Taiwan is a country with an island culture , which is always ready to accept new cultural values from dominant countries such as China, Japan and the United States. T he number of people with a good taste has been dwindling despite the fact that Taiwanese ink paintings began taking root in 1949. How do painting artists of the new generation deal with this plight? Undoubtedly, Chinese ink paintings would not have achieved its aforementioned success without promotion and advocacy from the elitist circles. How do Taiwanese artists find a way out in an era dict ated by secular culture, where few attention has been paid to the art of ink paintings, let alone the distinction between ink and black? 2013 is a year of c ontemporary Chinese ink paintings, when “experimental ink paintings,” “new literati paintings,” “ink painting installations,” “new meticulous paintings” and “new ink paintings” had flourished. Taiwanese ink paintings have also seemed to benefit from the economic g...
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