Xu Beihong

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Xu Beihong (1895-1953), Han Chinese, originally named Xu Shoukang, was born in Qiting Town, Yixing City, Jiangsu Province. A modern Chinese painter and art educator. He studied Western painting in France, and after returning to China, he has been engaged in art education for a long time, teaching successively at the Department of Art of the National Central University, the School of Arts of Peking University, and the Beijing Institute of Arts. After 1949, he served as the president of the Central Academy of Fine Arts. He was skilled in figure painting, animals, and birds, advocated realism, especially favored Ren Bonian among traditional painters, emphasized the reform of Chinese painting by integrating Western painting techniques, advocated light and modeling in painting, emphasized the accurate understanding of the anatomical structure and skeleton of the subject, and emphasized the ideological connotation of the work, which had a great influence on the Chinese painting world at that time. Together with Zhang Shuqi and Liu Ziggu, they were called the "Three Greats of Jinling" in the painting world. His Chinese paintings combined color and ink perfectly, especially famous for his galloping horses. Xu Beihong passed away on September 26, 1953, due to a cerebral hemorrhage, at the age of 58. According to Xu Beihong's wish, his wife, Miss Liao Jingwen, donated more than 1,200 of his works, more than 1,200 works of famous Chinese painters from the Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming, Qing dynasties and modern times, collected by Xu Beihong throughout his life, as well as more than 10,000 items of books, art albums, and rubbings, all to the state.

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