Xu Beihong's masterpiece

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.

2. "herd 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.

3. Miss Jenny

Written in the spring and summer of 1939, Xu Beihong is 44 years old. This work was written by Xu Beihong when he held a charity sale in Nanyang to support the domestic war of resistance. The woman in the painting, Miss Jenny, whose ancestral home was in Guangdong, was a well-known celebrity in Xingzhou at that time, which was a much-told story at that time.

This painting raised S $40,000, the most with Nanyang during this period. Xu Beihong himself was very satisfied with this work, and specially asked the photographer to take pictures of it and this painting as a souvenir, which later became the cover of the book "Sin Chew Sad Flood".

4. Tian Heng 500 Scholars

This painting "Tian Heng 500 Scholars" is a famous work by Xu Beihong. This story comes from Historical Records Biography of Immortals. Tian Heng was the old royal family of Qi at the end of Qin Dynasty and the king of Qi after Tian Xian. After Liu Bang wiped out the wolves, Tian Heng and his 500 strong men fled to an island. Liu Bang heard that Tian Heng won the hearts of the people and was afraid of trouble in the future, so he sent messengers to pardon Tian Heng's sin and recall him.

It is precisely because of Tian Heng and others' "high morality", "wealth can't be immoral, and power can't be bent" that they deliberately chose the dramatic scene of Tian Heng's farewell to 500 strong men to express it.

5. "Yu Gong Yi Tu Shan"

This painting was painted from 1940, 1939 to 1940. At the invitation of Tagore, a great Indian poet, Xu Beihong went to India to hold an exhibition to publicize the war of resistance. During this period, he created many oil paintings, but the most important achievement is this Chinese painting "Moving Mountains in Gong Yu". Its story is based on a myth and legend of Liezi Tang Wen.