Qi Baishi’s artistic characteristics and propositions:
Qi Baishi advocated that the beauty of art lies between similarity and dissimilarity; during his declining years, he adopted painting masters such as Xu Wei, Zhu Da, Shi Tao, and Wu Changshuo. , 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 famous for a while. Together with Wu Changshuo, he shared the title of "Southern Wu and Northern Qi" With its simple folk art style and traditional literati painting style, it has reached the highest peak of modern Chinese flower and bird painting. I learned seal cutting from Ding Jing and Huang Xiaosong at the beginning, and later imitated Zhao Jushu, and took the Fahan seal. See the "Stele of Sacrifice to Sangong Mountain" and "The Stele of Tianfa God's Prophecy". A representative figure in the period of change. His calligraphy is widely used on inscriptions and inscriptions, and he is particularly good at seal script and running script. The poems do not ask for craftsmanship, and have no intention of Tang and Song Dynasties. They follow the natural method, and the writing is spiritual and unique. His paintings and calligraphy were praised by poets as the Four Wonders. He was diligent throughout his life, worked hard, worked hard by his own efforts, had a noble character, and was especially proud of his national integrity. He left behind more than 30,000 paintings, more than 3,000 poems, autographs and other manuscripts, and many volumes of handwriting. His works have been printed repeatedly in various forms.
Qi Baishi was greatly influenced by Chen Shizeng in painting art. He also absorbed Wu Changshuo's strengths. He specializes in flowers and birds, his pen is full of energy and his ink is full of energy, and he is strong and sharp. But the painting bug is meticulous and extremely precise. He 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. The landscape composition is unique and remains traditional, and he is full of creative spirit. His seal cutting skills are unique, and his calligraphy is outstanding and has made him famous. Qi Baishi's paintings are against unrealistic fantasy. He often pays attention to the characteristics of flowers, birds, insects and fish, and tries to figure out their spirits. He once said: To portray all the insects, to show off to all the birds, you must draw your own face. His title sentence is very witty and clever. He painted two chicks fighting for a small insect, and the title is: "The other day calls each other." A "Cotton Picture" is titled: "When flowers bloom, the world is warm; 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 robes are all black."