Qi Baishi (1864- 1957), a native of Xiangtan, Hunan Province, was a master of Chinese painting in the 20th century, one of the top ten painters in the 20th century and a world cultural celebrity. Qi Baishi 1 864 65438+1October1(22nd of the third year of Qing Tongzhi) was born in Xingziwu, Baishipu, Xiangtan County, and1September 1957 16 (August 23rd of Ding You) died in Beijing at the age of 94. The imperial clan sent Chunzhi, posthumous title, Huang, Zi, Lanting, alias Baishishan, and died in the name of Qi Baishi; There are a large number of pen names and self-names, such as Da Qi, Mu Ren, Mujushi, Hongdousheng, descendants of the former residence in the Tang Dynasty, borrowing Shan Weng, borrowing the owner of Yin Shan Pavilion, sending Garden, Pingweng, sending Pingtang Owner, President of Longshan, the rich man of three hundred lithographs, and the owner of Bai Shu Pear Flower.

Qi Baishi was born in poverty, worked as a farm worker and studied carpentry. Starting from a folk painter, I studied the original works of the ancients, studied poetry and calligraphy, traveled mountains and rivers, and served as aides and guests. Finally, he became a great man through the ages who combined poetry, calligraphy, printing and painting. He perfectly unified the spirit of Chinese painting with the spirit of the times, which made Chinese painting gain international attention. His spirit of simplicity, modesty, self-confidence and self-improvement makes his works both rigid and flexible, and his works and books are excellent, which makes him worthy of being an artist of the people. Generally speaking, flowers, birds, insects, fish and landscape 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 the classic brushwork, and was good at innovation because of the classic brushwork, so his paintings can directly hit 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.