什么是“新水墨”?估计没有人能够给它一个明确的定义。那么它与“旧水墨”即传统水墨又是什么关系?有人认为,传统水墨是父,新水墨是子,二者是“父子关系”;也有人认为,新水墨是对传统水墨的颠覆,只是形式上延续了水墨、纸笔,而内核上则更受西方文化思想的左右。实际上,传统水墨的发展始终处在一种急剧变革的状态,而且有明确的阶段性。譬如,第一个时期是从晚清至“五四”前后,以康有为、陈独秀等为代表的对传什么是新水墨? What is “new ink”? Estimated that no one can give it a clear definition. Then it and “old ink ” that is, what is the relationship between traditional ink and wash? Some people think that the traditional ink is the father, the new ink is the child, both “father-son relationship”; some people think that the new ink is the traditional ink Subversion, only the form of continuation of the ink, paper and pen, while the core is more influenced by Western cultural thinking. In fact, the development of traditional ink and wash has always been in a state of rapid change, and there is a clear stage. For example, the first period is from before the late Qing Dynasty to the May Fourth Movement. What is the new ink and wash represented by Kang Youwei and Chen Duxiu?