But Ni Tsai-chin, chairman of the Graduate Institute of Fine Arts at Tunghai University, says that the greatness of Chen's work lies in its very ambiguity. His landscapes, for example, combine the traditional Chinese technique for depicting irregular surfaces with the sense of texture of Western oil painting.
然而東海大學美術研究所所長倪再沁認為，陳慧坤的風景畫，像山水畫，既藏有山水的「皴法」，又含有風景畫的「質量」，其獨特與怪異，正是其大器之所在。