Lin was born in Taichung in 1939. When he was a senior high school student, he was inspired by Yang Chi-tong and started to learn landscape painting from Yang. After he graduated from the Department of Fine Ars at National Taiwan Normal University, he went to Europe for his further studying in painting. His painting style in the 1970s was inclined toward surrealism, using mysterious colors and images of the Sun, the Moon and animal skeletons that symbolize the transcendence of life, death and time. In the 1980s, his works started to focus more on the depiction of natural landscape in Taiwan. From his personal trips to the high mountains, valleys and torrential rivers, he brought what he had seen into his paintings and started his painting style of magical and vibrant energy.
This exhibition will present to viewers Lin’s representative 64 works in different stages of his artistic development and a dozen of his epical, large-scale paintings created over the past few years. With his hands twitching because of Parkinson’s disease, Lin once said firmly, “The life of a painter continues until the painting brush drops from his or her hand….” His relentless dedication to art is nothing but respectable and heart-touching. His life of unparalleled energy is a force that has to be reckoned with in the research and development of modern art in Taiwan.
 
Curatorial Team:
Tseng Mei-chen, Peggy Huang/ Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts
Tsai Chao-yi/ National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts