In 1955, against the advice of their teacher and clueless about the risks involved in starting up a new organization (Taiwan was under martial law at the time), the young artists formed themselves into the Ton-Fan Group. People flocked to buy tickets for the exhibition that they mounted at a venue in Taipei's Chunghua Road, but many visitors found that the art was not to their liking.
民國四十四年，儘管老師李仲生反對，然而畫室裡的這群小伙子卻不知戒嚴下結社的風險，依然組成「東方畫會」，並在中華路辦起畫展，引來洶湧的人潮買票看展，但是能夠接納這些「現代藝術」的卻不多，許多人不甘「受騙」下，忿而把簡介摔在地上。