当代是对现代而言,是指上世纪八、九十年代以来的二十多年,当代花鸟画的特征是继承传统院体画、文人画和民间美术,在此基础上,形成三大形态:新院体花鸟画、新文人花鸟画和新民间花鸟画,代表人物为江宏伟、江文湛、韩美林等人。但由于当代画家中西绘画修养与前辈画家的差异,花鸟画大师的出现尚需拭目以待。 Contemporary refers to modern times, refers to the last two decades of eighties and nineties, the characteristics of contemporary flower and bird paintings is to inherit the traditional courtyard paintings, literati paintings and folk art, on this basis, the formation of the three major forms : The new courtyard flowers and birds paintings, the new literati flowers and birds and new folk flowers and birds paintings, representatives Jiang Hongwei, Jiang Wenzhan, Han Meilin and others. However, due to the differences between contemporary Chinese and Western painting and the older painters, the emergence of the master of flowers and birds remains to be seen.