ILLUSTRATED:

Lien Chine Hsing, Keelung Municipal Culture Center, Keelung, 2004, color illustrated, p. 62

Lien Chine Hsing, Eslite Gallery, Taipei, 2004, color illustrated, p. 13

Taiwan painter Lien Chien-hsing famous for "magic realism" has won the acknowledgment of art community with his unique creative style in recent years. Through the severe test of such creative forms as photo-realism and new expressionism and through decades of hard work, the magic realistic style Lien Chien-hsing has brewed and developed, which boasts calm and humanist consideration features has been deeply rooted in the people's hearts.

Entering into the 1990s, the works of Lien Chien-hsing revealed the contrast between reality and delusion and largely presented ruins. Apart from the ruined mines, saps, mottled architectural hobs, in his paintings, he transformed the ruined sceneries into imaginary space by adopting blocks, walls, wooden racks, water sources, animals and vegetations located at the seemingly ruined corner. By the space presentation from top view and vast view, the sceneries, ruins and animals were interwined into partially realistic and partially virtual illusion to symbolize the visional real world and suggest the insignificance and uncertainty of life.

Created in 2004, the work "Navigation with Romance" reveals natural and virgin sceneries combined by our familiar green hills and clear water, spreading out the mysterious, tranquil, implicit and sad flavor, indistinctly and naturally infiltrating nostalgia and reflecting the geographical attachment towards the place the painter belongs to.