當代兩岸山水畫日益呈現出多元化的發展趨勢，這一方面源自上世紀「以西潤中」美術思潮的重要影響，吸收西方繪畫觀念融入水墨畫創作成為美術界新的「傳統」；另外一方面基於新時代的發展，科技資訊化的社會模式極大拓展了藝術家觀看世界的視角，進而在如何表現當代藝術的思維上出現了更多樣的可能。從這個視角來看，兩岸當代山水畫創作在題材、形式、材質、內涵等諸多方面出現了與傳統山水畫不同的表現語彙。許俊與林永發作為兩岸當代知名的山水畫家，在創作風格與表現內涵方面正印證了這種發展的趨勢。

The development of contemporary cross-straits landscape paintings is increasingly showing a trend of diversification. This aspect is derived from the important influence of the Embellish the east with western elements art trend in the last century, it has become a new “tradition” of absorbing the western painting concepts into the eastern ink paintings among the art field. Based on the development of the new era, the social model under science and technology information has greatly expanded the perspective of artists for exploring the world, thereby more possibilities about how to express the thinking of contemporary art appeared. From this perspective, the creation of contemporary landscape paintings on both sides of the strait has different expressions of vocabulary from traditional landscape paintings in terms of subject matter, form, material and connotation. This development tendency is reflected in the style and performance of Xu Jun and Lin Yongfa who are famed contemporary landscape painters on both sides of the strait.