记者:您在80年代中期开始了水墨艺术的探寻,但我们知道那个时候的中国当代艺术正处在“传统”与“现代”、“东方”与“西方”的激烈争论中。西方现代艺术思潮冲击着中国传统艺术,那时候的人们普遍对传统艺术产生一种失望感。身处这样的潮流中,您是否也有同感?又做过哪些尝试?刘进安:80年代中期也是我水墨探索的初始,在85年前后,我以水墨的方式画了大量的头像、半身像 Reporter: You started the exploration of ink art in the mid-1980s, but we know that contemporary Chinese art was in the midst of “traditional” and “modern”, “eastern” and “western” Intense debate. Western ideas of modern art hit the Chinese traditional arts, when people generally have a sense of disappointment over traditional arts. In such a trend, do you have the same feeling? What have been done? Liu Jin: the mid-1980s is also the beginning of my ink exploration, in 85 years ago, I painted a lot of ink painting portrait, bust