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Chinese painter

For the crater on Mercury, see Qi Baishi (crater).

In this Chinese name, the family name is Qi.

Qi Baishi (1 January &#; 16 September ) 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.

Qi Baishi was born in to a peasant family in Hunan, China.

Qi Baishi was a man of humble origins who painted humble things, who breathed new life into traditional Chinese painting, his artwork hailed by.

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QI BAISHI: AN INTRODUCTION TO HIS LIFE AND ART: THE ARTIST WHO IS AS HIGHLY REGARDED BY THE CHINESE AS PICASSO IS IN THE WEST By Thomas Hayes & Li Sijin.

Qi Baishi was born in Xiangtan (Hunan province), in a poor rural family.

After 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 , he was ele