Modern painter Qi Baishi. Ink on paper, length 129 cm, width 34 cm. This picture is an ink painting that Mr. Baishi drew for the famous Chinese writer Lao She when he was 91 years old. The verses were assigned by Lao She, which was indeed a difficult problem. In the history of Chinese art, Liu Bao, a painter of the Han Dynasty, once collaborated on "Clouds and Han Pictures", which made people feel hot when they saw them; and "North Wind Pictures", which made people feel cool and cold when they saw them. His ability to turn the heat into coolness at the bottom of his brush presents a distinct and perceptible artistic realm to the viewer. The viewer's feelings are the associations caused by the image. Qi Baishi also used this special associative technique when he painted the proposition "The sound of frogs emerges from the mountain spring ten miles away". Just right. In this picture, there are no frogs on the top of the painting, but the viewer feels as if they are hearing the sound of frogs. And this frog sound cannot be "heard" immediately, but a few weeks later, in the stream from Shili Mountain Spring.
This is a wonderful idea
When the famous painter Qi Baishi was ninety-one years old, the writer Lao She asked Qi Baishi to paint a painting based on the poem "The sound of frogs comes from the spring ten miles away". I hung the poem in the studio and thought about it for several days. When I was confident, I picked up the pen and wrote: A few distant mountains were faintly painted on the picture, and a torrent poured out from the rocks in the mountains. There are a few tadpoles floating. There are no frogs at all in the picture, but from the few tadpoles floating in the rapids, people naturally think of the sound of frogs ten miles away...