? Qi Baishi, the best drifter in history: at the age of 57, he abandoned his family and career and went to Beijing alone.

Now many young people pay attention to Qi Baishi and regard him as a model of success. It can be said that it is a leap from carpenter to master. Qi Baishi grew from a folk craftsman with extremely low social status at that time to a generation of artists. This leap is really enviable. Now people's work and life are under great pressure. When Qi Baishi came to Beijing to work hard at the age of 57, he was a stranger, abandoned his family to do business and went to Beijing alone, with an authentic Hunan accent. There was once an article saying that the old man Baishi was a northern drifter of cattle in history, which was more inspiring than a thousand Du Lala, and another article said that the old man Baishi was an ant tribe of cattle in history. It can be seen that people have regarded Qi Baishi as a typical example of success through their own efforts. & gt Carpenter's Career > Laying the Foundation for Artistic Creation > 1864 65438+ 10/Qi Baishi was born in Xingziwu, a small village in the south of Xiangtan County, Hunan Province. His nickname is A Zhi and his name is Qi Chunzhi. Carpenter career is the first important stage of Qi Baishi's life. Qi Baishi worked as a carpenter until he was 27 years old, which laid a good foundation for his later artistic creation. & gt First of all, Qi Baishi's long carpenter career exposed him to rich folk culture. Folk culture is extensive and profound. Long-term contact made Qi Baishi have a profound understanding of the national cultural spirit contained in it, and it was also the profoundness of China traditional culture that provided rich soil for Qi Baishi's later artistic creation. Qi Baishi's painting theme, content and form all come from the people. & gt Second, Qi Baishi was born in poverty, and he walked around the streets for a long time, eating hundreds of meals and entering hundreds of doors. Over time, he deeply realized the preferences of ordinary people in China, which provided a very good reference for his artistic creation, both in subject matter and content. & gt& gt Qi Baishi > Third, more than ten years of woodworking skills have given him a good grasp of modeling, composition, lines and materials. Qi Baishi is known as "a rich man with 300 lithographs". He likes to collect seals, and there will not be more than 300 lithographs in his life. He has no special requirements for materials in printing, and often grabs a stone and engraves it. He has a famous saying, "Don't return the knife". Go down with a knife, push forward forever, and never fight back. The strength in his hand was so great that everyone at the scene was dumbfounded. Zhang Daqian was born in a scholarly family, while Pu Ru was born in a noble family. Only Qi Baishi was born and raised among the people. This ordinary life at the bottom of society makes his painting style different. & gt27 years old > Get to know the noble "Shou Sanye" to help > Qi Baishi got to know a teacher at the age of 27, which is another factor of his success. & gt The old man Baishi has noble people to help him at every important turning point in his life. At the age of 27, Qi Baishi met Hu Qinyuan, the teacher who started his artistic career. His name is Shou Sanye. He is a famous rich man and scholar in Xiangtan. One day, A Zhi was working as a carpenter for a big client. He was told that Master Shou wanted to see him. Put down the tools, went to see Master Shou, and bowed respectfully. Third Master Shou said that he often heard his neighbors praise him. Today, he saw his woodwork and paintings and thought he was worth making. Let him finish his work and go home to talk. & gt As agreed, we came to Shou's home, where we sang poems and painted, drank and chatted together. Master Shou was very happy to see A Zhi and asked him if he would like to learn painting. A Zhi expressed his wishes on the spot. Third Master Shou invited his teacher, a famous local person, to teach him for free. In this way, Qi Baishi formally worshipped Hu Qinyuan and Chen Shaofan as teachers. Since then, Qi Baishi has been led by Hu Qinyuan as a professional artist. & gt He followed the teacher, the teacher taught carefully, and the students studied diligently. Soon Qi Baishi came to the fore. The teacher also named him Qi Huang, nicknamed "Baishishan", so that his inscription on the painting had a name. Why is it called "Baishishan people"? Not far from Qi Baishi's home, there is a post station called Baishibao, so it got this name. Later, for the sake of simplicity, it was simply called "Baishi", which is the origin of Qi Baishi's name. & gt37 years old > worshiped by Wang Xiangqi, a master of Confucian classics > At the age of 37, Qi Baishi met another noble person in his life-Wang Xiangqi, a master of Confucian classics, whose poetry and prose were