In the early days, Qi Baishi worked as a carpenter and came into contact with some carving arts. He also studies painting in his spare time. At this time, Qi Baishi liked painting flower and bird figures very much.
Later, Qi Baishi left woodworking life and began to study figure painting, specializing in his own flower-and-bird landscape painting. Later, I studied poetry and met many literati.
Later, Qi Baishi's flower-and-bird painting style changed into freehand brushwork style. Gradually, Qi Baishi's paintings have made great progress. His flower-and-bird paintings refer to the styles of Badashanren and Shi Tao. But it is also more concise, very enjoyable and has its own artistic style. In calligraphy, Qi Baishi won the essence of Jin Nong and had certain artistic attainments.
Qi Baishi is evaluated in the painting world as follows: The beauty of painting lies between similarity and dissimilarity, too kitsch, not overbearing?
Qi Baishi's paintings are always particularly monotonous, but they are neither aloof nor kitsch. This simplified painting style reached its acme in his later years.
Qi Baishi has many famous works, such as the flower-and-bird painting Fish and Shrimp and the figure painting Shouxing Palace, but the most expensive painting is Twelve Screens of Landscape.
Twelve Screens of Landscape was written by Qi Baishi in 1925. It was originally a birthday present for Chen Zilin, a famous doctor in the Republic of China, and was later collected by Guo, a female disciple of Qi Baishi.
Twelve Screens of Landscape is a famous landscape work of Qi Baishi in the period of style change. This painting is full of shining sky, Guilin landscape and small bridges. Qi Baishi described the real landscape of Guilin, and also carried the feelings of literati's landscape homes in previous dynasties.
Qi Baishi's masterpiece has not only been unanimously affirmed by the painting world, but also become the favorite of collectors, and the value of Twelve Screens of Mountains and Rivers has also soared.
In 20 17, Qi Baishi's Twelve Screens of Mountains and Rivers started shooting at 450 million yuan, and finally it was sold at the sky-high price of 93 15 million, which became a sensational news.
You know, 93150,000 has made Twelve Screens of Landscape the most expensive China art in the world. So, what is unique about Twelve Screens of Mountains and Rivers? Why is it so valuable?
In fact, Twelve Screens of Landscape is not only the pinnacle of Qi Baishi's landscape painting, but also the details are jaw-dropping.
When evaluating Twelve Screens of Mountains and Rivers, some antique and painting experts made a detailed study of the painting, including magnifying it 20 times for observation.
This kind of magnification will scare the experts. It turned out that when observing a dragonfly in the painting, experts found that Qi Baishi even painted the texture of dragonfly wings clearly.
The seemingly ordinary wings cost Qi Baishi a lot of energy. Of course, we can also see Qi Baishi's high attainments in landscape painting.
In this regard, many netizens also joked that there is such an operation. Is the old man Qi Baishi drawing with a magnifying glass?