Gu Baoxing.
"Eight Horses" is a painting by Gu Baoxing, a well-known painter in the modern Shanghai painting circle.
Eight horses, with different shapes, elegant, agile, free and unrestrained. His horses were scattered along the willow-shaded waterfront. Some were content with the status quo, some were reminiscing about the past, and some were looking into the future. The fate of the horse is like the fate of the human being, the temperament of the horse is like the temperament of the human being, and the attitude of the horse is like the attitude of life. His works have the rigor and neatness of the courtyard paintings of the Jin, Tang and Northern Song dynasties, as well as the freehand brushwork of landscapes of the Yuan and Ming dynasties, as well as the Chinese and Western interest of Lang Shining's horse paintings of the Qing Dynasty. These artistic characteristics of the predecessors have been integrated in his works, and the natural and aesthetic artistic conception structure of the entire picture - plain forest and desert, distant mountains.
Prancing in front of the waterfall, under the willow trees, the different living conditions of the horses blend with the changing mountain and forest clouds in the four seasons of the world. Through the unique "quiet and indifferent" style of the Southern Sect of Chinese painting, the virtual and the real are combined. The personified poetic symbol of the spiritual horse fills the comic surface, fully demonstrating the ontological aesthetic narrative of the painting itself.