considered the best in the world at that time. Qi Baishi met Wang Xiangqi under the recommendation of a friend. Wang Xiangqi admired Qi Baishi's seal cutting paintings, but made no mention of Qi Baishi's poems. Because most of Qi Baishi's poems were straightforward at this time, he did not have high cultural attainments. It is precisely because Wang Xiangqi did not praise his poems that he laid the foundation for Qi Baishi to study hard later. & gt Under the persuasion of friends, Qi Baishi finally bowed to Wang Xiangqi, the master of Confucian classics. In fact, Wang Xiangqi did not give specific instructions to Qi Baishi's art, but only expanded his circle of friends. Qi Baishi made friends with higher-level figures, which broadened his vision and mind. & gt57 years old > Forget everything and start from scratch > In a blink of an eye, Qi Baishi is 40 years old. He traveled all over China in eight years, five times and five times. Qi Baishi was nearly 50 years old when he came back from abroad. He lived in his hometown for another eight years and came back to study in thousands of books after visiting Wan Li Road. But at that time, Hunan became a battlefield, and with some money, he unfortunately became the target of bandits, so he came to Beijing to take refuge. Who knows that after he came to Beijing, the paintings could not be sold. As a professional painter, he had to carry out a great reform. After Qi Baishi arrived in Beijing at the age of 57, his paintings hung in Liulichang, but no one cared. Families in Hunan and Beijing depend on him for food, so he followed Chen Shiceng's advice and resolutely reformed. We know that it is difficult for artists to reform in their later years because they want to break the habits formed over the years. Qi Baishi was thrown away for a thousand years, starting from scratch. There are three points in the transformation of> declining years: good health; Good traditional skills; We should have new thinking ability. Many people don't want to change, but they dare not, for fear that they will become neither fish nor fowl, and they may put their lives in it. It took Qi Baishi ten years to reform. Ten years later, Qi Baishi founded the Honghua Moye School, which is what we call the Family School. & gt Red flowers and ink leaves are painted in red, and leaves are painted in transparent ink. Qi Baishi formed this distinctive style. Red and ink are of great significance in China's paintings. Red represents the aesthetic taste of folk culture, and ink painting represents the appreciation taste of literati. Qi Baishi is a clever combination of vulgarity and elegance. After the reform in the last year, the Honghua Moye School was founded, and the old man Baishi began to get better and better. It can be said that "red flowers and ink leaves sweep away the tires, and the ink sea is bright." & gt After the founding of New China, the state gave the old man Baishi a high honor and awarded him the title of "People's Artist". The auction price of Qi Baishi's works will surpass Picasso > Although the development of China's art market in recent 20 years has attracted worldwide attention, there is still a big gap compared with western countries. Qi Baishi, an artist, has the highest sales volume in the world, but there are still many problems. No matter how it develops, the art market in China is still in the primary stage. & gt There are risks in the early stage of the art market, but there are also many opportunities. The works of first-line masters such as Qi Baishi, Zhang Daqian and Xu Beihong can now buy a very good painting for three or four million. However, a western artist of Picasso's level casually painted more than 100 million dollars. Their artistic achievements are actually quite the same, but the price gap is so big. With the prosperity of the art market and China's economy, the price of Qi Baishi's works is likely to surpass that of Picasso in the future. Even if you buy the works of second-and third-tier artists now, there will be great room for appreciation in the future. & gt Don't blindly invest in contemporary art > Whether we should invest in contemporary art, we should be more calm. In some places, an artist's work suddenly appeared, selling millions or tens of millions at a time. All people with an economic mind think this is abnormal. At least, works of art still have a source, a heritage, and a source. & gt Contemporary art is a new field in art collection in recent years. The most popular period of contemporary art is from 2007 to 2008. A contemporary work of art can reach tens of millions, which is beyond everyone's understanding and is too expensive. This price has no basis. Therefore, in the past two years, contemporary art has continued to decline. By the first issue of this year, including Sotheby's auction in Hong Kong, China has started to shoot contemporary art one after another. & gt