shrimp fun

Qin Mu

Qi Baishi's shrimp pictures are wonderful, which can be said to be unprecedented. None of the works of the ancient painter with the same theme that we have seen from various picture books can compare with him. It is said that Qi Baishi painted shrimp for decades and reached the highest level of the ancients at the age of 71. He made unremitting efforts and entered a higher realm.

There is a picture of Qi Baishi shrimp hanging in my living room. The dozen shrimps are very vivid. Once, a peasant woman was carrying a bucket on her shoulder. As soon as she entered the door, she saw the painting and was fascinated. She stood and admired it without lifting her shoulder, and even said, "It's really like it, it's alive."

The work can make an ordinary peasant woman forget to take off the bucket and concentrate on enjoying it, which can be said to be the highest honor of an artist.

Qi Baishi has deeply observed the life of shrimps, so the shrimps in his shrimp pictures are lifelike. I once raised shrimps and observed them.

After that, I got a deeper understanding of Qi Baishi's interest in shrimp pictures.

the color of shrimp changes with the color of the surrounding environment. Shrimp in the muddy areas of rivers are darker; Shrimp in the sand bottom area is whiter.

Shrimp with vigorous vitality has a transparent body. When its vitality is weakened, its transparency is reduced and it gradually turns into milky white. The more vigorous and well-fed the shrimp, the more obvious the black thing on its head. That's its viscera and undigested food. The shrimp is alive and kicking, and we can completely see the beating of organs in its head shell.

Shrimps like to play, and often two of them get entangled and tease each other with long tongs.

When the shrimp moves forward, it straightens its two pincers. When it quickly retreated in distress, its two long pincers retracted.

Shrimp is very careful when eating food. It always probes with its pincers first, then quickly retreats, then tries again and retreats. Finally, it decides that there is no danger at all, so it boldly munches. When eating, with the help of claws, the radial foot paddles happily. Sometimes, it only uses two feet to support the ground, and the other feet and the whole body are tilted up.

after observing the life of shrimps, I gradually realized that Qi Baishi took a lot of trouble to draw those dozens of shrimps. They are really colorful! There are both darker shrimps from the silt zone and whiter shrimps from the sand bottom zone. The black mass in their heads and shells is very prominent, showing great vitality. Some of them are swimming forward, some are retreating, and some are playing and foraging. There are no algae, sand, streams and water lines on the screen, but as long as you see the posture of those shrimps, it seems that all this is there; I don't know how many shrimps this old painter has observed, and his paintings are so superb!

Q:

what is the reason why the shrimp painted by qi Baishi is "superb"?

A:

Qi Baishi's shrimp is lifelike and full of interest.

Qi Baishi became attached to shrimp, which began in the "Star Pond" next to his former residence in Xiangtan, Hunan Province. The pond was full of water and grass, and fish and shrimp swarmed. The beautiful natural environment provided him with many objects for sketching. Years of rural life, hard work brought him persistence, mysterious nature endowed him with spirituality, his grandmother's deep care for him, and his cultivation by neighboring villagers all laid a solid foundation for his interesting life. When he was a child, Qi Baishi often played in the Star Pond. Many fish and shrimps in the pond left a deep memory for him. When he was about five years old, he played by the pond. When he saw that prawns were unavailable, he tied cotton with hemp thread to catch them, which made people feel very interesting. One evening, he washed his feet by the pond and his feet were bleeding with shrimp tongs. These things became sweet memories of his old life. Although Qi Baishi's shrimps were few. Qi Shibai himself proudly said: "Yu Zhi's painting of shrimp has changed several times, at first it was only slightly similar, once it became realistic, and then it changed color and depth, and it took decades to get its magic."

He first studied shrimp painting by Zhu Xuege, Li Futang, Zheng Banqiao and others. Before the age of 61, he mainly imitated the ancient, mostly single, and his image was dynamic and single, and his painting was not mature. This is the first stage-slightly similar.

