Formerly known as Chunzhi, Wei Qing was named Lanting. Later, it was renamed Huang, and the word was born. Named Baishi, Baishishan Weng, Laoping, Hongcuo, the owner of the mountain pavilion, the old man who sent Pingtang, and the rich man of 300 lithographs.
He is a master of modern painting in China and a world cultural celebrity. He worked as a carpenter in his early years, then made a living by selling paintings, and settled in Beijing after he was 57. He is good at painting flowers and birds, insects and fish, landscapes and figures. His pen and ink are vigorous and moist, with rich and bright colors, concise and vivid shapes and simple artistic conception.
Fish, shrimp, worms and crabs are full of fun. Qi Baishi is a seal script writer, who adopted the method of inscriptions in Qin and Han Dynasties. His calligraphy saved Gu Zhuo's interest, and seal script became his own. He was also good at writing poems. He used to be honorary professor of Central Academy of Fine Arts and chairman of China Artists Association. Representative works include Frog Rang Ten Miles Away from the Mountain Spring and Ink Shrimp.
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Qi Baishi's painting style;
Strong local flavor, simple peasant consciousness, naive and romantic childlike innocence and poetic aftertaste are the inner life of Qi Baishi's art, while the warm and lively colors and ink colors are in sharp contrast.
As Qi Baishi's unique artistic language and visual form, simple and naive modeling and brushwork, extreme integration of work and writing, and fair and novel composition are relatively the external life of Qi Baishi's art.
Realistic emotion needs a proper form, which strengthens the expression of emotion. Both of them need each other, grow together and depend on each other, which together constitute Qi Baishi's artistic life, that is, the overall style of Qi Baishi's art.
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