china T44, Selected Paintings of Qi Baishi(16-13)shrimp《齐白石作品选》(16-13)虾
《齐白石作品选》
（16-13） 虾 ，50分，200万枚
发行日期：1980.1.15
原画作者：齐白石
邮票设计者：邵柏林
印刷厂：北京邮票厂
Stamp Title: Selected Paintings of Qi Baishi
Serial number: T44
（16-13）shrimp，50 fen
Date of issue: Januray 15, 1980
Designer: Shao Bolinh
Printing House: Beijing Postage Stamp Printing Works
Qi Baishi (齐白石) (1864–1957) is one of the most famous and widely recognized Chinese ink painters of the 20th century. Born in humble conditions in the Hunan province in southern China, he started to make his living as a wood carver and carpenter and occasionally painted subjects common in folk painting and religious topics. After moving to Beijing in 1919, Qi changed his style for innovative, bold renderings of landscapes and scenes in the bird-and-flowers genre. With these, he achieved fame in the 1920s and 1930s throughout China and gradually also in Japan, Europe, and America. After 1949, the Communist regime promoted him as a “national painter,” and Qi Baishi received a number of honors for the work that was, according to the leaders, always keeping with the socialist ideal. In 1956, the World Peace Council awarded him the Peace Prize. Besides a unique painting style, which combined the mastery of traditional ink and brush techniques with innovative compositions and use of color, Qi was also highly regarded for his calligraphy style, in which he was following in the footsteps of the masters of the turn-of-the-century epigraphic school. Seal carving is another discipline in which Qi excelled among his contemporaries, and a large number of seals carved with names and poetic lines in his personal style represents another peculiar phase of his oeuvre. The literature on Qi Baishi studies and his works can be generally divided into two groups: Chinese and non-Chinese scholarship. The non-Chinese scholarship is mainly concerned with the collections of Qi’s oeuvre outside China and specific qualities of his works, for which they have remained a permanent attraction for foreign collectors.
---- Oxford Bibliographies
