“Dogs are potential necessities for paint artists. The relatively soulless life compare to humans is a desire in an unnatural built urban. In fact, all life forms with feelings and dependencies could comfort you from your daily boredom by their natural and simple characteristic”. The Green Dog Story - Lu Peng. Zhou Chunya’s Stones, Flowers and Peach Blossoms series are influenced by literati art. He uses scarlet red mountain and rocks and green dog to demonstrate the color use of anti-naturalism. This is one of the eternal classics among Zhou’s art series. The Green Dog serie, one of the most famous and iconic works of Zhou, is described as “sculptures on canvas” and a representation of Zhou’s life experience. The idea of Green Dog comes from Zhou’s German shepherd, Heigen. Zhou and Heigen had a really good friendship. Zhou started capturing Heigens actions and expressions as inspiration. Initially Zhou used the color black to portrait the dog until one day the color green came to his mind. No one would expect an idea came out of nowhere would ultimately become his signature. Zhou portraits the same dog repetitively and unconsciously infused multiple meanings in his works. “Green dog is a symbol, an icon. Green means peaceful, romantic, lyrical, including the peace before a storm”. - Zhou Chunya. The Standing Green Dog was created in 1998, and is one of the earlier paintings of Green Dog serie. The clear, simple appearance shows a texture of a statue. The image of the dog is smooth and well ordered, as you can see the literati element on the brush strokes. The bright and calm green color fulfills the frame with the characteristic of a hermit. The Green Dog is a symbol among Zhou’s artworks, an emblem, a blurry, fuzzy atmosphere. We can also see the blank technique of Chinese painting style that not only created an unique visual effect but also a more natural picture, and represents the mood of the artist at the moment more precisely. The design of the dog is pure imagination of the artist, like the simplified limbs of the dog which look like tree trunks. The green brush stroke is very light, and the dog is standing or walking in front of a plain white background. The brush strokes look like there is a potential strong force in them, the layers of colors seem unstable, erratic and unpredictable. The dog carelessly turns his head around and look at distance with concern in his sight, which represents the loneliness and crisis awareness of modern people. The peaceful and lyrical green color represents the cautiousness of the artist at the moment. That is an example of how German expressionism influences Zhou’s work. The Standing Green Dog is very eye-catching with its visual presentation. The main object, the dog, is floating in a plain white background. The green, pumped-up body is filled with explosiveness. Zhou created this exclusive symbol to represent his artistic survival status since late 90s. The colors and compositions are mysterious. The novel, bold art creation brings an amazing effect. In Zhou’s point of view, this “rebellious” style fits his art talent perfectly, and has become one of the classics of the Green Dog serie.