Qi Baishi's painting of a "cow's butt" sold for a huge amount of money, and insiders bluntly said Zoom in and take a closer look
Art is a very real word.
Behind these two words, there must be a beauty that is unique in the world, it can be a building, a poem, a word or a painting.
It's just that in recent years there have been a lot of reversals"Art", is absolutely shocking, has nothing to do with the aesthetic atmosphere, it really makes people laugh, these so-called masters are really clowns.
The smoke and clouds are gone, and the road ahead is difficult, but the past is like a brand, deeply engraved in the long river of history, indeed, where there are clowns, there must be real masters.
Only these art masters have always adhered to their original intentions in art, as Qi Baishi, a master of modern Chinese painting, said: for the freehand of ten thousand insects, for the hundred birds, and draw their own faces.
If Qi Baishi's love life is put aside, just looking at his achievements in painting, he can indeed be called an indisputable master, after all, now Qi Baishi happens to make a real painting, his value is priceless, and works worth millions are even rarer.
Qi Baishi painted a lot in his life"Insects and birds"works.
In Qi Baishi's pen, these seemingly insignificant lives are endowed with spirituality, especially the prawns in Qi Baishi's pen, which have become the prawns in the heroes, and can sweep away almost all disobedience.
Qi Baishi's painting of shrimp is indeed enough to become a representative work among his many paintings, but Qi Baishi can not only paint shrimp, but also paint many varieties of animals and plants.
Qi Baishi once painted "Cow's Butt" and sold it for $10 million. Many people expressed surprise at such a sky-high price, and some people in the industry publicly said: If you look closely, you will know what is going on.
This"Cow butt"What's so good?
Qi Baishi prawns.
Qi Baishi's prawns are described as the most perfect picture in the world, and his relationship with prawns is also known"Shrimp edge"。Qi Baishi, who has lived by the pond since he was a child, is happiest to be a shrimp fisherman.
Qi Baishi liked to draw since he was a child, and shrimp became something he often painted, but after many years, he discovered that feathered shrimp had no soul, like a dead shrimp lying on a plate.
If there is no charm, the painting is a blank slate of ink, and it is difficult to get into the elegant hall.
Qi Baishi naturally realized that in order to draw a satisfying shrimp, he had to put in a lot of effort. After the age of 40, he began to frantically imitate the shrimp of Ming and Qing painting masters such as Xu Wei.
This repetition will last for decades, and being able to hold on for a few decades is an achievement in itself.
When Qi Baishi was 60 years old, he also painted shrimp like these people, but Qi Baishi still felt that he was not enough"Live"。
Therefore, Qi Baishi specially raised a few longhorn shrimp in a bowl, put them on the painting every day, and observed the changes in the shape of the shrimp, and the shrimp painting gradually began to have life, and gradually became one of Qi Baishi's artistic symbols.
The shrimp painted by Qi Baishi is a small thing, it doesn't take much effort to observe and can even be used, but the cow is different, to be honest, Qi Baishi rarely has time to go to the field to observe the cow from childhood to adulthood.
But how did Qi Baishi draw so many cows?
In his memory, herding cattle as a child was the happiest part of his day.
When he was a child, Qi Baishi always wore the small copper bell given to him by his grandmother, threw down the whip, led the old cow to graze, and lay comfortably on the vast field. This unique memory is his love for painting cows, and it is also his inseparable family affection.
Niu Qi Baishi. Qi Baishi did not spend as much time on this "Cow Picture" as he did on "Shrimp Picture", and he initially painted it at random, as if to depict a past event he experienced as a child.
But Qi Baishi did not expect that his essays would be very popular with some people at the time. When Qi Baishi concentrated on painting, he made a living by selling paintings. In order to support himself, he naturally chooses some popular paintings that he has created many times.
So Qi Baishi has a lot of cow paintings, and the most famous cow certainly belongs"Willow cow painting"In terms of style, it belongs to ink painting, and Qi Baishi uses simple lines to outline the outline of ink painting.
The main feature of this painting is simple: two willow trees are intertwined, thousands of willow threads hang down, a cow walks in the near distance, and a cow stands in the distance.
The cow in the distance was just a cow's butt, but the painting sold for tens of millions of dollars at auction.
When we ordinary people look at this painting, we don't feel anything special, and we don't even feel that there are ink marks around the cow's ass in the distance.
Many people believe that it is not the cow's butt that is expensive, but the name Qi Baishi that makes it so expensive.
Of course, if people who know how to paint will laugh when they hear this, because for people who know how to paint, this sentence is very expressive, especially the cow's butt in the distance, which is more difficult to find than the cow in the distance.
Add details. When we look at the ** of the willow cow again, we always look from a distance, watch for a few minutes, in a hurry, of course, we can't see the beauty of the details, but when we zoom in on the ** of the cow in the distance, we will find that the cow in the distance is a cow with a story.
It turned out that the cow had two horns growing out of its buttocks, not ink, and since the butt was facing us, of course we could not see the bull's head.
The two horns of the bull are not drawn in the middle of the bull, which means that the bull bends its head and seems to be listening to the call of the old cow next to him.
The cow rump and curved head make it a classic among the classics.
Therefore, in this painting, we can understand that the cows in the distance turn their heads and listen intently express Qi Baishi's longing for his hometown relatives, and the 10,000 weeping willows hanging on the canvas symbolize the inseparable family affection.
This seemingly ordinary picture evokes strong emotions and evokes infinite reverie.
What's more, it can be said that this painting was also exiled overseas, and then unexpectedly returned to China, becoming a treasure in the world of calligraphy and painting.
Compared with other Qi Baishi paintings, this painting has an extra layer of experience, and it is this experience that elevates its **.
People are like their names, trees are like their people, Qi Baishi, as a generation of grandmasters of Chinese painting, his paintings are of course the pinnacle of calligraphy and painting, so it is also a rare thing that a cow's butt can be sold for 10 million.