Hi, Kris, I am back, the network was not very stable! Some interesting points I have collected on Qi Baishi and his peace doves for your reference!
1, Qi is known for his daily life painting style. He draws a lot of trivial things, such as shrimps, crickets, cabbages, frogs and
tadpoles, even locusts and mice, but he never drew a pigeon untile Picasso's peace dove flew to China.
2. Encouraged by peace movement supporters, he started to draw pigeions in his late 80s. First he went to a friend's home to observe his pigeions and later he began to raise them himself and masters how to draw them.
3. He began with first learning from Picasso's doves, and later said he would like to begin a competition with Picasso and compared his doves with Picasso's by saying: Picasso can draw out the vibrations of the wings of doves, while I will draw the wings without vibrations but make people feel them flying. And in his late years, doves became a major topic in his paintings.
5. Picasso highly praised him and Chinese painting after getting to know about him from mutual friends and practicing copying his watercolor works.
6. They all experienced living in a captured capital city during the Great Wars and stopped drawing for a period.
7. He won a gold medal for his contributions to the peace movement issued by the World Peace Council, just as Picasso did his contributions to the peace movements.
8, They both enjoyed living a very long life till their 90s. :-)
9, Both of their works are now astronomically high in auctions, perhaps no.1 & no.2 in all artists!
Posted 12/27/2019 04:26 am
