Ultimate Refined Simplicity. In this time of highly diverse and fluid artistic styles, the Chinese modernist master, Richard Lin, chose to spent his lifetime dedicated to minimal art, and have passed on the rich inner endowments accumulated throughout their lives. The world should be moved by his intense commitment and rigorous attitudes. It might be an extravagant hope that we can perhaps see the true substance of life in his work, which appears a bit tight-knit but is actually a poetic, boundless world. He himself has more to tell you about the mental states behind his symbols, his thinking, and his proud attitude toward life.

Geometric shapes, lines and blocks with unique color composition; they are layering on the shades of "white". "White" is made of stacked multi-level spectrum. Simple and clean, rational, calm. His ideas correspond to the most pure, absolute lower limit is a rich expression.

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. In the wake of numerous solo exhibitions in Taiwan and abroad, Lin's works were collected by several dozen museums and public and private organizations. The National Palace Museum in Taiwan broke precedent and acquired Lin’s work as its first collection of modern art, setting the best example for leading viewers to understand minimal art. A descendant of the Lin family of Wufong in Taichung County, Richard Lin was an heir to traditional Chinese philosophical thought. He departed Taiwan to study architecture and art at the Regent Street Polytechnic in London, U.K. in 1954, and he became a professional artist in 1957. 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.

The 78-year-old Richard Lin still radiates tremendous vigor, and he has returned to Taiwan after many years of living in the U.K. In 1964, he became the first artist from Taiwan to be invited to participate in Germany's Kassel Documenta, where he represented Britain, and in 1966 London's heavyweight Marlborough New London Gallery began to serve as agent for his works. His artistic style is clean and precise, he embraces many points of view, and he strives to escape the temporal, spatial, formal, and color restrictions of traditional art. He relies on logical thinking to recombine tones and lines, he uses pure forms to expound unique artistic essence, and he meticulously designs and plans out his creative structure.