He is a master of modern And contemporary Chinese painting, a giant in the painting world, but also a well-known seal engraver, calligrapher, and writer at home and abroad, his paintings are already well known to women and children in China, and his shrimp paintings are a must in the painting world, and he is one of the few true literati painters who have achieved fruitful results in the 20th century, and has been publicly promoted as a "world cultural celebrity".
He is Qi Baishi, the holder of the bull's ear in the modern and contemporary Chinese painting world.
It's really natural fun Qi Baishi
As a "giant master" who collects poems, books, paintings, and prints, Qi Baishi's evaluation of his achievements is "My poetry is the first, the printing is second, the book is again, and the painting is even more secondary." ”
Wind-stirring Autumn Lotus Qi Baishi 1924 49.5× 135.4cm Collection of the National Art Museum of China
In Chen Danqing's view, Qi Baishi is a person who has achieved joint achievements with personal talent and the current situation. He experienced the most turbulent historical period in China, from the late Qing Dynasty, the Republic of China, and the warlord division to the War of Resistance and civil war, and his birth and situation made him poor in his early years and turbulent in his middle and late years. At the same time, Qi Baishi was fortunate that he was the last generation before the collapse of the traditional rural structure, and benefited from appreciating his layers of squires and landlords. During the Republic of China period, Western ideological trends entered China, and Chen Shizeng, Lin Fengmian and other foreign intellectuals recognized his goodness at a glance and helped promote his transformation from a folk painter to an artist.
Looking back at Qi Baishi's creation and life, he has experienced a big era and become a master in the eyes of the world, but the innocence in his body has never faded, that is the most precious thing for an artist. (From "Triptych Life Weekly")
Li Qi Baishi 1945 24.9×33.8cm Collection of the National Art Museum of China
The mainland once invited Picasso to visit China, and Picasso said humorously: "I dare not go to your China, because China has a Qi Baishi." He believes that Qi Baishi is really a great painter in China! How amazing are Chinese painters! Qi Baishi's ink painting of fish is not colored, but it makes people see the long river and swimming fish.
Qi Baishi advocated that art "is wonderful between similarity and dissimilarity", decaying and changing the law, forming a unique style of large-scale freehand Chinese painting, opening a school of safflower ink leaves, especially melons, fruits, vegetables, flowers, birds, insects and fish as the work, combining characters and landscapes, and being famous for a while, sharing the reputation of "Southern Wu and Northern Qi" with Wu Changshuo; with the integration of Qi Baishi's simple folk art style and traditional literati painting style, it has reached the highest peak of modern Chinese flower and bird painting.
Farming Diagram Qi Baishi 1952 70×53cm Collection of the National Art Museum of China
Qi Baishi was greatly influenced by Master Chen in the art of painting, and Qi Baishi also absorbed Wu Changshuo's strengths. Qi Baishi specializes in flowers and birds, and his pen is full of ink and ink, and his strength is strong and sharp. But the painting worms are meticulous and extremely delicate.
Qi Baishi grew up living by the pond and often fishing for shrimp to play; he began to paint shrimp when he was young; after the age of 40, he copied shrimp painted by Ming and Qing painters such as Xu Wei and Li Futang; at the age of 63, Qi Baishi painted shrimp very similarly, but it was not "alive", so he raised a few long-arm shrimp in a bowl, placed in the painting case, daily observation, and the method of painting shrimp also changed, and shrimp became one of the representative artistic symbols of Qi Baishi. After Qi Baishi was 80 years old, his shrimp painting skills were quite exquisite and breathtaking.
Lentil grasshopper Qi Baishi 1937 26.4×19.9cm Collection of the National Art Museum of China
The biggest feature of Qi Baishi's painting is that he does not engage in pretense in his life, what he has not seen, and what he has not carefully studied, he does not paint. The second characteristic is to advocate nature, and most of the paintings he paints are extremely ordinary in nature, but they have the greatest 'contribution' to the common people. Qi Baishi painted shrimp and turnips, although he was ridiculed by the so-called orthodox painters at that time, he was deeply welcomed and loved by the common people.
In a social sense, Qi Baishi's style of works is popular with the public and has contributed to the promotion of Chinese painting throughout the country and even the world. We can also analyze the old man Shiraishi from the perspective of art history, then he is the widow of the ancient style, one of the few true literati painters who have achieved fruit in the 20th century, and it is precisely because of his existence that some of the literati paintings have been continued in the 20th century.
