From Pioneer Literature To Modern Art

Ni Yide is a writer and artist in the field of literature and art who across two big vanguard in 20 to 30’s of the 20 th century in China. This paper combed Ni Yide’s basic path in life carefully, in the way from vanguard literary activities in the Creation Society to contemporary art practice in Jue Lan She, to show his real life and inner conditions as an awakening modernist literature youth who slams with the traditional powers in literature and art and the left of the general public art.Because of the unfavorable situations, such as the state’s weakness, malaise, and national peril, finally there was no way out for Ni to continue his modern literature, which was advocated with a view to getting rid of social constraints purely and abandoning the social function, but failed to comply with the demand of state in time of war. That is like "to shoot the autumn cicada". But it can make people reexamine the complex, dazzle and brief process of the modern pioneer literature and art from the early of the republic of germination, development to decrease. At the same time, people had realized NiYide’s praiseworthy art and independent personality, which are the most valuable quality of pioneer of modern art.