Twenty-four Scenes of Shimen is an important work in which Qi Baishi gradually got rid of the folk painting style, established his own painting language, and transformed into literati painting. Photo by China News Service reporter Han Hong.
China News Service Shenyang, December 23 (Reporter Han Hong) "Danqing Vientiane - Qi Baishi and his teachers and friends" exhibition was launched in the Liaoning Provincial Museum on the 23rd, and 459 pieces of calligraphy, painting and seal carving cultural relics such as Qi Baishi's only self-portrait "Portrait of Baishi Grass Clothes" were exhibited.
On the occasion of the 160th anniversary of Qi Baishi's birth, the Liaoning Provincial Museum, the Beijing Academy of Fine Arts and a number of cultural relics collection institutions launched this exhibition. The exhibition introduces Qi Baishi's life experience through sections such as "Filial Piety and Respect for Teachers, Teaching by Words and Deeds", "Old Friends and Confidants, Harmony and Difference", and "*Inheritance, Successors", and excavates and explains the important elements of the excellent traditional Chinese culture contained in the great masters of the painting world represented by Qi Baishi.
Walking into the exhibition hall, Qi Baishi's painting of "Twenty-four Scenes of Shimen" attracted a lot of audience to stop **, the work is also known as "Shimen Atlas", is Qi Baishi's commissioned landscape paintings, according to the twenty-four topics drawn up by the scenery near Shimen, Qi Baishi spent more than three months, several changes of draft and completed the exquisite conception, very life-like landscape paintings.
According to reports, "Twenty-four Scenes of Shimen" has no year, but judging from Qi Baishi's self-description and travel experience, it may have been made after his first trip home or when he traveled home for the second time. This is an important work for Qi Baishi to gradually get rid of the folk painting style, establish his own painting language, and transform into literati painting, which is an important link in the development sequence of his landscape painting.
The only surviving self-portrait of Qi Baishi, "Portrait of White Stone Grass Clothes", is also exhibited in the picture, in which Qi Baishi is wearing a lily robe and straw sandals, like a peasantHolding a guqin, carrying a book bag, and having the temperament of an old-fashioned reader. According to reports, in the picture, he lowered his eyebrows and groaned, and his clothes contrasted with the piano and books, which was the embodiment of Qi Baishi's status as a peasant and the mood of the literati at that time.
Dong Baohou, deputy director of the Liaoning Provincial Museum, said that this exhibition allows the audience to have a more comprehensive understanding of the development, originality and inheritance of his art through the display of Qi Baishi's rich life experience and extensive travel, and depicts the development and changes of Chinese art in the 20th century.
It is reported that the exhibition will last until March 23, 2024.