Mu Xin (artist)

Mu Xin (Chinese: 木心; 1927–2011), born Sun Pu (Chinese: 孫璞), was a Chinese painter, poet and writer. His works drew on both Chinese and Western traditions. Purged and imprisoned during the Cultural Revolution, he was exonerated in 1979, and moved to New York in 1982. In 2007 he returned to his place of birth, Wuzhen, where he died.

Paintings

Mu Xin studied at the Shanghai Fine Arts Academy. Over 500 paintings, mainly of landscapes, that he created were destroyed during the Cultural Revolution. 33 ink and gouache landscapes are known to have survived.[1]

In 2001, an exhibition of his painting was held at Yale University Art Gallery before touring to the David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago, the Honolulu Academy of Arts, and Asia Society Museum in New York. [2]

In 2015, the Mu Xin Museum opened in Wuzhen.[3][4] In 2018, Mu Xin's painting featured in the new BBC Civilisations series. [5]

Writings

20 volumes of Mu Xin's unpublished writing were confiscated at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution. During solitary confinement between 1970 and 1973, he wrote 66 pages of Prison Notes.[6][7][8] In New York he began writing again. More than 30 volumes of his poetry and prose essay since appeared in print on both sides of the Taiwan Strait. [9]

In 2011, the first English translation of Mu Xin's short stories, An Empty Room, was released in the United States.

In 2017, the first English translation of Mu Xin’s poetry, Toward Bravery, was published in Britain.

Bibliography

  • Mu Xin (2001). The Art of Mu Xin: Landscape Paintings and Prison Notes. Yale University Art Gallery. ISBN 9780300090758
  • Mu Xin; Toming Jun Liu (2011): An Empty Room. New Directions. ISBN 0811219224
  • Mu Xin; Mingyuan Hu (2017): Toward Bravery and Other Poems. Hermits United. ISBN 1999883306

References

  1. ↑ "Rosenkranz Foundation | Areas of Interest". Rosenkranz Foundation. Retrieved 2018-04-18.
  2. ↑ "The Notes of Mu Xin: Chinese Prisoner Padded His Clothes". Observer. 2003-07-07. Retrieved 2018-04-18.
  3. ↑ "Chinese poet honoured in British Library exhibition in Wuzhen". South China Morning Post. Retrieved 2018-04-18.
  4. ↑ "Mu Xin Art Museum Grand Opening -artnet News". artnet News. 2015-11-21. Retrieved 2018-04-18.
  5. ↑ "A Child from Wuzhen". The British Library. Retrieved 2018-05-25.
  6. ↑ "The Art of Mu Xin: Landscape Paintings and Prison Notes | Smart Museum of Art". smartmuseum.uchicago.edu. Retrieved 2018-04-18.
  7. ↑ "Dungeon Master". NYMag.com. Retrieved 2018-04-18.
  8. ↑ "In Mu Xin's Words: Treasures of the British Library exhibition at Mu Xin Art Museum, Wuzhen". The British Library. Retrieved 2018-04-18.
  9. ↑ "A Thousand and One Nights in England". The British Library. Retrieved 2018-05-25.


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