艺术不再是单纯为抒发个人性情,体现个人修养,用以逃避现实而营造自己的内心世界的自娱自乐的精神寄托,艺术家们转而试图以艺术参与到社会改革中来,这些当代水墨艺术家们往往体现出这样的共同特点:他们把色彩、线条、构图、造型灯绘画本体语言与西方现代派艺术建立联系,区别于传统水墨的内敛性的书卷气,但是水墨继续保持传统水墨的精髓。在现当代的美术创作环境中,水墨这种有着悠久历史的艺术形态在新时期如何体现其价值并发挥出应有的作用是一个有待解决的问 Art is no longer simply the entertaining spiritual sustenance for expressing one’s own temperament, embodying individual cultivation, escaping the reality and creating one’s own inner world. Instead, the artists try to participate in the social reform through art. These contemporary inks Artists tend to share the common characteristic that they relate color, line, composition, and modeling lamp language to modern western art, as opposed to the restrained bookishness of traditional ink and wash. However, ink and wash continue to maintain the essence of traditional ink and wash. In the contemporary art creation environment, it is an issue to be solved that how the art form with a long history, such as ink painting, reflects its value and exerts its due function in the new era