On the characteristics of Xu Beihong's painting creation.

He has created large-scale paintings with historical or ancient fables as themes. From these paintings, the audience can strongly feel the painter's sincere feelings of loving the motherland and the people. 193 1 At a time when Japan's invasion of China is getting worse and worse and the nation is in danger, Xu Beihong created a Chinese painting "Nine Square Heights" that hopes the state will pay attention to and recruit talents; 1933 created the oil painting "Worry for Me Later" to express the people's longing for a virtuous gentleman. 1940, the Chinese painting "Yugong Yishan" was completed, which praised the perseverance and tenacious will of the people of China to win the final victory against Japan. In addition, he also created realistic themes such as Ba People Pumping Water and Ba Poor Women, landscape themes such as Spring Rain in Lijiang River and Paradise Returning to the Mountain, as well as a large number of portraits and animal works. 1949 after the founding of new China, Xu Beihong worked as a government official and administrator, but he still insisted on writing and enthusiastically described the new people, new things and new features in the construction of new China. He painted portraits of war heroes, experienced life at Daoshu Water Conservancy Project site in Shandong Province, painted portraits of model workers and migrant workers, and collected bits and pieces of information reflecting the construction of new China. Unfortunately, all these artistic activities came to an abrupt end because of the painter's premature death.

Xu Beihong's works, whether oil paintings, Chinese paintings or sketches, occupy an important position in the history of modern art in China. His greatest achievement in oil painting is to combine the light and color expression of impressionism with the rigorous and perfect modeling of classicism. Among the early oil painters in China, Xu Beihong was the first outstanding painter. In sketching, Xu Beihong has made outstanding achievements. His sketch is not only the exercise of painting training, but also lays a solid foundation for his Chinese painting and oil painting creation, and it is also a work of art with appreciation and research value. He only drew more than 1000 human sketches in his life. Xu Beihong's attainments in Chinese painting are also profound. He is an artistic practitioner of Chinese painting innovation. On the basis of inheriting traditional painting, he took the lead in integrating European classical realism techniques into Chinese painting creation, creating a new Chinese painting with a sense of the times. Take the horse paintings of famous painters as an example. From this kind of works, we can not only appreciate the beauty of line modeling and pen and ink in China's traditional paintings, but also observe the decent modeling and light and shadow of objects.

With his genius, wisdom, perseverance and lifelong efforts, Xu Beihong became one of the few artists in modern China who could fully master the painting techniques of the East and the West. Hope to adopt. Thank you.