The subject-matters of Guo-Zhi Lin's paintings chiefly focused on local themes, specifically the local life of Chiayi region. Therefore his paintings are usually classified as local arts. In terms of subject-matters only, his paintings categorized as local art really nothing wrong; but when we investigate the aspects of his art forms, we could obviously perceive the formalist aesthetic attribute of his paintings. A dimension does not emphasis on the rural lifestyles but express painter's purely aesthetic concerns as its keynote. For me, "formal beauty" is not just the important part but the essential character of Lin's paintings. Therefore through this paper I try to investigate Lin's paintings through modernism formalist viewpoint, and to explain the connections and significances of Lin's paintings and modernist painting.