Ink paintings have been a part of Taiwan's painting mainstream for 300 of the past 400 years--from the period of immigration during the time of Koxinga in the late Ming dynasty right up to the present. Given this, it is certainly quite ironic that ink painting has suddenly been marginalized by the rise of the new "Taiwanese consciousness."
從明鄭到今天，在台灣四百年移民史上享有三百多年畫壇主流地位的水墨畫，竟因和當前的「台灣意識」不相容而受排擠，不能不說是一種諷刺。