受陳師曾影響，他創造出自成一家的畫畫風格，亦即紅花墨葉的大膽風格，以原本不協調的純紅色和深墨黑用在一起，形成畫面鮮明的對比，表現了畫面上清新、樸實的感覺，實現了「衰年變法」,並學習徐渭、石濤，在學習石濤、朱耷、徐渭的基礎上，吸收吳昌碩的技法，終於自成一家,

齊白石強調「作畫妙在似與不似之間，太似為媚俗，不似為欺世,」，在篆刻方面自稱「三百石印富翁」,晚年仍然細心觀察蝦、蟹、青蛙的游泳姿態，他的畫自成章法，人物、山水、花鳥、草蟲、蔬果、玩具都可入畫，和20世紀世界繪畫藝術的發展方向相符,

Influenced by Chen Shizeng, he created his own style of painting, namely the bold style of red flowers and ink leaves, using the originally incongruous pure red and deep ink black together to form a sharp contrast on the screen, expressing a fresh and simple feeling on the surface, realising the "change of method in his declining years". He learnt from Xu Wei and Shi Tao, and on the basis of learning from Shi Tao, Zhu Da and Xu Wei, he absorbed Wu Changshuo's techniques and finally formed his own style.

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Qi Baishi

Xiangtan, Hunan, China

Died16 September 1957 (aged 93)

Beijing, China

Known forPaintingChinese nameTraditional Chinese 齊白石 Simplified Chinese 齐白石

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Qi Baishi (1 January 1864 – 16 September 1957) was a Chinese painter, noted for the whimsical, often playful style of his works. Born to a peasant family from Xiangtan, Hunan, Qi taught himself to paint, sparked by the Manual of the Mustard Seed Garden. After he turned 40, he traveled, visiting various scenic spots in China. After 1917 he settled in Beijing. Qi was the master of Hu Jieqing, the wife of Lao She.

The subjects of his paintings include almost everything, commonly animals, scenery, figures, toys, vegetables, and so on. He theorized that "paintings must be something between likeness and unlikeness, much like today's vulgarians, but not like to cheat popular people". In his later years, many of his works depict mice, shrimp or birds. He was also good at seal carving and called himself "the rich man of three hundred stone seals" (三百石印富翁). In 1953, he was elected president of the China Artists Association (中國美術家協會). He died in Beijing in 1957.