The Spiritual Images in Mu Xin's Paintings from the Perspective of Iconology
The three levels of an iconological study help to reveal the spiritual images in Mu Xin's paintings.The pre-iconographic description centers on the phases,imagery and atmospheres in Mu Xin's paintings,and describes the foundation for representing the spiritual images.Mu Xin's paintings have evolved from a figurative style before his de-parture from China into a purely abstract one after his departure.The iconographic analysis elaborates the visual repre-sentations of the spiritual images in Mu Xin's paintings via their themes and textures.Mu Xin's ways of naming his paintings reflect the thematic shift from referring to classical Chinese culture to probing into the ultimate questions of modern life.Mu Xin's paintings construct a world of spiritual images that links up traditionality and modernity in the distinctive space of textures represented by their monochromatic atmospheres.The iconological interpretation can re-veal the detaching,moral and reflective spiritual images implied in Mu Xin's paintings.
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