Admiring Qi Baishi's paintings, it is easy to cause a misunderstanding. This misunderstanding is especially profound when looking at the series of idyllic and random paintings he has created, giving people a feeling that anyone can imitate it.
Some college students who studied Chinese painting once described themselves as imitating Qi Baishi's works, saying that looking at Qi Baishi's works was like the creation of primary school students, but in fact, there were too many Chinese painting ink brushwork used in it, and it was really difficult for ordinary people to control.
Qi Baishi's pumpkin picture is like this, do not look carefully, it is really a primary school student's work, but this work has become a popular masterpiece, because of a dragonfly on the top, the painting is directly less than 8 million. Even the price is still rising, with the possibility of breaking through 10 million.
Why is a simple pumpkin picture and then a dragonfly drawn on it so valuable? Is Qi Baishi's painting really so powerful?
Again, we should start from the content and technique of Qi Baishi's works, and let's take a look at the charm of Qi Pai paintings.
"Because the painting is simple, it is not difficult to find the skill of painting, which is easy to be ignored", like Qi Baishi's work, depicts a pastoral style, and the casual sense of interest is full. Especially unlike other painting masters, Qi Baishi's pumpkin picture is very sloppy.
If you look closely, you will find that his works are actually completely unconventional in the expression of objects, but more through traditional pen and ink, they play a delicate and exquisite role in the pastoral style they understand. Especially for the play of ink painting, this pumpkin picture is a masterpiece.
Although it is scrawled, but a closer look at this dragonfly, but it is so realistic, after zooming in, you will also find that the dragonfly made a "poking hand" action in the air, exactly the same as the dragonfly seen in real life.
It is actually wrong to say that Qi Baishi's paintings are scrawled, it should be said that he understands the pastoral style of this Qi school of painting too thoroughly. The rendering of the whole ink is very beautiful, and the work is completed between wet and dry, and the expression of priorities is very in place.
It is said that it is a painting work, but it is better to say that it is a "calligraphy" work of ink painting, in fact, more of the works are that we see Qi Baishi's profound understanding of Chinese ink painting, especially the beauty of the rhythm of Chinese calligraphy.
A beautiful piece, the dragonfly is painted vividly like a living one, so wonderful.