Qi Baishi's ink shrimp
Xu Beihong's Eight Horses
Zhang Zeduan's Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival
Sunflower was created by Van Gogh, a Dutch painter, in sunny southern France. Van Gogh used simple brushstrokes to express plant morphology, which was full of rhythm and vitality.
At present, there are 6 paintings in Japan-Togo Seiji Art Museum, London-National Art Museum, Munich-New Art Museum, American-Philadelphia Art Museum and Holland-Amsterdam-Van Gogh Art Museum, and 1 painting is a private collection.
Ink Shrimp is the work of Qi Baishi of China. The shrimps in this painting are bright, dense, suitable in shade and different in shape, which makes people fondle it. Shrimp's eyes have also changed from small black spots to horizontal spots, which better shows the expression of shrimp.
Eight Horses is one of Xu Beihong's most famous works, with the theme of eight horses in Zhou Muwang. Eight horses with different shapes, elegant and smart, are rare treasures.
The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival is one of the top ten famous paintings handed down by China. It is a genre painting of the Northern Song Dynasty and the only masterpiece that Zhang Zeduan, a painter of the Northern Song Dynasty, has ever seen. This is a national treasure, which is now in the Palace Museum in Beijing.
The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival is 25.2 cm wide and 528.7 cm long, and it is in silk color. The works, in the form of long scrolls, vividly record the city appearance of Bianjing in China during the Northern Song Dynasty12nd century and the living conditions of people from all walks of life at that time. It is the witness of Bianjing's prosperity in that year, and it is also a portrayal of the urban economic situation in the Northern Song Dynasty.