Xu Beihong Paintings (Large 16K, Volumes 1 and 2)

Author: Xu Beihong
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Features: "A person cannot have arrogance, but must have dignity"—Xu Beihong's motto. Xu Beihong's art blends Chinese and Western painting, profound and vast, subtle and majestic. Xu Beihong is the greatest artist of this era—Mao Zedong.
Top Modern Chinese Artists features 382 works by Xu Beihong. Among them, 184 are Chinese paintings, 99 are oil paintings, and 99 are sketches and manuscripts. These works encompass the masterpieces of Chinese painting, oil painting, and sketching from each period of Mr. Beihong's career, reflecting the development of his artistic style.
Xu Beihong: A distinguished Chinese painter, former President of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, and Chairman of the China Artists Association. Xu Beihong drew inspiration from Western classical realistic painting and vigorously advocated the use of "realism" to reform Chinese painting. He emphasized "learning directly from nature," especially his theory that "sketching is the foundation of all plastic arts," which had a revolutionary impact on the history of Chinese painting. It marked the end of the more than 1,000-year-old tradition of red-line filling in painting and the birth of a new form of Chinese painting, earning him the title of "Father of Modern Chinese Painting."
Special Acknowledgment: Ms. Liao Jingwen, the wife of Xu Beihong, devoted great effort to the publication of this album. Despite her advanced age, she reviewed the entire book and wrote a special preface titled "A Brief Biography of Beihong," filled with boundless longing for Mr. Beihong, moving everyone who reads it. We sincerely wish Ms. Liao good health and peace!
Xu Beihong excelled at using horses to symbolize people and to express his emotions, embodying his strong desire for life. The horses in Xu Beihong's paintings are "free from the triviality of ordinary horses," radiating a spirited and heroic will. His paintings have been exhibited in Europe and America multiple times, each time causing a great sensation.