Xu Beihong is one of the characters filmed for "A Hundred Years of Masters and Fine Arts".
In the summer of 2011, "A Century-old Master - Xu Beihong" held a start-up ceremony in Xu Beihong's hometown of Yixing, and Yixing Daily reported the start-up ceremony
"The Century-old Master Who Entered New China - Xu Beihong"
Ordinary life meets yellow, and every murder is auspicious
In the autumn of 1925, Xu Beihong, who had almost no way to live in Paris, took a letter from Huang Menggui to Singapore alone, staying at Huang Menggui's second brother Huang Manshi's Huang Clan Association Jiang Xia Tang in Singapore, turning a new page in the "Ten Thousand Horses Benteng Jiang Xia Tang".
When Huang Manshi "pulled business" for Xu Beihong, he quipped: "A person with money and status, who no one can know after a hundred years, only when he asks a famous artist to paint a portrait before he dies, for generations to study famous paintings, and at the same time examines the characters in the paintings, is it not the same as the famous paintings?" ”
Nearly 100 years have passed, in addition to the people in the paintings, of course, Huang Kunzhong is indispensable to the famous paintings. Huang Kunzhong is considered to be "not talking about Xu Beihong, if you want to talk about Huang Beihong, you can't help but mention Huang Menggui and Huang Manshi Kunzhong." ”
Regarding the Huang brothers, Ms. Jiang Biwei wrote in the article "Mr. Huang Manshi I Know":
In 1925, Mr. Xu Beihong and I were living in Paris, France, with no financial resources cut off and no way out. Fortunately, Mr. Zhao Songnan, the consul general of the mainland in France at that time, introduced us to Mr. Huang Menggui, and we were saved.
The Huang family is a Wang family in Fuzhou, Mr. Meng Gui is the head of the family, and his second brother, Mr. Manshi, has lived in Singapore for many years and is very prestigious in overseas Chinese society. Mr. Meng Gui sympathized with our situation and wrote to his brother Ling about our difficulties, and Mr. Manshi immediately replied and promised to try for Mr. Xu. So Mr. Xu went to Singapore. Since then, between them, they have established a brotherly relationship and helped us a lot, which I will never forget.
Xu Beihong took a group photo with Huang Menggui and Huang Manshi Kunzhong
Xu Beihong traveled several times to The New Era's studio and residence, Jiangxia Hall, where huang manshi, the general manager of Nanyang Brothers Tobacco Company, was located. From 1939 to 1942, Xu Beihong held several anti-Japanese disaster relief painting exhibitions in various parts of Nanyang, which was based on Jiangxia Hall and specialized in creation, of which most of them were horses, so it was called "Ten Thousand Horses Galloping Jiangxia Hall". Xu Beihong also created "Lay Down Your Whip" at Jiangxia Hall, which is a portrait of the Governor of the Straits Settlements, Sandton Thomas (now in the Victoria Memorial Hall in Singapore, the only oil portrait painted by a Chinese in the portraits of the Governor-General).
In 1939, the sketches painted by the "second brother" Huang Manshi in Jiangxia Hall had a particularly good appearance and were one of the representative works of Xu Beihong's character sketches
Jiang Biwei's words in the text "helped a lot" include: Huang Kunzhong cherished The talent of Beihong and the ancient road is hot, regarded him as a brother, not only introduced portraits of overseas Chinese leader Chen Jiageng and others for Xu Beihong, but also received rich remuneration, and set up the second floor of Jiang Xia Hall as Xu Beihong's residence and studio, so that he had an excellent creative environment; he once gave Jiang Biwei an emergency telegram of 800 francs to Stay in Paris for the New Year to solve his urgent needs. Wait a minute.
In the early autumn of Pengchen, Meng Gui's eldest brother corrected and mourned Hong
Xu Beihong changed his name to "Huang Fu" during his Shanghai period in memory of Huang Jian and Huang Zhenzhi, who "rescued" him from poverty and the brink of suicide. He also said that "in ordinary life, huang is met, and every murder is ji", which includes Huang Menggui and Huang Manshi Kunzhong. In 1925, Huang Menggui completed a master's degree in education at Columbia University in the United States, transferred to Europe to investigate, and met Xu Beihong through Zhao Songnan, the Chinese consul general in Paris. At that time, it was in the midst of war, the official fee for studying abroad was interrupted, originally with the official fee of one person, the daily life of the two people was already stretched, once it was stopped, it was naturally "unable to do anything", fortunately met the Huang family brothers, and the family "was saved". Xu Beihong "felt the grace of Huang Kunzhong's knowledge and ancient road hot sausage" for life, and regarded Huang Kunzhong as his elder brother, calling Huang Menggui the eldest brother and Huang Manshi the second brother, and giving the paintings of the eldest brother and the second brother, all of which were fine works. This painting is given to "Big Brother" Huang Menggui.
