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In the series of "Mountain Rocks", Zhou Chunya has been irreplaceably promoted to the contemporary artistic summit featuring the most typical Chinese style and the highest internationalization. In the view of Zhou Chunya, "rock" is a special topic: "since ancient time, rock has been an indispensable part in traditional Chinese painting. Literati paintings have lasted for over a thousand years and almost all great masters of literati paintings painted rock. "Like Huang Binhong, his predecessor, he does not believe that the impact from Western paintings would get the life of traditional Chinese painting lost. Huang Binhong tried to save the feeble Chinese painting through highlighting "black, dense, thick and heavy" feeling, and that Zhou Chunya used the painting technique of New Expressionism to re-construe traditional Chinese mountain rocks and flowers. Except Zhou Chunya himself, few know that the artist has, for times, driven to the deep mountains for experience in person during the years for painting mountain rocks. The series of "Mountain Rocks"he began to create since 1991 has symbolized genuine establishment of his personal style.

On the "Mountain Rocks - Red Rocks" with rock as the object of expression, the most eye-catching point is the red figure suffusing the painting, blurry and penetrating. Combined with dark green, the hue has colorful diversification. The gorgeous color of red is daubed in the transitional Chinese mountain rocks painting by the artist. Such anti-ration and anti-nature artist creation has subverted ideology of oil painting at that time. The deeper significance lies in that: "rock" is merely the artist's emotional sustenance. The profile and color has already been abstracted. Accumulation, application and daubing of color as well as the language of painting by interwoven hues are the most enchanting part of Zhou Chunya's paintings.