王悦之是20世纪初期中国画坛重要的油画家,《台湾遗民图》是他的代表作。长期以来,王悦之成长于日据台湾,求学于日本,继而重返文化中国的特殊履历一直被美术史家所关注。而基于画家这种非凡的人生经历和20世纪30年代东亚政治秩序中尖锐的中日冲突,《台湾遗民图》总是被束缚在一种程式化的政治对抗当中被解读。而如今,走出冷战思维,又进全球语境的当代中国自然地开始谋求文化的自觉,以此为背景,《台湾遗民图》也理 Wang Yuezhi is an important painter of Chinese painting in the early 20th century. His “Taiwan Scholars” is his masterpiece. For a long time, Wang Yuezhi grew up in Japan and studied in Japan, and then return to cultural China’s special resume has been the concern of art historians. And based on this extraordinary life experience of painters and the sharp Sino-Japanese conflict in the political order in East Asia in the 1930s, “Taiwan’s people map” has always been bound to be interpreted in a stylized political confrontation. Nowadays, contemporary China, emerging from the Cold War mentality and entering the global context, has naturally started to seek cultural self-consciousness. Taking this as its background,