Horse Riding the Spring Breeze by Li Yadong, 2026, showing a dark bay horse striding left across grass beneath grey-white clouds

Horse Riding the Spring Breeze by Li Yadong — bay horse and spring grassland detail

Horse Riding the Spring Breeze by Li Yadong — blue sky and cloud palette detail

Horse Riding the Spring Breeze by Li Yadong — signature and painted surface detail

Horse Riding the Spring Breeze by Li Yadong — full framed view

Horse Riding the Spring Breeze by Li Yadong — horse body and wind movement detail

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Horse Riding the Spring Breeze

Name: Horse Riding the Spring Breeze
Brand: Paint For Heart
Price: 4092.0 SGD
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Artist Li Yadong

Creation Date 2026

Material Oil on canvas

Size 158 x 90 cm

Category original

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A dark bay horse fills the right half of the painting and moves towards the left. The long body is almost parallel to the lower edge, while the raised foreleg and widely separated hind legs interrupt that horizontal line. Its head turns slightly out of profile. The visible eye and the alert angle of the ears bring the animal into contact with the viewer even as its stride continues across the field.

Li Yadong builds the torso through gradual shifts from deep brown to chestnut and pale reflected light. Highlights travel over the neck, shoulder and flank, clarifying how the muscles turn beneath the coat. The legs remain darker and more sharply defined against the pale cloud. By contrast, the mane and tail break into separate windblown strands. Their rightward sweep meets the horse's leftward movement, making the force of the air legible without reducing the animal to a symbol of speed.

The landscape is deliberately spare: a narrow green rise below, dense grey cloud to the left, and a blue opening at the upper right. This open setting keeps attention on the change of weight from one leg to the next. Li Yadong's training in drawing and anatomical construction, followed by further study at the Repin Academy, is evident in the horse's balanced stance, turned neck and firmly modelled legs. Here, structure supports the encounter with a living animal—the turned head, lifted hoof and streaming hair are observed as parts of one continuous action.

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Style and context

Academic animal painting depends on the same disciplines that support figure painting: drawing, proportion, anatomy and a clear account of weight. In the Russian academic tradition, sustained study of the body was used to understand movement from within rather than to copy an outline. Li Yadong's further training at the Repin Academy places his practice in direct contact with this method.

Horse Riding the Spring Breeze applies that structural approach without enclosing the horse in a studio-like study. Tonal modelling makes the shoulder, ribcage and legs convincing, while the low horizon and changing cloud introduce outdoor light and weather. The painting therefore joins academic construction to a more lyrical equestrian landscape, using the horse's exact gait as the point where the two approaches meet.

Artist Profile

About the artist

Li Yadong, born in 1954 in Siping, Jilin, graduated from the Fine Arts Department of Northeast Normal University. He later studied drawing and oil painting at the Repin Academy of Fine Arts in St Petersburg under Professor Alexander Bestrov.

Li has long worked within the Siping art community, serving as chairman of the Siping Oil Painting Society and as a council member of the local artists association. His subjects include figures, horses and landscapes. His academic training is visible in the close attention he gives to anatomy, proportion and the placement of bodies within outdoor space.

The Russian realist method strengthened his use of drawing and tonal modelling. In later work, he retained that structure while loosening the handling of sky, vegetation and reflected light, allowing animals and figures to remain solid within changing weather and open terrain.

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