Chou Chen ( Chou Bo)
was born in Yilan County, Taiwan in 1941. His artistic cultivation is rigorous and clear, and he has a comprehensive collection of traditional brush and ink techniques. He has refined the essence of literati painting, which combines poetry, calligraphy, painting, and seal carving. He has practiced the saying "Nature is the best teacher, and the heart is the best student" and deliberately shaped the magnificent and beautiful realm. These pursuits have been integrated into his artistic style of "borrowing from the past to create the present" and "breaking away from the past to create the new." He inherits tradition while being rich in contemporary atmosphere. In his 50 years of artistic life, Mr. Zhou has pursued and copied the spirit of Chinese landscape painting to the fullest. He has traveled the world's famous mountains and rivers, depicting magnificent and beautiful scenes such as "Three Gorges Smoke and Clouds," "Crescent Spring," and "Spring of Zhongshan Mausoleum." Mr. Zhou studied under the famous calligraphy and painting master Jiang Zhaoshen, who was as famous as Zhang Daqian. His artistic cultivation is rigorous and clear, and the factors inherited from tradition are obvious. The painting methods of many famous painters and schools in history, such as the Yunshan of the Mi family in the Northern Song Dynasty, the Four Great Masters of the Yuan Dynasty, the Four Families of the Wu School in the Ming Dynasty, and the Shitao of the Qing Dynasty, can all be found in Zhou Chen's works. They are all integrated and combined into one, in order to serve the scenery and artistic conception to be expressed.