Qi Baishi's "wonderful between like and unlike" what does it mean?

This question can be answered from two perspectives

The first aspect, in terms of Chinese painting, mainly divided into brushstrokes and ideographic paintings in two, the former brushwork is meticulous and neat, no matter whether the characters or scenery are portrayed in a very specific and subtle; and Mr. Qi Baishi belongs to the latter ~ ~ ~ ~ the characteristics of the ideographic paintings is a concise brushwork and ink, a high degree of generalization, and free to express the form of the image of the spirit and the author's feelings. The character of a pictorial painting is characterized by the simplicity of the brush and ink, and the freedom to express the form and spirit of the object and the author's feelings. When dealing with the relationship between form and spirit, it is required to have "both God and form", and "vividness" in both modeling and expression of mood. ~Tang Dynasty painter Zhang Yanyuan will be painting the law of creation is summarized as "the intention to save the first pen, painting the intention of the" eight words, that is to say, should be the painter's main spirit and imagination to go beyond the description of the objective thing la ~~~~ so ~ ~ ~ ~ qi baishi's "seemingly and not like between the ~If Western painting places more emphasis on the realistic reproduction of objective objects, Chinese painting places more emphasis on the expression of the inner spirit of the object and the author's subjective emotions.

Therefore, Chinese painting emphasizes the importance of "intention" and "transmitting the spirit". Gu Kaizhi of the Eastern Jin Dynasty put forward "writing God in shape" and "moving the mind to get it", that is, to seize the typical characteristics of things to express its inner spirit. In order to achieve this requirement, the painter must give full play to their artistic imagination, penetrate their own ideals and feelings to transcend the original objective things ah ~~~~~

Lastly~Qi Baishi said, "wonderful in the seeming and not like between" in fact, is to express the spirit of Chinese painting a kind of writing, seem to come from the painter on the objective things intuitive expression, and the painting is not the same, but a kind of spirit. The resemblance comes from the painter's intuitive expression of objective things, and the unlikeness is due to the addition of the creator's own artistic emotions. The works created in this way will be endowed with a personalized spiritual temperament, which is only wonderful. ~~~~~~~

--Please note for copying~Girls' Little Girl Original (Reference "Introduction to Art"

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