“一根触须里藏着一个宇宙”——《美术里的中国》带您潜入水草青青的“虾”世界
我国近现代杰出艺术家齐白石画虾可谓一绝。他笔下的虾灵动活泼、神韵充盈、栩栩如生、出神入化，是这位画家作品中最写实的对象之一，体现出其精湛的笔墨技艺。
中央广播电视总台纪录片《美术里的中国》利用“3D技术活化典藏”的核心创意，令二维美术作品变得生动立体，用一幅幅唯美中国风动画引领人们进入了一代美术巨匠笔下的“虾”世界，实现了艺术与技术的完美邂逅。
几十年前，北京跨车胡同的院子曾门庭若市。附近居民口耳相传，胡同里住着一位叫齐白石的画家。他画的虾比活虾还逼真，仿佛在透明的水中游弋，每根虾须里都似乎藏着一个宇宙。
齐白石画虾有自己的方法——浓墨描绘虾头，淡墨勾染虾身，让虾头坚实挺拔，虾体轻盈透明。看似寻常几笔，齐白石却画得极其细致。在每节虾背拱起的弧度、每根虾须的弯折变化中甚至能看出水的阻力与虾的跃动，似乎表现出它们正主宰着自己的生命。
从形态上看，齐白石多画长臂虾，特别以白虾为模特，追求形神兼备。虾好动且充满活力，人们仿若能从画中看到一个乐观、知足、充满情趣的老人形象。
1864年，齐白石出生在湖南湘潭的普通农家；少年时学粗木工，后做雕花木匠，兼习画，多为乡里人画衣冠像；1919年起他定居北京，以卖画、刻印为职业。多年的乡间生活与经年的游历使他更推崇师法自然的真谛，其作品也洋溢着对生活的热爱。1953年，年近九旬的齐白石被文化部授予“人民艺术家”称号，并于1956年获世界和平理事会1955年度国际和平奖。
中国近现代杰出画家齐白石
齐白石从民间画工转变为文人画家，将富有乡村气息的民间艺术融进画作之中，不仅提升了艺术境界，也开创了具有时代精神和生活气息的写意花鸟画的新篇章。正如他所说：“正因为爱我的故乡，爱我的祖国美丽富饶的山河土地，爱大地上一切活生生的生命，因而花费了我的毕生精力，把一个普通中国人的感情画在画里、写在诗里。”
In Chinese art history, Qi Baishi ranks as a towering figure. His whimsical and playful style opened up a new vista in the imagery of traditional Chinese painting, and has left a rich legacy still widely recognized in modern society. Among his works, lifelike shrimps play a key role in Qi's visual repertoire. The "shrimps" are so popular that they have become synonymous with the painter himself.
To better present his shrimp paintings, the documentary series "Fine Arts in China" produced by China Media Group uses animation technology to make the original works three-dimensional, realizing a perfect combination of art and technology to lead viewers into a "shrimp" world.
Shrimps have been a favorite subject of Qi Baishi's artwork for decades. He could render them so vividly that they seem to swim off the canvas. The sight of the shrimps can immerse people in a watery world; even a slender whisker conceals a microcosm. The shrimps hail from Xiangtan, Hunan, the hometown of the artist and a place full of grassy streams and ponds.
Unlike his predecessors, Qi Baishi painted shrimps in an impressionistic style with swift, definite and spontaneous brush strokes. He used different shades of ink to model the shrimp's torso and head. The torso looks translucent, while the head has a firm solidity. The deceptively casual strokes were actually deliberate and required painstaking detail. Each section of the torso and each tremulous whisker conveys the resistance of the water and the shrimp's physical exertion. These creatures are not just passive subject matter; rather they are asserting their presence.
Qi was a versatile artist. Born to a family of farmers in Hunan in 1864, he learned carpentry in his teens, and later taught himself the arts of painting, poetry, calligraphy and seal cutting. The years spent in rural areas instilled in him a deep-rooted love of nature.
During his youth, he traveled around the country to seek inspiration from nature while ardently studying the masterpieces of early Chinese painters. Qi settled in Beijing in 1919 and soon achieved wide renown.
Qi Baishi opened a new window for the fine arts world. He was dubbed the "People's Painter" and awarded the title of "People's Artist" by Chinese Ministry of Culture.
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