Is mental disability suitable for being an artist?

His name is Guo Haiping, and he comes from Nanjing, China.

Known as "the father of China's native art", he devoted himself to helping the mentally retarded with painting and guiding them to convey their inner world with colors. He is one of countless devotees in this city of fraternity.

Original art refers to works created spontaneously and creatively by people who have not received professional training. Its most important creator is the mental patient.

1 1 years ago, Guo Haiping dragged a black suitcase into a mental hospital in Nanjing to encourage mental patients to draw, collect their works of art and observe their spiritual world.

Surprisingly, the world written by mental patients is free and open, which shocked and moved Guo Haiping. This world is exactly what I have been looking for. Three months later, he decided to devote the rest of his life to it.

On 20 10, Guo Haiping established the first art center in China-"Nanjing Prototype Art Center". Unlike most rehabilitation centers, whose function is supervision, Guo Haiping gives maximum respect and freedom to mental patients who come to paint. "When these local artists can't be like us, they just have to be themselves."

Over the years, native art has gradually entered and taken root in the community, and many volunteers have participated in it. People have gradually changed from "not knowing" to "understanding" and then "appreciating" local art. "More importantly, many local artists have been obviously cured in this process."

He said that he was not a philanthropist, and what he did had little to do with morality, but all came from his love and exploration of art. If it must be related to morality, he hoped that people who came to buy these paintings would buy them from the appreciation of the collection value and truly appreciate these free and pure hearts.