However, history is a little girl who can dress up After the truth, let's see Xu Beihong again.
Xu Beihong
1895.7. 19—— 1953.9.26
Founder of Modern Art Education in China
His traditional Chinese paintings are full of colored ink, especially running horses, which is world-famous.
Self/childhood/study/painting
Xu Beihong was born in Qitingqiao Town.
Formerly known as Shou Kang, it was renamed "Beihong" a little later.
Father Xu is a teacher in a private school.
Mother Lu is a simple working woman.
When Xu Beihong was 9 years old, he formally studied painting with his father.
Learn painting skills such as color matching and color setting.
Statue of Father Xu Da
13 years old
My father and I walked around in rural towns to make a living by selling paintings.
Although life is hard, it enriches the experience.
Broaden his artistic horizons.
17 years old
I went to Shanghai, where the business was the most developed at that time, and sold paintings for a living alone.
I studied briefly in the predecessor of Nanjing Art Institute.
Photo via: Old photos of Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts.
Determine/stand/think/take the right path
At the age of 20, I came to Shanghai again and met Zhou Xiang, a famous oil painter, and Gao, a representative of Lingnan School of Painting.
He also met Kang Youwei, the leader of the Reformists, and established his own creative ideas under his influence. With the support of Kang Youwei, he observed the ancient extension of various famous historical sites and devoted himself to copying Stone Valley, Yanlong Monument, Zhangmenglong Monument and Shimen inscription. , won the essence of the north monument, so that calligraphy can grow.
He was sponsored to study fine arts in Tokyo, Japan. In Japan, Xu Beihong enjoys a large number of treasures and masterpieces in public and private collections. After returning from Japan, Xu Beihong was hired as the tutor of Peking University Painting Research Association. During my stay in Beijing, I got to know Cai Yuanpei, Chen Shiceng, Mei Lanfang, Lu Xun and other celebrities from all walks of life, and was deeply influenced by the ideological trend of the New Culture Movement, and established the idea of democracy and science.
Part of Zhang Menglong Monument
Stay/study/period/room
19 19 went to France to study, was admitted to the National Academy of Fine Arts in Paris to study oil painting and sketch, and traveled to western European countries. Observing and studying western art, advocating the artistic thought of "not admiring fashion and uneasy about small things" and paying attention to silent painting have a great influence on him. He did not follow the increasingly prosperous modernist painting style in France at that time, but studied the academic art since the European Renaissance in a down-to-earth manner, and mastered the skillful painting skills while inheriting the rigorous modeling characteristics of classical art.
He seized every inch of time, with the formal systematic training of famous teachers and his unremitting efforts, his painting level improved day by day, and he created a series of excellent sketches and oil paintings with portraits, human bodies and landscapes as themes, such as Portrait of Cats, Old Man Holding a Stick and Self-portrait.
He benefited a lot from the excellent works of European masters. His eight-year career in Europe shaped his aesthetic taste, creative ideas and artistic style for the rest of his life.
Caress a portrait of a cat
self-portrait
Technology/Integration/Return/Country
Xu Beihong returned to China at the age of 32 and began to devote himself to art education and develop his own art career in China. He participated in the "Southland Society" organized by Tian Han and Ou Yangyuqian, and actively advocated the "Southland Spirit" of "seeking truth first and then seeking beauty and goodness"
193 1 At a time when Japan's invasion of China is getting worse and worse and the nation is in danger, Xu Beihong created the Chinese painting Jiufanggao, which hoped that the state would pay attention to and recruit talents, and 1933 created the oil painting Worry for Me Later, which expressed the yearning of the suffering people for the wise men. Portrait of Miss Jenny, created at 1939, is one of the most famous oil painting portraits of Xu Beihong, and was made to support the domestic war of resistance. 1940, the Chinese painting "Yugong Yishan" was completed, which praised the perseverance and tenacious will of the people of China to win the final victory against Japan.
Jiufanggao
Portrait of miss Jenny
Yugong Yishan
Unfortunately, all these artistic activities came to an abrupt end because of the painter's premature death.
1953 when he was ill, he directed the teaching work of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, gave lectures to the students who finished the class, and gave lectures to the oil painting and sketch training group of teachers. On September 23, he served as the executive chairman of the second literary congress, and his cerebral hemorrhage recurred. On the morning of 26th, he died in Beijing Hospital.
Finally, let's enjoy Mr. Lao Xu's classic works ~
Willow sparrow /75×35.5cm/ 1938/ rice paper
Qiu Chan/78× 38cm/1939/ rice paper
Heroic memory/131× 77cm/1938/rice paper
Lazy cat/150×54cm/ 1943/ rice paper
Angelababy/66× 38cm/1939/ rice paper
Win every battle for democracy/101× 54cm/1953/rice paper