Zhou Chunya (1955 Chongqing) is best-known for his colorful "green dog" series of paintings. but he is also considered one of the country's most
talented painters of nature and rural scenes. His works is almost expressionists -- sometimes using jagged brush strokes and other times creating
colorful, blurred sweeping landscapes. His canvases are often filled with figures left alone in the world or nature scenes devoid of humans. In
recent years, he has begun to paint a series of portraits filled with sexual scenes in nature. He graduated from Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts
in 1982, and lives in Chengdu now.
