CHANGEFUL COLOR OF LYRIC POETRY The overview of Chu Teh-Chun's artwork is akin to appreciating a lyrical epic. The methods of textural painting often give the viewers a feeling of spiritual energy. The most appropriate phrase for describing his artworks is "vivid artistic conception." Chu adopted colors of malachite green and flower blue found in the classical Chinese gold blue-green landscape paintings (jinbi shanhui). Every line of the painting disperses in the light and the cultural richness of colors and expressiveness reach an unprecedented realm of Western painting. Wu Guanzhong once made an evaluation of Chu Teh-Chun's style:"In Chinese tradition, the great attention paid to the grains and textures of the papers and silks as well as the brush strokes lends to an Eastern painting, which has the characteristic of revealing more the closer one looks. With his striking and bold oil paintings, Chu Teh-Chun made every effort to broaden the appeal of Chinese ink, with strokes that could speak to a contemporary audience around the world." The fine detail common to Eastern art and the bold, daring colors common to Western painting can both be found in Chu's work. From a distance, Chu Teh-Chun's work can appear as Western painting, or as Chinese painting if seen up close. In Chu's work, the viscosity of the oil painting is woven through a more translucent mode, allowing to obtain a semitransparent effect originally comes from a type of Chinese paper with a distinctive elegance and style. Chu Teh-Chun completed "Watery Blue Reaching far Beyond the Horizon" in 1983. As far as the use of color was concerned, this period saw a major breakthrough in Chu's art as his palette was dominated by cool pastels of green and blue, anticipating Chu's later development of his distinctive style of "white lyricism." The white and pure light appears as a star-like graceful and fascinating atmosphere. The universe in which infinite dimension is interwoven with space and time after the passing of light equals to exploring the spiritual sublimation of the universe. The abstract expressionist composition, the calligraphy skills of the "dragons and snakes following the writing brush" (bi zou longshe) technique, and the endless shimmer, elegant, relaxed, and free style of painting is the manifestation of the flow of nature. Depicted is the forgotten universe taking the viewer on a spiritual journey through his brushwork, color, and structure.