Qi Baishi
![Photo portrait of Qi Baishi in 1956](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e1/Qi_Baishi_%281956%29%2C_by_Zheng_Jingkang.jpg)
The subjects of his paintings include almost everything, commonly animals, scenery, figures, toys, vegetables, and so on. He theorized that "paintings must be something between likeness and unlikeness, much like today's vulgarians, but not like to cheat popular people". In his later years, many of his works depict mice, shrimp or birds. He was also good at seal carving and called himself "the rich man of three hundred stone seals" (). In 1953, he was elected president of the China Artists Association (). He died in Beijing in 1957. Provided by Wikipedia
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