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一次我沿着新英格兰风景如画的乡间公路行驶,无意中在康尼狄卡州的伯鲁克灵,发现了1979年举办新中国第一次赴美画展的美术馆——新英格兰现代艺术中心。康尼狄卡州是美国最富有的州,人均年收入全美最高。美术馆座落在该州最美的风景观光大道上,两旁比比皆是富人的庄园华宅。美术馆址,就是百万富翁亨利·赖斯曼家宽达两百余英里的庄园。其实,美术馆本身,二十年以前是赖斯曼先生的一座三层楼马房。1975年,他把马房改建成九个展室的美术馆,把一排大仓库改建成若干画室,又把两栋客房作为艺术家生活区。创建了新英格兰现代艺术中心,并亲自担任主任,自定年薪一美元。 赖斯曼先生今年八十二岁,农学院硕士,曾拥有十几个养鸡场,娶了一位女画家后兴趣转向艺术。在推销妻子绘画的过程中,他深刻地体会到艺术家们奋斗的艰辛,并为画商对画家的盘剥而愤愤不平。最后,他决定捐赠自己的庄园,为艺术家建立一个类似公社的艺术中心,为他们提供生活和展览的空间,让他们能相对不受衣食之累,在艺术的“乌托邦“中创作不沾铜臭的美术作品。同时,艺术中心的画家们也为当地居民服务,包括开办免费儿童美术班等。
Once I followed New England’s picturesque country road and, unintentionally, in Berkling, Concordia, I found the Art Museum of New China’s first art exhibition in 1979 - New England Modern Art center. Connecticut is the richest state in the United States, with the highest per capita annual income in the United States. Art Museum is located in the state’s most beautiful scenery sightseeing Avenue, abound on both sides of the rich manor house. Art site, is the millionaire Henri Reisman home more than two hundred miles wide manor. In fact, the museum itself was a three-story stable of Mr. Raisman twenty years ago. In 1975, he transformed the barn into an art gallery in nine exhibition halls, converted a large warehouse into several studio buildings, and used two more guest rooms as the artist’s living area. Founded the New England Center for Modern Art, and personally served as director, a fixed annual salary of one dollar. Mr. Reisman, a 82-year-old graduate of the Agricultural College, has a dozen chicken farms and married a female painter who turned his interest to art. In the process of selling his wife’s paintings, he profoundly understands the arduous work of the artists and indignant at the painter’s exploitation of the painters. In the end, he decided to donate his own manor, create a commune-like art center for the artist, and provide them with space for living and exhibitions that would allow them to be relatively unaffected by food and clothing and create non-stinky in the artistic “Utopia” artwork. In the meantime, art center artists also serve local residents, including free children’s art classes.