Chen Danqing, born in Shanghai in 1953, graduated from junior high school in 197, and successively settled in Gannan and Subei for eight years, during which he taught himself to paint. In 1978, he was admitted to the graduate class of the Oil Painting Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts with the same degree. He graduated in 198 and remained as a teacher in the first studio of the Oil Painting Department. In early 1982, he studied in the United States at his own expense and settled in new york as a freelance painter until 2. In the spring of 2, he returned to China at the invitation of Tsinghua University Academy of Fine Arts. He was one of the 1 distinguished professor in Tsinghua University in 2, and is now the responsible professor in the Fourth Research Room of the Painting Department.