Since the age of 62, he has been keeping long-arm freshwater shrimps in a water jar on his desk, carefully observing or sketching several times a day, and carefully studying the structure and various dynamics of prawns. Mainly realistic, the appearance is very similar, but the spirit is insufficient, the head and chest are unchanged, the eyes are small black spots, the abdomen is five, the calves are ten, and the tentacles are six radial and unchanged. I only notice the lifelike appearance, but I can't see the dynamic and translucent texture of the shrimp. This is the second stage-lifelike.

By the age of sixty-six, he made a further detailed observation on the dynamics and demeanor of prawns, and became familiar with various modes of prawns, such as forward and backward, quick swimming and slow swimming, fighting and jumping, etc., and made a deeper study on the performance techniques by using the characteristics of raw rice paper. With the increase of pen and ink, the shrimp body began to have a transparent texture, and the front end of the head and chest felt hard. The third section of the abdomen was arched to emphasize the "back of the shrimp", and the long-arm pliers were divided into three sections. The front section was thicker, the front legs were straightened, and the hind legs were reduced from ten to eight. The shrimp whiskers changed slightly, and the shades between the shrimp bodies also changed. By the age of sixty-eight, he successfully used the "ink-breaking method" to add a thick ink to the light ink on his head and chest before the ink color was dry, which not only increased the weight of shrimp, but also showed the transparency of its trunk. At the same time, the eye painting of shrimp was improved, and the two black spots were changed to the outside. This is the third change he said-deep color separation.

It was not until he was 71 years old that his shrimp paintings were basically finalized, but he still worked hard to highlight the characteristics of shrimp with pen and ink. The short beard with important characteristics was added, and the shrimp legs in the secondary parts were reduced. After numerous repeated improvements, the image of shrimp became more and more perfect, and it reached a state of perfection after the age of 81.

"Shrimp" is a masterpiece of Mr. Baishi in his later years. In the picture, the six long-arm shrimps are divided into thick and thin, dense and uneven, so they are scattered and scattered. There are small groups in a large group, which have both the dynamics of the whole group and the differences of their postures. Attention is paid to the relationship between shrimp bodies and the combination layout of shrimp tongs and shrimp whiskers, which makes it elegant, fresh and vivid. In Qi Baishi's pen, the "shrimp", a very ordinary little animal, has become an extraordinary and precious work of art.

Reference: Wikinghuang-Director

Practice of "Shrimp Fun"

1. Add some words and phonetic notes to the following.

(1) the clear water in front of the door is a flood of water

(2) the muddy area is y ū

(3) the viscera is f ǔ

(4) the stream is jià n

2. Explain the words with the article.

(1) superb: describing literature and art has reached a very superb level.

(2) Popular: a metaphor for a good poem or thing, which is praised by everyone.

3. Please use the sentences in the article to answer what inspiration Qi Baishi's shrimp paintings give us.

Qi Baishi's shrimp paintings not only enlighten us on the importance of in-depth observation in life, but also enlighten us that no matter how "simple" things are, there must be "profundity" in them.

4. please talk about your understanding of "simplicity" and "profundity" in combination with the content of the article.

It is said in the article that Qi Baishi's shrimp paintings, even if only a few shrimps are painted, always have different expressions. Some small poems are well-known from generation to generation; Some short articles are shocking; Fan painting is small, Suzhou garden, the pattern is very small, but it is always so fascinating? The mystery is not because they are profound in simplicity, but rich in simplicity. Therefore, "simplicity" means simplicity and simplicity, and "profundity" means rich connotation, high artistry and strong ideological content.

5. The title of this article is "shrimp fun". Read the article carefully and see what fun the author has gained from "shrimp".

Looking at shrimp fascination from peasant women, I found the aesthetic value of art to people; From master qi Baishi's essays on poems, he found the artistic exploration of being lazy in seeking the shape but seeking the spirit and the artistic road that originated from life above life; I found Master Qi Baishi's profound observation and keen interest in small creatures.

6. Understand the content of the article and summarize the central idea of this article.

Qi Baishi's ink-and-wash shrimp paintings make the author enjoy endless fun. Through the description of these "fun", this paper tells us that people who can feel truth, goodness and beauty from life must be full of interest. At the same time, it also tells readers that Qi Baishi's shrimp paintings not only enlighten us about the importance of in-depth observation in life, but also enlighten us that no matter how "simple" things are, they must contain "profundity".