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Last Angry Man. In Hong Kong, Yu Shui-ming, alias Pee Hai Por ("Leather Shoe Shop"), was asked by a judge to demonstrate how he earned his nickname, pulled off one of his shoes, flung it at the police officer who had arrested him for loitering...
...shop is filled with a conglomeration of exotic glue pots, picture frames, the smell of turpentine, prints from the Ming Dynasty, welded metal sculpture, mobiles, folk pottery, and usually an exhibition of the most abstract of abstracts by one young artist or another. Paul has recently come down to earth with a small shop on the street level devoted entirely to ceramics. His personality can be felt everywhere in a quiet, yet intense sort of way as he arranges things or looks up as someone comes in the door...
Stephen A. Aaron followed with the Ivy Oration, in which he revealed that the setter of the Mem Hall fire was really Cesare D. Balzotti, "agent provocateur for Mr. Vellucci," discovered to be Ming Emperor Sey-Pu, whose name, unscrambled, might be easily recognized...
With ten centuries of accumulated art to look back over, Ming masters became eclectics, painting in several different styles. The mark of the age was its delight in intimate, everyday scenes, anecdotal and often merely decorative. But with the custom of copying from old masters, along with an absorption in technique for its own sake, art came perilously close to feeding upon itself. The famed three-volume painting primer called The Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting, compiled between 1679 and 1701 in a small Nanking house (called the Mustard Seed Garden), broke down brush strokes into 16 different categories...
...civil-service exam (he came out first, then was disgraced when it was discovered that a friend had bribed the examiner), was spent between wild roistering and intense painting periods. His Gentleman and Attendants borrows T'ang Dynasty props, slims down the earlier plump models to suit Ming tastes, and comes off as a triumph in space and contrasts. But T'ang Yin could not resist slyly mocking the mood of scholarly repose. On the painting he wrote: "Miss Li Tuan-tuan of the House of Shan Ho is indeed a walking flower. In spite...