1 Eight Horses is one of Xu Beihong's most famous works, with eight horses in Zhou Muwang as the theme. Eight horses have different shapes, are elegant and smart, and are rare treasures. Hong Bei's galloping horse is unconventional, free and unrestrained, cheerful and exciting, with thrilling scenery and full of romantic style in realism.

2. Six Horses shows six good horses that keep running forward. Xu Beihong arranged six horses in a painting in a patchwork way and presented them in groups. The composition is dense, and the horses and chariots echo and are coherent. The technique of expression is different from that of horse painting in Tang and Song Dynasties.

People in the Tang and Song Dynasties painted horses, whether it was more important to draw meat or bones, based on the methods of sketching and coloring, and adopted detailed and colorful expression methods. However, Beihong painted a horse, but he used a few thick lines and ink colors to show the thin, hard and rigid spirit of the horse incisively and vividly.

The description of horses here clearly draws lessons from the perspective and anatomy of western paintings, the observation of light and shade changes and modelling technique, and focuses on the horse's Mercedes-Benz dynamics and the grasp of the anatomical relationship of bones, thus reflecting the vigorous and thin body of horses, the lightning charm of Ma Chi and the powerful momentum like broken iron shoes in ink freehand brushwork.

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Hong Bei's galloping horse is unconventional, free and unrestrained, cheerful and exciting, with breathtaking scenery and full of romantic style in realism.

The painter not only regards the steed as a symbol of his painting, but also a spiritual pursuit, a praise and eulogy for freedom and passion.

(3) Xu Beihong is good at using horses as metaphors to express his patriotic enthusiasm. The horse in Xu Beihong's works is a "horse that flows forever", full of vitality and heroism.

(4) In terms of techniques, he used China's ink painting as the main means of expression, and also used western perspective and anatomy to vividly describe the heroic horse. The pen is vigorous and powerful, and the pen and ink are hearty.

⑤ Halo dyeing is based on the shape and structure of the horse, and the ink color is bright and dark, which not only shows the shape of the horse, but also does not affect the charm of the ink color. Xu Beihong's "Horse" is the product of the integration of China and the West, and it is extremely successful.

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