齐白石是以花鸟见长,兼擅人物、山水的全能画家,但其早期艺术则是以肖像画知名。本文梳理其早期肖像画的源流、艺术特色,并解析其在齐白石生涯中的地位。虽然肖像画只是齐白石漫长艺术生涯中的一小段,但却是其艺术生命中不可或缺的重要一环。自此以后,齐白石绘画由具有世俗画倾向的职业画向具有文人意趣的文人画转型,直到中晚年时期,文人画倾向几乎与其世俗性绘画并驾齐驱,从而成为诗书画印兼精的20世纪绘画大家。 Qi Baishi is an all-around painter who is good at birds and flowers, good at people and landscapes, but his early art is well-known as portraiture. This article combs the origins and artistic features of his early portraits and analyzes his position in Qi Baishi’s career. Although portraits are only a short period of Qi Baishi’s long artistic career, they are an integral part of his artistic life. Since then, Qi Baishi’s painting transformed from a professional painting with the tendency of secular painting to a literati painting with literary taste, until the middle and late years, the tendency of literati painting kept pace with its secular painting, thus becoming the 20th century painter of poetry, calligraphy, printing and fine work .