From viewing the works that Lin Yu-shan exhibited at the Taiwan Exhibition, you discover that Lin was not by then taking his cues from Taiwan's folk artists. At a young age, he had already successfully and seamlessly combined Western art techniques with the traditional methods of Chinese ink wash painting.
觀賞林玉山在台展時代的作品，可以發現林玉山並不依循民間畫師的教法，年少時代，就已經成功地將西畫的技巧與中國水墨不落痕跡地融於筆墨。