What kind of person is Xu Beihong

Modern Chinese painter and art educator. He studied western painting in France and was engaged in art education for a long time after his return to China.

Specialized in drawing, oil painting and Chinese painting. He integrated Western artistic methods into Chinese painting, creating a novel and unique style. His drawings and oil paintings are infused with the flavor of Chinese ink and brushwork. His works cover a wide range of subjects, including landscapes, birds and flowers, animals, people, history and myths, all of which are vivid and lifelike.

His masterpieces, such as the oil paintings "Five Hundred Soldiers of Tian Heng" and "After Sighing", and the Chinese paintings "Nine Square Gaos" and "The Foolish Lord Moves the Mountain", are full of patriotism and sympathy for the laboring people, express the perseverance and unyielding spirit of the masses, as well as the anguish for the nation's demise and the yearning for the bright liberation of the nation.

He often painted galloping horses, lions and morning chickens, which gave people vitality and strength, and expressed the positive spirit of exhilaration. In particular, his galloping horses have become world-famous and have almost become the "symbol" and "icon" of "modern Chinese painting". p>The Running of the Horses

Was painted in the fall of 1941 during the Second Battle of Changsha. In this painting, Xu Beihong used full and unrestrained ink to outline the head, neck, chest, legs and other large turning parts, and used a dry brush to sweep out the mane and tail, so that the changes in the intensity of wet and dry are all natural.

The straight lines of the horse's legs are fine and strong, as if they were steel knives, penetrating through the paper, while the curves of the abdomen, hips and mane and tail are very elastic and full of dynamism. On the whole, the picture is large in front and small at the back, with a strong sense of perspective. The legs and the horse's head stretching forward have a strong impact and seem to break through the picture.

Group of Horses

The Group of Horses by Xu Beihong is one of the most important masterpieces of Xu Beihong's horses. Group of horses from the 1940 Kashmir local steeds, Xu Beihong saw this horse at the time extraordinarily excited, "Group of Horses" inspiration came. Unlike other works, the main depiction of two horses with their backs to the audience, the back with a sideways horse, in order to make the picture change, and then painted on the right side of a horse with its head down to feed.

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