Why do you say that Qi Baishi s 8 words have made countless painters live out their own value?

The eight words that Qi Baishi uttered were: Those who learn from me live, and those who resemble me die. Admiring Qi Baishi is to express the ultimate meaning of painting, that is, to paint one's own paintings, not to paint like others, and to paint like others, there is no difference between painting and others.

Everyone is unique, and they should be their truest selves, rather than following in the footsteps of others, because copying a person's paintings, no matter how similar they are, you can't surpass him.

Those who learn from me live, and those who resemble me die. - Qi Baishi. After reading this quotation of Qi Baishi, I all admire Qi Baishi for saying the ultimate meaning of painting, that is, to paint your own paintings, not to paint like others, and to paint like others, what is the difference between you and others.

Those who learn from me live, and those who resemble me die. - Qi Baishi.

This quotation from Qi Baishi is to encourage those who make a living by copying and imitating other people's paintings to be brave enough to paint their own paintings.

Qi Baishi is a famous landscape, flower and bird painter in modern China.

For a long time, "The Old Man of Baishi's Self-Statement", which was dictated by Qi Baishi and recorded by Zhang Cixi, has been regarded as the most important work in the study of Qi Baishi's life. So, is this really the case with the real Qi Baishi? Qi Baishi made a wide range of friends throughout his life, either because of art, social friendship, or relatives and friends, and the teachers and friends around him had a great influence on the shaping of Baishi's artistic image.

The book "Six Notes of Qi Baishi's Mentors and Friends", different from the usual interpretation perspective of Qi Baishi's works, selects six key figures closely related to Qi Baishi's artistic process: Hu Qinyuan, Wang Minyun, Chen Shizeng, Shi Ruiguang, Mei Lanfang, and Xu Beihong as the entry point, focusing on Qi Baishi from the perspective of others, and interpreting and deducing the little-known aspects of Qi Baishi from historical materials, so as to present a more vivid and clear image of Qi Baishi.

Six Notes of Qi Baishi's Teachers and Friends, edited by Beijing Fine Art Academy, Guangxi Normal University Press, November 2020.

Among these six people, Hu Qinyuan and Wang Minyun are Qi Baishi's teachers, Chen Shizeng and Xu Beihong are friends who have a deep influence on Qi Baishi, and Mei Lanfang and Shi Ruiguang are Qi Baishi's students.

Hua Tianxue divided the relationship between Qi Baishi and Xu Beihong into four parts: the first part is acquaintance, Qi Baishi has a sentence called "Caolu three please do not resign", which means that Xu Beihong invited Qi Baishi to be a professor at the National Art School, and invited him many times, and his attitude was very sincere, and Qi Baishi agreed to him. The second part, called New Year's Friends, talks about their interactions in life.

The third part is about the collection and promotion of Xu Beihong's Qi Baishi's works. Based on the recognition and love of Qi Baishi's works, Xu Beihong continued to buy and sell Qi Baishi's works throughout his life, and there are still 100 pieces left in the Xu Beihong Memorial Hall. The fourth part is about their artistic confidants.

Qi Baishi's paintings worth hundreds of millions of yuan, Qi Baishi is most famous for his shrimp paintings, but three of his five most expensive paintings are eagles: up to 400 million yuan Qi Baishi's eagle paintings have been suspected of plagiarizing Zhu Ying, but after enlargement, this painting is very distinctive, worth 400 million yuan Almost every painter has a representative object, such as: Xu Beihong painted horses, Li Keran painted cows, and Qi Baishi painted shrimp ......Qi Baishi's shrimp paintings are definitely the best and most famous of all his works, but five of them are the most expensive.

Among them, three are eagles, and the most expensive one is worth 400 million yuan. The image of the eagle represents height and might, a symbol of power and majesty, and has often become a favorite topic of painters and collectors throughout the ages. As a freehand calligrapher and painter, Qi Baishi really painted eagles.

However, Qi Baishi's eagle was questioned as plagiarizing Zhu Diao's work. In fact, the eagle can indeed be regarded as the ancestor, and over the years, countless painters have learned to paint eagles from the eagle. Why can Qi Baishi's eagle be sold for a sky-high price of 400 million yuan?

The painting, titled "Four-character Couplet of Pine and Cypress Gaoli Diagram Seal Book", is said to have been a birthday gift from Qi Baishi to Chiang Kai-shek, and depicts an eagle-like heroic figure. Chiang Kai-shek himself liked the painting so much that it was sold for 400 million yuan at auction.

Many collectors and netizens said that Qi Baishi's eagle, whether it is composition, modeling, or even brushwork, is almost exactly the same as Zhu Ying's. Found Zhu's eagle, at first glance it does look very similar, but on closer inspection, you can actually see a big difference. The two eagles, Qi Baishi and Zhu Ying, look like different periods of the same eagle, one is in his prime, and the other is already old.

