Characteristics of Qi Baishi's Painting

Qi Baishi emphasized that "the beauty of painting lies between similarity and dissimilarity, too kitsch and not deceives the world." In seal cutting, he claimed to be "the rich man of 300 lithographs". In his later years, he still carefully observed the swimming postures of shrimps, crabs and frogs. His paintings are self-contained, and figures, landscapes, flowers and birds, insects, fruits and vegetables, and toys can all be painted, which conforms to the development direction of world painting art in the 20th century.

Influenced by Chen Shiceng, he created his own painting style, namely the bold style of red flowers and ink leaves. The original uncoordinated pure red and dark black are matched together to form a sharp contrast, showing a fresh and simple feeling on the screen and realizing the "declining year reform".

And learn from Xu Wei and Shi Tao. On the basis of studying Shi Tao, Zhu Da and Xu Wei, they absorbed Wu Changshuo's techniques and finally formed their own family. After meeting Mei Lanfang, Ai Qing, Xu Beihong and others.

Extended data:

Qi Baishi 14 years old began to work as a carpenter, learning carving carpentry. Later, I also studied painting and took Xiao Peng as my teacher. At the age of 25, Hu Qinyuan was a teacher with Bai. Hu Qinyuan named him Huang and was born near Baishipu, so he was nicknamed Baishishan. Learn poetry, books, painting and seal cutting. And began to make a living by selling paintings, and no longer made money by carving carpenters.

At the age of 32, I became interested in printmaking and began to learn from famous artists. At the age of 35, I studied under the scholar Wang Xiangqi. 1903 I first came to Beijing at the age of 39. At the age of 40, he began to travel around the world. Later, he traveled all over the country, enjoying famous mountains and rivers, broadening his horizons, learning from nature and enriching the "natural" content of his works.

1905 4 1 year-old, he made a living by selling paintings in Guilin, then the capital of Guangxi, and got to know Cai E and Zhang Zhongzheng (that is, Huang Xing). At the age of 42, he traveled to Guangzhou, Guangxi, Chongqing, Vietnam, Shanghai and Nanjing. During this period, his painting style changed from meticulous painting to freehand painting.

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