陆春涛的创作，强调的首先是意境。他力图创造出具有诗意的意境，这个意境与现实保持着密切的关系，又与众不同。也就是说，画家并不想将自己的艺术等同于对现实的模拟、对生活的拷贝，而是想从现实出发又与现实保持着距离。作为一位艺术家，陆春涛更关注于视觉性的创造，所以他对于诗画意境的表达不是描述性的，也不是文学性的，而是视觉性的，是观赏者通过作品能够真切获知的视觉证据。在很多的作品中，陆春涛提供了一种值得赞赏的视像结构，如他的“荷塘”系列。荷花是自古而今的传统画题，也是文人画家乐此不疲的标识自喻。陆春涛笔下的荷花是写意性的，但不是文人画式的笔墨写意，它有更加真切的环境以及一望无垠的聚集形态，让人置身其中而感受到脱离俗尘的释然，然而它仍然是写意性的，因为画家摒弃了如实的再现，增强了理想化的色彩，并坚持了创作中的书写性。陆春涛把书写性和笔墨语言等量齐观，目的就是打破传统笔墨的各种束缚，而寻找到与当代绘画沟通无阻的创作方式。在画面中，陆春涛还有意识地保留了流淌和滴洒的笔墨痕迹，推崇表现性的展开力度。画家也乐意接受来自现代艺术的思考逻辑，“荷塘”系列中的地平线既是现实世界中的天地分割，更是画面结构性的分野意义。色彩是陆春涛将其艺术视觉化的重要手段，起初画家不顾一切地引入色彩的因素，将自己的创作与视觉的愉悦加以结合，然而不久之后的陆春涛，开始强调色彩在水墨系统中的地位和作用，追求含蓄中和的作品面貌，遂形成色墨洽接的混成效果。回到关于意境的讨论，陆春涛的特征就是针对意境的个人创作，而这个意境总是有关于我们的生活，却是高于我们生活的理想状态。
Lu Chuntao’s paintings often implicate a poetic sentiment that is unique and very closely to the reality. That is to say, his works are not just simple copies of the life but they keep a proper distance from the reality. As an excellent artist, Lu Chuntao focuses more on his visual reations and his painting expressions are not descrpitive, literary or purely visual. Lu Chuntao’s works are offering an exact proof for the audience to obtain true feelings.In most of Lu Chuntao’s works, the best subject could be the lotus flower which is always a loved themed by writers, poets or painters. However, the paintings under his brush are not of the sytle such as the traditional Chinese paintings in the history, instead they show such truly intangible atmosphere where people can get away from the reality. Besides, Lu Chuntao’s paintings also have the ideal characters and adherence to the originality of the creation.Lu Chuntao has put the importance of the expression ways of paintings as the same level as those of the writing. He also breaks the boundaries and limits from the traditional ink and wash paintings and creates a novel and highly-expressive way for producing paintings. Lu Chuntao has maintained the fluencies and traces of the ink on purpose to show the strength of the ink spreading. He loves to take the modern artistic logic therefore his painted lotuses have splited the sky from the ground in terms of the picture composition.Colors are the most important means for Lu Chuntao to make his ink and wash paintings more visualized. Later, he emphasized the importance of the role of colors in the ink paintings to achieve a integration effect between ink and different colors. As for the sentiment factors we’ve talked about at the beginning, the main characters of his paintings are personal innovation which is always derived from our regular life but even higher than our ideal living state.