Xu Beihong's Inspirational Painting Learning

One day, a foreign student said to Xu Beihong rudely, "Mr. Xu, I know that Dayang values you very much, but don't think that you can become a painter just by entering Dayang's door. Even if you go to heaven for further study, you China people will

become talents!"

Xu Beihong was angered, but he knew that people's ignorance and prejudice could not be changed by arguing, and they had to know the real China people again with facts.

From then on, Xu Beihong worked harder. He was like a tireless horse, running day and night, and forging ahead.

The foreign student was shocked to see Xu Beihong's works. He found Xu Beihong. I bowed and said,

"I admit that China people are very talented. It seems that I made a mistake, and in Chinese, that is,' You don't know Mount Tai'."

Xu Beihong painted horses

Xu Beihong, an outstanding painter, especially likes to paint horses. Many of his fine horses have become art treasures.

In the spring of 1934, Xu Beihong went to Moscow State Museum to hold an exhibition of paintings and painted for the audience. That day, the audience packed the exhibition hall. Xu Beihong calmly grinds ink and spreads paper. In a blink of an eye, a living horse appears on the paper. The audience was conquered by Xu Beihong's superb skills, and thunderous applause rang out in the hall. At this time, a burly marshal pushed through the crowd and walked up to Xu Beihong. He said politely,

"Mr. Xu, can I have this painting? Otherwise, I will go crazy! "

Xu Beihong was moved by the marshal's sincerity. He nodded and smiled, wrote an inscription and gave the painting to the marshal. Marshal was as happy as if he had won the battle. He embraced Xu Beihong warmly and praised him loudly: "Mr. Xu, you are not only a magic pen in the East, but also a magic pen in the world. The horses you wrote are more magnificent than those I rode! "

Because Xu Beihong often draws horses, he has a preference for horses. Being with the horse, listening to the horseshoe and watching the horse gallop against the wind, he felt it was a spiritual enjoyment. His heart seemed to gallop with the horse.

Liao Jingwen recalled in the book "The Life of Xu Beihong" that once he was riding in a carriage in Chengdu, the coachman was a kind old man who loved horses and kept them very well. He raised his whip, and the chestnut old mare raised its beautiful hoof and galloped forward happily. Xu Beihong likes to treat the horse like this. He got out of the carriage and the coachman was busy preparing water and feed for the horse. "This is for you." Mr. Xu Beihong suddenly said to the coachman, taking out a folded picture of running horses from his handbag. He painted this only last night.

The coachman raised his wrinkled forehead in confusion and stared at Xu Beihong with narrowed eyes, as if he didn't understand him. "Grandpa," Liao Jingwen explained from the side, "this is a picture, and it's for you." The coachman's muddy eyes suddenly lit up. He took the picture with both hands and repeatedly said, "Thank you, thank you." The coachman's eyes were wet. "I met a good man. This morning, I saw a magpie flying to my window, and I thought, maybe there is something happy to come, but what else can I have as a poor old man?" Now, it really works! " He nagged again, and at the same time pulled up the cuff of his left arm with his right hand to wipe away the tears that had flowed to his cheeks.

Mr. Xu Beihong held the coachman's rough stone-like hands and said "goodbye" repeatedly before leaving him.

"Sir, why did you suddenly give a picture to an unknown coachman? Besides, he doesn't know who you are. Are you a little too generous? " Liao Jingwen asked him with surprise.

He replied very softly, "Because I love horses and I love people who treat them well. Look at this coachman. He can handle the horse very skillfully and treat the horse as his family. His love for horses touched my heart and moved me, not to mention his life is very difficult! " Listening to Mr. Xu Beihong's words, I was also very moved.

Horse can best reflect Xu Beihong's personality and express his thoughts and feelings. Xu Beihong's horse is loved by people. Apart from his hard work, it is more important that he devoted himself to it, and turned this emotion into a spirit, which was expressed by the horse as the carrier.

in China people's minds, the horse has always been a symbol of talent and national excitement. Xu Beihong, who is obsessed with reality, painted the horse over and over again, which is exactly what he felt and expressed his thoughts. The horses written by Xu Beihong never wear bridles, but in the picture of Jiufanggao, the black female horse wears bridles exceptionally. Someone asked Bei Hong why this is, and Bei Hong replied with a smile, "Horses, like people, are willing to be used by confidants rather than by fatuity."

poor great painter

Xu Beihong, a famous artist, was born in a poor teaching family in Yixing County.

My father, Xu Zhangda, is a village school teacher and a painter. Beihong began to study with his father at the age of six. At the age of seven, he often saw his father drawing, so he wanted to learn. But his father thought he was too young to teach; However, when he read the story of Bian Zhuangzi stabbing a tiger, he secretly asked someone to draw a tiger and describe it himself. Knowing that his son really liked painting, the father asked him to copy a popular Wu Youru Picture Book every day when he was nine years old. This was the beginning of Xu Beihong's study of painting.

at the age of ten, Xu Beihong was able to help his father color unimportant parts of his paintings. At the age of seventeen, he taught painting in a middle school to help his family. At the age of nineteen, his father died, and his family was in debt, and his younger siblings had to provide for him. He had to teach in three schools in the county to solve the family's life.

The heavy family burden could not suppress his determination to make progress. In order to study fine arts, he came to Shanghai. He tried to send the painting to the then Novel Monthly for sale, but it was returned. He lived in a casino, worked hard during the day, and waited for the guests to disperse at night before spreading his bedding and sleeping on the gambling table.

While people are greeting the New Year with gongs and drums, Xu Beihong is hungry to fill and dye the cover of a magazine printed in monochrome for a publishing house called Aesthetic Library (at that time, printing was backward, there was no color printing, and the cover of the magazine was filled by hand. The organizers of the Aesthetic Library are the famous Lingnan school instructors Gao Jianfu and Gao Qifeng. By the time he was admitted to Sinian College to study French, his stomach had been empty for several days. He entered this school in the mourning of his dead father with tears in his eyes.

Xu Beihong's role has gradually attracted the attention of the society. In addition to the Gao Jianfu brothers, cultural celebrities Kang Youwei and Cai Yuanpei at that time also gave him encouragement and help. In 1917, Xu Beihong, a 22-year-old young man, was hired as a tutor of the Peking University Painting Research Association, and with the help of Fu Zengxiang (Uncle Yuan), the education chief of Beiyang government and a great scholar, he was sent to study in France.