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| All this time, he was also pursuing the ancient’s arts of Chinese calligraphy and painting. In the 1970's, he served an apprenticeship with the great master Li Sanshi, disciple of the modern painter Huang Binhong, and with the great master of Chinese calligraphy Xiao Xian, disciple of the late Qing Dynasty calligrapher Kang Youwei.
In 1983, Datong Xu was rewarded at the calligraphy competition in Peking; in 1983, his work was exhibited and rewarded in Japan. In 1990, his work was published by the Montreal (Canada) Museum of Fine Arts. He now lives in Tucson, where he is a graduate student in the University of Arizona's East Asian Studies Department, majoring in traditional Chinese aesthetics. In both China and the United States, he has taught painting and calligraphy to Western Sinologists and students. In Tucson, Datong Xu produces hand painted T-shirts, using his ancient techniques for a contemporary purpose. |
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| The ancient Chinese art form of brush painting was about 2,000 years old when it was "discovered" by European artists in the 18th and 19th centuries. Related to calligraphy, it is done with a brush and special ink, which is prepared and moistened for the occasion. Careful discipline is involved in such details as loading the brush with ink, and each mark made on the paper is the result of the coming together of great thought and skill. Although Chinese color sets are available with as many as ten colors, many Chinese painters use a much smaller range, and indeed, some of the most traditional painters use only one color of ink. Datong Xu was born in China in 1956. In 1982, he graduated from the History Department of Nanking University in the Peoples' Republic of China, and for ten years he worked as editor in the Encyclopedia of China Publishing House in Peking. |
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