transparent. A pair of front paws of shrimp, from thin to thick, from several joints to two paws, are like pliers, one opening and one closing. Shrimp tentacles are drawn with several light ink lines.

Trade-off: Qi Baishi's lines show the perspective of shrimps in water, which are virtual and real, simple and appropriate, soft and firm, broken and real, straight and curved, chaotic and orderly, and the shrimps on the paper seem to swim in the water with their tentacles moving.

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