中国的水墨艺术在上世纪初面临了生平第一次生存危机之后,水墨的现代化自然成为维系中国画生存的唯一可能。作为一种工具的水墨,越来越成为承载中华民族艺术之根性的重要元素。面对越来越难以清理和解决的艺术本土化、国际化问题,当代水墨不断确立自己的历史使命。但是,水墨自身在当代所要拓展的方向却不甚明确。自上世纪80年代以来,尽管对 After Chinese ink art faced the first crisis of existence in its early days of the last century, the modernization of ink and wash became the only possibility to maintain the existence of Chinese painting. Ink as a tool has increasingly become an important element bearing the root cause of the Chinese nation. In the face of the problem of localization and internationalization of art, which is becoming more and more difficult to clean up and solve, contemporary ink painting constantly establishes its own historic mission. However, the ink itself in the contemporary direction to be expanded is not clear. Although right since the 1980s