Qi Baishi

Qi Baishi (Chinese齐白石/齐白石, Pinyin Qi Baishi, Ch'i Pai -shih W.-G.; pseudonyms: Huang Qi (齐 璜/齐 璜), Qi Weiqing (齐 渭 清/齐 渭 清), Chi Pai -shih and Chi Po -shih; * the 22nd day of the 11th month of the year Tongzhi 2, ie on 1 January 1864 in Xiangtan, Hunan Province, Imperial China, † September 16, 1957 in Beijing, people's Republic of China ) was a Chinese painter of the modernity.

Life

Born the son of a farmer, was Qi Baishi with 14 years carpenter. At the age of 20 he borrowed a book on the art of painting and began to paint. His career as a painter of portraits and popular representations he began in his homeland. Only when he was 40 years old, he made a tour through China to visit famous landscapes around in Hubei, Shaanxi, Hebei, Jiangxi, Guangdong and Guangxi. In 1917 he settled in Beijing and brought it there at a great age to great fame: In 1953 he was elected the first president of the Chinese Artists Association and in the National People's Congress. 1955 International Peace Prize of the World Peace Council for the year 1950, he was awarded.

Work

While Qi Baishi became more elements of traditional scholarly painting, developed the technique but much further. Its held in Xieyi - style paintings are characterized by simple structure and fast, skillful brushstrokes.

At Qi's favorite subjects include rural scenes, farm implements, and especially especially lifelike depictions of small animals such as crabs, crabs and tadpoles, mice, birds and insects as well as plants such as peonies, lotus, pumpkins and bananas. Human figures appear in his paintings, however, often around clumsy and naive designed. Some images also wear humorous traits.

An ink drawing of Qui Bashi with the representation of an eagle on a pine trunk was (about 65.5 million U.S. dollars ) bought in 2011 at an auction in Beijing at a price of 425.5 million yuan from an unknown person.

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