One hundred years ago, the defeated Ching Dynasty ceded Taiwan to Japan under the Treaty of Shimonoseki. Intending to make Taiwan into a cultural colony, the Japanese added music and art courses to public school curricula. Thus began Taiwan's contact with oil painting, water color, and sculpture, giving rise to its first generation of Western painters.
一百年前，由於清廷戰敗，台灣在馬關條約中割給了日本，基於文化殖民的考量，日本在一般公立學校設音樂與美術科目，開啟了台灣美術對油畫、水彩、雕塑的接觸，也產生了台灣第一批的西洋畫家。