Besides horses, what is Master Xu Beihong good at painting? What are Xu Beihong's representative works?

As we all know, Xu Beihong is a famous painter and art educator in modern China. He is not only good at Chinese painting, but also good at western oil painting and sketch because of his experience in studying in France. He persisted in writing all his life and created thousands of Chinese paintings, oil paintings and sketches. Among them, Xu Beihong's most well-known and recognized theme is horse. In his works, horses are natural, with smooth muscle lines, elastic abdominal curves, soft and elegant manes, or running or standing quietly, just like real life, which is amazing. But many people only know that Xu Beihong is good at drawing horses, but they don't know what Xu Beihong is good at drawing besides horses. What are Xu Beihong's representative works?

Besides horses, Xu Beihong is also good at figure painting, especially western figures and animals. Because of his diligence in art, Xu Beihong has created many paintings in his life, leaving many representative works, such as Eight Horses, which is based on eight horses in Zhou Muwang. These eight horses have different expressions in the painting, which are elegant, smart and lifelike, but Xu Beihong is not.

In the aspect of figure oil painting, the representative work is The Portrait of Miss Jenny. This painting was painted in the spring and summer of 1939, when Xu Beihong was 44 years old. In order to support the Anti-Japanese War, he held a charity sale in Nanyang to raise funds. Miss Jenny in the painting was a celebrity in Sin Chew at that time. This painting raised 40,000 Singapore dollars. Xu Beihong himself was very satisfied with this painting and specially asked the photographer to take pictures of it and this painting as a souvenir. This painting later became the cover of the book "Xing Zhou Bei Hong", which shows the author's preference.

In animal painting, the masterpiece is The Wounded Lion, which was created in 1938. This is a painting that combines realism and romanticism. At that time, China, which was invaded by the Japanese army, was devastated. The injured lion in this painting is sitting in the posture of looking back, with infinite grief and indignation in his eyes, as well as tenacity and strength; He wrote an inscription on the painting: "At the time of Kong Ji's national disaster, he lived alone with Mr. Lin Ruo in Chongqing and did not want to write this." Showed his patriotism and feelings of saving the country.

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