For the last several years, the so-called Civilian Arts Movement has been encouraging people without any training in the arts to take up painting. These budding painters include gray-haired senior citizens, divorced victims of long-term domestic violence, young prostitutes, workers disabled by occupational injuries, and immigrant brides from Southeast Asia.
近年來，一種由民間推動的藝術改革運動「國民美術」，讓許多從未受過訓練的民眾提起畫筆大膽創作，這些人包括白髮蒼蒼的老人、長期遭受家暴的離婚婦女、被迫或自願出賣肉體的少女、因職業傷害造成身體殘缺的工傷者、遠嫁來台的東南亞籍媳婦等等。