"Self-Portrait", 1928
In Tan Ting-pho's "Self-Portrait" (1928), he was 33 years-old. In his four years of studies in Japan, his painting techniques matured and two landscape paintings depicting his homeland were selected to enter the top art exhibition of Japan. After this self-portrait was completed, Tan's artistic career expanded to southern China and subsequently returned to Chiayi. Until February 28, 1947, the artist expressed his passion for the land through his oil paintings and created Chiayi Park on his canvas, until they reached every beautiful corner of Taiwan.