Qi Baishi advocates that art is "between similarity and dissimilarity"; Painters in his later years include Fa, Shi Tao and Wu Changshuo. Formed a unique freehand brushwork style of Chinese painting, they started a school of red flowers and ink leaves, especially fruits, vegetables, flowers, birds, insects and fish, with famous figures and landscapes, and enjoyed the reputation of "Southern Wu and Northern Qi" with Wu Changshuo. With its simple folk art style and traditional literati painting style, it has reached the peak of modern flower-and-bird painting in China. Ding Jing and Huang studied seal cutting at first, and then Zhao? Uncle, and take French, Chinese and Indian; See "Sangong Mountain Monument" and "Tiantan Monument". The seal cutting method is changing again and again, and the printing style is magnificent and unrestrained, which is a representative figure in the evolution period of modern printing style. His calligraphy is widely spread in inscriptions, and he once lived in He, Jin Dongxin and other places, especially in seal script and running script. Poetry does not ask for work, has no meaning of Tang and Song Dynasties, learns from nature, has a clever brushwork and has a unique style. His painting and printing poets call it the four musts. I have worked hard all my life, worked tirelessly, earned my own living, and have high moral character, especially national integrity. He left more than 30,000 paintings, more than 3,000 poems, self-reports and other manuscripts, and wrote many volumes. His works have been printed repeatedly in various forms.
Qi Baishi was greatly influenced by Chen Shiceng in painting art, and he also learned from Wu Changshuo. He specializes in flowers and birds, and his pen is full of ink. But drawing insects is meticulous and extremely fine. He also praised Xu Wei, Zhu Da, Shi Tao and Jin Nong. Shrimp, crab, cicada, butterfly, fish, bird and ink are especially vivid, full of the vitality of nature. Landscape composition is unique and unconventional, full of creative spirit, unique seal cutting and outstanding calligraphy, which is well known to everyone. Qi Baishi's paintings are against unrealistic dreams. He often pays attention to the characteristics of flowers, birds, insects and fish and tries to figure out their spirit. He once said: To draw a picture of all kinds of insects, to draw a picture of all kinds of birds, you must draw your own face. His sentences are very witty and clever. He drew two chickens fighting for a bug, and the title said, "I'll call you tomorrow." A picture of cotton reads: "Flowers warm the world, but flowers cool the world". The title of "Tumbler Map" is "Autumn fans shake white on both sides, and official robes are black."
Xu Beihong:
It is difficult to learn painting from an early age.
There is a river called Tanghe in Yixing County, Jiangsu Province, and there is a stone arch bridge called Qiting Bridge on the river. Xu Beihong was born in a civilian family in Qitingqiao Town on July 1895. His original name was Shou Kang, and later he was renamed "Beihong". Father Xu is a teacher in a private school. Good at poetry and calligraphy, self-taught painting. He often paints at the invitation of his fellow villagers to earn a little money to supplement his family. Mother Lu is a simple working woman.
At the age of 9, Xu Beihong formally studied painting with his father. Every day after lunch, he copied a painting by Wu Youru, a famous painter in the late Qing Dynasty, and learned painting skills such as color mixing and setting. /kloc-at the age of 0/0, he has been able to help his father make up the minor part of the picture and write Spring Festival couplets such as "Peace through the year and Happy Birthday" for the villagers. 13 years old, moved to rural towns with his father, selling paintings for a living and supporting his family. Although the life away from home is hard, it enriches Xu Beihong's experience and broadens his artistic vision. /kloc-at the age of 0/7, Xu Beihong went to Shanghai, the most developed city at that time, to make a living by selling paintings, and wanted to take the opportunity to learn western paintings. However, a few months later, my father was seriously ill and had to go back to his hometown. The ambitious Xu Beihong came to Shanghai again at the age of 20 and started a new life. With the help of friends, he was admitted to Aurora University sponsored by the French Catholic Church, which laid a certain French foundation for studying in France in the future. During this period, I got to know Zhou Xiang, a famous oil painter, and Gao, a representative of Lingnan School of Painting, and got their praise and guidance in painting, which enhanced my confidence in painting creation. He also met Kang Youwei, the leader of the Reformists, and established his own creative ideas under his influence. Under the influence of Kang's artistic concept of "despising the Four Kings and praising the Song Dynasty", he belittled the "Four Kings" who only emphasized pen and ink but did not seek novelty, and thought that only the realistic paintings of Wu Daozi, Yan, Huang Quan in the Five Dynasties, Li Cheng and Fan Kuan in the Northern Song Dynasty were profound and wonderful. With the support of Kang Youwei, he observed the development of various famous ancient monuments, and devoted himself to copying Stone Valley, Yan Long Monument, Zhang Menglong Monument and Shimen inscription. , get the essence of the north monument, so that calligraphy can grow. Later, he received a grant to study fine arts in Tokyo, Japan. In Japan, Xu Beihong appreciated a large number of treasures and masterpieces collected by public and private, and deeply felt that Japanese painters could be realistic and realistic in their creation, but they lacked the brushwork of China literati painting on Mo Yun, and did not hint at Piaomao's style.
After returning from Japan, Xu Beihong was hired as the tutor of "Painting Research Association" in Peking University. During my stay in Beijing, I got to know Cai Yuanpei, Chen Shiceng, Mei Lanfang, Lu Xun and other celebrities from all walks of life, and was deeply influenced by the ideological trend of the New Culture Movement, and established the idea of democracy and science.
Study in Europe should be diligent.
With the support of Beiyang government, 24-year-old Xu Beihong went to France to study painting. At the beginning of his arrival in Europe, he visited the British Museum, the National Gallery of France, the exhibition of the Royal Academy of Sciences and the Louvre Museum of France, and witnessed a large number of outstanding works since the Renaissance. Xu Beihong deeply felt that his Chinese paintings in the past were "clumsy and clumsy, unable to move the rope, like a horse without reins." Therefore, he studied painting hard, was admitted to the Paris School of Fine Arts, studied under Mr. Fleming, and began to receive formal western painting education. Fleming is good at figure painting with historical themes. His paintings pay attention to the harmonious collocation and contrast of colors, which has a great influence on the formation of Xu Beihong's oil painting style later.
Xu Beihong likes to train the basic skills of western painting every day. He studies at the Paris Academy of Fine Arts in the morning, paints models at Syrion Academy in the afternoon, and sometimes finds time to watch various exhibitions. During this period, he was lucky enough to meet Dayang, a disciple of the famous painter Crowe, and came to Yang's studio for advice with his paintings every Sunday. The artistic thought of "not advocating fashion and being uneasy about the status quo" and paying attention to silent painting had a great influence on him, so that he did not follow the increasingly prosperous modernist painting style in France at that time, but studied the academic art since the European Renaissance in a down-to-earth manner, and mastered the skillful painting skills while inheriting the rigorous and perfect modeling characteristics of classical art. After studying abroad for four years, Xu Beihong's painting level has reached the same level as that of European artists at the same time, and his oil painting "The Old Lady" was selected for the French National Art Exhibition.
Zheng Xie