Monk under a plantain tree As opposed to Chen's sunflowers, the mainland's West Lake was the background chosen for the self-portrait by the Taiwanese artist Liu Chin-tang, who patriotically moved to the mainland only to fall on hard times, get sick and die. In the background of the work a solitary figure walks across a bridge and an empty boat drifts in the middle of the lake.
陳澄波以向日葵為自畫像的背景；而潦倒病逝於大陸的台籍畫家劉錦堂，自畫像的遠景是他當時生活的西湖，堤上一人獨行，湖中扁舟無人，但身旁卻是一棵故鄉的芭蕉樹。