徐悲鸿是中国当代杰出的画家,卓越的美术教育家。他幼年随父学画,后赴巴黎入法国国立高等美术学校,精研素描与油画,并先后去英、德、法、意及瑞士观摩学习,吸取了不少世界艺术精华。他擅长中国画、油画,尤精素描。徐悲鸿画马,堪称一绝。他对马的肌肉、骨骼以及神情动态,作过长期的观察研究,经常在山乡和 Xu Beihong is an outstanding painter and outstanding art educator in China. He studied painting with his father at an early age. After going to Paris to study in France’s National High School of Fine Arts, he sketched drafts and paintings. He studied at Britain, Germany, France, Italy and Switzerland and learned a lot about the art of the world. He is good at Chinese painting, oil painting, especially fine sketch. Xu Beihong painted horses, called a must. He made a long-term observational study of the muscles, bones and look of the horse,