Among the famous modern painters in China, who is the best at drawing horses?

Xu Beihong (modern painter). Xu Beihong (1895- 1953), Han nationality, formerly known as Xu, was born in Qiting Town, Yixing City, Jiangsu Province. China modern painter and art educator. I studied in France to study western painting, and I have been engaged in art education for a long time after returning to China. He has taught in the Art Department of National Central University, the Art College of Beiping University and Beiping Art College.

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1、? In Xu Beihong's "Letter to Scholars", Xu Beihong emphasized: "I love painting animals and spent a long time on objects, that is, I wrote more than a thousand sketches in a hurry, and learned the anatomy of horses and became familiar with their bones and muscle tissues. I can only get it by carefully examining their dynamics and expressions. "

2. Based on the scientific and realistic spirit he studied in Europe in his early years, he mastered the dynamics, structure and habits of horses rigorously, and through painstaking research, he successfully solved the problem of how pen and ink are in harmony with the block structure of horses, and skillfully shaped the image of a horse to express his aesthetic ideals and entrust his patriotic feelings.

Xu Beihong's Horses is one of the important masterpieces of Xu Beihong's horses. Horses are subject to 1940 local horses in Kashmir. Xu Beihong was particularly excited to see this horse at that time, and the inspiration for "Horses" came from this. Different from other works, it mainly depicts two horses with their backs to the audience, followed by a side horse. In order to change the picture, a horse with its head down for food is drawn on the right.

The beauty of this painting lies in the dynamics of the horse. Its neck twisted, its head tilted back, its mane fluttered in the wind, and its four legs stood gracefully. The author highlights the shape of the large muscles of the horse's shoulders, chest and neck, and highlights the handsome and heroic posture of the horse. The painter's concise lines vividly depict the proper turning relationship between the flexible ankle joint and the hard hoof, and the smaller the better.

4. In the picture, Xu Beihong not only gives full play to the lyricism of the traditional rhythm of pen and ink, but also fully grasps the rigorous sketch and realistic modeling of pen and ink as a "modeling language", so that the two are skillfully combined into one, marking the highest achievement of the artistic theory and ideal of the integration of China and the West in creative practice.

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CCTV Painting and Calligraphy Institute: Appreciation of Xu Beihong's Horse