徐悲鸿 / Xu Beihong

徐悲鸿 / Xu Beihong enters the wiki through Hanji 170 part 1 as the painter of “Tian Heng and His Five Hundred Retainers.” The episode recalls the painting from school art education and treats it as visually powerful because it turns 田横’s final scene into a collective dignity image.

For this source, Xu Beihong matters less as a full art biography than as a mediator of historical memory. The episode says he painted the Tian Heng subject in the 1930s, under Japanese pressure on China, and used the ancient story to encourage resolve and willingness to preserve dignity under threat. The page therefore connects him to 道德名望政治资本 rather than to a broad survey of modern Chinese painting.

Connections

• Hanji 170 part 1 - source case.
• 田横, 士为知己者死, and 贵族名誉高于生命 - historical story turned into painted memory.
• 道德名望政治资本 - later symbolic use of a failed political resistance story.