刘新和的水墨,无论是人物还是山水荷花之类,都隐隐约约带着一种设计感。这种设计感与水墨的流动性特质的结合,平添一份介入感,别有情味,形成一种另类意象语言。艺术家的审美倾向有一定的心理定向,潜在意识深处,隐藏在画面背后。而这种潜意识往往不经意间又外在物化成一种形式或风格。在设计里,图形设计是比较重要的视觉元素,设计美感需要点线面与图形的大小、 Liu Xinhe’s ink and wash, whether it is characters or landscape lotus and the like, are vaguely with a sense of design. The combination of this sense of design and the fluidity of ink and wash adds a sense of involvement and flirtation to form an alternative image language. The artist’s aesthetic tendency has a certain psychological orientation, the potential depth of consciousness, hidden behind the picture. And this subconscious often inadvertently materialized into a form or style. In design, graphic design is a more important visual element, the design aesthetic needs point line surface and the size of the graphic,