Qi Baishi's Profile

Qi Baishi (1864-1957), a native of Xiangtan, Hunan Province, was a master of the art of twentieth-century Chinese painting, one of the top ten calligraphers and painters of the twentieth century, and a world cultural celebrity. Qi Baishi January 1, 1864 (Qing dynasty Tongzhi three years dibutyl sebacate winter month 22) was born in xiangtan county white stone store apricot dock, September 16, 1957 (dingyou year August 23) died in Beijing, aged 97 years old. Clan assigned the name of pure Zhi, nicknamed Azhi, name Juan, the word Weiqing, the number of lanting, endangered life, alias the white stone mountain man, so the name of the world to Qi Baishi; and Qi Da, wood people, wood dwellers, red beans, Xingtang old house descendants, borrowed from the mountain Weng, borrowed from the mountain gin pavilion master, send garden, Ping Weng, send Ping Hall masters, president of the Dragon Mountain, three hundred stone prints of the rich man, a hundred trees, pear masters, and so on, a large number of pen names and self-nomination.

Qi Baishi came from a poor background, worked as a farmer, studied carpentry, started from the folk painters, learning from the ancients, learning poetry and calligraphy, traveled to the mountains and rivers and famous places, as a staff member of the foyer, and finally became a great man of the ages with poetry, calligraphy, printing and painting all the people of the God's work. He unified the spirit of Chinese painting with the spirit of the times in a flawless way, so that Chinese painting received international attention. His simplicity and modesty, self-confidence and self-improvement have made his works both rigid and flexible, and his work and calligraphy are both excellent, worthy of being the people's artist. All the flowers, birds, insects and fishes, landscapes and figures are exquisite and new, creating a simple and fresh art world for the history of modern Chinese paintings. He successfully conveyed the modern art spirit of Chinese paintings with classic ink and brushwork, and he y benefited from the classic styles and was good at making new ones, so his paintings could directly touch the hearts of people, conveying the wisdom of life and the philosophy of life to the world's living beings. His landscape paintings express his self-confidence and deep understanding of his own artistic innovation; his figure paintings are good at conveying the spirit and feelings; his calligraphy is simple and generous, and his robust and thick brushwork is integrated into his figure paintings, which perfects the expression of the inner feelings of the characters.

Qi Baishi's family was poor, and he studied for one year when he was a young boy, and he studied and practiced painting when he was herding cows and chopping wood. 1877, when he was apprenticed to a carpenter, he switched to carving carpentry in the following year, and he copied the "Mustard Seed Garden Painting Biographies", and he made a new pattern of carving according to it. 1888, when he began to study painting, and he was the president of the Longshan Poetry Society, and he changed to study portraits at age twenty-six, and at age twenty-seven, he began to learn poetry, painting, and calligraphy from Hu Qinyuan, and Chen Shaofan. At the age of twenty-seven, he began to learn poetry and painting from Hu Qinyuan and Chen Shaofan. At the age of thirty-seven, he studied under the tutelage of Wang Loosen Yun, a scholar, and successively became the mentor and friend of Wang Zhongyin, Lai Songan, and Yang Du, etc. Qi Baishi was born and raised in his hometown. In his hometown, Qi Baishi lived in his birthplace, Xingdou Pond, Meigong Ancestral Hall, and Ru Jiachong Yiping Hall. Since the age of forty, he left his hometown to travel, five out of five, traveling throughout Shaanxi, Henan, Beijing, Hebei, Hubei, Jiangxi, Shanghai, Jiangsu and Guangdong, etc. He visited famous mountains and rivers and made friends with celebrities of the world, such as Fan Fanshan, Xia Wuyi, and Guo Baosun, etc. He was a close friend. His style of painting changed from painting to writing, his calligraphy changed from He Shaoji to Weibi, and his seal carving changed from Ding and Huang to Zhao Zhiqian. At the age of fifty-five, he took refuge in the north and settled in Beijing two years later. He lived in Beijing two years later. He worked with Chen Shizeng, Xu Beihong, Luo Zhaogong and Lin Fengmian.

