Chinese artist, calligraphy and painting by Xu Beihong, hand-painted animal traditional Chinese painting, two horses galloping, with a certificate

Xu Beihong (1895-1953) , a Han Chinese, was born Xu Shoukang, from qitting town, Yixing City, Jiangsu Province. Chinese modern painter and art educator. He studied Western painting in France and has been engaged in fine arts education since his return to China. He has taught at the Department of National Central University Arts, the College of Fine Arts of Peking University and the BAC Binh Art College. Dean of China Central Academy of Fine Arts after 1949. He was good at figures, animals, flowers and birds, and advocated realism. In the tradition, he especially praised Ren Bonian. He emphasized the reform of traditional Chinese painting and the integration of Western painting techniques, the emphasis on the anatomical structure of the object, the accurate grasp of the skeleton, and the emphasis on the ideological content of the work had a great impact on the Chinese painting scene at that time. Together with Zhang Shuqi and Liu Zigu, they were known as the “Three Heroes of Nanjing”. The Chinese painting color ink perfect, especially famous for galloping horse.