A Study on Xu Beihong's Artistic Activities During His 1928 Trip in Fujian
Xu Beihong's summer trip to Fujian,in 1928,constitutes a brief yet pivotal period in his artistic career.During his trip,Xu Beihong not only completed his early representative work,Cai Gongshi's Ordeal,but also actively engaged in local art exhibitions and established friendships with numerous Fujian artists.Although Cai Gongshi's Ordeal was destroyed during the war,we can still approximately reconstitute the work's content with the help of surviving sketches and drafts,old pictures,and recollections from eyewitnesses.The article A Record of the Fujian Province Art Exhibition not only provides valuable information about the exhibition,but also offers a glimpse—enriched by the author's insightful reviews—into the Fujian artistic ecosystem,which was burgeoning at that time.The newly discovered work,Scenery on the Outskirts of Fuzhou,suggests that Xu Beihong not only experienced and recorded his surroundings but also endeavoured to depict the lives of the common people,thereby expressing his ideal of realism.
Xu BeihongHuang MengguiCai Gongshi's OrdealFujian Province Art Exhibition