"Xu Huiquan's color ink painting is an outstanding creation based on extensive absorption of ancient and modern Chinese and foreign art nutrition. Here, there is the charm of ink freehand brushwork, the rigor of meticulous painting, the elegance and richness of classical painting, the pursuit of impressionism, the composition of modern art and a certain dream consciousness. " -(Professor Shao Dazhen of Central Academy of Fine Arts) "In the field of figure painting in the new period, Xu Huiquan is an artist who has made outstanding achievements in ink painting." -Shang Hui, editor-in-chief of Art magazine) "He is a figure painter who can work and write. His figure painting creation pays attention to the blending of color and ink and the coordination of meticulous painting. This kind of mixed color written by Mo Gong compromises the works of Chinese and foreign ancient and modern times, which makes his figure painting have modern significance worthy of attention. " -(Professor Chen of Tsinghua University) Xu Huiquan's achievements in the exploration of ink and wash heavy color figure painting have had a great influence in the national art world, especially the creation group of ink and wash figure painting in Jiangnan. Composed of him and a large number of like-minded young and middle-aged painters, the "colored ink" painting school in Gusu has won many awards in various exhibitions throughout the country.
Xu Huiquan's research topic is still "China ink figure painting creation research". In fact, the pluralistic pattern of Chinese painting has a long history, and it has long been diversified in ink painting and heavy color. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, China painters, led by literati paintings, paid more attention to the expression of ink and wash language, but neglected the study of color. In the fifties and sixties, figure painting in the new era constantly broke through the forbidden area, breaking through the single horizontal style of pen and ink plus modeling. On the one hand, it returns to the traditional expression of freehand brushwork figure painting or becomes a trend, while meticulous brushwork greatly improves the expression ability of traditional meticulous brushwork and light color by drawing lessons from western-style modeling and color, but relatively speaking, there are relatively few artistic explorations that try to combine heavy color with ink freehand brushwork. In this context, Xu Huiquan began to create ink-wash heavy-colored figure paintings in 1990s, exploring the integration of meticulous painting and freehand brushwork, and exploring various aspects such as Xuan paper, painting tools, the application of various new pigments and the study of texture in production, thus forming his own unique style. Representative works include Flowers in the Spring River, Flowers in the Dream and Writer Zhu Ziqing.