December 22, 2024 1:32 pm

EXPRESSIVE BRUSHSTORKES FOR REALISTIC PAINTINGS: Chen Yifei, combination of both Western and Eastern influences

CHEN YIFEI 1/4 – He was born in in Ningbo (coastal Zhejiang Province).   Famous Chinese classic painter, he is a central figure in the development of Chinese oil painting. He was famous for his big Mao portraits and depiction of grand heroic events of the modern Chinese nation. In his oil paintings, he abandoned his uncritical glorification of the party, …

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CHINESE POEMS: Warm spring expands, while raising clouds

NIGHT’S VIGIL In the deep night vigil the moonlight cuts through men and houses, the Great Bear cross the skies in the north, Sagittarius declines in the south. On this night I mean better the warm air of spring: entry of insects again penetrates the green veil of the window. (Liu Fang-P’ing) THOUGHT LOOKING The network image, launched, widens more …

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RAISE THE RED LANTERN: Novel, by Su Tong

What you read, you talk of a China immersed in medieval times of pre-revolutionary social decomposition. Leafing through the pages of the novel, you will discover the young Songlian, a girl who agrees to become the fourth wife and concubine of rich Chen Zuoqian. You must adapt to the rules that the “home” requires wives (the husband has – among …

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CHINESE FLAVOURS: Chopsticks and jasmine tea, eating Peking duck and moon cakes

To know what are the best Chinese food to savor, but also learn to use “the chopsticks”, much easier to use than you think. Yes, this is also “feel” the country you are visiting. Welcome to China, where you will never forget the first time culinary, eat when steamed ravioli (stuffed with fresh vegetables or with meat). Another first course, …

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THE IMAGINATIVE USE OF SURREALISM: Tetsuya Ishida, where the inanimate objects are imbued with, taking on a living existence

TETSUYA ISHIDA 1/4 – Surreal portrayal of an ordinary Japanese life, its the creative world of an joung artist, strucked by a train. His paintings, depict humanoid figures in surreal environments, reflecting on uncertainty and unease. Yes, Ishida’s art involves an imaginative use of surrealism. TETSUYA ISHIDA 2/4 – He entered Musashino Art University where he majored in Visual Communication …

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JAPANESE POEMS: The flower necklaces, for a traveler

THE WANDERER You would at home love in the arms would rest, poor traveler. Here, along the way, dissolves on a bed of grass. (Shotoku Taishi) FALL FLOWERS In the glasses of sake plum petals float. After drinking with his best friend fall well flowers … (Otomo No Sakanoue) A NECKLACE FOR YOU White dew drops plumes on cane my …

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THE PASSIONATE EQUIVALENT OF A SENSATION RECEIVED: Maurice Denis, nont a flat surface covered with assembled coors

MAURICE DENIS 1/4 – He was born in a November day in Normandy, and its waters and coastlines would remain favorite subject matter throughout his career. He studied at École des Beaux-Arts and the Académie Julian. He believed that art should sanctify nature. Inside its work, the imagination again become the queen of our strengths, where liberate our sensitivity. MAURICE …

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FRENCH SHADES OF LIFE: Life loves those who love Her

    Nous agissons toujours comme si quelque chose dépassait en valeur la vie humaine… mais quoi? We always act as if something is exceeded by value of human life … but what? Siempre actuamos como si algo se supera en valor de la vida humana … ¿pero qué? Noi agiamo sempre come se qualche cosa superasse il valore della …

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SPANISH SHADES ON PAPER: Poems, by Jesús Díaz Armas

SOLO SED Solo sed hombre y canto y el peso insoportable del vacío hace falta la piedra la palabra certera que alcance el mundo y rompa su sentido que exprese lo innombrable o que vuelva vencida y muda sosegada por fin a dar consuelo. ONLY THIRST Only thirst Man and singing and the unbearable weight of the empty Needless stone …

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THE JOY TO DO WHAT YOU WANTED TO DO – Alex Alemany: To dream, using Gum turpentine, linseed oil, medium for oil painting and retouching varnish

ALEX ALEMANY 1/4 – Since he was a little child, he was always drawing and painting, and his activity was as natural for he as breathing, as it was for other children to play football. He was born on January day in Spain, and studied Fine Arts between at the “Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Carlos”. He traveled …

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