Editor-in-chief Cao Huilin interviewed cartoonist Ma Shilong on the value of Qi Baishi's paintings
Cao Huilin: Mr. Ma, let me take the liberty of asking you a question, can your painting level catch up with Qi Baishi?
Ma Shilong: I can't catch up.
Cao Huilin: So, who can catch up with him now?
Ma Shilong: No one can catch up.
Cao Huilin: Why?
Ma Shilong: Because since Qi Baishi, no one's paintings are worth more than Qi Baishi.
Cao Huilin: I'm talking about the level of painting, not how much a painting is worth.
Qi Baishi's eagle paintings worth more than 400 million yuan.
Ma Shilong: Just talking about the level, no one dares to claim that their level is higher than Qi Baishi's. In fact, there is a big difference between the real situation and the real situation. Speaking of shrimp painting alone, there are now hundreds of people who paint shrimp in the country that surpass Qi Baishi, but they are not valuable. The shrimp painted by Qi Baishi's grandchildren may be much better than his grandfather's, but they are also worthless and cannot be sold.
A shrimp painted by Qi Baishi's great-granddaughter Qi Yu.
Nowadays, the Academy of Fine Arts of Qinghua University, the students who graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts, these high-achieving students who graduated from famous schools, their painting level far exceeds that of Qi Baishi several times, but not to mention that their paintings cannot be sold, it is even more difficult to go to Beijing as a city manager and a general staff member in the community.
A shrimp painted by Qi Huijuan, Qi Baishi's granddaughter.
Cao Huilin: I'm a little confused, why can't high-level paintings sell, but worse-level paintings are priceless?
Ma Shilong: Painting is about fame and seniority, but the level is not very important, and most people don't understand it. Who is Qi Baishi? That's the odd man. Although he was a folk painter with no formal training and went from house to house, he was invited to private banquets by the supreme leader and the prime minister, and his paintings were collected by the leader.
Qi Baishi is worth 1980,000 yuan of flies.
Therefore, his painting of an eagle is worth more than 400 million yuan, and painting a fly is also worth hundreds of thousands of yuan.
This is strength, and if you don't accept it, you can't do it.
August 1, 2023.
About the Author
Ma Shilong, a powerful contemporary Chinese comic artist, the first person in Nanyang comics, and a Chinese painter, also writes essays, biographies, and reviews. In 1989, he began to publish comics, ** for more than 30 years, has been in "Comics Monthly", "Chinese Comics", "Art Daguan", "Chinese Women", "Liaoning Youth", "Essay Monthly", "Selected Essays", "Yuanyuan Comics" and other authoritative magazines, "People**", "Guangming**", "China Youth Daily", "Satire and Humor", "China Calligraphy and Painting Newspaper", "Humor and Jokes", "Rule of Law**", "Workers**", "Farmers**", "Yangcheng Evening News", "Marriage and Childbirth Cartoon News", "China Lawyer Daily", "Health News", "Comic World", " Authoritative newspapers and periodicals such as "Ancient and Modern Stories", "Miscellaneous Newspaper", "New Evening News", "New *** Elderly**", a total of more than 1,000 works have been published in hundreds of mainstream newspapers and magazines at the provincial and municipal levels across the country, and some works have been published in foreign countries. He has won more than 50 awards such as gold and silver awards. For more works, please search: "Nanyang Painter Ma Shilong", "Ma Shilong Comics", "Ma Shilong Cartoonists", "Henan Ma Shilong", "Ma Shilong Chinese Painting" and other keywords. Subscribe and follow this account to watch past articles. Thanks for liking, sharing, favorites, and comments.
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Cao Huilin, a native of Nanzhao, Henan, born in the 70s. Editor-in-chief of the online journal "People's Cultural Perspective". It integrates writing, photography, recording, dubbing and broadcasting, editing and publishing. For more works, please click on the top and bottom of the page".Cao Huilin** Collection (partial).Or search for keywords "Cao Huilin", "Cao Hui Lin Nanzhao", "Cao Hui Lin Nanyang" and so on.