The goal and objective of Mountain Art and Educational Foundation is to support, publish and show case Chinese art.  The foundation has organized and curate several exhibitions and events base on the objective.  In 1987, when the foundation started to promote and collect Chinese fine arts, the project to search the root of Chinese Oil painting has already began.  In 1992, after the collapse of USSR, Mountain Art and Educational Foundation introduced a group of collectors to collect works by those artists who influenced Chinese art development.

Although the former Soviet Union has many great masters from the field of philosophy, literature, music and theater art, which are well known to the western world, the arts of Soviet Union are very isolated due to cold war with the western countries and its strict policies on exporting artworks.  And therefore, little exchange or interaction has been made in the field of art.  In the western art history, there is seldom information on the art of the former Soviet Union.  And because of that, the art of Soviet Union of that period has been played down or even ignored.  Moreover, there is rarely any collection of the important Peredvizhniki art in the western museum.

The art of USSR has a unique socialist and realist style.  Masterpieces from the period of Great October Socialist Revolution and Soviet Socialism had a profound influence on the Chinese Art of the 20th century.  In the 50s, Chinese artist learnt and understood European art through those Soviet masterpieces.  During this period, the art of USSR played an important role in the development of Chinese contemporary art movement.

There is barely any study or exhibition of the USSR art in Taiwan; for this reason, Mountain Art and Educational Foundation has especially consulted Professor Shao Dazhen and Professor Xi Jingzhi and invited Dr. Su-Chen Hsieh to organize the exhibition.  And together with the National Museum of History, Mountain Art Foundation hosted the show in hope of providing a well-rounded view of USSR art history and showcases a variety of European art style to the Taiwan audience.

Board Chairman of Mountain Art and Educational Foundation, Lin Mingzhe