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Xu Beihong (1895-1953) was a main figure in
promoting the reform of Chi
Although Xu painted a variety of
subjects, he was best known for his heroic images of horses,
which owe a debt to the effects of light and perspective he
studied in Europe.
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nese painting. Xu had a comprehensive study of
Chinese and western art, he developed a new school of painting
which penetrated deep into society with its ideas about the
necessary development and reform of Chinese art. Xu traveled to
Japan as a young man and then was dispatched to Europe on a
government scholarship in 1919. He spent the years between 1919
and 1927 in France and Germany mastering an exquisite and
detailed style of drawing and a romantic manner of oil
painting. Upon his return to China he received an important post
in the new art education system and began promoting the view
that Chinese painting required not only new subject matter but also a
foundation in Western academic drawing. The fact that today the
Chinese art student goes through the same type of training a
western student does is much due to Xu Beihong's stress on the
importance of learning art in a more scientific way. 
