Qi Baishi was a Chinese painter who became one of the most celebrated artists of twentieth-century China, known for vivid, economical ink-and-color paintings of everyday subjects such as shrimp, insects, flowers, and vegetables rendered with a combination of spontaneous brushwork and precise observation. Trained originally as a woodworker and carpenter before turning to painting, seal carving, and calligraphy, he brought a distinctly popular, unpretentious sensibility to the literati painting tradition, and his shrimp paintings in particular, built from a few masterfully varied ink strokes, became widely recognized as a signature achievement. Qi Baishi continued painting into his nineties and is honored in China as a defining modern master of traditional ink painting.
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TrainingSelf-taught in painting 1 Connections
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Qi Baishi encountered the Shanghai School and took Wu Changshuo as a mentor (Wikipedia, Qi Baishi).
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1. Qi Baishi, Wikipedia
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Chinese painter
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1 January 1864
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1 January 1864
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He died in Beijing in 1957.
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16 September 1957
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He died in Beijing in 1957.
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Qi taught himself to paint, sparked by the
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Trained originally as a woodworker and carpenter before turning to painting, seal carving, and calligraphy, he brought a distinctly popular, unpretentious sensibility to the literati painting tradition, and his shrimp paintings in particular, built from a few masterfully varied ink strokes, became widely recognized as a signature achievement.
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