Xu Beihong’s Horse Chart Axis

[Axis of Xu Beihong’s Painting of Steed Horses]

Axis of “The Painting of Steed Horses”, modern and contemporary, painted by Xu Beihong, paper based, colored, 109.3 centimeters vertically and 53 centimeters horizontally
Self title: “In the 37th year of the Double Ninth Festival, there was a sad Hong.” The seal was “The Painting of Sad Hong”, with the seal of Zhu Wenfang. In the lower right corner, there is a seal of “trapped and known” Zhu Wenfang
The 37th year refers to the 37th year of the Republic of China (1948), when Xu Beihong was 53 years old
Pictured on a flat slope in the wilderness, a horse is looking back as it tries to travel and stops
Xu Beihong painted thousands of unrestrained European horses during his trip to Europe in the 1920s. In the late 1930s, when he was lecturing at the International University of India, he visited Kashmir in the west of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and the Darjeeling Mountains in the foothills of the Himalayas. He was deeply touched by the wild horses high and fierce on the plateau. From then on, Xu Beihong’s horses not only possessed beautiful posture, but also possessed courageous vitality and tenacious endurance. “Their bodies are thin and long, not as fat as the horses painted by ancient Chinese masters such as Cao Ba, Chen Hong, Han Gan, Zhang Xuan, and Zhao Mengfu, but they are not lacking in vigor.”. Their nostrils are very open, indicating that they have a large vital capacity and are good at running for a long time. Their long legs and broad hooves indicate their agility and quickness in running.