Chinese contemporary ink art later the 1990s has experienced extraordinary artistic conversion, with a multidimensional elaboration of Chinese ink painting on the course to modernization. As ink painting has become contemporary, the method of conversion has been completely and conclusively transparent one, and collecting of the significant Chinese contemporary arts has now developed, allowing for a complete understanding of contemporary Chinese ink painting, and observation and examine on the contemporary transformation of Chinese ink arts.
The conceptual beginning and use of contemporary arts signify a development in the present Chinese painting world, reproducing the inspiration of the combination of contemporary western art into China, and a Chinese national artistic aspiration for an advanced contemporary expression, while also showing the developing movement of Chinese ink painting reaching out to the world.
In recent years a number of important international art exhibitions have expressed an interpretation and selection of Chinese “contemporary ink” painting from the perspective of western contemporary art. These exhibits have not trusted on the more predictable possibility of Chinese painting or contemporary ink art, but have increased their apparition to include many miscellaneous works (including installations, imagery, and performance art). So even if there is an only a comprehensive visual relationship to Chinese ink, many people have come to “associate” such works with the cultural and historic traditions of Chinese ink painting.
These “contemporary ink painters” put their prominence on “contemporary” more than “ink”, so their “contemporary arts” exhibitions have frequently ignored the richness and complexity of contemporary Chinese arts. Contemporary Chinese ink artists’ work further than just overturning traditional Chinese painting, instead replicate the style of the contemporary spirit for a return to one’s origins in the Chinese cultural spirit. Their experimentation in Chinese painting exposes both their understanding and respect for the rich eras of traditional Chinese culture.
Most of these artists have a strong understanding in depth of western lifestyles and culture, as well as pure visions into the future route of Chinese tradition. Their artistic consideration has simplified the visual sense of Chinese ink painting, and during this process has developed the future of the ink brush fine arts. “Rendering the Future” refers to how Chinese ink painting assists to nurture a rich oriental philosophy, mode of consideration and cultural expression, which offers important resources to inform cultural development in modern society.