Ancient Wind Pavilion Collection
In the lower left corner of this "Spring Pine Map", the "Ancient Wind Pavilion Collection" is printed. "Gufeng Pavilion" is the name of Huang Menggui's grandson Wang Jiekezhi.
Judging from the work, the trunk of the pine tree stands on the right half of the picture, and on the branch that comes out of the left side of the upper direction, a pine branch obliquely slopes downward in an unexpectedly dangerous posture, forming a horn with a vertical and horizontal trunk, and the pine needles on the branches are lush, echoing with the dense pine needles above the horizontal branches, showing tenacious vitality, and the whole picture seems that the charm of Chinese brush and ink complements Xu Beihong's solid Western painting skills, which is a fine structure that takes into account the perspective, light and shade of Western painting and the traditional Chinese painting pine tree style. In terms of composition, there is a clear sense of heroism in the style of Xu Beihong, proud of the world and extraordinary. As a symbol of longevity and tenacity, the pine tree also expresses Xu Beihong's feelings of affection and wishes for his eldest brother Huang Menggui.
"Spring Pine Diagram" Partial Figure 1
"Chunsong Diagram" Partial Figure 2
When it comes to Huang Kunzhong, it may be impossible not to mention the vast world and great influence of nanyang opened up by Huang Manshi's long-sleeved good dance for Xu Beihong. In addition to staying in Singapore for several months between 1925 and 1926, Xu Beihong also made six trips to Singapore, all of which used JiangxiaTang as his residence and studio. At that time, the mainland was in trouble, Singapore was still a British colony, the Chinese were in Nanyang, with the motherland in mind, Xu Beihong's artistic attainments and home-country feelings naturally aroused the enthusiasm of overseas Chinese to support the motherland's war of resistance, coupled with the strong support of Huang Manshi, his several anti-war disaster relief exhibitions were greatly successful. It can be said that Singapore has opened up Xu Beihong's artistic space and become the first testing place for him to study and become a graduate, where he has created thousands of masterpieces and several anti-war exhibitions, which have gained him a very high reputation and laid the foundation for his future domestic art practice. Singapore was a refuge for Xu Beihong's japanese war and a blowout period for his art.
It can be said that Singapore is xu beihong's "blessed land", starting from Singapore, Xu beihong slowly established a "famous world" personality.
Non-stop in Yunnan
In December 1941, Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in the United States, and the Pacific War broke out. At that time, Xu Beihong (1895 ~ 1953) lived in India, Singapore, malaysia for three years, for the motherland to raise a lot of funds to save the country, the war made its American painting exhibition plan frustrated, in order to avoid the war, after visiting India, he had no choice but to leave Singapore Jiangxia Hall.
In mid-January 1942, Xu Beihong arrived in Baoshan, a border city in Yunnan, with the Eighty-Seven Immortal Scrolls (it was during this trip to Yunnan that Xu Beihong's beloved Eighty-Seven Immortal Scrolls had undergone a bizarre loss and recovery) and a number of precious works of art. At that time, Baoshan was already in a state of war, but a grand "Labor Army Painting Exhibition" was still held as scheduled. The exhibition has 8 exhibition halls, in addition to Xu Beihong's works, there are also works by celebrities such as Qi Baishi, Zhang Daqian, Gao Jianfu, Chen Shuren, etc., with a total of more than 600 paintings.
On February 2, 1942, the ancient city of Baoshan in Yunnan province welcomed the world-famous painter Xu Beihong. As soon as Xu Beihong, who had been wandering overseas for three years, stepped into the territory of the motherland, he held an "exhibition of paintings of the labor army" to help resist Japan.
Xu Beihong's "Five Hundred Soldiers of Tian Heng", "Yugong Moving Mountains", "Xi I Hou", "Jiufangao", "Ba Ren Wading in the Water" and many other famous works appeared in the exhibition hall, in addition, Baishi old man fish and shrimp, Mr. Daqian landscape, Gao Jianfu flowers, etc., in Baoshan can be described as unprecedented, the exhibition has successively held several exhibitions of calligraphy and paintings of the anti-war labor army in Dali and Kunming. Continuing the enthusiasm of its Nanyang Anti-Japanese War Disaster Relief Painting Exhibition, people from all walks of life in Yunnan felt its patriotic enthusiasm and generously donated money to assist the charity exhibition and support the War of Resistance.
