( 1895- 1953)

Modern painter and art educator. Yixing, Jiangsu. I studied painting hard when I was young, and then I studied in France. He has brought China's modern paintings to exhibitions in France, Germany, Belgium, Italy and the Soviet Union. During his stay in War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, he sold it abroad many times and got money to help refugees from the motherland. Join the democratic movement. He has long been engaged in art education. After the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), he served as president of the Central Academy of Fine Arts and chairman of the All-China Artists Association. In painting creation, it advocates being the most subtle and broad; For Chinese painting, those who advocate the excellence of ancient law should abide by it, those who reject it should continue it, those who fail to do so should change it, and western painting can be absorbed by those who enter the law. Good at oil painting, Chinese painting, especially sketching. Character modeling pays attention to realism and conveys expressions. He created historical paintings with progressive ideas, such as Nine Square Heights and One Mountain in Gong Yu. His paintings of flowers and birds, landscapes and animals are concise, lively and full of vitality, especially Ma Chi's paintings are well-known at home and abroad. Painting can integrate Chinese and western techniques and has its own characteristics. Establish the painter Xu Beihong Memorial Hall in Beijing.