Osmanthus Dragonfly Qi Baishi 1940 26.6×41.1cm Collection of the National Art Museum of China
Qi Baishi's landscape painting is a world between "birth" and "entry into the world", a pen and ink world where the distant Taoyuan wonderland and the pastoral pastoral of criticism are integrated, and it is his inner nostalgia and perception of nature and life.
Qi Baishi wrote in the "Memoirs of Qi Baishi": Before I was 40 years old, I did not go far away, coming and going, all around Xiangtan. Moreover, when they arrive in a place, they are only slightly retained, as little as ten days and a half months, and at most three or five months. When I got a little money, I took it home to serve my elderly relatives and raise my wife. I don't want to make any money, I just want to paste the mouth of an old and young family, and I am willing to do it, and I don't think about traveling far.
Flying Insect Qi Baishi 1924 12.9× 18.5cm Collection of the National Art Museum of China
Qi Baishi was born on January 1, 1864, and died on September 16, 1957, at the age of 94 (97 years old), because Qi Baishi used the method of "concealing the sky and crossing the sea", after he was 74 years old, he concealed the age of 75 and 76, claiming to be 77 years old, and inflating 3 years. Therefore, if you are 75 years old or 76 years old in calligraphy and painting works, you will undoubtedly be false.
Qi Baishi (1864-1957), a native of Xiangtan, Hunan, was a master of Chinese painting in the 20th century, one of the top ten calligraphers and painters of the 20th century, and a world cultural celebrity. In 1926, Qi Baishi was appointed Honorary Professor of the National Peking Art College, Honorary President of the Peking Art Writers Association, Honorary Professor of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Research Librarian of the Central Museum of Culture and History, Director of the Chinese People's Association for Foreign Culture, Honorary President of the Chinese Painting Academy, Chairman of the Beijing Chinese Painting Research Association, and Chairman of the National Artists Association.
In July 1949 and September 1953, he attended the All-China Congress of Literary and Artistic Workers twice, and was consecutively elected as a member of the All-China Federation of Literary and Art Workers; in August 1954, he was elected as a deputy to the First National People's Congress; he had a deep friendship with Chairman Mao Zedong and was received; in January 1953, the Ministry of Culture awarded him a certificate of honor and the title of "People's Artist"; in December 1955, the Academy of Arts of the German Democratic Republic awarded him the Honorary Award for a Corresponding Academician; in April 1956, The World Peace Council awarded him the 1955 International Peace Prize, which was awarded in September, and in 1963, he was elected a world cultural celebrity by the World Peace Council. He is the author of "Borrowing Mountain Poetry Grass", "Shiraishi Poetry Grass", "Shiraishi Printing Grass", "Autobiography of The Old Man of Shiraishi" and so on. He has published nearly 100 kinds of paintings such as "The Complete Works of Qi Baishi".
Leaf grasshopper Qi Baishi 1920 25.3×18.4cm Collection of the National Art Museum of China
Begonia Chick Qi Baishi 1947 34.2×33.8cm Collection of the National Art Museum of China
Autumn Cicada Qi Baishi 1945 23.2×29.6cm Collection of the National Art Museum of China
Hulu Tianniu Qi Baishi 1945 23.2×29.6cm Collection of the National Art Museum of China
Teapot Bottle Chrysanthemum Qi Baishi 1947 33.9×33.7cm Collection of the National Art Museum of China
Cicada Metamorphosis Qi Baishi 1944 28.2×20.9cm Collection of the National Art Museum of China
Ci mushroom shrimp Qi Baishi 1920 26.7×41cm Collection of the National Art Museum of China
Rice Qi Baishi 1930 26× 15.9cm Collection of the National Art Museum of China
Rice Mantis Qi Baishi 1937 26.4×19.9cm Collection of the National Art Museum of China
Point Water Dragonfly Qi Baishi 1941 34.1×26.8cm Collection of the National Art Museum of China
Pod Tianniu Qi Baishi 1920 25.3×18.4cm Collection of the National Art Museum of China
Single shrimp Qi Baishi 1926 50.6×43.8cm Collection of the National Art Museum of China
Incense Burner Monk Qi Baishi 1934 96.4× 47.5cm Collection of the National Art Museum of China
Old Farmer Author: Qi Baishi 68×34.6cm Collection of the National Art Museum of China
Three Monsters of Xicheng Qi Baishi 1926 61× 45cm Collection of the National Art Museum of China
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