Lesson 49: Zodiac Monkey with Datong Xu

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Happy 2016, the Chinese new year of the monkey! let us learn how to paint a monkey from our guest professor Datong Xu in Nanjing, China. Datong was born in the year of fire monkey 60 years ago and he has studied Chinese calligraphy when he was very young from master Lin Sanzhi, who was considered the best grass style calligrapher in 20th century. Datong's was inspired by a line from a Tang Dynasty poem which reads "cold monkeys drink water giving a shake to the withered vine." This was a metaphor describing the brush strokes of cursive style calligraphy by Monk Huaisu. In this monkey painting demo Datong turned this poetic image into a masterpiece of art with his expertise in both Chinese painting and calligraphy. In the end of this video lesson you will also see how this painting was mounted into a beautiful silk hanging scroll by Henry and Victoria in an eight step process. 

Video Length: 2.0 Hours

Diagrams and finished paintings seen in the video are included in the handouts.

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