中国现代美术事业的奠基人和开拓者,杰出的画家和美术教育家徐悲鸿先生,他不仅在素描、油画、中国画上均造诣精深,而且在中国的人物、动物、山水、花鸟以至书法等各个方面都有突破前人之处。其创作力之强,修养、技巧之全面,实为艺术史上所罕见。笔者拟编写若干篇小文,对徐悲鸿先生的艺术分别作一些浅述,以飨读者。——编者 Mr. Xu Beihong, the founder and pioneer of Chinese modern fine arts, an outstanding painter and art educator, has accomplished not only sketches, oil paintings and Chinese paintings, but also Chinese characters, animals, landscapes, flowers and birds and calligraphy. Have a breakthrough in the previous place. Its creative power, self-cultivation, comprehensive skills, in fact, is rare in the history of art. I intend to write a number of small articles on the art of Mr. Xu Beihong made some brief, readers. --editor