Mu Xin, a staunch artist and a real world-class artist (1927-20 1 1) passed away on February 20th, 20th, 20th, 65438+2 1. Mu Xin is regarded as one of the most original and important artists in the 20th century, but many people still don't know him. Mu Xin's biggest admirer and supporter, Chen Danqing, a famous artist and critic, thinks that Mu Xin is his teacher and spiritual mentor. They have known each other for 30 years and live in Queens, new york. Directors Francisco Bello and Tim Sternberg, who were nominated for three Oscar documentaries, visited Mu Xin, China many times in February, 1965, and produced the documentary Underground Notes. This important visit witnessed the last issue of Mu Xin.

The legendary life of Mr. Mu Xin has built a literary bridge in China from before the "Cultural Revolution" to today. His art is active in the dialogue between the East and the West, and between the classical and the modern. 1927, a native of Wuzhen, Zhejiang, whose real name is Sun Pu. /kloc-when he was 0/4 years old, he found a treasure house of literature and art in the abandoned study of his distant relative and famous poet Mao Dun. He began to read poems on the history of western philosophy systematically, and he was able to acquire China's ancient classics in private schools since he was a child. about

After that, he studied at Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts. He was expelled from school after taking part in a protest, then fled the National Government to Taiwan Province Province in 1946, and returned to New China in 1949, which made him depressed to death. But this encounter in a gloomy and pessimistic environment also aroused his tenacious humanistic memory and made him addicted to writing to get rid of the predicament. He said: "literature is my belief, and it is this belief that helped me through the disaster."

From 197 1 to 72, he was imprisoned in an abandoned air-raid shelter full of dirty water and spent 18 months in an underground prison. He wrote "Diary in Prison", the content of which is actually his own dialogue with western prophets and philosophers, such as Flaubert and Nietzsche and Confucius. He used dirty groundwater to write on yellowed confessional paper, leaving 66 articles with 650,000 words, which enabled him to live on this spiritual food. Later, he secretly hid the diary of the confession in a sewn skirt and brought it out. 1976 The end of cultural life did not bring him freedom. 1978 to 1979 During house arrest, he worked during the day and became a free soul at night. He painted 33 touching landscapes. These works are in the collection of Yale University Museum. 1982 By 2006, he fled his hometown and went to new york. The painful memories of the past made him live cautiously, but this free air spirit was also transferred to a perfect masterpiece. From 2002 to 2003, he created 60 and 40 amazing miniature masterpieces. Some are only 1-2 inches high, which can be identified with a magnifying glass, but they are so complete and extraordinary. In addition, during this period, he also wrote a lot.

In fact, Mu Xin's first article was published in Taiwan Province Joint Supplement 1966. 1984, the inaugural issue of Mu Xin's special "Prose Exhibition" was "Mu Xin, a literary Robinson". As soon as Mu Xin appeared in the literary world, he attracted readers' strong attention with his unique and vulgar style. In 2000, the top academic circles of American art history had noticed this unique and lonely artistic elite. Some of his essays and novels have been translated into English, which has become a model reading material for the course of literary history in American universities, and as the only China writer, they have been included in the same textbook as Faulkner and Hemingway's works. On the website "Words Without Borders" sponsored by famous universities such as Harvard and Yale, Mu Xin has many loyal readers.

In 2002, at the age of 76, he had his first exhibition in his life, showing his paintings and prison diaries. This exhibition is jointly planned by Yale University, Chicago Wu Hong and Alexandria Japan Society. Monroe project. The first collection of English essays, The Empty Room, was translated by Liu and published by Ms. Wang Jiuan's New Direction Publishing House 20 1 1. Ironically, Mu Xin pursued the dignity of artistic creation and the end of the model all his life on the brink of death. In 2006, Mu Xin, who was nearly 80 years old, was invited by the local authorities in his hometown as a hero and was recognized as a "national treasure". He continued to write and paint in his hometown until his death in February 20 1 1 65438. 2 1 century, China art circles gradually got to know him. Mu Xin Art Museum will be established in his hometown. Chen Danqing, a well-known artist and critic, a student and friend of Mu Xin for 25 years, will be the curator. Mu Xin's works are gradually published in China, and the English versions of 13 short articles are published in the United States by Joanne Wang, a new direction publishing house.

He is a typical artistic intellectual, proficient in literature, painting, music, history, poetry and so on. He wandered among Shakespeare, Flaubert, Nietzsche, Da Vinci, Fan Kuan and Guo. We can't identify him as a single artist. His creation touched all of us. 1984, Mu Xin replied to the literary editor of the Taiwan Federation and said, "When everything collapsed, I said to myself," Seeking eternal life in despair. "Compared with Mu Xin's first half year in China, China's creative environment seems so open to energy, but he seems to have to be afraid to survive without involving sensitive political issues. Can our art circle still count on China's free creation? ! Or wait for another depressed and crazy humanistic artist to show up.