Qi Baishi's "Little Fish Are Coming" was written in 1951
This work was made by Qi Baishi at the age of ninety-one, the painting style is simple and clear, the fishing rod is hanging from the fishing wire, the fish wire is hanging on the bait, and the five fish swim to grab food, vivid and lively, full of the vitality of nature. The picture has no ink color rendering and no water emphasis, which can be said to be a wonderful interpretation of Chinese painting lines.
Qi Baishi is a great master of painting, and Picasso praised Qi Baishi for painting fish in ink, although it is not colored, but it makes people see the long river and swimming fish, which shows his high recognition. In his later years, Qi Baishi's increasingly simplified painting style was to increasingly strengthen the "non-resemblance" shape, and to achieve the realm of "the simpler the pen and the more complete the god".
Qi Baishi's "Picture of a Small Fish in a Chick", 1926
In the picture, a group of furry chicks stare at the small fish in the river swimming freely on the shore. They wanted to catch those little fish for a good meal, but they weren't ducks, they couldn't get into the water, they had to be in a hurry. Qi Baishi also specially inscribed: "The beaver of the grass field, the goose of the cloud sky, the chicks by the water's edge, what is the fish?" "Such a childlike work, I am afraid that qi baishi is the only one."
In the years when Qi Baishi first arrived in Beijing, life was quite difficult. But suppressing the difficult real life, after all, can not hide the calm elegance and a piece of peace and leisure in Qi Baishi's world, that is because the old man of Baishi has entrusted the beauty and imagination in his heart to the paintbrush in his hand, and has his own beautiful little universe in his heart. The wind is light and the spring water is full of water, this plain wild water is his ideal Garden of Eden; between the color and ink, where the magic pen falls, those unrestrained swimming fish in the water are the free life he yearns for. If the heart is there, the dream is there, how can the unsatisfactory nature of real life stop a piece of great freedom in the heart?!
Qi Baishi "How Happy"
In qi Baishi's painting, there is no picture of a fisherman, only a fishing rod, a bench, a fish basket, and two small fish in a fish basket. Although simple, an idyllic life scene will immediately appear in front of you.
We have to admire the unique artistic language and creativity of the old man of Shiraishi, who wants to use a simple combination of objects and images to give people the most interesting mood and experience.
At the time of this painting, Qi Baishi was over eighty years old, and the octogenarian missed his childhood fishing and felt that the happiness was incomparable.