Four Artists: Li Wang, Dou Liangyu, Cui Xuetao, Tang Jiqiang

"Ink", almost a thousand years the spirit of traditional Chinese cultural values ​​attached to hundred years asymptotically Western art, stirring constantly evolving. 2005 First Shanghai New Ink Art Exhibition held at the the Zhu Qizhan Museum of Art Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, "New Ink" is rapidly into the spotlight. May 14, 2012, China Guardian 2012 Spring Auction, first introduced in the New Ink special "Ink New World", with a total turnover of 13.8 million, Xu tired "Night in the daytime," sold for a high of nearly 150 million. For a time, the "New Ink" has become the hottest in Chinese art circles nouns. New Ink connotation It has been discussed: the choice of the name of the new ink, Chinese ink painting in essence still continues a context of each other's culture and spirit, and with the Western painting, oil painting, watercolor, gouache paintings species distinguished form of the potential for dialogue with Western painting, and thus promote the willingness to change ink to complete the transformation of ink painting in modern. Dubbed the "new" more clearly indicate its characteristics, is not only a time of modern and contemporary, and a development patterns demonstrated both the longitudinal and the tradition of the essence, more emphasis on the horizontal contemporary, highlighting the development Coexistence of the most innovative imply colorful phenomenon.  "New Ink" is free between the traditional ink art or traditional inextricably related, and its reference to the object does not point to "painting", "Chinese painting" semantic stretch. "New Ink" a new form of traditional ink painting to express our emotions nowadays the intention inside mixed with criticism of the present, traditional inheritance, or lead us to revisit classic in a whole new way.