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Cross-Boundary Dream Pursuers: Taiwanese Painters’ Trajectories in Foreign Countries during the Japanese Colonial Period

Publication date: 22 Apr 2019
Author: Jao Tsu-hsien |Staff member of the Archives of Institute of Taiwan History

On the Open House day in 2018, the Archives of the Institute of Taiwan History featured an exhibition, Travel Memories II—Taiwanese Painters’ Landscape Sketches, from digital records collected by the Archives in recent years. This exhibition selected four Taiwanese painters, Yen Shui-long, Liu Chi-hsiang, Chen Cheng-po, and Kuo Hsueh-hu, by presenting the records of their passports, certificates, photographs, correspondence, and paintings and exploring their life experiences of practicing goals, embarking on adventures abroad, and contributing to society. Let us trace the senior painters’ paths of crossing borders and pursuing dreams by appreciating these precious records and the abundant colors in their paintings!

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V. Conclusion

Combining features of the mountains, river, ocean, and cultures, Tamsui attracted many artists to sketch from the 1930s to the 1980s. Their paintings represent historic stories told by Tamsui over the past one hundred years. Although Tamsui has become modern since the development of the Taipei metro and real estate, the sites of its military forts, the images of a busy trading port, and histories witnessed by the mountains themselves still exist in old photographs and senior artists’ paintings.


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