Xu Beihong

Xu Beihong was a renowned Chinese artist who advocated for the restoration of Chinese art via the fusion of Western precepts at the beginning of the 1900s. At the turn of the twentieth century, he was one of the artists who desired creative representations that mirrored a new contemporary China. Before the age of 20, Xu worked as an itinerant artist and an art instructor. In the early 1910s, he traveled to Shanghai for the first time, where he learned Western-style artworks and the French dialect for the following few years.

In 1919, Xu went to France to pursue his education with the aid of a government fund. In Paris, he got a strong academic education for the following eight years. While residing in Germany from 1921 to the next couple of years, he enrolled under Arthur Kampf who was the President of the Berlin Art Academy. Xu organized several exhibits from small to big in multiple nations. He was also known for being the initial individual to paint enormous oil paintings with epic Chinese subjects, demonstrating his mastery of a crucial Western art style. He was an expert in Chinese ink as well as oil painting. The majority of his Antique and vintage Xu Beihong horse paintings for sale is in the conventional Chinese style. He is strongly recognized for his traditional ink paintings of creatures and sceneries. Antique and vintage Xu Beihong painting at online auction blended Chinese brush and ink skills with Westerly vision and compositional principles in his quest to build a fresh type of national art.

Along with his more traditional ink washes, Xu also generates extensive oil paintings in a European academic style that portrayed Chinese pictures and portraits. He received enormous aid in raising funding for the war relief in China from Asian art collectors by buying Antique and vintage Xu Beihong paintings for sale. Antique and vintage Xu Beihong paintings at auction have been well received by international clients and are available on Bidsquare. The artist’s works are personable and are great pieces of decorative art.

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