Pen and ink, the soul of Chinese painting.
Huang, a great painter in modern times, made an accurate interpretation of pen and ink and summed up the theory of "five strokes and seven inks" It can be said that pen is bone and ink is meat. Without them, Chinese painting would be difficult to stand on. But today, many China painters are quite lacking in brushwork, and they often dare not show their pens when creating, and often use western paintings for reference to express their objects.
In today's China painting world, many painters are not good at traditional skills, pen and ink skills and cultural accomplishment, which leads to weak writing and lines floating on paper. The reason for this problem is that people generally misunderstand "pen and ink", which affects the artist's artistic pursuit, the audience's artistic judgment and even the criteria for judging the art of Chinese painting have been deconstructed.