Expound Qi Baishi s artistic theories and achievements

Qi Baishi is one of the most highly regarded artists in the modern Chinese art scene, and his artistic achievements can be described as commendable. Qi Baishi's artistic achievements are mainly reflected in his works, as well as in his thoughts. Qi Baishi's works are known for their superb artistic techniques and unique innovative style, and he is one of the best in the Chinese painting world.

Qi Baishi's artistic pursuit aims to combine traditional painting techniques with modernist innovative hand-concealment methods, so as to present unique paintings. In his works, the creative concept of "seeking shape with freehand and seeking charm with pleasure" runs through, emphasizing the artist's personality and emotional expression.

Qi Baishi's painting style is unique and highly recognizable. His works have a very high attainment in painting techniques, and his flower and bird paintings are mainly based on hook lines, coupled with the artistic conception of extreme elegance and common appreciation, forming a style with his personal characteristics, which has been inherited by later generations of painting artists.

In addition to his innovation in painting techniques, Qi Baishi is also committed to the fusion of Chinese and Western cultures, combining Western culture with Chinese culture and presenting it in his paintings from a new perspective. These works are not only amazing, but also provide an important reference and practical reference for the development of art education at that time.

In general, Qi Baishi is a master who cannot be ignored in the history of modern Chinese art, and his paintings show the unique charm and unlimited potential of Chinese painting. His integration of Chinese and Western cultures, as well as the reform of art education at that time, made important contributions to the development of art in later generations. Its ideology, art, culture and other aspects have set a high benchmark and excellent example for us.

As a master of painting, Qi Baishi's artistic achievements are multifaceted, even compared with many outstanding literati painters of his time, his artistic achievements are more symbolic of the times.

1. Pay attention to the observation of many vivid images in life, and actively sketch and create with the new aesthetic requirements after their sublimation, which expands the unprecedented field of expression of traditional literati painters and opens up a new world for the creation of literati paintings, such as shrimp, crabs, haystacks, rakes, abacus, and old people.

2. In real life, Qi Baishi's works are not only rich in the expressive ability of pen and ink, but also have a fresh spirit of the times, so that people have a sense of intimacy of the times, his new literati painting creation concept from the study and back to life, so that Chinese literati painting has opened a new page, he is the first new literati painter in the real sense, is a veritable painting master.

Qi Baishi (January 1, 1864, September 16, 1957), formerly known as Chunzhi, the word Weiqing, and the number Lanting. Later, he changed his name to Huang, and the word was on the verge of life, and he was called Baishi, Baishi Shanweng, Lao Ping, Hungry, the owner of the Borrowed Mountain Yin Pavilion, the old man on the Jiping Hall, and the rich man of the three hundred stone seals. He is a master of modern Chinese painting and a world cultural celebrity.

In his early years, he worked as a carpenter, then made a living selling paintings, and settled in Beijing at the age of 57. He is good at painting flowers and birds, insects and fish, landscapes, and figures, and his brushwork is vigorous and moisturizing, the colors are bright and bright, the modeling is concise and vivid, and the artistic conception is pure and simple.

The fish, shrimp, insects and crabs are full of fun. Qi Baishi calligraphy seal, take the law from the Qin and Han Dynasty tablet editions, the book Rao ancient clumsy fun, seal carving into a family, good at writing poetry. He used to be an honorary professor of the ** Academy of Fine Arts and the chairman of the Chinese Artists Association.

Representative works include "The Sound of Frogs Ten Miles Out of the Mountain Spring" and "Ink Shrimp".

Qi Baishi advocates that art is "wonderful between the similar and the unlike"; The decay method, the painter method formed a unique freehand Chinese painting style, a school of red flowers and ink leaves, especially melons, fruits, vegetables, flowers, birds, insects and fish, and characters, landscapes, famous for a while, and Wu Changshuo shared the reputation of "Southern Wu and Northern Qi"; With its simple folk art style and traditional literati painting style, it has reached the highest peak of modern Chinese flower and bird painting. Mr. Qi has three important changes in painting shrimp: the first stage is to paint as empty and realistic, patriarchal and natural, more like sketching; The second stage is the most important, not "piecemeal", and the main body of the shrimp body is simplified to nine strokes.

There are eight so-called "fragments": eyes, short whiskers, long whiskers, large pincers, forefeet, gastropods, tails, and the inner cavity outlined by a stroke of deep ink, which is an important style unique to Qi Baishi's shrimp; The third stage is that the ink color on the painting is uneven, the pen is dipped in ink first, and then another pen is used to pour water into the belly of the pen to draw the "transparent" shrimp, and the shrimp is alive at once. The shrimp painted by Qi Baishi is vivid and lifelike.

