LEE Chun-Shan

Vivid, energetic brushstrokes leap and disperse across the surface, creating rhythms of color and line that feel both spontaneous and precise. In these works, LEE Chun-Shan explores a visual language born from tension — between tradition and innovation, surface and depth.

    Having studied in Japan in the 1930s, LEE moved to Taiwan after the war and became a central mentor to younger artists. In the 1950s, his students formed the Eastern Art Group (Ton Fan), seeking a new artistic voice — not merely borrowing from European abstraction, but weaving it with Chinese sensibility. In doing so, they yearned for a modern identity rooted in their own land: expression without copying, freedom within heritage.