"Datu Sanyang" is a name that is both unfamiliar and somewhat weird for a painter. His works and his activities are almost invisible in the art world. However, he should be a very powerful dark horse that suddenly appeared in the Chinese painting world in the past ten years. Previously, his works had only been shown on a small scale and received high praise. As his art works gradually come out, his paintings and style will be appreciated by more and more people.
Datu Sanyang, whose real name is Li Xiaohui, was born in Taixing City, Jiangsu Province in 1955. He graduated from Nanjing University of the Arts in 1989 and received a bachelor's degree and a master's degree in literature. Before going to college, he experienced the "Cultural Revolution" and jumped in the queue. Due to his family background, he went to the mountains and countryside immediately after graduating from junior high school. The following ten years of life sharpened his will and forged his strong, confident and independent-thinking character.
Li Xiaohui graduated from Nanjing University of the Arts in the 1980s and received bachelor's and master's degrees in art. He has long been committed to the inheritance, creation and research of Chinese landscape painting, and has traveled all over the famous mountains and rivers of the motherland. With years of study, his painting style is broad-minded and elegant, his pen and ink are vigorous and ancient, his realm is lofty and profound, and his poetry and literature are profound. He is a landscape painter with high attainments in contemporary poetry, calligraphy and painting.
He was luckier than ordinary people in that he could finally receive rigorous professional art training, which gave him a higher starting point for his future artistic pursuits. For more than 20 years, he studied and painted day and night, cultivating his body and mind with calligraphy and painting, expressing his thoughts through calligraphy and painting, and tracing his origins through calligraphy and painting. Facing the paintings of Datu Sanyang, all preconceptions and doubts disappear. His artistic level is so high that one can instantly admire him. He was diligent and successfully completed hundreds of large paintings, with layers of scraps covering the studio floor. In his studio, you can easily touch open poetry albums, and you can see paintings with wet ink on the walls, floors, and tables at any time. He also developed the habit of recording his academic insights at any time.
In 2005, he summarized and put forward the academic proposition of the "Five Rhymes" of Chinese painting brush and ink. In 2011, he proposed that Chinese landscape painting must attach great importance to practicing basic skills and seek to express the divine realm of Chinese landscape painting through accurate brush and ink description. In the expression of spiritual realm, style and atmosphere.
The works have both profound traditional skills and unique personal features. They are collected by many government agencies and individuals at home and abroad. He is the author of "Theory of Chinese Landscape Painting in the Five Dynasties, Song and Yuan Dynasties" and "The Five Rhymes of Chinese Painting" , "Inkstone Suilu" and other works, and published many personal collections of paintings. In 2007, he successfully held three large-scale personal exhibitions and theoretical seminars at the Art Museum of the Beijing Academy of Fine Arts, the Art Museum of the China Academy of Art, and the Liangbaolou Art Museum in Xi'an in 2011. His works have participated in many joint exhibitions at home and abroad.
His works have been exhibited many times in China and Southeast Asia, and won first and second prizes; his works and biographies are included in the "Collection of Works of Modern Chinese Calligraphers, Painters and Seal Engravers", "World Contemporary Calligraphers and Painters Authentic Works Expo", "World Dictionary of Calligraphy, Painting and Seal Engravers", "Chinese Hard-tipped Calligraphy Appreciation Dictionary", "Jingdezhen Ceramics 100 Issues Collector's Edition", "Jingdezhen Ceramic Art Hundreds", "Jingdezhen Young and Middle-aged Porcelain Garden Elites" and many other large-scale dictionaries and classics; His works are collected by museums and memorial halls at home and abroad.