ILLUSTRATED:

Solo Exhibition of Chu Teh-chun, Thin Chang Corporation, Taipei, 2007, color illustrated, p. 262

Chu Teh-chun left Taiwan for Paris in 1955 and started his artistic journey. His paintings combines the softness of eastern paintings and the thickness of western paintings, it is a concrete presentation of his Chinese culture background and history inheritance added with the technical use of western painting tools and techniques. His works from the '60s mostly use a single color as background, with fast brush strokes painted wide, narrow, thick and thin lines on the picture; those from the '70s were influenced by Rembrandt's use of colors and shades, but with his fast, "Feibai" brush strokes, as was as the collocation of white and other light colored blocks, helped paintings from this period got rid of Rembrandt's glooms, and got more fluent like clouds and rivers. Techniques from tradition Chinese calligraphy can be found in his works from the '80s; Chu's work got much closer to traditional Chinese paintings in the '90s, they covered the discussion of the relationship between human and nature, even some of the titles of these works used these ideas as subjects.

In Chu Teh-chun's paintings, he painted many invisible life forces like air, steams, winds, rivers, and snows in his paintings, he used lyrical method to present strong and meaningful impressions, illusionary and dramatic at the same time, this piece of work "L'ineffable" was created in 1993-1994, the use of colors and harmonic and wild, the lights moves in an mysterious way, formed a lively and vivid picture.