In 1926, Qi Baishi became an honorary professor of the National Beiping Art College, honorary president of the Beiping Art Writers Association, honorary professor of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, research librarian of the Central Museum of Literature and History, director of the Chinese People's Association of Foreign Cultures, honorary president of the Chinese Painting Academy, president of the Beijing Chinese Painting Research Society, and president of the National Artists Association. In July 1949 and September 1953, he attended the Congress of All-China Literary and Art Workers and was elected as a member of the National Federation of Literature and Art; in August 1954, he was elected as a delegate to the First National People's Congress; he had a deep friendship with Chairman Mao Zedong and was received by him; in January 1953, the Ministry of Culture conferred on him the honorary certificate and the title of "People's Artist"; in December 1955 In December 1955, the German Academy of Arts and Sciences awarded him the Certificate of Honor of Corresponding Academician; in April 1956, the World Peace Council awarded him the 1955 International Peace Prize, and the awarding ceremony was held in September; in 1963, he was elected by the World Peace Council as a World Cultural Celebrity. During the War of Resistance Against Japan, he said that he would not sell his paintings to the government, and in 1946 he resumed his career as a painter and print maker, and in the same year he went to Nanjing and Shanghai to hold solo exhibitions, and became an honorary professor of the Beiping Art College. He is the author of Borrowing the Mountain Ginguan Poetry and Cursive, Baishi Poetry and Cursive, Baishi Seal Cursive, and Autobiography of the Elder Baishi, etc. He is the author of The Complete Works of Qi Baishi. He has published nearly one hundred collections of paintings, such as The Complete Works of Qi Baishi. Seventy-four years old traveled to Shu, and met with Huang Binhong, Jin Songcen.

Qi Baishi life *** there are two wives, *** there are seven sons and five daughters. 1874 by the parents to do the job of marrying a child bride Chen Chunjun, 1881 and his wife Chen Chunjun round house, with three sons (Liang Yuan, Liang Fu, Liang Kun) two women, 1940 hair wife Chen Chunjun in Xiangtan died in his hometown; hired in 1919, Sichuan Hu Baozhu for the deputy room, 1941, Li Jifu corrected, and have four sons (Liang Chi, He had four sons (Liang Chi, Liang Si, Liang Nian, Qi Liang) and three daughters, and died in 1943.

[Edit paragraph]Artistic characteristics and advocate

Qi Baishi advocate art "wonderful in the seeming and not like between"; the decline of the year to change the law, painting master Xu Wei, Zhu Da, Shi Tao, Wu Changshuo, etc., to form a unique style of large capitals of Chinese paintings, the opening of the school of safflower and ink leaves, especially fruits and vegetables, flowers, fruits and vegetables, Qi Baishi's works, birds, insects and fish, and figures, mountains, and other works of art, and the work of the artist. Qi Baishi's works, especially the fruits, vegetables, flowers, birds, insects and fishes, were the best of his work, as well as figures and landscapes, which made him famous for a while, and he and Wu Changshuo*** enjoyed the reputation of "Southern Wu and Northern Qi"; with the fusion of his pure and simple folk art style and the traditional literati painting style, he reached the highest peak of modern Chinese bird and flower paintings. His seal carvings were initially modeled on those of Ding Jing and Huang Xiaosong, then on Hugh Moss Zhao, and then on Han seals; see Sacrifice to the Three Dukes of the Mountain Stele and Tianfa Divine Prophecy Stele, where his seal carvings changed again and again, and his style of sealing became more and more ambitious and unrestrained, making him a representative of the period of transition in the style of seal carving in the modern era. His calligraphy has been widely practiced on stepping stones and posters, and he has been a disciple of He Shaoji, Li Beihai, Jin Dongxin, and Zheng Banqiao, and he is especially good at seal script and running script. His poems are not seeking for workmanship, and he has no intention to learn from the Tang and Song dynasties, but to learn from nature and write with a unique style. His paintings, seals, calligraphy and poets are known as the four masterpieces. He was a hard-working artist, a self-made man, with a high moral character, especially with a sense of national integrity. He left behind more than 30,000 paintings, more than 3,000 poems, self-description and other manuscripts and handwriting in many volumes. His works have been printed again and again in various forms.

Qi Baishi was greatly influenced by Chen Shizeng in the art of painting, and at the same time, he drew on the strengths of Wu Changshuo. He specialized in birds and flowers, and his brush was full of ink and power. But the painting of insects is meticulous, extremely fine. He also respected Xu Wei, Zhu Da, Shitao and Jinnong. Especially shrimps and crabs, cicadas, butterflies, fish, birds, ink and water, overflowing with the vibrant atmosphere of nature. Landscape compositions are strange and not old-fashioned, rich in creative spirit, seal carving is unique, calligraphy is outstanding, and become a great man. Qi Baishi's paintings, against unrealistic fantasy, he often pay attention to the characteristics of flowers, birds, insects, fish, and try to understand their spirit. He once said, "Write for all the insects, open the god for all the birds, and draw your own face. His inscription is very witty and clever, he drew two chicks fighting over a small insect, the title said; "other day call each other". A "Cotton Picture" is titled: "Flowers bloom in the world's warmth, flowers fall in the world's cold". A picture of an undefeated man is titled: "Autumn fan shaking both sides white, official robes Chuchu through the body black."

