Follow Master Bai Xueshi, appreciate the exquisite techniques of landscape painting, and enjoy the beautiful landscape scenery under his brush!

#宝藏兴趣攻略#

**The Artistic Life of Snow Stone**

Bai Xueshi (1915~2011), born in Beiping (now Beijing), was formerly known as Zengrui, Yaju He Xuzhai. Since childhood, he has been associated with the brush, and in the early years, he studied under Zhao Mengzhu and Liang Shunian, and deeply studied the way of boneless flowers and birds and landscapes, and the traditional skills were perfected. In 1933, he joined the "Lake Society" and his artistic career began from there. Later, he not only served as a lecturer at Beijing Normal University of Arts and Beijing Academy of Arts (1959~1964), but also taught at the Central Academy of Arts and Crafts (now the Academy of Arts and Design, Tsinghua University) for many years until his professorship (1964~1984). Bai Xueshi's artistic footprints are also all over the world, and he has successfully held many solo exhibitions with far-reaching influence.

**North-South blend of landscape painting**

The landscape painting of Bai Xueshi not only inherits the majesty of the northern school, but also the spirit of the southern school, and absorbs the strengths of others, becoming a family of its own. His works combine the rigor of Song painting, the freedom of Yuan painting, the freshness of watercolor and the pure decorative beauty of printmaking. He skillfully uses the shade of ink, the method of splashing ink and breaking the ink, and the delicate brushstrokes of dotting and dyeing, vividly capturing the thousands of changes in the scenery and water color of the mountains and waters between the sunny, rainy and cloudy clouds of the Li River, which is breathtaking.

**Masterpiece Appreciation**

- **"A Thousand Peaks Show"**: This 169cmx630cm masterpiece, created in 1992, was hung in the reception hall of the Ziguang Pavilion in Zhongnanhai, becoming a background painting for important national occasions, showing the brilliant achievements of snow stone landscape art.

- **Gusai Chunhui**: In 1995, Bai Xueshi, who was 80 years old at the time, was invited to paint another masterpiece "Gusai Chunhui" for the reception hall of Zhongnanhai, which was 5 meters high and 9 meters long, once again proving the vigor and extraordinaryness of his artistic vitality.

**Visual feast, not to be missed**

This series of articles and photo collections will take you to experience the charm of snow stone landscape painting up close, and each work is his affectionate interpretation and artistic reproduction of the beauty of nature. It is recommended to watch the video in a Wi-Fi environment in order to enjoy this double baptism of vision and soul smoothly.