ILLUSTRATED:
Liao Chu-chun, Pacific Cultural Foundation 1981, color illustrated p. 125; black-and-white illustrated, p. 200 (wrongly dated 1973)
Lin Hsin-yue, Liao Chi-chun (Taiwan Fine Arts Seriesv No. 4), Artist Publishing Co., Taipei, July 1992, color illustrated no. 60, p. 103

Throughout his life, Liao Chi-chun often put details of daily life on canvas. When his family moved to Taipei in 1947, he made all the places of interest throughout the north of Taiwan objects of his sketches. From the 1950s, seaports or riverside landscapes became the most constant themes expressed by Liao. Danshui and Kwan-yin Mountain were both his favorite sketching venues. Traveling in America and Europe for a number of months in 1962 opened new horizons for him, and he became more adventurous in his use of colors. His inner painting potential was thus stimulated. Paris, Venice, Greece, Spain, all the landscapes of those places became his painting objects.

The artist Chen Yin-huei described Liao Chi-chun’s “Greek Historic Site” in the following terms: “This view of the Acropolis in Athens may have been painted from the nearby Pnyx Hill. The building on the right is the Parthenon; that on the left is the Propylaea, the monumental gateway to the Parthenon. The brownish-yellow building below is the ancient auditorium. This composition, with its main elements consisting of the white buildings in the upper half of the canvas and the brownish-yellow building below, is unified by the gray tones. While the overall effect is soft and harmonious, the way the two white buildings stand out, and the use of green and red, ensure that the painting also has a lively aspect to it that eliminates any hint of monotony. Ancient monuments always tend to have muted coloration, which is often grayish in tone; the use of gray here may well have been a deliberate choice on the part of the artist in order to bring across the atmosphere of the scene! The inclusion of the white path, which links the long buildings in the upper and lower sections of the canvas, is highly effective.” Chen Yin-huei, “Greek Historic Site” (Description), in “The Paintings of Liao Chi-chun,” Taipei: Cathay Art Museum, March 1981, p. 200