Xu Wei began to learn painting after middle age and was good at painting flowers and birds. He can also enjoy landscapes, figures and ink paintings, and his momentum is unrestrained. He is good at freehand brushwork in ink and painting flowers, painting broken chrysanthemums and cooking pots and pans, all of which are simple and elegant with unique charm. There are 13 kinds of paintings in the miscellaneous garden in Nanjing Museum, including peony, crape myrtle, grape, plantain, plum narcissus and bamboo. Family, momentum. Played a high degree of artistic skills. "Out of nothing" and "chaos without chaos" show the painter's profound skill. Today, 400 years later, it still gives people a vivid and pleasing feeling. Xu Wei painted landscapes, regardless of rope and ink, especially vivid. The history book says, "After I get drunk, I will try to find a beautiful woman. I will dye my cheeks with a pen and make me look like a girl." I feel that the world is like dirt, not as good as his wonderful pen. "His works are not limited to physical images, but can grasp its spirit and exaggerate with a bald pen, such as storms. After Chen Daofu, his freehand brushwork was more wild, concise, vivid and far-reaching. It opened a new way of freehand brushwork in ink painting since Ming and Qing Dynasties. Li (Shan) and Li, among the Eight Eccentrics in Qing Dynasty, Yuan Zhen and Yangzhou, were all influenced by it. The momentum has not diminished for hundreds of years.
In his works, Xu Wei often composed poems and sentences, used the topic to express his resentment against the world, and his ideological and political tendency was stronger. For example, his book title "Crab Map" said: "The crabs in Jiangcun are fat when cooked, and their claws are as green as halberds. When you turn over the paper, you should see the navel of Tuan Tuan Dong Zhuo. " This is hatred and contempt for powerful people. Xu Wei also writes calligraphy, and his running script imitates Michaelis. His brushwork is unrestrained, as charming and vigorous as his poems, regardless of calligraphy. "Eight laws are scattered, and the word forest is also chivalrous." Qi Baishi, a master of modern art, once said when referring to Xu Wei: "I hate grinding ink and paper for Qingteng 300 years ago." This is enough to show the far-reaching influence of Xu Wei's paintings on later generations.