Brief introduction of Qi Baishi: (1863- 1957), an outstanding modern painter, calligrapher and seal engraver. Formerly known as Chunzhi, the word Wei Qing,No. Baishi, endangered life, borrowed the owner of the mountain museum to send the elderly to peace. Hunan Xiangtan people. At the age of twelve, he studied rough carpentry, then worked as a sculptor and studied painting. I also studied poetry, calligraphy and seal cutting. I started as a painter and painted clothes for the villagers. After the age of 60, he settled in Beijing, selling paintings and seal cutting as his profession. Throughout his life, he respected Xu Wei, Zhu Da, Shi Tao, Wu Changshuo and other predecessors, attached importance to innovation, constantly sought change, and created a unique style. These paintings are full of love for life. His seal cutting is concise and powerful, his calligraphy is vigorous and steady, and his theory of poetry and painting is unique. 1953 The Central Ministry of Culture awarded the title of "People's Artist". Qi Baishi's shrimp is lifelike and interesting. Qi Baishi, who knows how to use pen and ink, is also good at controlling pen and ink. When he painted shrimp, he was able to skillfully use ink color and pen marks to express the structure and texture of shrimp, and also used a stone-like brushwork to describe shrimp whiskers and long-arm pliers, which made the structure of pure ink rich in meaning and superb skills. The shrimp painted by Bai Shi Weng is a happy "combination" of river shrimp and prawn. Li Kuchan) shrimp's mental state, shrimp's elastic transparent body, shrimp's floating dynamics in the water. The three elements of artistic modeling, shape, quality and movement, are perfectly expressed, so that Mr. Qi Baishi can count them one by one with concise pen and ink. -Ye Yuqian).
2. The masterpiece is shrimp. Qi Baishi's shrimp picture embodies a high degree of pen and ink skills, which not only shows the unique performance of ink painting and rice paper, but also vividly shows the texture of shrimp, and is one of the most realistic objects in Baishi's works. Qi Baishi once said helplessly: "At seventy-eight, people say that they can only draw shrimps. What a pity! It is true that Qi Baishi can only draw shrimps, which is as ridiculous as Xu Beihong's drawing horses and Huangzhou's drawing donkeys, but on the other hand, it also reflects that Qi Baishi's shrimp painting is really good and everyone loves it. 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.