Lin Yu-shan, the great Taiwanese master of painting, was born in Chiayi, Taiwan. Spanning well over 70 years, Lin's long and outstanding artistic career coincided with the tumultuous period of modern Taiwanese history marked by vast political, social and cultural change. Lin Yu-shan's art was nurtured by various cultural and artistic traditions ranging from traditional Chinese folk painting, classical Japanese painting and Chinese painting of the Sung Dynasty to the ink paintings of the Chinese Cultural Renaissance Movement in the post-war Taiwan. National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts in Taichung is hosting the exhibition to honor Lin’s artistic excellence and prolific contributions to Taiwanese art. It features a total of 46 pieces of gouache painting and ink painting as well as 25 pieces of plein-air painting. The works were done using sketching, water-color and ink-color techniques and cover a wide variety of subjects including flowers and plants, birds, .....

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. 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, .....

The main significance of the exhibition at National Museum of Taiwan History in Tainan is “appreciation.” Since the museum’s first donor, Ms. Jian Zhuqing, donated sixty-five pieces of common objects from everyday Taiwanese life in 2000, the museum started to collect cultural relics. The donors of the museum's cultural relics come from many different fields, including farmers, workers, civil servants and teachers, historical scholars, political figures, folklore arts and crafts merchants, designers, medical doctors, and others from all walks of life. By 2010 the museum had accepted 160 donation cases from a total of 217 donors, acquiring 10,370 items in total......

In the Chinese cultural tradition, scholars of the canons generally refer to those with considerable attainment in researching the classics associated with Confucianism. The category of the Chinese Classics, in addition to its traditional focus on the Four Books and Five Classics that comprise the main texts of Confucianism, was expanded continuously by scholars over the ages, with their methods of cultivation reaching a high point by the Qing dynasty. Many Qing dynasty scholars who attained renown in the Confucian Classics also became quite accomplished in arts related to the brush and ink, especially calligraphy. .....

Based on her rich knowledge of both Chinese and Western cultures, Yuan Jai is capable of appropriating elements of ancient paintings for her art. Yuan’s childlike and imaginative mind enables her to break all the shackles of conventional visual arts and continue experimenting with innovative subjects regardless of boundaries of time and space. The artist received basic training in a traditional art academy, and then went to Europe to study Western art. She combined what she had learned over different times into something that could bridge the gaps between traditional Chinese painting and Western art forms. Through June 24, 2012, the Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts holds a solo exhibition of Yuan which features over 100 works covering each stage of her 25-year career. It is the first of its kind that provides such a complete picture of Yuan’s life and art. .....