The traditional literati painters had been replaced by western painters and oriental painters as the mainstream painters in Taiwan since the Fine Art Exhibition in 1927, mainly due to fine art education. Based on the characteristics of fine art curriculum in Taihoku Normal school, which now is called National Taipei University of Education, and centering on the impact of Japanese fine art teachers, this study investigated on the effect of fine art education during Japanese-occupied period on the development of modern fine art in Taiwan. 3 points of conclusions are drawn here. First, fine art education had promoted the development of modern fine art in Taiwan. The new educational approach has cut off the relation of education between Taiwan fine art and China fine art. Second, the fine art education in normal school is as a part of general education instead of specialized education for cultivating the artist as the main objective. The success in cultivating artist is not relevant to the content of the fine art curriculum in school education but the efforts of both Taiwanese students and Japanese teachers. Third, Japanese fine art teachers had exerted a significant impact on the modern fine art of Taiwan during its period of enlightenment.