I always thought I was old.
Since reading the story of Master Qi Baishi,
Only to find out that life has just begun
He worked as a carpenter at the age of 14
At the age of 25, he sold paintings part-time
At the age of 32, he learned to engrave
At the age of 40, he began to travel the country
In his 50s, he abandoned his family and set up a business to break into Beijing alone
Carpenters become masters in Beijing
At the age of 83, he also had a child
85 years old continued
At the age of 93, he was arguing about marrying a 22-year-old little crush
Do you think you are looking at the phone, this is rubbing your hands, a look is tired of painting.
His family was poor,
24 years old to learn to paint,
Good at painting flowers, birds, insects and fish, landscapes, and figures;
Painting shrimp is a must,
has been incorporated;
He is the painter with the most counterfeiting,
In his lifetime, he painted more than 10,000 paintings,
Hundreds of thousands of market circulation,
Few authentic works;
He was a great oriental painter in Picasso's eyes,
Together with Wu Changshuo, it is called "Southern Wu and Northern Qi".
September 16, 1957,
Old Man Shiraishi has passed away,
In addition to remembering the tribute,
Let's look at a few short passages about Mr. Qi Baishi,
The master's uninhibited personality and unworldly attitude towards life can be seen from this.
Qi Baishi and Zhou Enlai
Huang Yongyu and Li Keyan always asked Mr. Qi Baishi how to paint well.
This question is really annoying!
This question can really be explained in words.
Mr. Qi has been painting all his life and knows how to paint well.
Because he can't paint badly! This question is really a human being, and they are still dead to ask.
And you can't tell them directly, "I'm a genius!" "You can't say that!" Mr. Qi had no choice but to raise the pen into the air, stared at it for a while, and slowly said, "Don't drop the pen!" "This is like a verse, you can understand it any way you want."
Qi Baishi and Chen Yi
Qi Baishi died in 1957, but there are still passages of his life circulating.
One of them was "inspirational", saying that he "worked as a carpenter at the age of 14, sold paintings part-time at the age of 25, learned to engrave at the age of 32, and began to travel the country at the age of 40." In his 50s, he abandoned his family and set up a business to break into Beijing alone. In Beijing, carpenters became masters and gave birth to children at the age of 83. At the age of 85, he continued to string, and when he was 93 years old, he was clamoring to marry the 22-year-old xiaomei. ”
Speaking of this chase, the writer of the paragraph did not forget to point out the main idea: "I always thought that I was old, and since I read the story of Master Qi Baishi, I found that life has just begun." ”
Qi Baishi and Xu Beihong
Qi Baishi married 18-year-old Hu Baozhu at the age of 57
The reason why this passage is widely circulated is because there is a joke about the continuation of the string and the birth of children at an advanced age, but the real situation is indeed similar.
Qi Baishi is a strange existence, with countless passages in his life.
And his fame, in addition to being forced to ask, he helplessly called himself "Heavenly Talent", in fact, from these paragraphs can also find clues.
Qi Baishi, Xu Beihong, Xin Fengxia
Wen Wu is the first, Wu wu is the second.
The fame of a painter is not a simple matter, because the quality of the painting is still subjectively judged, and Van Gogh only sold one of his own works during his lifetime.
Now many people are doing self-media, what kind of self-media can highlight the siege, how to carry out self-promotion? To explore the answers to these questions, you may wish to learn from Qi Baishi and see how he counterattacked from a poor carpenter to a nationally renowned painter.
Qi Baishi and Lao She and His Wife
Unique personality
Unique personality can create unique talent, which is the most valuable thing for a person. This was true in the internet era, and it was also true more than 100 years ago. Qi Baishi's experience and personality have given him a strong personality. When I was a child, my family was poor, and when I was a teenager, I went to learn to be a carpenter, and a carpenter loved to draw and chant poetry, which caused a huge contrast. Qi Baishi's dress is rustic, and he talks with people with a rural atmosphere, and has not changed since he became famous, which also gives people who meet him for the first time a strong sense of drama.
It is said that Qi Baishi is very miserly, often carrying more than a dozen keys around his waist, the rice, noodles, and oil in the home are locked, and how much to eat at each meal requires him to open the lock and weigh it. These unique personalities can easily become the talk of the society and distinguish them from many literati and scholars.