Qi Baishi's artistic characteristics are artistic and unique.

1. The strong local atmosphere, the simple peasant consciousness and the innocent and romantic childlike innocence, and the poetry with a rich aftertaste are the inner life of Qi Baishi's art.

2. The warm and bright colors, the strong contrast between ink and color, the simple and clumsy modeling and brushwork, the extreme synthesis of work and writing, and the composition of fairness and strangeness.

3. As Qi Baishi's unique artistic language and visual shape, relatively speaking, it is the external life of Qi Baishi's art.

4. The emotion of reality requires a form that adapts to it, and this form strengthens the expression of emotion, and the two demand each other, generate each other, and depend on each other, which together constitute the artistic life of Qi Baishi, that is, the overall style of Qi Baishi's art.

Description of the characteristics of Qi Baishi's paintings:

1. Qi Baishi was greatly influenced by Chen Shizeng in the art of painting orange paintings, and Qi Baishi also absorbed Wu Changshuo's strengths.

2. Qi Baishi specializes in flowers and birds, the pen is full of ink, and he is strong and sharp. But the painting insects are meticulous and extremely detailed. Qi Baishi also admired Xu Wei, Zhu Qi, Shi Tao, and Jin Nong.

3. Shrimp and crabs, cicadas, butterflies, fish, birds, and ink are dripping, and they are filled with the vibrant atmosphere of nature. The composition of the landscape is bizarre and not old, it is very creative, the seal carving is unique, the calligraphy is outstanding, and it is for everyone.

4. Qi Baishi's paintings oppose unrealistic fantasies, Qi Baishi often pays attention to the characteristics of flowers, birds, insects, and fish, and speculates on their spirits. Qi Baishi once said: For the portrayal of the ten thousand insects and the birds, you have to draw your own face.

Qi Baishi advocated that the art "wonderful between the similar and the unlike" decay and change method, the painter Xu Wei, Zhu Qi, Shi Tao, Wu Changshuo, etc., formed a unique freehand Chinese painting style, open safflower ink leaves, especially melons, fruits, vegetables, flowers, birds, insects and fish for the work, and people, landscapes, famous for a while, and Wu Changshuo shared the reputation of "Southern Wu and Northern Qi". His paintings, with their simple folk art style and traditional literati painting style, have reached the highest peak of modern Chinese flower and bird painting. After Qi Baishi was 80 years old, his shrimp painting skills were quite exquisite and breathtaking.

Qi Baishi was greatly influenced by Chen Shizeng in the art of painting, and he also absorbed Wu Changshuo's strengths. He specializes in painting birds, and his pen is full of ink, and his strength is sharp; But the painting insects are meticulous and extremely detailed. He also admired Xu Wei, Zhu Qi, Shi Tao, Jin Nong, You Gong shrimp and crabs, cicadas, butterflies, fish, birds, and ink dripping, filled with the vibrant atmosphere of nature; The composition of the landscape is bizarre and not old, and it is full of creative spirit; Seal carving is a unique hand and eye; The calligraphy is outstanding, and it is for everyone. Qi Baishi's paintings are opposed to unrealistic fantasies, and he often pays attention to the characteristics of flowers, birds, insects, and fish, and speculates on their spirits.

He once said: For the portrayal of ten thousand insects, for the hundred birds, you must draw your own face. His inscription is very witty and ingenious, and the two chickens he painted compete for a small worm, the inscription says; "He calls each other day by day".

The inscription of a "Cotton Map" says: "The flowers bloom and the world is warm, and the flowers fall and the world is cold." The title of "Tumbler Picture" is "The autumn fan is shaking and the two sides are white, and the official robe is all black."

Its seal carving, beginner Ding Jing, Huang Xiaosong, after imitating Zhao Shu, and take the French seal; See "Worship Sangong Mountain Tablet", "Tianfa Oracle Tablet", the seal law has changed again and again, and the Indian style is unbridled, which is a representative figure of the modern Indian style transmutation period. Its calligraphy, widely in the stele, Li Shaoji, Li Beihai, Jin Dongxin, Zheng Banqiao Zhujia, especially seals, calligraphy is good.

Qi Baishi skillfully combined black and red, and used red to represent the aesthetic requirements of ordinary people.