徐悲鸿（1895-1953年），汉族，原名徐寿康，江苏宜兴市屺亭镇人。中国现代画家、美术教育家。曾留学法国学西画，归国后长期从事美术教育，先后任教于国立中央大学艺术系、北平大学艺术学院和北平艺专。1949年后任中央美术学院院长。擅长人物、走兽、花鸟，主张现实主义，于传统尤推崇任伯年，强调国画改革融入西画技法，作画主张光线、造型，讲求对象的解剖结构、骨骼的准确把握，并强调作品的思想内涵，对当时中国画坛影响甚大，与张书旗、柳子谷三人被称为画坛的“金陵三杰”。所作国画彩墨浑成，尤以奔马享名于世。 Xu Beihong (1895-1953), a Han nationality, was originally named Xu Shoukang, a native of Qiting Town, Yixing City, Jiangsu Province. Modern Chinese painters and art educators. He studied western painting in France and was engaged in art education for a long time after returning home. He taught in the Department of Art of National Central University, the Art College of Peiping University and Peiping Art College successively. He became president of the Central Academy of Fine Arts after 1949. Being good at characters, animals, flowers and birds, advocating realism, especially Ren Bonian in the tradition, emphasizing the integration of traditional Chinese painting reform into Western painting techniques, painting advocates light, shape, stressing the accurate grasp of the anatomical structure and skeleton of the objects, and emphasizing the ideological connotation of the works, had a great impact on the Chinese painting circle at that time, and Zhang Shuqi and Liu Zigu were called the "three masters of Jinling" in the painting circle. His paintings are full of colour and ink, especially his horse running.