Unfortunately, the recent shift in the political climate toward emphasizing "native" Taiwanese culture has meant that older Taiwanese painters from the Japanese occupation era painting primarily with Western oils and Japanese jiaocai have received more attention of late. Ink painting is considered "sympathizing" with mainland China, and has been derided as an expression of "greater Chinese nationalism" and backward-looking conservatism.
近幾年政治風潮轉向，「本土」當道，日據時代以畫西式油畫及東洋膠彩為主的本土老畫家躍居藝壇焦點，相反地，和中國「掛鉤」的水墨則被貶為大中國主義、復古保守。