How did Qi Baishi become a great painter from a carpenter?

First, Qi Baishi's experience as a carpenter stems from his birth in an ordinary rural family in Hunan. Because of poverty, he dropped out of school at an early age. In order to support his family in the future, his parents asked him to learn a trade, because carpentry was a popular occupation in the countryside at that time, and there was a way out in the future.

However, Qi Baishi looks like a weak scholar and can't do heavy manual work, so he was scolded by the master for a long time and the carpenter's experience was not smooth.

Fortunately, Qi Baishi was smart and eager to learn since he was a child, and secretly made up his mind to learn the real skills.

After long-term observation, Qi Baishi found that he is also a carpenter, but he can make exquisite small objects. People who can carve flowers and lettering are far more popular than those who can do rough work. Moreover, Qi Baishi liked painting since he was a child, so he soon worshipped a famous sculptor and began to study with great interest. He soon mastered all the skills of the master, and he was ingenious and created many new tricks, which were very popular with the people in his hometown.

Less than twenty years old, Qi Baishi began his real carpenter career. In his long-term life, he was very familiar with all kinds of folk techniques and themes, and he understood what the people at the bottom liked, which deeply influenced his later artistic style and honed his experience in modeling, materials and composition in his long-term work. It can be said that Qi Baishi's official carpenter career laid a solid foundation for him to become a generation of masters of painting and calligraphy in the future.

Second, introduction:

Qi Baishi (65438+65438 in 0864, 10 65438-0957+65438 in September 2006) was born in Xiangtan, Changsha, Hunan (now Xiangtan, Hunan).

Formerly known as Chunzhi, Wei Qing was named Lanting.

Later, it was renamed Huang, and the word was born. Named Baishi, Baishishan Weng, Laoping, Hongcuo, the owner of the mountain pavilion, the old man who sent Pingtang, and the rich man of 300 lithographs.

He is a master of modern painting in China and a world cultural celebrity.

He worked as a carpenter in his early years, then made a living by selling paintings, and settled in Beijing after he was 57.

He is good at painting flowers and birds, insects and fish, landscapes and figures. His pen and ink are vigorous and moist, with rich and bright colors, concise and vivid shapes and simple artistic conception.

Fish, shrimp, worms and crabs are full of fun.

Qi Baishi is a seal script writer, and his seal script method comes from inscriptions in Qin and Han Dynasties. His calligraphy saved Gu Zhuo's interest, and seal script became his own. He was also good at writing poems.

He used to be honorary professor of Central Academy of Fine Arts and chairman of China Artists Association.

Representative works include Frog Rang Ten Miles Away from the Mountain Spring and Ink Shrimp.

He is the author of "Bai Shi Shi Hua" and "Bai Shi Old Man's Self-report".