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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 calligraphers in the 20th century and a world cultural celebrity.

Qi Baishi, 1864 was born in Xingziwu, Baishipu, Xiangtan County, and 1957 died in Beijing on August 23rd, Ding Younian, 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. His family is poor, and he only has a short private school. At the age of fifteen, he studied carpentry and was famous for his carving skills. At the age of 26, he switched from Xiao Chang and Wen Shao to study portrait painting. At the age of 27, he began to learn poetry and calligraphy from Hu Qinyuan and Shao Chen. At the age of 37, he became a mentor with Li, Li and Yang Du. 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. 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. At the age of seventy-four, he went to Shu and met Huang and Jin Songcen.

Qi Baishi advocates that art is "between similarity and dissimilarity"; In old age, painters such as Fa, Shi Tao and Wu Changshuo. Formed a unique freehand brushwork style of Chinese painting, they opened a school of red flowers and ink leaves, especially fruits and vegetables, flowers, birds, insects and fish, which are famous for their figures and landscapes. They share the reputation of "Southern Wu and Northern Qi" with Wu Changshuo; With its simple folk art style and traditional literati painting style, it has reached the peak of modern flower-and-bird painting in China. Ding Jing and Huang studied seal cutting at first, and then 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 script 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 painting and printing poets call it the four musts. 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.

Qi Baishi used to be 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+February, the German Democratic Republic Art Academy 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.