Qi Baishi painted two duck eggs, and the painter begged for more painting, but he drew a fly on the door

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The personalities of artists are usually different from ordinary people, some of them are humorous and funny, some are lonely and eccentric, some have a childish and childlike heart, and some are old-fashioned at a young age. As the saying goes, geniuses are strange, and not strange is not genius.

Then the artist we are talking about today is an interesting person who "cuts the door".

Qi Baishi

First, the stingy Qi Baishi

Mr. Qi Baishi is a calligraphy and painting artist in modern China. His fame is so high that it can be seen through the value of his paintings.

Mr. Qi Baishi's paintings are of high quality, bright colors and lifelike shapes.

There was a work of Mr. Qi Baishi that was auctioned in 2017, and the final transaction price was as high as more than 900 million yuan! It has become the most expensive and expensive Chinese painting and calligraphy work in modern and contemporary china.

Although the price of Mr. Qi Baishi's paintings is relatively high now, in fact, Mr. Qi Baishi himself is a very picky person. This is not nonsense, there are witnesses to testify.

Mr. Huang Yongyu said that when he visited Mr. Qi Baishi in the past, he experienced such an incident.

At that time, Mr. Huang Yongyu was visiting Mr. Qi Baishi for the first time, and Mr. Qi Baishi, who can be said to know how to entertain guests, took out snacks and peanuts to entertain him.

But Mr. Huang Yongyu fixed his eyes on it, and the dim sum was not a small snack, but the leftovers were cut open, and the amount of peanuts was also very small, and the plates were at the bottom.

Later, Mr. Huang Yongyu learned that Mr. Qi Baishi believed that if he did not take the dim sum to entertain the guests, it was because he did not understand the number of etiquette, and entertaining the guests should be done; but at the same time, he also believed that if the guests really ate the snack unceremoniously, it was that the guest did not understand the number of etiquette.

Therefore, basically the things that Mr. Qi Baishi brought to entertain people cannot be eaten, to put it bluntly, it is to decorate the façade, which means that everyone is polite to each other.

Second, Qi Baishi's fly painting

Now, Mr. Qi Baishi's paintings are very expensive. When Mr. Qi Baishi was alive, he also had to pay for his paintings at a set price. No matter what kind of relationship you have with him, and no matter how well-groomed you are, in short, if you want to buy paintings from Old Mr. Qi Baishi, you are not allowed to bargain.

And unlike other painters, Mr. Qi Baishi's paintings are priced according to the size of the frame. However, Mr. Qi Baishi has always been a child who is not deceived, the pricing is honest, if the buyer agrees that the price is set, he will definitely paint the buyer well, and he will not let the buyer suffer losses, but he himself calculates clearly, and he will not suffer losses.

There are admirers of Mr. Qi Baishi who come to the door to ask for paintings, but they are helpless and shy, and they really have no money, and they can only afford to buy paintings of smaller sizes.

So Mr. Qi Baishi painted two duck eggs for him on such a small canvas, asking the painter to look at it, there are still many blank spaces in the picture, and such a large open space can obviously add some content.

He wanted to ask Mr. Qi Baishi to spend more pen and ink and add something. Although Mr. Qi Baishi responded, the painting he drew was surprising, and he actually added a fly to the picture.

Qi Baishi painted two duck eggs, begging the painter to beg for more paintings, but the result was to "cut the door" and paint a fly.

You know, flies and cockroaches are things that can't be put on the table. Throughout the ages, no matter which painter painted, where did anyone like to paint flies and cockroaches?

In short, no matter in the aesthetic point of view of the era, flies and cockroaches are dirty and quite disliked.

But there is no way, the paintings are all painted. Not to mention that it is also the pen and ink of Old Mr. Qi Baishi. So the painter thought, let's keep it.

Although it does not look very elegant, but looking at the paintings handed down by Mr. Qi Baishi, you can find that there seem to be many such paintings. Duck eggs with flies, duck eggs with cockroaches, coriander duck eggs with flies, duck egg peach cores with cockroaches, etc., in short, it seems that Mr. Qi Baishi seems to have a special love for fly cockroaches.

So what is the value of these vulgar things that are difficult to climb and elegance? Actually, it's really worth a lot of money.

The details of these unsightly paintings painted by Mr. Qi Baishi are not in these duck eggs, but in these disgusting little cockroaches and small flies. Duck eggs or plates, are also popular items, and then look closely at its line coloring is also so, to put it bluntly is the role of the background.

But these fly cockroaches are not the same, if you look closely, zoom in ten or even twenty times, you can see that this little thing seems to come alive.

It is no exaggeration to say that it is more realistic than high-definition photos. First of all, the eyes of the fly are polished and shiny, and they seem to be vigilantly observing the surrounding environment; the fly legs are flexibly on the ground, as if they can escape immediately as soon as something is found, and even the joints of the fly legs are very clear, without confusion, and can clearly see different parts and different thicknesses.

Most carefully, the fluff on the fly is clearly visible, and it looks a little goosebumps when it looks closely; the wings of the fly are thin, but they feel strong and powerful, the shape is complete, the edges are clear, and it is particularly realistic, as if it can fly away in the next second.

How real is this fly painting? That is, if you take it to scare a child, you can definitely scare him into crying; if you enlarge it and take it to the person who is eating, it must also make people sick of not eating.

Mr. Qi Baishi looks really different, some of the paintings are not at all as high-grade as other artists, and the objects painted do not seem to be all popular landscape insects and birds, but these disgusting insects that are difficult to climb and elegance.

But he spent a lot of ink on these difficult and elegant fly cockroaches, presumably a lot of effort.

Did Mr. Qi Baishi cut the door? He slammed the door, even the corners and corners of the large paintings, so that the palm-sized paper he would take to continue painting, not willing to throw it away.

Did Mr. Qi Baishi cut the door? He really doesn't knock on the door. Every time Mr. Qi Baishi's students come to visit him, he will give students pocket money, and he will also spare no effort to spread the space and paint and send paintings to students and students' children

Mr. Qi Baishi is simple and sincere, the level of painting is superb, and his works have high artistic value.

Mr. Qi Baishi's cut is interesting and admirable. He loves the grass and trees around him, and is keen to observe every object around him, even if it is a fly cockroach that makes people reluctant to look at it more, he can also observe it in detail and depict these small creatures vividly.

Mr. Qi Baishi is a well-deserved master and a very lovely person.

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