A graduate from the Department of Art Education at the Fine Art Academy in Xi'an, Chun now lives and works in Beijing. Despite the innocent, almost child-like, façade of his paintings, Chun's early years were far from idyllic. Having abandoned middle school and run away from home, Chun is well educated in the harsh realities of the world. Many of the seedy underworld types that he met during these early years would appear in his paintings as "e ...