December 11, 2019
Likeness and Unlikeness: Exhibition commemorates legendary painter Qi Baishi
Qi
Baishi is widely considered one of the greatest Chinese ink painters of
the last century. Even after more than half a century since his death,
his name still rings loud and clear. An exhibition is held at the
National Art Museum to commemorate his life and work. Li Qiong
reports.To get more qi baishi, you can visit shine news official website.
Although not the first painter to illustrate small things in nature, Qi Baishi created his style while doing so.
The artist created plenty of these common images, animals, vegetables,
scenery and people with his ink brushes. With simple colors, sometimes
only black ink, Qi was able to give each of the creatures a different
look or characteristics.
GENG PING VISITOR "There's a child living
in his mind. I like the painting behind me. The crabs look so playful
that they overturned the basket. They seem to be very happily playing
together. I could feel the pleasant mood when he's painting. The big
fish, the chirping bird. These adorable illustrations are expressing
happiness."
The exhibition uses Qi's works to provide insight into the freehand spirit of Chinese art.
It focuses on his freehand ink painting theory, highlighting that the
best thing to do is not depicting things exactly as what they are.
LI QIONG BEIJING "Qi Baishi believes that painting must be something
between likeness and unlikeness. If it's much like the reality, the
painting is vulgar, but if it's not like the real stuff, it would be
kind of cheating. And we could see this spirit in almost every piece
here."
Qi is especially acclaimed of painting shrimps.
He lived
by ponds when he was a child, and was very familiar with the creatures.
At an early age, Qi started to draw them, and kept doing that for
decades.
During his later years, the shrimps were illustrated as if
they really floated above the water, with just a little amount of ink, .
WU WEISHAN, DIRECTOR NATIONAL ART MUSEUM "The most important part of
Chinese art is the spiritual expression. It's based on reality, but
means more than that. Qi Baishi had found a balance between ideals and
the reality. Something between likeness and unlikeness, that's a poetic
expression, and it applies to both reality and artistic creation."
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