Ni Tzai-chin, the former director of the Taiwan Museum of Art, whose essay "The Rise, Fall and Reevaluation of Ink-Wash Painting" shook Taiwan's art world, holds that the main problem lies with the ink-wash painting community's tradition of isolation. "The general art community knows a lot about ink-wash painting," he writes, "but ink-wash painters rarely have a deep understanding of modern or Western painting."
以「水墨的建立、崩解與重探」一文引起藝壇震撼的前國立美術館館長倪再沁便認為，基本的問題出在水墨畫界是一個較為封閉的系統，「藝術界瞭解水墨畫的人很多，但水墨畫家卻很少對現代畫、西畫的趨勢深入探討。」