Xu Beihong. Xu Beihong is a modern painter and art educator in China. He advocated the introduction of western European teaching concepts and teaching systems into China's fine arts teaching, and set up western fine arts disciplines such as oil painting, watercolor, gouache, sketch, perspective and anatomy. At the same time, Chinese painting art, folk painting art and other national arts are included in the subjects of art education in colleges and universities, so that the setting of art education in colleges and universities in China is initially systematic. Therefore, Xu Beihong is the founder of modern fine arts and fine arts education in China, an outstanding artist, educator and collector, and has made outstanding contributions to the construction and development of fine arts in China.