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ARTS
& LITERATURE
- (Dec
14, 2008) Today is the last day of a special
exhibition of the work by Italian painter Giorgio Morandi
at The Metroplitan Museum of Aris in New York.
Morandi specilized in Still Life; see one of his work below
(from http://www.metmuseum.org/).
I have been wondering for a long time
about what distinguishs the art work of masters. I
have been struggling to understand the seemingly contradictory advices
the painting of the still life be realistic but not exactly like the
real objects. Yesterday, as I was listening to the NPR
inteview of Philip Seymour Hoffman by Terry Gross about his new movies
Doubt and his Oscar award acting of Capote 3 years ago. The
discussions
by Gros and Hoffman revealed the answer wtih the following perfect
analogy in acting:
comparing the interior acting of a character and impersonation.
One can capture every details and replicate a still life in
painting but until you can interpret the inners of it, it will just be
a lifeless copy.
- (Dec
2, 2008) Session 7: Final touch-ups.
There are still many improvements I can go after that I will do later.
But time has come to wrap this first project up and move on
trying different challenges. Stay tuned. Meanwhile,
here is my first ever oil painting - Still Lifes.
SOCIAL
& POLITICAL
- (Dec 14, 2008) The
biggest political news in recent months in Taiwan has been the criminal
investigations and detention of the former president Chen Shui-Bian.
Prosecutors have just indicted and filed formally charges
against him and the case moves into the trial face. Is it a
politically motivated prosecution as he and his supporters claim? Or is
he so corrupted as the prosecution charges? Or both? Or
neither?
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