Qi Baishi was greatly influenced by Chen Shiceng in painting art. He inherited Xu Wei, Zhu Da, Yangzhou Baguai and Wu Changshuo in freehand flower-and-bird painting, and he has a profound foundation in traditional culture. He specializes in flowers and birds, and his pen is full of ink. But drawing insects is meticulous and extremely fine. He 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. He often pays attention to the characteristics of flowers, birds, insects and fish and imitates their spirit. He once said, "To draw a picture of all kinds of insects and create a spirit for all kinds of birds, you must" draw your own face ". His sentences are very witty and clever. He drew two chickens fighting for a bug. The topic is "What? "Call each other tomorrow." 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 uniforms are black". He introduced mice, oil lamps, abacus, hoes, wood rakes and so on. In his paintings, farmers' simplicity, childlike innocence, sincere love and hate are revealed, which breaks the stereotype that bamboo painting means "modesty" and blue painting means "fragrance" in traditional literati paintings. He wrote a poem on a Weiqi painting in the Bamboo Academy, saying, "We gather among thousands of bamboos and let the sun, the moon and the rain turn idle. Laughing is better than laughing, except that we can play chess. " Put chess and shit together.

As an outstanding contemporary artist, he inherited the excellent tradition of China national art, made extraordinary achievements in painting, calligraphy and seal cutting, and created his own unique artistic style. His paintings, whether landscapes, flowers or cordyceps sinensis, can give people a clear, fresh, concise and energetic feeling, with distinctive national characteristics, reaching the realm of both form and spirit and blending scenes. This work is concise and old-fashioned, which brings ink painting to the extreme. His creation inherited the expression method of traditional painting in China, absorbed the nutrition of folk painting art, and formed his own unique artistic style through in-depth observation of life phenomena. The works are mainly freehand brushwork, with themes ranging from figures and landscapes to flowers and birds, fish and insects, animals and so on. The brushwork is bold and unrestrained, vigorous and powerful, free and varied. It is good at combining freehand brushwork flowers with meticulous drawings of insects and fish, with simple and simple shapes, bright and strong colors, vibrant and elegant pictures and unique styles.

Qi Baishi changed from a folk painter to a literati painter and experienced "reform". He also integrated the folk art interest with the flavor of peasant life into literati painting, which not only expanded the theme of literati painting, but also updated the artistic realm of literati painting and created a new chapter of freehand brushwork flower-and-bird painting with the spirit of the times and the flavor of life.