Visual imagery may be divided into the natural and the nonnatural. Through artistic techniques and modes of expression, artists make the world of forms increasingly richer and more perceptible. The phrase “formless form” refers to the idea of non-natural imagery, emphasizing that in life, shapes are frequently unfixed and in motion. The birth of formless form touches upon such diverse aspects as intuition, imagination, memory, matter, time and space.

Since the 1960s Taiwanese abstract art has gradually developed into a mature school of art, worthy of in-depth research and exploration. This exhibition, held at Taipei Fine Arts Museum until September 2, 2012 (http://www.tfam.museum/TFAM_Exhibition/exhibitionDetail.aspx?PMN=2&ExhibitionId=430&PMId=430), brings together 70 emotive paintings and sculptures by more than 30 Taiwanese abstract artists of different generations, from Lee Chun-Shan to Wu Tung-long. Arising from a wellspring of the soul fraught with tension, these works project free, abundant visual metaphors, exuding the spiritual quality of formless form.