Some time ago, a poet named Yu Xiuhua caught fire overnight, many media interviewed, and two poetry collections were successfully published and listed. There is no doubt that Yu Xiuhua's poetry has reached a certain level, but her labels of "peasant", "cerebral palsy" and "female poet" have undoubtedly played a great role.
Having talent as the foundation and a unique personality will make you stand out from the crowd faster.
Qi Baishi took a group photo with the celebrities in the art world at that time, including Zhang Boju, Peng Babai and others
Get in touch with big coffee
Carpenters love to chant poetry and paint, in fact, it is not a big deal, and there are many such people in the village. If you want to enter the house and get the approval of high society, you have to have a relationship with the big coffee. Qi Baishi's first step was to worship the master. He first worshiped the local celebrities Hu Qinyuan and Chen Shaofan as his teachers. After becoming more famous, he also worshiped Wang Minyun, a famous teacher in Xiangtan, Hunan Province.
Wang Minyun was a scribe and a literary scholar, and he could only add a little bit to Bai Shi's poetry, and could not teach him techniques such as painting and engraving. Qi Baishi worships him as a teacher, and his greater role is to use the reputation of the teacher to enhance his social status and expand his social circle. After visiting the teacher, there were some extraordinary brothers with the same disciple, and later his "five out of five returns" began with the invitation of Xia Shoutian to Xi'an.
It should be noted that Qi Baishi did not take the initiative to design his life. These two visits were not entirely active, but his talent made the teachers want to take him as an apprentice. After visiting the teacher, you also need to make friends with celebrities. After accepting the invitation of Xia Shoutian to go to Xi'an, Qi Baishi went to visit Fan Fanshan in Shaanxi Province. Fan Fanshan paid 50 taels of silver to buy his 5-square seal, and personally ordered a runge for him: painting, ruler paper silver one or two; printing, 500 words per word. This kind of publicity made Qi Baishi's reputation in Xi'an greatly enhanced, and he earned two thousand taels of silver after living for three months.
When he was in his 50s, Qi Baishi broke into the capital alone, and not many people bought his paintings at the beginning. He set himself the runge as follows: ruler silver coins for half yuan, fan silver coins for two dollars. Two oceans can buy a fan he painted, not very high. But later, Mei Lanfang came to worship him as a teacher.
Once, a then-congressman had a birthday party and invited Qi Baishi. Qi Baishi wore cloth robes and shoes to attend such a grand occasion, which was despised by people. But Mei Lanfang was very respectful and enthusiastic after seeing the teacher, and those celebrities immediately knew about Qi Baishi.
In this way, Qi Baishi gradually broke through the fame in the capital and established his heels.
Qi Baishi, Lao She, Xiao San
Change with the tide
Qi Baishi's painting style is not static.
At first, Qi Baishi painted gongbi paintings. Later, after traveling and seeing the landscapes of Guanzhong in Shaanxi and Guilin in Guangxi, he felt that Gongbi painting could not paint the magic of nature, so he changed it to splash ink freehand painting.
After entering Beijing, Qi Baishi became acquainted with Chen Baozhen's grandson and painter Chen Shizeng. Chen Shi once told Qi Baishi that people in the capital like to be gorgeous, and it is not okay to paint too coldly. Qi Baishi followed the advice and painted the splash ink, so he sold it better.
It can be seen from this incident that although he was more than 50 years old at the time, Qi Baishi did not stick to the rules, but still had plasticity, still maintained a curious heart willing to change.
Qi Baishi's artistic life can last until more than 90 years old, which should be related to this.
Qi Baishi and Mei Lanfang
Finally, let's take a look at the classic quotes of the protagonist of this passage
● Do not teach a day to idle.
Don't be short, don't talk about your own length; people laugh when they scold, laugh when they laugh at their reputation.
● The beauty of painting lies between similarity and dissimilarity, too similar is kitsch, and if it is not similar, it deceives the world.
● He who learns from me is born, and he who is like me dies.
Those passages of old man Shiraishi
Qi Baishi and Guo Moruo
Paragraph 1
Hospitality ceremony...
