Xu Beihong Sings Horse Chart Axis

[Xu Beihong’s Painting of Horse]

The Painting of Horse, in modern times, is painted by Xu Beihong on paper, with colors, 102.5 centimeters vertically and 35.7 centimeters horizontally
Self title: “Mourning, thinking of battle, standing up to the sky. Bingxu Chunbeihong was written at Panxi China Academy of Fine Arts.” Seal: “Xu”, Zhu Wenyuan
The year of Bingxu was 1946, and Xu Beihong was 51 years old
The picture depicts a fine horse with a flying mane and a distant gaze, roaring in the wilderness. “Mourning and thinking of battle, standing up to the sky” is a poem written by Du Fu of the Tang Dynasty, and it is also a favorite poem inscribed by Xu Beihong in his horse drawing. It expresses a spirit of resistance that is not willing to yield in the face of difficulties. Panxi is located in the mountains and forests on the north bank of Jialing River in Sichuan Province. It is named Panxi because there is a clear spring flowing out of the rocks on the mountainside and merging into a clear stream. Xu Beihong began using the ancestral hall here in 1943 to set up a research institution, the China Academy of Fine Arts. He successively hired Zhang Daqian, Wu Zuoren, Chen Xiaonan, Li Ruinian, Zhang Anzhi, Zhang Yingqian, and others as researchers. This picture was drawn before he was about to leave for Peiping (now Beijing) as the principal of the “Peiping Art Academy”
Xu Beihong is good at drawing horses. He has sketched thousands of horses at the Paris Racecourse in France and the Berlin Zoo in Germany, and has conducted long-term observation and research on the muscles, bones, facial expressions, and living habits of horses. In the picture, the horse with a twisted back and turned around is painted with simple and rough brush and ink, with vivid modeling, accurate perspective, both form and spirit, and infinite charm.