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Chen Lai Hsing emerged as a major figure on the Taiwanese art scene of the 1980s, known for paintings that are vibrant, forceful and deeply humanistic. Yet Chen always has been an outlier, choosing to live the life of kind of artistic ronin. Chen’s works are full of emotion, communicating a concern for the suffering of others, an adherence to justice, and a kind of rustic optimism. The energy, roughness and disruptive power of his paintings both moves and uplifts, and quickly established Chen’s reputation as ‘Taiwan’s Van Gogh.” No other painter so eloquently expresses the atmosphere and vibrancy of Taiwan's urban-rural transition period and of the social turmoil characterizing that era of explosive social movements.