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Monastery in a Deep Valley
ID: NM-CJ044S
Artist: Chen Jun
Date: 2006
Size: 67 x 29 in. with mounting
Hanging scroll, ink and color on paper, mounted on satin.
Price: $850
Chinese Art Specialist Comments: "If you are looking for spiritual inspiration and visual comfort, this is the painting for you. It depicts an isolated Buddhist monastery deeply hidden behind trees and hills. Peaceful, soothing and accessible, it is a paradise created by human imagination. This painting distinguishes itself from others by its exquisit delineation of a peaceful Buddhist world view. Its diversified brushstrokes and sensitive application of light colors enhance the harmony of an untouched natural beauty."
Buy this painting, you invite a Buddhist vision of tranquility and peace into your space. A world beyond the real world brings to you much hope and comfort..
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Biography of the Artist
Chen Jun (1935- ) was born into a family of professional artists in Deyang, Sichuan. His grandfather's and father's generation supported their families by painting professionally. His uncle, Chen Jiabin, was an accomplished artist who earned an entry in the 1986 Dictionary of Chinese Artists. His uncle taught all the cousins to create Chinese paintings in traditional styles when Chen Jun was nine years old. His dedication to classical Chinese painting traditions was already apparent in his childhood. Chen Jun has devoted himself to studying and painting traditional Chinese painting.
Chen Jun has been a professional artist for the past sixty years, retiring in 1991 as the only surviving artist of his generation in his family. His only child, a daughter, is not able to carry on the family tradition, so Chen Jun looks to others, in China and the West, with whom to share his passion for classical Chinese painting. His classical Chinese paintings are well appreciated in China, Australia and Taiwan and have received national recognition and many awards. Chen Jun offers Classical Chinese paintings and Chinese Landscape Paintings in the styles of famous ancient Chinese painting masters. Chen Jun's work is available in our Current Offerings under Classical Chinese Paintings and Chinese Landscape Paintings.
Selected Exhibitions and Awards2004 -- "Snow on Mt. Ermei" won the first prize in "Invitational Exhibition of Famous Artists of Different Ethnicities" held in Beijing, and is now in the collection of the Goverment Minority Affairs Committee.
2002 -- "Beautiful Sichuan" received the award for best painting of the year in "The Annual Exhibition of Beautiful China" held in Beijing. Information about the painting can be found in the Dictionary of Famous Painters and Calligraphiers in China (Beijing, 2003).
2001 -- "Returning Spring" was selected to appear in "The Exhibition of Chinese Spirit" held in honor of the Fifty-second Anniversary of the Founding of the People's Republic of China, Beijing, and is now in the exhibition's permanent collection.
2000 -- "Exquisite Sichuan Mountains" was shown in the "Exhibition of Modern and Contemporary Art" held in Beijing.
1999 -- "Red Leaves and February Flowers" was awarded the prize fo the best painting in the exhibition in honor of the Founding of the Communist Party held in the National Art Gallery in Beijing.
1996 -- "Snow Mountains" received the silver award in the National Competition, "Yellow River Cup" held in Beijing.
1994 -- "Stone Forest" and "Spring Lake" were recognized as the best painting of the "Exhibition of Famous Contemporary Artists" held in Beijing.
1992 -- "Fragrant Garden" and "Spring Arriving at the East Lake" won the competition of "Artists from Nine Pronvices" held in Beijing.
1989 and earlier -- Chen Jun won many regional recognitions, awards, and honors in Sichuan.
