The painter Hsieh Li-fa, who has studied Chen's paintings and notebooks, points out that Chen's sense of movement and his unstable brush strokes are quite similar to Van Gogh's and quite unusual among those artists who studied with Chen.
研究過陳澄波畫作、筆記的畫家謝理法指出，陳澄波那動感、不穩定的筆觸，也近於梵谷，而迥異於同時學院訓練出來的畫家。