Or, because the label "nativist" (often suggesting an independent Taiwanese cultural or national identity) is too sensitive and incites too many arguments, art critic Victoria Lu calls it "the new localism."
有別於被冠以「本土畫」的前輩畫家，他們因而被稱為「新本土」，又因本土字眼太敏感、爭議太大，藝評家陸蓉之稱之為「新地方主義」。