Detail: To promote contemporary art education and present the development of world art trends and viewpoints with creative value in Taiwan, the museum introduces Richard Lin, a modernist master who spent many years living in England and who was a pioneering experimentalist who spanned time periods and art genres in Chinese and Western art. Born in 1933, Richard Lin grew up in the former official residence of the Lin family, where he was inspired by the thinking of Laozi and Zhuangzi. Lin’s philosophical mode of thought developed since his childhood helped him to consistently focus on combining thinking and practice in a unified process when he studied in England and absorbed the currents of Western modernism. He laid down his brush and ended his long-term experimentation in two-dimensional painting after issuing his manifesto `Painting is Dead’ in 1984, and afterwards turned his attention to three-dimensional sculpture and installations.