His personality, paintings, poems, calligraphy and seal cutting are all outstanding. His artistic creation is extremely rich. His style has a great influence on modern and even contemporary Chinese painting creation.
qi Baishi (1863~1957) was an outstanding modern painter, calligrapher and seal engraver. Formerly known as Qi Huang, Chun Zhi, the word Wei Qing,no. Baishi, Endangered Life, Azhi, the owner of borrowing mountains to sing songs, and the old man who sent Ping, etc. Hunan Xiangtan people. At the age of 12, he studied rough carpentry, then worked as a carver and studied painting. I also studied poetry, calligraphy and seal cutting. I started as a painter and painted clothes for the villagers. Mr. Qi has three important changes in painting shrimp: the first stage is to draw it truthfully, realistically, patriarchal and natural, more like sketching; The second stage is the most important, not "fragmentary", and the main body of shrimp is simplified to nine strokes. The so-called "bits and pieces" are eight kinds: eyes, short beard, long beard, tongs, forelegs, abdomen, tail, and an inner cavity marked with deep ink. This structure is the unique and important style of Qi Baishi's shrimp; In the third stage, the ink color on the painting is uneven. The pen is dipped in ink first, and then the belly of the pen is filled with water with another pen to draw the "transparency" of the shrimp, and the shrimp comes alive at once. Qi Baishi's shrimp has changed from six segments in his life to five segments on the drawing paper, which contains a very important artistic principle: it must be five segments of shrimp, which is reasonable in proportion, the best-looking and the most beautiful in the picture. Finally, the fifth section soared from the sixth section. This flying is too important and great, because the five paragraphs are artistic truth, a kind of transcendence, a kind of brilliance that is very beautiful than reality, and this is the profundity of Qi Baishi's political reform. Mr. Qi must have tried it, and six paragraphs failed, four paragraphs failed, and five paragraphs failed; Thus, the five paragraphs became the necessity of art, and also derived an aesthetic principle with universal artistic laws. 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 painting insects is meticulous and extremely fine. He also praised Xu Wei, Zhu Da, Shi Tao and Jin Nong. Especially shrimps and crabs, cicadas, butterflies, fish and birds, are dripping with ink and full of the vibrant atmosphere of nature. The landscape composition is strange and unconventional, full of creative spirit, unique in seal cutting, and outstanding in 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 imitates their spirits. He once said: "To paint a picture of all kinds of insects, to make a picture of all kinds of birds, and to" paint your own face ". His sentence is very witty and clever. He painted two chickens fighting for a bug, and the title said, "We will call each other tomorrow". A picture of cotton reads: "Flowers are warm in the world, but flowers are cold in the world". The title of "Tumbler Map" is "The autumn fan shakes both sides white, and the official robe is clear and black". The shrimp painted by Qi Baishi is vivid and lifelike. But when he began to learn to draw shrimps, he could only copy them, and the shrimps he drew were not alive at all, and they were all dull. Later, after raising shrimp, observing and sketching by myself, it took decades to draw the shrimp vividly. Become an outstanding artist in the world. Qi Baishi settled in Beijing after the age of 6, selling paintings and engraving as his profession. Throughout his life, he respected Xu Wei, Zhu Da, Shi Tao, Wu Changshuo and other predecessors, attached importance to innovation, constantly changed, and created a unique style. The paintings are full of love for life. His seal cutting is simple and powerful, his calligraphy is vigorous and calm, and his poetry and painting theory are also unique. Member of the Presidium of China Federation of Literary and Art Circles and Chairman of Artists Association. In 1953, the Central Ministry of Culture awarded the title of "People's Artist". Qi Baishi advocated that art "lies between similarity and dissimilarity"; In the waning years, painters such as Fa Xuwei, Zhu Da, Shi Tao, Wu Changshuo, etc. formed a unique style of freehand brushwork in traditional Chinese painting, and they opened a school of red flowers and ink leaves, especially melons, fruits, vegetables, flowers, birds, insects and fish, which were both famous for their 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 reached the peak of modern flower-and-bird painting in China. Ding Jing and Huang Xiaosong were beginners in seal cutting, and later imitated Zhao? Uncle, and take French, Chinese and Indian; See "Monument to the Sangong Mountain" and "Monument to the Heaven". The seal cutting method has changed again and again, and the Indian style is magnificent and unrestrained, which is a representative figure in the evolution period of modern Indian style. His calligraphy is widely spread in inscriptions, and he has lived in He Shaoji, Li Beihai, Jin Dongxin and Zheng Banqiao, especially in seal and running script. Poetry does not ask for work, has no intention of Tang and Song Dynasties, learns from nature, writes spiritually and has a unique style. His painting and printing poets call it four musts. I have worked hard all my life, worked tirelessly, earned my own living, and have a noble character, especially national integrity. He left more than 3, paintings, more than 3, poems, self-reports and other manuscripts and wrote many volumes. His works have been repeatedly printed in various forms. Artistic features of qi Baishi's works. 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 painting insects is meticulous and extremely fine. He also praised Xu Wei, Zhu Da, Shi Tao and Jin Nong. Especially the shrimps, crabs, cicadas, butterflies, fish, birds, and ink are dripping, full of the vibrant atmosphere of nature. The landscape composition is strange and unconventional, full of creative spirit, unique in seal cutting, and outstanding in 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 spirits. He once said: To paint a picture of all kinds of insects, to make a picture of all kinds of birds, you should draw your own face. His sentence is very witty and clever. He painted two chickens fighting for a bug, and the title reads: "I will call you tomorrow." A picture of cotton reads: "Flowers are warm in the world, but flowers are cold in the world". The title of "Tumbler Map" is "The autumn fan shakes both sides white, and the official robe is clear and black."