Horse painter in China?

Mr Xu Beihong is the most famous person in modern China.

Xu Beihong

Xu Beihong is famous for painting horses in the world, splashing ink and painting freehand, or both, creating all kinds of charming and free-spirited horses, either galloping, looking back and screaming, or speeding, horseshoe smoke. The horses he painted not only have the shapes in western paintings, but also have the freehand brushwork in China traditional paintings. He is good at blending Chinese and western paintings, and has both form and spirit. Its vigorous steed gives people a symbol of freedom and strength, inspiring people to be positive.

The famous figures who painted horses in ancient China were Cao Ba and Han Gan.

Cao Ba (about 704 ~ 770), a native of Qiao County in Tang Dynasty (now Bozhou City), was a descendant of Wang Cao and a descendant of Cao Mao, an aristocratic township official of Cao Wei. Painters in the Xuanzong period of Tang Dynasty were good at writing and painting, and even compared with their ancestors "Three Caos", and they had the reputation of "writing is like martial arts, and painting is like calligraphy and painting". He is good at drawing horses, the most famous of which is his apprentice Han Gan. Became famous in the kaiyuan period of Xuanzong. Tianbao (742 ~ 756) painted "Imperial Horse". He also made portraits and once restored the portrait of the hero of Lingyange. Du Fu wrote two poems, An Introduction to Dan Qing and Watching General Cao Draw Horses, and highly praised his painting skills. In his later years, he was demoted to Sichuan, with no official. Today's paintings are no longer in circulation.

Han Gan, a native of Jingzhao (now Xi, Shaanxi), was a famous painter in the Tang Dynasty. It is said that when I was young, I worked as an employee in a restaurant. With the support of Wang Wei, I have studied painting for more than ten years. He is good at drawing portraits, figures, ghosts and gods, flowers, bamboo, especially horses, and attaches importance to sketching after studying under Cao Ba. During the reign of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, he was called into the palace and sealed as a "sacrifice". After that, I studied painting with Chen Hong, a famous horse painter in the palace. I often go to the stable to carefully observe the habits of horses, find out their personality characteristics, find out their movement rules and record all kinds of horses through comparison. After a long time, people were surprised that Han Gan often entered the stables and even moved to live with the keepers. Han Gan replied, "I learn to draw horses. All the horses in the stable are my teachers." . In order to get a deeper understanding of the horse's habits, he often observes for hours at a time, explaining the specific details that other painters don't know clearly and keeping them in mind. After such a long time, the horse's various physical characteristics, running majestic posture and ever-changing dynamics naturally live on paper when painting, so people all praise Han Gan's horse as a running horse.