The old painters who left Taiwan faced different circumstances from those who stayed, circumstances which contributed to different kinds of artwork. In order to better understand these differences, let us go back one hundred years, to the time when Taiwan was ceded to Japan.
要瞭解當時在台灣與離開台灣的老畫家有如何不同的境遇、形成何種不同的創作，且讓我們回到一百年前台灣割讓日本的那一天說起。