The Impact of AI-Generated Art Technology on Traditional Ink Culture and Pathways for Coexistence

Abstract

Currently, with the rapid advancement of AI-generated art technology, a profound cultural crisis has emerged from the ontological conflict between digital algorithms and traditional pen-and-ink culture. This study elucidates the threefold deconstruction of pen-and-ink aesthetics by AI technology: algorithmic modeling undermines the creative logic of “mind and hand in harmony,” instant generation mechanisms challenge the temporal aesthetics of “five days for one stroke,” and pixel-based filling strategies dismantle the artistic conception system of “virtual reality.” By examining typical cases such as the Palace Museum’s AR restoration and Tsinghua University’s Algorithm Texturing Method, this paper proposes a symbiotic path through “technological embodiment”: establishing a human-computer collaborative “parameterized central brush” system, developing an AI art ethics convention to safeguard pen-and-ink traditions, and fostering a digital humanities paradigm that integrates neural style transfer and MR exhibitions. It innovatively introduces “AI ink painting” as a third cultural form that merges algorithmic logic with Eastern aesthetics, offering both critical and constructive theoretical models for the transformation of traditional culture in the digital age.