During over 300 years of exposure to Western art-with its emphasis on light-and-shade, perspective, color changes and bold experimentation-traditional Chinese painting, though not without new masterpieces and great painters, has seemed generally unable to step out of the classical framework established by the ancient masters.
因為，東西文化接觸以來的三百年間，傳統中國水墨在西畫講求光影、透視，色彩變化，以及強烈實驗性的對比下，雖然也迭有佳作、大師，但總體而言，似乎還是走不出老祖宗的格局。