Qi Baishi is a famous painter in modern China. His paintings are lifelike, especially his shrimps, dragonflies and cicadas. His paintings are often auctioned at sky-high prices, among which the work Twelve Screens of Mountains and Waters was auctioned for 931.5 million yuan in 217, which is really staggering. It is common for Qi Baishi's works to be sold at such a price. Even a painting with only a simple cicada can be auctioned for 8 million yuan. Many people have questioned this. Why can Qi Baishi sell a cicada for 8 million yuan? Some experts told the truth: zoom in 1 times and you will understand. Sure enough, after zooming in 1 times, we really understand what "as thin as a cicada's wing" is.
Qi Baishi was born in Hunan in 1864. When he was a child, he especially liked painting. When he was studying, he drew a bunch of things in his copybook. Although many people have this habit, compared with ordinary people's scribbling, Qi Baishi is intentional, and he likes the world he writes.
In fact, he was not famous at the beginning. In his early years, he worked as a carpenter, and because of his grandfather's influence, he fell in love with painting. Then he worshipped Zhou Zhimei as a teacher and learned carpentry and carving. Later, I worshipped Xiao Peng and studied portrait painting as a teacher, and then I embarked on the road of painting.
The creatures such as shrimps and dragonflies in his works are very interesting, although they are all formed by ink and wash. The above-mentioned "cicada" is also one of the masterpieces, but most people think that the last sentence is just beautiful and they can't feel anything deeper. Therefore, some experts said that if you can't understand it, you can enlarge it 1 times and understand it immediately.
As we know, cicada wings are transparent. In painting, we should not only show the transparency of cicada wings, but also show the three-dimensional, vivid and light wings.
After zooming in 1 times, we can see that although it was painted on rice paper with a brush dipped in ink, Qi Baishi showed every detail of cicada wings. The cicada wings seemed to be flapping gently, and a pair of cicada wings were thin and three-dimensional, with more vivid lines between the cicada's head and back.
When magnified 1 times, the cicada's eyes are full of vitality, which also adds a sense of agility to the cicada. All the details are superimposed, which makes the cicada seem to come alive in the painting.
Is this cicada that has been "resurrected" worth 8 million yuan? In the eyes of people who really appreciate it, it is indeed worth the money.