Since 1955, Chu Teh-Chun has held 80 solo exhibitions and participated in more than 200 exhibitions around the world. Many art museums collect his paintings, and many art publications and reports have introduced Chu Teh-Chun and his works. This illustrious artist has been established in France for 40 years.

Around the end of World War I in 1914, Paris became the art center of Europe, attracting a group of young artists from abroad who were looking for their own style and ideas. They expressed their inner feelings such as lyricism, homesickness and sadness in their works. Their creative style became the well-known "Paris School".

This exhibition is the first time that the National Palace Museum has exhibited European art, and it is a milestone in the promotion of Western art in Taiwan. It introduces the Impressionism that changed the history of Western art to the Taiwanese people from the perspective and life of Monet. Many of Monet's famous paintings are on display, such as the series "Japanese Bridge", the series "Water Lilies", and "House with Rose Garden View".

Bernard BUFFET the drooping strokes like Gothic figures, repetitive deep lines, uniform cold colors, and rough and powerful black circles, this kind of emotional expression is different from the emotional exaggeration of expressionism or the classical form of realism. Instead, the lines are hardened and angular.

Vlaminck, a French Fauvist painter, is a famous representative of Fauvism, who was a contemporary of Manos and Derain. His painting style is also considered to be the most characteristic Fauvist style. He used strong contrasting colors and wild brushwork, fully mastering the unique expression techniques of Fauvism.