The vanguard of post-modernism: In the eyes of art critic Lu Jung-chih, Chen's "neoiconographic" method of piecing together, copying and borrowing is one of the principal methods used in post-modernism. "But the works of art become surface forms only," she says, "and their original meaning is overlooked."
在藝評家陸蓉之眼中，陳錦芳的「新意象派」畫中圖像的拼合、模仿、挪用，是後現代範疇中流行的手法之一，「但作品容易因此流於表面形式化，而忽略原作內涵」，她指出。