Xu Beihong Paintings Collection: Chinese Painting Section: Figures · Landscapes · Flowers and Trees

Author: Xu Beihong Memorial Hall Editorial Board
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Publish Date: 1996-09-01
Features: This is a collection of Xu Beihong's paintings. Since the 1920s until now, over half a century, several editions have been published in different historical periods to meet the desires of. Xu Beihong had already gained the attention of Comrade Zhou Enlai, who was leading the revolution in France at the same time, while studying painting in Paris after the May Fourth Movement. In the late stages of the Third Revolutionary War in China, he was entrusted by Comrade Mao Zedong and Comrade Zhou Enlai to contribute to the protection of the arts in the occupied areas. After liberation, he received even greater care and trust from the Party. In the old society, he was concerned about the nation and its people; in the new society, he supported the Party and socialism, and loved the working people. The older generation of revolutionaries and the previous generation of artists all deeply understood Xu Beihong's outstanding achievements in art. Especially when enemies pressured and tempted him, attacking him, he remained upright and unyielding, with clear distinctions between right and wrong, and his cold, resolute political stance was fully reflected in his distinctly intended artistic creations. Comrade Zhou Enlai once praised him as a great master of art in his generation.