Xu Beihong was a Chinese painter best known for his traditional ink paintings of horses, birds, and landscapes. With a masterful command ... Xu also created large-scale oil paintings in a European ...

Landscape painting and calligraphy were the ultimate expressions of art in traditional China. The ideal for the scholar was to commune with nature, walking among the mountains and streams ...

carefully minding brush strokes to create vivid landscapes and portraits. The 0.4 sq km (0.15 square mile) urban village was once a world-renowned centre for oil-painting reproductions.