齐白石（1864年1月1日—1957年9月16日），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，祖籍安徽宿州砀山，生于湖南长沙府湘潭（今湖南湘潭），近现代中国绘画大师，世界文化名人。
Qi Baishi (January 1, 1864-september 16, 1957), formerly known as Chunzhi, was named Weiqing, Lanting, later Huang, and was named Bingsheng. He was named Baishi, Baishi shanweng, Laoping, hungry old man, the owner of jipingtang chanting hall, the old man in jipingtang, the rich man in three hundred stone prints. His ancestral home is Dangshan, Suzhou, Anhui Province. He was born in Xiangtan, Changsha, Hunan Province (now Xiangtan, Hunan Province). He is a master of modern Chinese painting and a world cultural name People.
早年曾为木工，后以卖画为生，五十七岁后定居北京。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。齐白石书工篆隶，取法于秦汉碑版，行书饶古拙之趣，篆刻自成一家，善写诗文。曾任中央美术学院名誉教授、中国美术家协会主席等职。代表作有《蛙声十里出山泉》《墨虾》等。著有《白石诗草》《白石老人自述》等。
In his early years, he worked as a carpenter, and later he made a living selling paintings. At the age of 57, he settled in Beijing. He is good at painting flowers and birds, insects and fish, landscapes and figures, with vigorous and moist ink, rich and bright colors, simple and vivid modeling, and simple and simple artistic conception. The fish, shrimp, insects and crabs are very interesting. Qi Baishi is a calligrapher of seal script, which is based on the tablet of Qin and Han Dynasties. It has the charm of running script and is good at writing poetry. He once served as honorary professor of the Central Academy of fine arts and chairman of China Artists Association. The representative works are "frog sound ten miles out of mountain spring", "ink shrimp" and so on. He is the author of Baishi Shicao, Baishi old man’s self-report, etc.
半个世纪以来，无论是美术史学界的专家，还是画家、收藏家，甚至普通的百姓，论及齐白石对近现代中国绘画的贡献，他的艺术成就都是公认的。齐白石的绘画是中国画笔墨情趣的绝对体现，更是中国文人绘画近现代的高峰。他的绘画更是当今中国艺术市场的晴雨表、风向标。
For half a century, Qi Baishi’s contribution to modern Chinese painting has been recognized by experts in art history, painters, collectors and even ordinary people. Qi Baishi’s painting is not only the absolute embodiment of the interest of Chinese painting brush and ink, but also the peak of modern Chinese literati painting. His paintings are the barometer and vane of Chinese art market.
齐白石的草虫，有工、写之分。通常工细者，先画草虫后补景；写意者，先画景后补草虫。而不管是工是写，齐白石都非常注重草虫的体态结构，反映了他极为细致的观察和表现能力。他画的草虫得其翻飞鸣跃之相，翻者折翅能见动作，飞者振羽如临风声，鸣者切股能闻音响，跃者挺身可视耀状。这种千姿百态的变化，反映了他深厚的具有中国特点的造型基础。
The grass insects of Qi Baishi can be divided into work and writing. Usually, those who are meticulous first draw grass insects and then fill the landscape; those who are freehand, first draw the landscape and then fill the grass insects. Whether it’s work or writing, Qi Baishi pays great attention to the body structure of grass worms, reflecting his extremely meticulous observation and performance ability. The grass and insects in his paintings can be seen in the phase of turning over, flying and jumping. The flipper can fold his wings to see the action, the flier can vibrate his feathers like the sound of the wind, the chirper can cut his legs to hear the sound, and the Leaper can stand up to see the light. This variety of changes reflects his profound modeling foundation with Chinese characteristics.
此件藏品为近日四川嘉玉宝阁征集到的一组白石老人亲笔作品草虫四扇屏，此屏长172厘米，宽405.厘米，齐白石老人笔下的昆虫是鲜活的，鲜活到翅膀的通透、身上的秋毫，虽渺小微物，总有细视力纹理。草虫栩栩如生，跃然纸上，其形态逼真无以复加，实不输于真实世界的草虫，只可惜无声。
This collection is a group of four screens of grass and insects written by white stone elders collected by jiayubao Pavilion in Sichuan Province recently. The screen is 172cm long and 405. Cm wide. The insects written by old Qi Baishi are fresh and live to the transparency of wings and the acuteness of the body. Although they are small and tiny, they always have fine vision texture. The grass insects are lifelike and on the paper. Their form is lifelike and incomparable. They are not inferior to those in the real world, but they are silent.
齐白石笔下的工笔草虫栩栩如生,形态的逼真无以复加,实不输于真实世界的草虫;他的写意草虫虽寥寥数笔,仍生动传神。最为可贵的是,他将大写意的花卉和工细的草虫完美结合,不仅将中国画工笔与写意两种表现形式发挥到极致。
Qi Baishi’s meticulous brushwork is as vivid as the real world’s brushwork, and his brushwork is vivid even though there are only a few brushwork. The most valuable thing is that he combines the flower of freehand brushwork with the grass and insect of fine brushwork perfectly, not only bringing the two forms of expression of Chinese painting, Meticulous Brushwork and freehand brushwork, to the extreme.