Xu Beihong (1895- 1953), Han nationality, formerly known as Xu, was born in Qiting Town, Yixing City, Jiangsu Province. China modern painter and art educator. I studied in France to study western painting, and I have been engaged in art education for a long time after returning to China. He has taught in the Art Department of National Central University, the Art College of Beiping University and Beiping Art College. After 1949, he served as the president of the Central Academy of Fine Arts. He is good at figures, animals, flowers and birds, and advocates realism, especially Ren Bonian in tradition, emphasizing the integration of Chinese painting reform and western painting techniques, advocating light and modeling in painting, emphasizing the accurate grasp of the anatomical structure and bones of the object, and emphasizing the ideological connotation of his works, which had a great influence on China painting circles at that time. He, Zhang Shuqi and Liu Zigu are also called "the three outstanding artists in Jinling". His traditional Chinese paintings are full of color and ink, especially running horses.

Known as the founder of modern art education in China, he advocated the improvement of "Chinese painting". Based on China's modern realistic art and against the background of decadent modern Chinese painting, he put forward On the Improvement of Chinese Painting.