Excerpted from Zhang Langlang's "The Old Story of Dayabao"
Let's say that the famous old Mr. Qi Baishi... As soon as Grandpa Qi came, the children of the whole hospital rushed forward and backward to see, although everyone knew that Mr. Qi had a special temper due to his special situation. For example, when you go to Grandpa Qi's house, don't eat the mooncakes and peanuts he brought you, it's just a ritual of his hospitality, if you really want to do it, just wait to go home and be beaten. First, you really ate it, Grandpa Qi must be unhappy; second, your stomach must be going to have a problem, and the mooncakes and peanuts are not known to be preserved until now in the Year of the Monkey.
with Ai Qing and others
Paragraph 2
Also said hospitality ceremony...
Excerpt from Huang Yongyu's "Old Man Older Than Me"
The first time I met old man Shiraishi was brought by Mr. Kane. When the old man saw the guest, he personally unlocked the cabinet door as usual and took out two plates of treats for the guests. A plate of mooncakes, a plate of peanuts with shells. On the way, Ke Dye has taken care of me, and the old man will bring out two plates of such things. Three-quarters of the mooncake remained; peanuts were a shallow dish. "It's all broken, I can't eat it!" After I sat down, I looked at the long-famous dim sum from a distance and found that there were tiny things moving inside the cut mooncakes; the peeled peanuts also faintly saw the cobwebs of the wind. This is the old man's rule, the process of etiquette, but do not want the daredevil guests to really move their hands. God knows what year and month the quarter of the mooncake was killed by the hungry daredevils!
With Lee can be stained
Paragraph 3
Live shrimp are expensive!
Selected from "Qi Baishi Painting Cabbage" on the water
Qi Baishi is a very good person. He packed all the gold bars he had earned from painting over the years in a small pocket and sat down. When I lived in the Beijing Tiezhai House, I woke up at dawn and my family was sweeping the court. Mr. Qi Went to the Studio to draw Rong Baozhai's orders, and then drew other orders. Follow the rungs posted on the wall. The world is so big, where there are no dead-skinned people, for example: "Mr. Qi add a shrimp!" "Old Mr. Qi, you are affected!" Draw more fish, my inner favorite fish! Mr. Qi also did not speak, just obliquely looked at the guest, and it was not good to refute people's faces on the spot, slowly dipped the pen into ink, and moaned for half a moment, one stroke, two strokes. Fish, shrimp, and crabs jump out of the picture. But they are not very energetic, and they look as if they have been out of the water for several days and are going to turn their stomachs. The guest asked incomprehensibly: "How does this shrimp look like a dead shrimp?" Mr. Qi sat in the circle chair and said, "How expensive are live shrimp on the market!" "The host and the guest are aware of god, and they scatter in one shot and two."
With Lee KuChan
Paragraph 4
You're going to eat so much!"
Wang Zengqi mentioned in the article "Mr. Lao She" that the bamboo shengzi that measured rice in Mr. Qi's home were all kept by himself. Every day he eats, he has to measure the rice. A large family of people, eat a lot of rice. The old gentleman was reluctant. Measure a tube and shake your hand. The family cooks and the daughter-in-law says that it is not enough, "You add a little more.". Old Mr. Qi muttered, "You have to eat so much!" "Then give another tube."
With Lou Shibai
Paragraph 5
Don't be afraid of ten thousand, just in case...
Premier Zhou later changed a relatively large residence for the old man, and within a few days of moving over, the old man was not used to crying and crying to go back. Everyone did not understand the old man's intentions. Big courtyard, is it not good to support flowers and trees? Mr. Lao She said, "Don't! He was so accustomed to it, if he wasn't told to do this, he wouldn't be able to live. "In fact, there is another layer inside, the old man likes to hide things at home, one in the east and one in Tibet." Only he knew where he hid his things. Although the old house is still inhabited by the younger generations of the family, he is not at ease. Don't be afraid of ten thousand, just in case.
Couple with Guo Xiuyi
Paragraph 6
Private treasures!