In the spring of 1942, Li Zhimin, a young man who had emerged in the Yunnan business community, also admired Mr. Xu Beihong's patriotic feelings, and asked his fellow villager Xianda to be the commander of the Chu Master District of the Western Yunnan Garrison District, Zhao Deheng (1888-1968, Zi Chengbo, Tengchongren, in 1909, entered the Yunnan Army Martial Arts School, and with Zhu De, participated in the Xinhai "Heavy Nine" Uprising and begged Yuan to protect the country. After graduating from the Japanese Non-Commissioned Officer School in 1920, after returning to China, he successively served as the deputy commander of the Grand Marshal of Guangdong's Guard Army and the Senator of the Military Senate of the National Government. He also studied with Zhang Taiyan, Chen Shiyi, etc., and befriended Xu Beihong and other literary and art circles. In 1941, he was appointed commander of the Chu Master District of the Western Yunnan Garrison District. In 1942, Xu Beihong was exhibited in Yunnan, and his old friend Zhao Chengbo was extremely concerned. After liberation, he served as a member of the Southwest Military and Political Committee and the director of the Counselor Office of the Yunnan Provincial Government. After Xu Beihong's death, Zhao Chengbo was donated to Xu Beihong's calligraphy and paintings such as "Shepherd Boy Piccolo", "Li Ma", "Double Cat", "Four Xi Tu", "Sunset Leaning on Repairing Bamboo", "Bamboo Newspaper Peace", "Nineteen Writing Shaoling Poetry" and most of them to the Beijing Xu Beihong Former Residence Exhibition Hall. The general introduced and purchased this painting of "Running Horse" created by Mr. Xu Beihong. Previously, Mr. Xu Beihong, because on his way back to China, he received more assistance from Zhao Chengbo and "Maoheng Shanghao" Wang Zhenyu and Mr. Li Zhimin for matters such as living and living and organizing painting exhibitions, and de shanghao actively donated funds and materials to help the War of Resistance. After Li Zhimin purchased "Running Horse", Mr. Xu Beihong gladly added the previous paragraph "Mr. Zhimin is painting, and the afternoon spring is sad".
The above paragraph is "Mr. Zhimin is painting, and the afternoon spring day is sad".
Mr. Xu Beihong once said: "I love to paint animals, and I have used the work of physical objects for a very long time. That is, on horseback, he sketched no less than a thousand sketches, and learned the anatomy of horses, and was familiar with the skeleton, muscles, and tissues of horses. Then carefully examine its dynamics and expressions, but it can be obtained. In the context of the anti-japanese war and military rejuvenation, in order to show the heroic horse of the horse "washing the empty horse of all ages", stimulate the fighting spirit of the Chinese people, and try to make the country and the nation rise, he has repeatedly polished the horse in his pen, and the galloping horse has become a spiritual totem of Xu Beihong, pinning on his spirit of pursuing ideals and yearning for freedom.
After returning from Nanyang in 1942, it was the mature period of Xu Beihong's painting of horses, he adopted the expression technique of combining ink splashing and writing, focusing on portraying the demeanor and temperament of horses, and skillfully integrated the perspective and light and dark relationship of Western paintings, vividly painting the temperament and vitality of horses, thus shaping a variety of horses, reaching the realm of "perfect", and being praised and cherished by the world. Critics generally believe that his Chinese painting figures during this period are still quite blunt, but Ma became "Xu's signature" at this stage.
Created in the spring of 1942, this painting "Running Horse" is vivid in pen and ink, accurate in shape, giving full play to the pen and ink effect of Chinese painting, and integrating into the chiaroscuro and perspective methods of Western painting. The galloping horse in the painting adopts the freehand painting method and pays attention to painting the spirit and style of the horse, expressing the profound meaning of the painter, and the horse without reins, unrestrained, four hooves in the air, long mane fluttering, and the ponytail is very stretched, showing the spirit of upright and unrestrained and free.
Part 1 of "Galloping Horse"
Part 2 of "Galloping Horse"
The horse in the painting is strong, the abdomen is round, the head is slightly tilted to the right, the nostrils are slightly larger, and it is rising in the air, with its head held high, its mane flying, its spirits fluttering, and its spirits are full of energy, making people's blood boil. The master uses thick ink to reflect the thickness of the mane, and uses light ink, dry ink and dry ink to sweep out its flying momentum, indulgently waving and unique. The top of the horse's head, chest, hooves, and hips are left blank, and there is a strong light and shadow effect. The ink in the shadow of the abdomen is relatively light, showing a soft and elastic temperament. He also used a full and vigorous ink color to outline the head, neck, chest, legs and other major turning parts, and swept out the mane tail with dry ink, so that the change of thickness and dryness and wetness was natural. The straight line of the horse's leg is strong and powerful, penetrating the paper back, while the curves of the abdomen, hips and mane are rounded and full of elasticity and dynamic. Throughout the picture, a horse full of combat power is coming towards it, making people feel the heat it exhales, the hot body temperature, and even the sweat, and its strong vitality is the symbol of the national spirit of resisting aggression Chinese. A kind of spirit of "aiming to break through all the shackles" jumps on the paper, making people have unlimited reverie with great prospects.
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