After 1949, he served as the president of the Central Academy of Fine Arts. In his painting creation, he advocates "light and wide" and realism. In inheriting the tradition, Ren Bonian is especially respected. He advocates that Chinese painting "the best of the ancient method should be followed, the inferior should be followed, the inferior should be changed, and the insufficient should be increased." . Western paintings are compatible with those who enter. "His paintings combine the techniques of ancient and modern China and foreign countries. Chinese painting uses colorful ink, especially galloping horses.
Among Xu Beihong's works, the works with horses as the theme account for a large proportion, with the largest number, among which the freehand horse is the main one. On the basis of inheriting the previous horse painting, he integrated western painting techniques into freehand horse painting, formed a unique and systematic freehand horse painting method, and created a new world of horse painting in China, hence the saying of "mourning for horses". Judging from the historical development of horse painting art in China, the main innovations of Sadness for Horses are as follows:
1, personified obviously. Tragic Horse focuses on the horse's character and bearing: either it has the spirit of running thousands of miles, or it has an unruly character. He expressed his strong personality and unrestrained feelings by painting horses. His works are very infectious and inspire people to be proactive.
2. The fusion of western painting techniques and traditional freehand brushwork. From the works of famous artists in past dynasties, we find that Lang Shining was the first person to integrate western painting with traditional meticulous horse painting, and Mr. Xu Beihong was the first person to integrate western painting with freehand painting. The realistic techniques, anatomy and perspective in western paintings are used to shape horses, and the focus perspective is introduced into the picture composition, giving people a brand-new visual experience.
3. Unique pen and ink expression skills. In traditional painting, lines are drawn first and then rendered. Mr. Xu Beihong draws a horse without drawing an outline. He combined boneless and sketching just right. This new technique of subverting traditional horse painting may be inspired by Ren Bonian's freehand horse painting. It is Mr. Xu Beihong's original creation to express freehand horses with lines as the surface and lines as the main body. It also has its own unique skills in the performance of parts: for example, the elongation and straightness of legs give people a firm and powerful aesthetic feeling, and Jiao Mo's brushed mane and tail give people a decisive, elegant, heavy, powerful and wild aesthetic feeling; Big nostrils, big eyes and narrow forehead make horses more aura.
4. The posture of the horse is more abundant. Many postures of horses in Sad Red Horse are unprecedented in previous works, especially many galloping horses. In addition, there are autumn wind horses, herbivorous horses, thinking horses and turning horses. , are extremely rare gestures in ancient traditional horse paintings, but they are all accurately and profoundly portrayed.