When the Central Film documentary factory filmed "People's Artist Qi Baishi", he asked him to take some fine products out to shoot, and he was unwilling to do anything. Later, it was Xu Beihong who went to work, and he reluctantly pulled out a few scrolls of paintings from the "news" of the painting table. He was a thin carpenter by birth, and it was not yet familiar to make a few "messages" such as dark grids or small drawers on the drawing table. After the paintings were pulled out, they were rolled up and placed on the canvas. As soon as Mr. Xu opened it, he saw only the treasure radiant, all of which were the fine works of the old man's life. Disgusting! There is a white camellia painted on gold paper with a butterfly fluttering down. It's so brilliantly painted! Mr. Xu couldn't stop looking at the old man sitting opposite, thinking, "This is too chicken thief!" Old Mr. Qi sat in a large circle chair, his sleeves hanging down. Eyes and nose, nose and heart, silent. What a cunning thing!
With Tian Han to receive foreign friends
Paragraph 7
Exchange cabbage for cabbage?
This day is the windy and sandy day in Beiping. Qi Baishi sat in the studio and heard that there were people drinking and selling cabbage outside. He couldn't sit still. He had a clever idea, "Why don't I draw a cabbage to change cabbage, that would be a good story for a literati!" "Outside the iron fence house, a stupid man with a northern bird is guarding a cart of cabbage to drink, and his neck is long and long. Out of nowhere, a white-bearded old man, wearing a small garden glasses, was watching his cart of cabbage out of his mind, and he wanted to eat it very much. This stupid man selling rookies saw the patron busy greeting: "Old sir! How many pounds do you want to weigh? Weigh high." Old Mr. Qi took out a roll of paper from behind and said, "I will take this painting of cabbage and exchange it for a cart of cabbage, will you be willing?" When this stupid bird heard this, he said angrily, "I don't look at your age, but I will kill you." Great North Windy Day! Is there such a pastime? Think beautiful! Take a picture of a fake cabbage and exchange it for a cart of cabbage! A roar made the old man unable to touch the north and south. Mr. Qi slipped away with the painted cabbage and slipped in from the door of the Iron Cherry House and said, "Hey! What an insult to Sven! ”
Take a group photo with a friend
Paragraph 8
Eat crab.
...... Then we eat crab. The crabs were two large skewers that Mr. Ke Dye reminded me to buy at the Xidan Small Vegetable Market, about forty. The old man (Qi Baishi) was obviously very happy and asked His Aunt Ti to steam. Shortly after the aunt left the room, she brought the crab back: "You count!" He said to the old man, "Forty-four." The old man gave a "hmm" and expressed his approval. The aunt turned around and muttered softly, "Then I said I ate his..."
Qi Baishi with male and female disciples
Couple with Lang Jingshan
With yellow seedlings
Group photo with Xu Beihong and others
With Hu Baozhu and his family
with Xu Beihong and others
Qi Baishi painted
Look at the painting
Qi Baishi brush close-up
taking photographs
Talk to people
Melan
The year of creation is unknown
Pen and ink on paper
37×43cm
Collection of Beijing Academy of Painting
fish
Painted in 1907
31×16.5cm
lichee
Color on paper
100×33.5cm
Lychee dragonfly diagram
136×33.4cm
White Text Square Seal - A breath of surviving books to read
Aota stone
4.2×4.2×10.6cm
Bai Wen Fang Yin - the hometown mountain flower blooms at this time
Shoushan Stone
3.6×3.6×5.3cm
Autumn water cormorants
117×24cm
Qi Baishi was the most prestigious and influential master of Chinese painting in China in the 20th century, with poetry, books, paintings and printing. Peking Opera master Mei Lanfang, artist Xu Beihong and other well-known people are all "fans" of Grandpa Baishi. Qi Baishi was a professor at the National Peking Art College, a professor at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, the chairman of the China Artists Association, and the honorary president of the Beijing Academy of Chinese Painting (now the Beijing Academy of Painting). In January 1953, the Ministry of Culture of the People's Republic of China awarded Qi Baishi the honorary certificate and the title of "People's Artist". In April 1956, the World Peace Council awarded him the annual International Peace Prize. In 1963, the World Peace Council elected him a "World Cultural Celebrity".
The text part comes from Douban user Big Bear Flying Can