齐白石(1864年1月1日─1957年9月16日),祖籍安徽宿州砀山,生于湖南长沙府湘潭(今湖南湘潭)人。近现代中国绘画大师。原名纯芝,字渭青,号兰亭。后改名璜,字濒生,号白石、白石山翁、老萍、饿叟、借山吟馆主者、寄萍堂上老人、三百石印富翁。
早年曾为木工,后以卖画为生,五十七岁后定居北京。1955年度获世界和平理事会颁发的国际和平奖,1963年诞辰100周年之际被公推为“世界文化名人”。一生作画不辍,留下大量诗、书、画、印作品。传世画作有《墨虾》、《牧牛图》、《蛙声十里出山泉》等。擅画花鸟、虫鱼、山水、人物,笔墨雄浑滋润,色彩浓艳明快,造型简练生动,意境淳厚朴实。所作鱼虾虫蟹,天趣横生。
Qi Baishi (January 1, 1864 - September 16, 1957), born in Dangshan, Suzhou, Anhui Province, was born in Xiangtan, Changsha Prefecture, Hunan Province. Master of modern Chinese painting. The original name is Chunzhi, Weiqing, Lanting. Later renamed Juan, the word is endangered, named Baishi, Baishi Shanweng, Laoping, hungry man, the owner of the Yin Museum borrowed from the mountain, the old man in the Jiping Hall, and the 300 lithographic millionaire.
In his early years, he worked as a woodworker, then sold paintings for a living, and settled in Beijing after he was 57 years old. In 1955, he was awarded the International Peace Prize by the World Peace Council. On the 100th anniversary of his birth in 1963, he was presumed to be a world cultural celebrity. In his lifetime, he painted endlessly, leaving behind a large number of poems, books, paintings and printed works. The paintings handed down from generation to generation include "Ink Shrimp", "Cattle Grazing Picture", "Frog Sound Ten Miles Out of Mountain Spring" and so on. He is good at painting flowers, birds, insects, fish, landscapes and figures. His brush and ink are vigorous and moist, with rich and bright colors, concise and vivid shapes and simple artistic conception. The fish, shrimp, insect and crab are interesting.