Unfortunately, space limitations mean only relatively small works will be on display, thus excluding many key works. In the 1950s, the ROC government had just arrived in Taiwan, and security was top priority; art was given little attention. Taiwan art was still dominated by the styles prominent in the pre-war Japanese occupation era. Yet already there was a group of young artists who favored Western abstract art.
五○年代，國民政府初來台，還在夙夜匪懈、療傷止痛期，藝術活動並未受關注，台灣現代畫仍是台陽美展、日據時代延續下來傳統西畫的天下，但隱隱已有一波年輕的現代畫家傾心於西方抽象藝術的表現。