"Painting is better between likeness and dissimilarity, too kitsch and not deceitful", which is Qi Baishi's famous saying and his most incisive positioning of Chinese painting aesthetics. With an excellent artist's keen vision and philosophical thinking, he combined the two original opposing philosophical concepts of "likeness" and "non-likeness" and made a perfect annotation on what is the highest aesthetic realm of Chinese painting.
Qi Baishi studied painting with local cultural figures Hu Qinyuan and Chen Shaofan (also known as Chen Zuoyu) in his early years, and later studied with Xu Wei, Zhu Da, Shi Tao and Wu Changshuo, forming a unique freehand brushwork style. He is a flower school, especially good at fruits and vegetables, flowers, birds, insects and fish, figures and landscapes, and combines his simple folk art style with the traditional literati painting style.
It not only expands the theme of literati painting, but also sweeps away the old habit of literati painting "ungrounded" and creates a new chapter of freehand flower-and-bird painting with the spirit of the times and the flavor of life.
Painting is a visual art, which can only rely on images to convey information, which western painters have done very well. China painters have found a new way. With the help of China's unique calligraphy, they ingeniously integrated the vocal poems into the silent paintings, opened up the imagination space for the static pictures, infinitely expanded the original limited theme, derived a new conception realm on the basis of "image" and "pen and ink", and effectively pushed the theory of "similarity and dissimilarity" to a new height.
The croaking of frogs ten miles outside the mountain spring is a wonderful example of the contrast between form and meaning. This painting was made by Qi Baishi at the age of 195 1 and 9 1 in response to the proposition of the famous writer Lao She that frogs croak ten miles outside the mountain spring. The old man only drew six clever ink dots with tails on the paper, outlining the lively form of tadpoles swimming in the mountain stream.
Although no frogs were drawn, the specific information of "frog sound", which is audible and invisible, was successfully conveyed to everyone's mind from the "back" of the paper. With the poet's cultivation, the painter's keenness and the literati's elegance, he unexpectedly created the special artistic conception of "not seeing its shape, but hearing its voice", making a masterpiece of "making the best use of the situation" become a masterpiece that will be read down through the ages.
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Qi Baishi advocates that art is "the beauty between likeness and dissimilarity", and it has changed over the years, forming a unique style of freehand brushwork Chinese painting, with red flowers and ink leaves, especially fruits and vegetables, flowers, birds, insects and fish, and people and landscapes, sharing the reputation of "Southern Wu and Northern Qi" with Wu Changshuo; The combination of Qi Baishi's simple folk art style and traditional literati painting style reached the peak of modern flower-and-bird painting in China.
Ding Jing and Huang studied seal cutting at first, and then Zhao? Uncle, and take French, Chinese and Indian; See "Sangong Mountain Monument" and "Tiantan Monument". The seal cutting method is changing again and again, and the printing style is magnificent and unrestrained, which is a representative figure in the evolution period of modern printing style. His calligraphy is widely spread in inscriptions, and he once lived in He, Jin Dongxin and other places, especially in seal script and running script.
Poetry does not ask for work, has no meaning of Tang and Song Dynasties, learns from nature, has a clever brushwork and has a unique style. His painting and printing poets call it the four musts. I have worked hard all my life, worked tirelessly, earned my own living, and have high moral character, especially national integrity. He left more than 30,000 paintings, more than 3,000 poems, self-reports and manuscripts written by Qi Baishi. Qi Baishi's works have been printed repeatedly in various forms.
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Qi Baishi was deeply influenced by Chen Shiceng in painting art, and at the same time he learned from Wu Changshuo. Qi Baishi specializes in painting flowers and birds, and his pen is full of ink. But drawing insects is meticulous and extremely fine. Qi Baishi also praised Xu Wei, Zhu Da, Shi Tao and Jin Nong. Shrimp, crab, cicada, butterfly, fish, bird and ink are especially vivid, full of the vitality of nature.
Landscape composition is unique and unconventional, full of creative spirit, unique seal cutting and outstanding calligraphy, which is well known to everyone. Qi Baishi's paintings are against unrealistic dreams. Qi Baishi often pays attention to the characteristics of flowers, birds, insects and fish and tries to figure out their spirit. Qi Baishi once said: Draw a picture of thousands of insects, a picture of hundreds of birds, and draw your own face.
Qi Baishi's words are very witty and ingenious. Qi Baishi painted two chickens fighting for a bug. The title reads: Qi Baishi calls each other every day. A picture of cotton reads: "Flowers warm the world, but flowers cool the world". The title of "Tumbler Map" is "Autumn fans shake white on both sides, and official robes are black."
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