“现代水墨”的概念生成于20世纪80年代中国新潮美术的历史语境之中,在90年代后期逐渐被“实验水墨”或“水墨实验”置换,因为“实验”这个词更为契合90年代,中国从“现代艺术”到“当代艺术”话语方式转变过程中,艺术家对自我身份的认同。换言之,在很多参与者看来,“实验水墨”艺术家群体的创作是在与“当代艺术”艺术家群体创作的“互动”但自2000年以后,所谓群体性的“运动”趋于弱化,逐渐分化为个体经验的探索,因此“实验水墨”之后就没有形成一个共识性的“当代水墨”的概念。同时,近年学界对中国 The concept of “modern ink and wash” came into being in the historical context of Chinese trendy art of the 1980s. It was gradually replaced by “experimental ink” or “ink and wash experiment” in the late 1990s because “experimental This term is more in line with the artist’s recognition of self-identity in the transition from discourse style of ”Modern Art “ to ”Contemporary Art “ in the 1990s. In other words, for many participants, the creation of an experimental ink artist group is based on an interaction with the contemporary artist-artist group but since 2000 the so-called mass movement ”Tend to weaken, and gradually differentiate into the exploration of individual experience, so “ experimental ink ”after the formation of a consensus “ contemporary ink ”concept. In the meantime, in recent years academia has been on China