This year marks the 10th anniversary year of the death of Chen Ting-shih, the great, all-round artist. Through July 1, 2012, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts in Taichung is holding a multi-disciplinary memorial exhibition of Chen's works which are organized around a sequence of poems (http://www.ntmofa.gov.tw/english/showinfomation1_1.aspx?SN=3524). The exhibited works – poetry, calligraphy, poetic dialogues, rare stones, paintings and sculptures – illustrate the incredible talent and extraordinary life of the legendary artist. Chen's greatest achievement is that he brought Western aesthetics to the Chinese artistic tradition, translating the mediums and expressive methods of abstract art into the visual language of Chinese symbolism.