Qi Baishi's albums of flowers and birds are a must, with a few brushstrokes, outlining an innocent and angry world, which is amazing! Different from the elegant literary atmosphere of literati paintings, Qi Baishi was born in the people, and his paintings have a kind of rural atmosphere, which has a childlike taste, but does not lose his artistic skills!
Qi Baishi's thirteen-page album "Unfortunately Silent: Flowers, Birds, Workers and Insects" was created in 1942, which is Baishi's early work, with vivid brushstrokes of grass and insects, freehand flowers and birds. Seiko fine brushwork does not lose the simplicity of the state, and the freehand dripping pen and ink, adding to the vitality.
This album was deeply loved by Shiraishi, and the self-titled album was "It's a pity that it is silent". It's a pity that it's silent, what is it, cover its flowers, birds, grasses and insects, lifelike, natural and smart, on the paper or jubilant, or quiet, a joyful movement of nature, but it's a pity that the flowers and birds can't speak, so this "unfortunately silent" is the humble words of this silent movement.
In another album, the same bright red flowers are presented, showing a sparse state, the brushwork is tranquil and straightforward, and a Zen dwells on it and looks down, and a praying mantis clings to the flower branches and looks upward, in the middle of the extremely quiet things, as if the confrontation of human demeanor, there is the drunkenness and mystery overflowing from heaven and earth.
The objects painted by Shiraishi, grasses, insects, flowers and birds, are all ordinary things, but the painter has given them a sense of natural beauty, the brush and ink are unbridled and spicy, and the colors are appropriate, which perfectly integrates the innocent childlike joy and the rhythm of life. Shiraishi's self-humble inscription "It's a pity that it's silent" should actually be the Tao Ran fun of "silent is better than sound".
Shiraishi's "Book of Flowers, Birds, Workers and Insects" is obviously influenced by the "craftsman career" of his youth, his pen is full of ink, and his strength and strength are sharp and draw on Wu Changshuo's strengths, and at the same time, his writing style has Xu Wei, Bada, Shi Tao, Jin Nong's ink dripping, vitality and ease.
But if you talk about the limitations of this album, that is, it is too work-seeking in the portrayal of insects, compared with the freehand style of flowers, birds, grasses and insects in its later years, and the simple and simple ink dripping Yipin environment, this volume of "Flowers, Birds, Workers and Insects" retains some ingenuity, and it has not yet been created by the great wonder!
At this time, the Buddha was awake and Jesus was asleep
Visitors to the city stop outside the ruins
The rootless footprints preceded the dervishes
The echo of silence precedes the cry of the deer
Green hatching crocodile pebbles
The robe-like flesh cracked instantly
A thousand eyes and thousands of hands on the blade of wisdom
Holding on to the cliff wall, he smiled
fluttering and falling pink butterflies are innumerable
蒲扇摇落日月恍若来世
The flowers are old and the overnight tea is still warm
Half a book, no more
The return of the city stops in the ruins
Jesus was awake and the Buddha was lazy and asleep
The cherry was melancholy red
The plantain is as green as the wind
I think of countless children under the Buddha statues
Fresh days of peeing
Like a lay child who has not fasted
A shy girl who peeps through the window in the bath
Years later, the old monk closed his eyes and counted the rosaries
It was broken by a red thread and scattered around
This lonely bitter fruit squirrel breaks with a bite
It's like a baby wrapped in a plantain in a past life
I don't know why I cried and laughed at myself
And the cherries are still so melancholy red
And Basho is still so indifferently green with the work information:
Author: Qi Baishi
Title: "It's a pity that it's silent.Flowers, birds, workers and insects"
Size: 29×23cm×13