Chen Jiqun was born in China, 1947. He attended the Art School Attached to the Central Academy of Fine Arts from 1963 to 1967. Chen Jiqun moved to Inner Mongolia in 1967, a young man in search of adventure. The grasslands of Chen Jiqun youth live on in his paintings even if they continue to recede in reality. Vast landscapes filled with horses galloping between herds of sheep, goats, and cows grazing on foot-high grass have been replaced with cornfields, fenced-in pastures, mines, and increasingly, deserts. Grassland echo in his...more