[Edit Paragraph]The works of the market

Qi Baishi life creation diligently, painting very much, a day without painting panic, five days without engraving itchy hands, creation of more amazing, surprisingly good, only in 1953 a year, the size of the works of more than 600. 1922, Chen Shizeng Qi Baishi's paintings were introduced to Tokyo, to participate in the Sino-Japanese Federation of Painting Exhibition, the results of a great popularity. It was a big hit. All sold at a high price, but at that time in the domestic price of his paintings is very low. 20 years, qi baishi get xu beihong's promotion, works are gradually recognized by collectors, the price steadily increased. Now, the domestic primary market has been difficult to see qi baishi works for public sale, painting and calligraphy store to see his real works will be purchased at a high price, and the price of the sale is very rare to see. In Hong Kong and New York market, the annual auction of qi baishi works, he is the most works were auctioned modern painters. In the Hong Kong market, his most recent prices were around HK$300,000-1,000,000, with the higher price being set in 1989 at HK$1,200,000 In the domestic auction market, Qi Baishi fetches the highest price, with the highest record being an album of landscapes auctioned by Guardian Auction Company at 5.17 million yuan. Later, the Guardian engaged in a special auction of Qi Baishi works, although the effect is better, but since then the price of Qi Baishi works has been in a lower state.

[Edit paragraph]Qi Baishi album page hit the sky

May 31, 2008, qi baishi at the age of ninety-five years old, "flowers, grasses and insects twelve open album page" to 24.64 million yuan auction price, a new white master calligraphy and painting works of the highest historical record, which once again stirred up the collection of "album page" unique charm of favor. "The unique charm of the favor," the "album" this unique form of painting and calligraphy by the market's extra attention.

Qi Baishi works

As we all know, the vertical axis, in the hall, the screen is the main form of traditional painting and calligraphy, but because of its large size and more for the scroll, not only to appreciate the need to hang, but also preservation and carrying inconvenience, so since the Tang Dynasty, there have been a number of scroll paintings cut and decorated into an album, since then, people will be more than a small painting and calligraphy, each page outside of the frame, before and after the addition of the sub-page, Up and down the board, composed of less than four, eight, more than sixteen, twenty-four open easy to keep, carry, enjoy, but also to meet the literati appreciate the book in the book and then inscribed poems to express feelings and thoughts of the "albums".

Qi Baishi this "flowers, grasses and insects twelve album pages" of brushstrokes of grasses and insects for the white stone old man painted in his sixties: butterflies, moths, flies, mantis, dragonflies, grasshoppers, mayflies, wasps, bees, cicadas and weavers, each of which the details of the body of the grasses and insects, the softness and hardness of the wing muscles, texture, transparency, are expressed very clearly and naturally, the legs of the performance of the especially see the work, vivid, and the shape and the spirit and interesting, and the body and the spirit and the body. The legs are especially impressive, lifelike, and interesting in both form and spirit. Grass worms painted 30 years later, the white stone old man and then fill in the scene of the inscription, so that this "flowers, grass and insects twelve album pages" into a convergence of qi baishi's early brushwork grass and insects and late flowers, fruits and melons, still life, calligraphy and other artistic essence of the art of the masterpiece. Bai Shi old man's complementary scenery, capital letter writing, robust and simple, and the fullest, and the fine grass bugs form a sharp contrast to the contrast between the interesting, unparalleled. No wonder even the white stone old man also self-praise: I am ninety-five years old, still white stone!

[edit]Anecdotes

During the war of resistance against Japan, Beiping pseudo-police commander, the big secret agent XuanTieGuo birthday, hard to invite the master of Chinese painting qi baishi to go to the banquet to paint. Qi Baishi came to the banquet, looked around the room full of guests, a little thought, spread the paper and waved the brush. In the blink of an eye, an ink crab jumped on the paper. The crowd was full of praise, Xuan Tiegu was overjoyed. Unexpectedly, Qi Baishi brush flicked a wave, in the painting inscribed a line of words: "see you cross to when", after the book "General Tiegu", and then tilted his head and whisked his sleeve away.

There is a traitor begging to paint, Qi Baishi painted a painted white nose, head wearing a black hat, also inscribed a poem: "black white fan just like the official, do not fall the original mud half of the group, will make-up suddenly come to break, all over the body, where is the heart and soul?"

