Good at sketching, oil painting and Chinese painting. He integrated western artistic skills into Chinese painting and created a novel and unique style. His sketches and oil paintings are permeated with the charm of Chinese painting. His creative themes are extensive, and landscapes, flowers and birds, animals, people, history and myths are all lifelike.
His masterpieces, such as Tian Heng 500, Mourn for Me Later, Chinese painting Jiufanggao and Gong Yu One Mountain, are full of patriotic feelings and sympathy for the working people, showing their indomitable perseverance and indomitable spirit, and expressing their anxiety about national peril and yearning for bright liberation.
His frequent paintings of galloping horses, lions and morning chickens give people vitality and strength, showing an exciting positive spirit. In particular, his "Running the Horse" is famous all over the world and has almost become a symbol of modern Chinese painting.
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194 1 During the second Changsha Battle in autumn. In this painting, Xu Beihong uses rich and unrestrained pen and ink to outline the turning parts such as the head, neck, chest and legs, and uses a dry pen to sweep out the mane tail, which changes naturally.
The straight line of the horse's leg is thin and powerful, like a steel knife, penetrating the back of the paper, while the arc of the abdomen, buttocks and mane tail is very elastic and dynamic. On the whole, the front of the picture is big and the back is small, with a strong sense of perspective, and the legs and horse's head stretching forward have a strong impact, which seems to break through the picture.
a herd of horses
Xu Beihong's Horses is one of the important masterpieces of Xu Beihong's horses. Horses are subject to 1940 local horses in Kashmir. Xu Beihong was particularly excited to see this horse at that time, and the inspiration for "Horses" came from this. Different from other works, it mainly depicts two horses with their backs to the audience, followed by a side horse. In order to change the picture, a horse with its head down for food is drawn on the right.
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