Containing traditional cultural background, traditional chinese painting as the spiritual home which people guards and rebels, flowed through thousands of years to today. The rapid developmenting world more and more makes artists begin to reflect on and duplicate the framework of traditional Chinese painting,and the missing and conflict of its formal manifestations in contemporary culture and art background. Reflection aims to overthrow, overthrow aims to go forward. Contemporary ink and wash painting begins to show an active, high explored academic atmosphere. The new unknown, possibility of contemporary ink and wash painting is bound to bring up the radical development overall, makes it integrate into the process of diversification in world art.
Artists develop the traditional and imprisoned culture vision, innovate positively, explore boundlessly, so that contemporary ink and wash painting exudes a broader periodic charm. More "harder" Style in contemporary ink and wash painting begins to match to western art system. These products get straight vividly to the international art arena, their live contents make contemporary ink and wash painting being in line with the international art, which shift unexpected break to nowadays’ calmness and brightness.
Century Online China Art Networks cooperating with nine gallery, specially plans and recommends Yu Rongguo, Zhang Xianghui, He Canbo three excellent contemporary wash artists who co-sponsor the "ink and wash painting" exhibition. The artists use the ancient chinese media "ink" to create, and possess their unique style respectively. Yu Rongguo’s ink landscape in paper publicizes morality wilfully, but he has turned the traditional ink landscape to explore the realm of contemporary discourse; Zhang Xianghui abstracts scholar’s half of county, blends the artistic conception between the east and west; He Canbo’s urban symbols are population, light, and human conflict in material desire through simple skill to persue unlimited state; the distinguished works of these three talented artists have not only highlighted western humanistic concept, but also existed the integrity of oriental scholar-officials. Their contemporary ink and wash painting is not the easy infiltration by pen, but imply the basic criteria in the whole ecological environment - east and west, individual and group. Both sides are running constantly to promote the elite culture taste, which is also the responsive strategies to retaine ink and wash painting. They make use of this method demonstrating the characteristics of goods to the audience at the present time.
Ink and wash painting based on contemporary cultural background, combineing with different new thought modes of artists, sublimate traditional landscape context to beautiful wonderful work. Contemporary wash discards the seemed certain concept of truth in traditional wash, makes the traditional culture to coordinate with contemporary knowledge. Therefore, contemporary wash deserves the pursuit for a new position and orientation.
For good works, the audience can insight immediately the creativity and ideological connotation of author. Mentioned connotation, here are more reflected on two levels of "imagination" and "meditation", which is unfettered free body, unconstrainedly and unanimously. "Meditation" can make objects in draw move. "Imagination" specify that the large environment corresponding to art system is constantly renewing, as well as the extension of artists’ connotation in different periods. This extension is not complete, its fault plane requires us to reflect and explore. Academic inquiry and experience fit the objective-oriented sentiments, and contemporary wash can rise steady in the whole art field which also depends on the contradictions of objective description, mild or intense manifestations, non-marginal thrust hidden in works, highlighted upbringing and mentality in own culture. Contemporary wash is the ideal combination of innateness and acquaintance. Trend in this description is common. For this reason, artists have to "consider over and over again", to view themselvies at the opposite point. Such individual experience in group is time picture worthing to enlarge, is standard to forward-looking vision and bold look. This sincere connotation must can create a great world.
Contemporary wash is impartially walking along this road, which is worth to expect. After all, in this pluralistic art world, contemporary wash's existence is the continuation which is praised by people. Solemnly here encourage mutually.