ILLUSTRATED:
Chu Teh-chun, Artist Publishing Co., Taipei, 2011, color illustrated, p. 135

Chu was well trained by Pan Tian Shou, the contemporary master artist from Hangzhou National Academy of Art. As his direct disciple, Chu specialized in Chinese brush paintings for landscape, flowers/birds, poetry, calligraphy and seal cutting. He loves poems and is a great calligrapher. Chinese characters are artistic abstractions and provide inspiration to western abstract artists. His talent for poetry and brush painting lead us to his use of vivid and dramatic strokes, in a kind of marriage of the visual and the powerful, form and effect.
Landscape should not only entail types of scenery, but also the feelings related to nature that viewers should have as they become immersed in, and part of, the painting contents. The richly textured composition fleshed out the atmosphere; as Chu said, "My landscape is an experience in nature; not a duplicate of nature". This is a splendid response to the classical Greek view of art as "mimesis" or imitation of nature. Viewers should be inspired by the images of nature in the paintings. His work unequivocally resonates with Taoist thoughts; the free imagination conveys his sublime passion in the synthesis of the concrete and the abstract.