The avant-garde painters of May and Orient could expect little public support while the old guard controlled art on the island. To break through, the new artists, mostly young men in their twenties ', had to pool their resources to get any public showings at all.
這些畫家多半不願意接納不同畫風的作品，因此，當時被視為「前衛」的現代畫，根本無法通過省展或台陽美展的審查，只好自己想辦法舉行畫展。