Mr. Xu Beihong is an art educator who is committed to the inheritance, development and dissemination of Chinese painting. He is also a famous cultural fighter and social activist who combines his art, personal life, work, social interaction and influence, and even his life with the interests and honors of the country and the nation. Horse is the symbolic theme of Xu Beihong's paintings. The horses in his works are full of passion and vitality. Moreover, his "Ben Ma Tu" is often inspired by time and events, and his passion lies in pen and ink, which has touching power.
1939, Mr. Xu Beihong was invited to give a lecture and hold an art exhibition at the International University of India. At that time, he also visited Darjeeling in the Himalayas at the invitation of Tagore, a great Indian poet. There, he saw many rare horses with high head, long legs, wide chest and shiny fur. He often travels on such a war horse, and gradually understands the horse's aggressive, brave, docile, hardworking and loyal character, and finally becomes a confidant of the horse. During the visit, he drew many sketches of horses and further mastered the most beautiful posture and posture of horses. From then on, he described the temperament and vitality of horses more incisively and vividly, thus creating all kinds of galloping horses, reaching the realm of "perfection", which was praised and cherished by the world.
Mr. Hong concluded: "The way of art lies in the pursuit of nature". "My dharma, creation. The pine of the blue cloud is my teacher, the rock of Qixia is my teacher, the cows and horses in the field, the chickens and dogs outside the fence, the donkeys in Nanjing and the big momma in Jiangbei are all my teachers. " Mr. Beihong once said, "I like lotus flowers very much, but I dare not paint them." If you want to draw, you have to give me twenty dollars of rice paper. After painting these twenty knives of rice paper, you can say that you can draw lotus flowers. ""I love painting animals and spend a long time on objects. That is to say, on horseback, he quickly wrote more than 1000 manuscripts, learned the anatomy of horses, and became familiar with the bones, muscles and tissues of horses. Then, it is worth studying its dynamics and expression in detail. "Xu Beihong did draw sketches of thousands of horses in his life. He is familiar with the horse's temperament, structure, daily activities, and the unique expression techniques that need to be created in skills, and has created a heroic horse that has washed away the empty horse forever. This is also a symbol of the author's pursuit of ideals and yearning for freedom.