Qi Baishi-Artistic Features
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 drawing insects is meticulous and extremely fine. He also praised Xu Wei, Zhu Da, Shi Tao and Jin Nong. In particular, shrimps, crabs, cicadas, butterflies, fish and birds are all dripping with ink and full of the vitality of nature.
Qi Baishi advocates that art is "between similarity and dissimilarity"; Painters in his later years include Fa, Shi Tao and Wu Changshuo. Formed a unique freehand brushwork style of Chinese painting, they started a school of red flowers and ink leaves, especially fruits, vegetables, flowers, birds, insects and fish, with famous 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 has reached the peak of modern flower-and-bird painting in China. Ding Jing and Huang studied seal cutting at first, and then Zhao? Uncle, and take French, Chinese and Indian; See "Sangong Mountain Monument" and "Tiantan Monument". The seal cutting method is changing again and again, and the printing style is magnificent and unrestrained, which is a representative figure in the evolution period of modern printing style. His calligraphy is widely spread in inscriptions, and he once lived in He, Jin Dongxin and other places, especially in seal script and running script. Poetry does not ask for work, has no meaning of Tang and Song Dynasties, learns from nature, has a clever brushwork and has a unique style. His painting and printing poets call it the four musts. I have worked hard all my life, worked tirelessly, earned my own living, and have high moral character, especially national integrity. He left more than 30,000 paintings, more than 3,000 poems, self-reports and other manuscripts, and wrote many volumes. His works have been printed repeatedly in various forms.
There are three important changes in Mr. Qi's shrimp painting: the first stage is truthful, realistic, patriarchal and natural, more like sketching; The second stage is the most important, not "piecemeal", and the main body of shrimp is simplified to nine strokes. There are eight so-called "bits and pieces": eyes, short whiskers, long whiskers, pliers, front legs, abdomen, tail, and an inner cavity marked with deep ink. This structure is a unique and important style of Qi Baishi's Shrimp. In the third stage, the ink color on the painting is uneven. Dip the pen in ink first, then fill the pen belly with water with another pen to draw the "transparency" of the shrimp, and the shrimp came to life at once. The shrimps painted by Qi Baishi are lifelike. But when he began to learn to draw shrimps, he could only copy them. The shrimps he drew were not alive at all, but dull. Later, I raised shrimps, observed them by myself, and sketched them by myself. It took decades to draw the shrimps vividly.
Qi Baishi's shrimp has changed from six paragraphs in his life to five paragraphs on the drawing paper, which contains a very important artistic principle: it must be five paragraphs of shrimp, with reasonable proportion, the best looking and the most beautiful picture. Finally, the fifth paragraph soared from the sixth paragraph. This flight is too important and great, because the five paragraphs are artistic truth, a kind of transcendence, and a kind of brilliance that is very beautiful than reality. This is the profundity of Qi Baishi's political reform. Teacher Qi must have tried, six failed, four failed and five failed. Therefore, the five paragraphs became the necessity of art, and also derived an aesthetic principle with universal artistic laws.
The Spanish artist Picasso once said, "I dare not go to your China, because there is a Qi Baishi in China. Qi Baishi is really a great painter in the East! ..... China painter's magic! The fish in Mr. Qi's ink painting is colorless, but it makes people see the long river and swimming fish. I can't draw ink bamboo orchids. " A great western painter commented on Qi Baishi in this way, which shows his value.
Qi Baishi moved everything he was interested in and familiar with in his life into his paintings. His selection of materials broke through the strict boundary between pure folk painting and academic painting. No painter in history has his rare enthusiasm for expressing the real world. He used ordinary things as painting materials, thus making his paintings more abundant than ever before.
Qi Baishi is different from Wu Changshuo, Huang and Pan Tianshou. Qi Baishi is not a literati painter in the traditional sense. His success lies in that he has ruled the painting world in China for hundreds of years from a literati painter, and created an unprecedented realm in the field of literati painting with a farmer's simple feelings, a sincere childlike innocence and an old and bitter literati pen. This realm is praised by the traditional literati class and the general public, thus laying the historical position of Qi Baishi in the painting world. His paintings are full of the fragrance of earth and the breath of life. His works are both natural and simple, realizing the unity of folk art and traditional art, the unity of sketch and freehand brushwork, and the unity of meticulous brushwork and artistry, with infinite vitality.
Qi Baishi is a master of art. He was born in a peasant family and worked as a carpenter. His poems, books, paintings, seals and his personality are five wonders. Every time I see his works, I always feel like crying. An ordinary citizen of China devoted his life's energy and emotion to artistic creation, and contributed great spiritual wealth to the motherland and people, worthy of the title of "People's Artist".
Old man Baishi is really a good learner. Recently, I have often thought about the meaning of the word "authenticity". When I looked at his works again, I had a deeper understanding of it. What is "authenticity"? That is to say, every stippling line in his works is truly displayed, and he does not avoid ugliness or fake beauty. However, the performance of works like Tang Bohu and Zhang Daqian cannot be advocated.
Qi Baishi is a master of modern painting with high attainments in all aspects. He lived for two centuries and nearly a hundred years. Following the Shanghai painter in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, he pushed Chinese painting to a new peak. His personality, painting, poetry, calligraphy and seal cutting are outstanding. His painting style has a great influence on modern and even contemporary Chinese painting creation.