重現齊白石（1864-1957）一生風華！

是那從古典世界綻放新芽的時代精神，撼動四海。遭逢歷朝更遞，轉益多師，跋山涉水的藝術家，以致廣大而盡精微的心法，既幻化出胸中的奇山異水、翱翔天涯的蒼鷹，更細究出一隻隻精神抖擻的蟋蟀、蜘蛛、天牛。他以東方之筆畫出世界，在精寫與揮毫間收放自如，在宏大與微觀間游刃有餘。白石先生獨特的氣宇和心野，為藝術翰海注入洪流，流傳至今。本館以其縱覽天地的大雅之趣，走進大匠之門，追道思源，作為與世界接軌的前奏！

輾轉一生，磨練出白石先生的底蘊，平和寧靜地照見藝術之魂。「生如璀璨的盛夏之花，死如靜美的秋日落葉」，萬物萌起、凋落而不曾失去尊嚴與純粹。齊白石在一九五六年，九十六歲，獲世界和平理事會頒發之國際和平金獎（WPP），走過戰火的和平使者，不盛不亂，姿態如煙，他說：「我畫六七十年的畫，我畫好看的東西，畫有生氣的東西，我畫一個蟲草都願他生機活潑！」

The Crystal Museum presents Qi Baishi’s amazing work of a life time (1864-1957) as its debut exhibition. Back to then, that was a time when new spirit sprouted out from the older art realm and surprised the world. The change of eras and mentors exhausted the artist, but it also taught him to embrace both relaxing moves of the wrist and meticulous skills at the hand to look at things and transform his mental imagery into unique and magnificent scenery of mountains and rivers, or hovering hawks on papers. Going further, he also produced portraits of energetic insects like crickets, spiders, and long-horned beetles. With an oriental brush, he painted the world boldly and also exquisitely, moving between macro and micro perspectives at ease. Qi Baishi’s unique characters and ambition created powerful flow for the ocean of art, which also streamed down to us. The Museum aims to quench its thirst for viewing the larger world as a whole and walk into the art master’s world. The memorialisation of this artist is the prelude it chooses to connect with viewers in the world.

Mr Baishi looked into the spirit of art in peace. His elegance came from the ups and downs in the life. “Life shall be gorgeous like splendid blossoms in the summer. Death shall be quiet as fallen leaves in the autumn.” Everything in the world rises and falls with dignity and pureness. When Qi Baishi turned 96 in 1956, he won the World Peace Prize awarded by the World Peace Council. He was a peace maker survived after wars and chaos, a man who is composed and tranquil, living like smokes. According to Mr Qi, “I have been painting for six or seven decades, and all I have illustrated are good-looking and vivacious things. For each insect I paint, I always wish to make it lively and vivacious.”