In 1937, the Japanese invasion forces occupied Beiping. Qi Baishi in order not to be used by the enemy, adhere to the closed door, and posted a notice at the door, written: "Chinese and foreign officials to buy the paintings of Baishi, on behalf of the people can be carried out, do not have to drive to the door, from the official not to the people's home, the official into the people's home, the master is not favorable, I would like to inform, not to receive." Qi Baishi is not enough, and painted a picture to show his heart. The picture is very special, general people paint jadeite bird, let it stand on the stone or lotus path, peeping at the water surface of the fish; Qi Baishi is an anomaly, do not go to the water surface of the sturgeon, and paint the deep water shrimp, and inscribed on the painting: "never paint jadeite must paint fish, Yu only paint shrimp, shrimp do not float, jadeite naive?" Qi Baishi closed the door, self-referring to shrimp, and the traitors as officials and the Japanese compared to the emerald, the meaning of the deep, thought-provoking.

Qi Baishi more than 70 years old, said to people: I just realized that I can not paint. People unanimously praised the old man's humility. The old painter said, I really can't paint. People praised more and more, but of course no one believed what he said.

[Edit Paragraph]Qi Baishi in Picasso's eyes

When it comes to Qi Baishi, many young and middle-aged people may feel unfamiliar with this "outstanding artist of the Chinese people" and "world cultural celebrity". Here only from the foreign painters of his evaluation, talk about the influence of the old man Baishi.

Picasso, the Spanish master of art, once said, "I don't dare to go to your China because there is a Qi Baishi in China."

Qi Baishi is a master we revere, "a marvelous painter in the East!" (Picasso's words). Qi Baishi is different from Wu Changshuo, Huang Binhong, Pan Tianshou, etc. Qi Baishi is not a traditional literati painter, and his success lies in the fact that, from the field of Chinese painting, which has been ruled by literati painters for hundreds of years, he created an unprecedented realm in the field of literati painting with a farmer's simple feelings, an honest child's heart, and the use of the old and raw literati brush. This realm was praised by both the traditional literati class and the general public, thus establishing Qi Baishi's historic position in the painting world. His paintings are full of earthy fragrance, the breath of life, and his works are both master of creation and master of the ancients, to achieve the unity of folk art and traditional art, the unity of sketching and writing, the unity of brushwork and brushstrokes, infinite vitality on the paper.

In June 1956, Zhang Daqian visited Picasso three times and was not allowed to meet him. Zhang Daqian was a painter who did not stop until he reached his goal, and finally met Picasso, who, without saying anything, brought out a bundle of paintings, and Zhang Daqian carefully appreciated them one by one, and found that none of them was Picasso's own genuine works, and all of them were the paintings of Qi Baishi. After watching, Picasso said to him: "Qi Baishi is really a marvelous painter in the East! ...... Chinese painter is marvelous! The fish in Mr. Qi's ink paintings are not colored, but they make people see the long river and swimming fish. That ink bamboo and orchids are even more I can not paint." He also said to Zhang Daqian, "When it comes to art, the first is your art, your Chinese art ......" "What I don't understand the most is why you Chinese people have to run to Paris to learn art? " A great Western painter, such an evaluation of Qi Baishi, which shows the value of Qi Baishi.

Qi Baishi put all the things that are interested and more familiar in life into his picture. His choice of materials broke through the strict boundaries between simple folk painting and academy painting, and there has never been any painter in history with his rare passion for expressing the real world, and he used ordinary and common things as materials to make his paintings reach an unprecedented richness.

[Edit Paragraph]Appreciation of Famous Paintings

Appreciation and Evaluation of Qi Baishi's "Frogs in Ten Miles Out of a Mountain Spring"

The painting is of frogs, with only a few tadpoles swimming against the water next to the rocks and mountains. It is said that this is Lao She's question, there are many painters involved, and finally recognized Qi Baishi's best. Why?

It turns out that the appreciation of works of art (including literature, especially poetry), can not be separated from the connoisseur's life experience, people based on do Ping sent imagery, that is, the image of the picture, to evoke the accumulation of life, the development of associations and imaginations, from which will feel a kind of artistic beauty, will be restored to the picture of the reality of life.

Specifically, from the picture of the tadpoles, we think, tadpoles are frog eggs into, naturally think of frogs; frogs in the mating, there is a period of love days, they keep calling, which is "listening to the sound of frogs". So, there is no tadpole without a frog, in other words, there must be a frog with a tadpole.

Look at the tadpoles on the screen, they swim against the water, not downstream, which means that this is their hometown, where there are their parents, they can not leave here. Where are their parents? Perhaps they are hiding under the boulder next to them, watching their children playing with interest. Only, they are not drawn on the screen.

Main works:

Shrimp Picture, Thousand Sails, Portrait of an Ancient Person