Xu Beihong's painting of horses is not a unified format, but in traditional Chinese ink painting, if Xu Beihong's painting of a horse is called the second, it is estimated that no one dares to call it the first.
It has personality, and gives the content of the painting a certain patriotic feeling, and then through the combination of painting and the viewer's thought, the background culture of the entire history is integrated into the creation. Many people think that this is the most attractive place of Xu Beihong's paintings, and it is also the place where the content interpretation is the strongest.
The theme of patriotism can be seen everywhere in Xu Beihong's works. Therefore, some researchers say that the most important reason why Xu Beihong's works are getting more and more expensive today, and unlike the interesting paintings of Qi Baishi and others, is that they need to find answers from his works.
Xu Beihong's "Jincao" picture work, the whole work is very charming, and the horse he painted is not the same as the horse he painted in the past. Because the horse in this painting is too thin, there is even a feeling of skinny bones. But it is such a sick horse, but it is estimated to be as high as more than 80 million yuan.
First of all, looking closely at Xu Beihong's horse, the first feeling given to everyone is thin, but thin also gives people a different mental outlook. The skinny horse has a spirit, I don't know if everyone feels like this?
In particular, the whole work actually integrates the essence of traditional Chinese painting and modern Western painting, which is a characteristic of Western painting, and the sense of artistic conception of ink painting gives the work the spirit of traditional Chinese painting. In addition, looking closely at the ink color on the horse's body, it can be said that Xu Beihong is free and atmospheric with a pen, and this kind of ink kung fu has reached the point of pure fire.
According to professional researchers, a horse like him looks thin and feels weak, but in fact, the whole horse is through Xu Beihong's use of wrist power to control the speed of pen and paper and the distribution of pen and ink, which is a unique painting technique and the pen and ink feature that he can best use.
For example, a stroke draws a horse line, which everyone can feel, especially between the ink color and color, the color blocks of the whole work are clearly layered, and the picture is smooth. In this way, everyone can feel the strong three-dimensional sense of his pen, and the Western taste is also reflected.
Skinny horses are extremely full of life and give people a lifelike feeling. The horse doesn't look very well drawn, but it's powerful. This is the charm of Xu Beihong's pen.