Especially the aura of the two eagles, one is majestic and high-spirited, and the other is arrogant. Qi Baishi's eagle eyes were resolute and resolute, and his eyes were sharp, as if aiming at prey in the distance; The eagle, on the other hand, seems to be rolling his eyes, his eyes revealing loneliness and calmness. Everything in the world seems to be clearly understood, and there is no need to look at it.

<>If you zoom in on Qi Baishi's eagle claws, although it is only described with a few strokes, it grips the trunk tightly, allowing itself to stand tall and steady, waiting to realize its ambitions. Like an old man, the eagle sits naturally and casually on the trunk of a tree, experiencing the impermanence of the world and being indifferent. The eagles of Qi Baishi and Zhu Diao show their different attitudes towards life.

Qi Baishi has been a vigorous and childlike person all his life, while Zhu Diao has an indifferent attitude. These two works are the epitome of the artist's personality. From this magnification, it can be seen that although Qi Baishi studied Zhu Yingying, he also drew his own characteristics and thoughts, which made him unique.

It can't be said that he imitated Zhu Ying.

They are "Fir Tower", "Smoke and Deep Sail Shadow", "Spring Rain in the Mountains", "Mangrove White Spring", "Bantang Lotus Fragrance", Qi Baishi is good at painting small animals, the details are displayed vividly, and the high one has reached 100 million yuan.

Mainly "Landscape Twelve Screens", "Shrimp" and other paintings based on flowers and birds, they were auctioned very high.

Among his works, five paintings are the most expensive, three of them are painted eagles, and the most expensive of them is as high as 400 million. Qi Baishi's paintings are very sky-high, any one is millions, tens of millions, or even more than 100 million.

Shrimp paintings, eagle paintings, landscape paintings, these paintings are very distinctive, and the value is also very high, especially excellent.

1. Because he is confident, when many people are conformist, he has the courage and heart to change his painting style at the age of 57.

2. It is precisely because of the indifference to fame and fortune that he can be willing to endure loneliness, strive for excellence in painting, and decay and change the law.

3. "He has been painting all his life, and there are almost no holidays to speak of, but he stayed in Nanjing during the Anti-Japanese War, and when he heard that his mother died, he was grief-stricken and stopped working for three days" is to show that Qi Baishi is a person with great feelings.

After Qi Baishi's largest work "Pine and Cypress Gaolitu Seal Script Four Words Couplet" started at 88 million yuan, after more than half an hour of fierce bidding, a collector in the venue finally won the bid for 100 million yuan, which also set a new record for modern Chinese calligraphy and painting. Author: Liu Zhen, Yang Kejia.

Qi Baishi's chief masterpiece "Pine and Cypress Gaolitu Seal Book Four Words Couplet" is the largest size of Qi Baishi's painting and calligraphy seen by public and private people over the years, the painting is 266 cm long, 100 cm wide, and the matching seal script "Life is long, the world is peaceful" couplet, a single vertical centimeter, horizontal centimeter. The picture is magnificent, with the metaphor of pine and cypress encircling the Ying. The matching seal script four-word couplet is rich and natural, dignified and atmospheric, and the literary meaning is excellent

Life is long, the world is peaceful", which can be called the unique spiritual product of Qi Baishi's calligraphy and painting. The pine eagle is one of Qi Baishi's favorite and most familiar painting themes for viewers, "eagle" means "hero", strong and powerful, and "pine and cypress" has a metaphor of longevity. According to the old man Baishi, this painting was inscribed in 1946, when the painter was 86 years old, which was the mature period of Qi Baishi's artistic creation.

Just like the words of his seal script couplet "Life is long, the world is peaceful", what the painter wants to express is a beautiful hope for the peaceful development of the country and the nation, and a good wish for happiness in the world and peace in the world. In 2005, it was released from San Francisco and transferred to the mainland, and this appearance has attracted enthusiastic attention from collectors at home and abroad.

When the auctioneer quoted a starting price of 88 million yuan, the collector directly increased the price to 100 million yuan, and then the on-site and ** entrusted buyers took turns to bid, and finally, after more than half an hour and nearly 50 fierce bids, a buyer in the field won the bid with 100 million yuan, which also made Chinese modern and modern calligraphy and painting stand on a new level.

In addition, another work of Qi Baishi, "Four Screens of Flowers and Birds", which was also auctioned at the same time, also sold for 92 million. Huang Zhou's 26-square-foot masterpiece "Taming a Horse" set a personal auction record for the painter for 10,000 yuan. In the ancient calligraphy and painting part, the Qianlong Emperor's imperial book "Myoho-renge-kyo" was awarded 10,000 yuan; Dai Cang's "Yuyang Mountain People Holding the Qin and Washing Tongtong" was sold; One of the most prestigious copies of "Fuchun Mountain Residence" - Zou Zhilin's "Linhuangzi Jiufuchun Mountain Residence" was won by the collector for 10,000 yuan.

Qi Baishi 1,187,555 square feet This is the average price.

It depends on what kind of painting it is, and there are tens of millions of them.