Qi Baishi 195 1 Year Photo (87 years old) Qi Baishi was born in poverty, did farm work and once lived in Shi Yang Town, Lianyuan City, Hunan Province. 1877 studied carpentry with his great-uncle and changed to carving carpentry the following year. He started with folk painters, studied the original works of the ancients, and copied the Biography of Mustard Garden as a new sample of sculpture. He studied poetry and calligraphy, visited mountains and rivers, served as an aide and entertainer, and eventually became a master of poetry, calligraphy, printing and painting. He perfectly unified the spirit of Chinese painting with the spirit of the times, which made Chinese painting attract international attention. His simple and modest spirit, self-confidence and self-improvement make his works both rigid and flexible, and his works are excellent, and he deserves to be called a people's artist. In his works, flowers, birds, insects, fish, landscapes and figures are all refined and new, creating a simple and fresh art world for the history of modern painting in China. He successfully conveyed the modern artistic spirit of Chinese painting with classic pen and ink interest, benefited from classical style and was good at innovation, so his paintings can directly touch people's hearts and convey the wisdom and philosophy of life to all beings in the world. His landscape paintings express his confidence and profound understanding of artistic innovation, his figure paintings are good at expressing emotions, and his simple and generous calligraphy and vigorous brushwork are integrated into figure paintings, which improves the expressive force of characters' inner expression. Qi Baishi 1888 began to learn painting, and was the president of Longshan Poetry Society. 1890 at the age of 26, he turned to study portrait painting from Xiao Peng and Wen Shao. At the age of 27, he began to learn poetry and calligraphy from Hu Qinyuan and Shao Chen. At the age of 37, he studied with Confucian scholars and became a mentor with Li, Yang Du and others. Qi Baishi lived in his hometown, where he was born: Xingdoutang, Meigong Temple and Jiaruchong Jipingtang. From the age of 40, he left his hometown and traveled to Shaanxi, Henan, Beijing, Hebei, Hubei, Jiangxi, Shanghai, Jiangsu and Guangdong and Guangxi, enjoying the famous mountains and rivers and making friends with contemporary celebrities. Fan Fanshan, Xia Wuyi and Guo Baosun are all close friends. Painting styles range from meticulous painting to calligraphy, from calligraphy to Wei Bei, and seal cutting from Ding to Zhao. At the age of 55, he fled to the north and settled in Beijing two years later. Chen Shiceng, Xu Beihong, Luo Yinghong, Lin Fengmian, etc. 1926, Qi Baishi was appointed honorary professor of National Beiping Art College, honorary president of Beiping Artists Association, honorary professor of Central Academy of Fine Arts, research librarian of Central Museum of Literature and History, director of China People's Association for Foreign Culture, honorary president of China Painting Academy, chairman of Beijing Chinese Painting Research Association and chairman of National Artists Association. 1July 1949,1September 1953, attended the National Congress of Literary and Art Workers in China twice and was elected as a member of the National Federation of Literary and Art Circles. 1August, 954, elected as the representative of the first National People's Congress; He has a deep friendship with President Mao Zedong and has been received. 1953 1 The Ministry of Culture awarded him the honorary certificate and the title of "People's Artist"; 195565438+In February, German Democracy and China Academy of Art awarded him the honorary certificate of Communication Academician; 1956 In April, the World Peace Council awarded him 1955 International Peace Prize, and an award ceremony was held in September; 1963 was selected as a world cultural celebrity by the World Peace Council. During his stay in War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, he said that "the paintings are not for sale to the government". From 65438 to 0946, he resumed his career of selling paintings and managing printing. In the same year, he went to Nanjing and Shanghai to hold a solo exhibition, and served as honorary professor of Beiping Art Institute. He is the author of Poem Grass by Borrowing Mountain, Poem Grass by White Stone, Print Grass by White Stone, Autobiography of White Stone Old Man, etc. There are nearly 100 kinds of paintings such as The Complete Works of Qi Baishi. At the age of seventy-four, he went to Shu and met Huang and Jin Songcen. Qi Baishi had two wives, seven sons and five daughters. 1874, parents decided to marry child bride Chen Chunjun. 188 1 year had sex with Chen Chunjun and had three sons (Liang Yuan, Fu Liang and Liang Kun) and two daughters. 1940, their first wife, Chen Chunjun, died in Xiangtan. 19 19, Hu Baozhu, a native of Sichuan, was hired as an assistant room. 194 1 year, she became a rightist, with four sons (Liangchi, Liangsi, Liangnian and Liangmo) and three daughters. Hu Baozhu died on 1943. Qi Baishi was a famous painter and calligraphy seal engraver in China in the 20th century. He used to be a professor of Beijing National Academy of Art, honorary professor of Central Academy of Fine Arts, honorary president of Beijing Painting Academy and chairman of China Artists Association. He was awarded the title of "China People's Artist", won the World Peace Council 1955 International Peace Gold Award, and was elected as "World Cultural Celebrity" on the occasion of his birthday 1963. There are poems and grass on the white stone, grass seals on the white stone, selected works of Qi Baishi, and works handed down by Qi Baishi.

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Qi Baishi advocated that the beauty of art lies in similarity and dissimilarity. Painters such as Fa, Shi Tao and Wu Changshuo formed a unique freehand brushwork style, and they started the school of safflower and ink leaves, especially fruits and vegetables. Qi Baishi's works are good at flowers, birds, insects, fish and landscapes, and enjoy the reputation of "Southern Wu and Northern Qi" with Wu Changshuo. His paintings, with their simple folk art style and traditional literati painting style, reached the peak of modern flower-and-bird painting in China. After Qi Baishi was 80 years old, the technique of painting shrimp was quite exquisite and amazing. Qi Baishi was greatly influenced by Chen Shiceng in painting art, and he also learned from Wu Changshuo. He specializes in flowers and birds, and his pen is full of ink. But painting insects is meticulous and extremely fine; He also appreciates Xu Wei, Zhu Da, Shi Tao and Jin Nong, especially shrimp, crab, cicada, butterfly, fish, bird and ink painting, which are full of vitality in nature. The landscape composition is unique, unconventional and creative; Seal cutting is unique; Calligraphy stands out and 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 tries to figure out their spirit. He once said: To draw a picture of all kinds of insects, to draw a picture of 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, and the title said, "I'll call you 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 robes are black." His seal cutting, first learned Ding Jing and Huang, then learned 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 cutting 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 paintings and printed poems are called the Four Wonders. 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 other manuscripts, and wrote many volumes. His works have been printed repeatedly in various forms.