What are the characteristics of Qi Baishi and Xu Beihong's paintings?

Qi Baishi advocates that the beauty of art lies in similarity and dissimilarity, and painters such as Fa, Shi Tao and Wu Changshuo have formed a unique freehand brushwork style of Chinese painting, which is famous for its flowers, birds, fish, insects and landscapes, and enjoys the reputation of "Southern Wu and Northern Qi" with Wu Changshuo. His paintings, with their simple folk art style and traditional literati painting style, reached the peak of modern flower-and-bird painting in China. After Qi Baishi was 80 years old, the technique of painting shrimp was quite exquisite and amazing. Qi Baishi was greatly influenced by Chen Shiceng in painting art, and he also learned from Wu Changshuo. He specializes in flowers and birds, and his pen is full of ink. But painting insects is meticulous and extremely fine; He also appreciates Xu Wei, Zhu Da, Shi Tao and Jin Nong, especially shrimp, crab, cicada, butterfly, fish, bird and ink painting, which are full of vitality in nature. The landscape composition is unique, unconventional and creative. Xu Beihong's works are the fusion of ancient and modern Chinese and foreign techniques, showing superb artistic skills and extensive artistic accomplishment. It is a model of making the past serve the present and making foreign things serve China. It plays a great role in the history of China fine arts and is good at sketching, oil painting and Chinese painting. He integrated western artistic skills into Chinese painting and created a novel and unique style. His sketches and oil paintings are permeated with the charm of Chinese painting. His creative themes are extensive, and landscapes, flowers and birds, animals, people, history and myths are all lifelike. His masterpieces, such as Tian Heng 500, Mourn for Me Later, Chinese painting Jiufanggao and Gong Yu One Mountain, are full of patriotic feelings and sympathy for the working people, showing their indomitable perseverance and indomitable spirit, and expressing their anxiety about national peril and yearning for bright liberation. His frequent paintings of galloping horses, lions and morning chickens give people vitality and strength, showing an exciting positive spirit. In particular, his "Running Horse" is world-renowned, and has almost become the symbol of modern painting in China.