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...purchased a cheap vase from a local dime store, then headed into the museum and casually dropped the “sculpture” over the railing into the museum’s great hall. The vase smashed, and a cohort cried out, “My God! The Ming vase...
...Guimet curators make the point that by blending Song and Ming styles, the Choson artists created their own pictorial vocabulary, one more personal, more poetic and closer to nature than their Chinese contemporaries'. historically, Koreans have certainly felt that their country is one of uncommon beauty?and this delight in their natural setting is evident in the exhibition's evocative landscape paintings. The Korean artists pay particular attention to the subjects in the foreground?mountains, plants, trees, rocks?leaving the background almost empty to maximize the feeling of depth and provide a sense of perspective that their Chinese counterparts often...
...course, screens like this are associated more with Japan than China. And the Guimet show acknowledges the back-and-forth influences between peninsular Korea and island Japan, especially after the fall of China's Ming dynasty in 1644. But Japanese screens were mainly intended to remain stationary, while those in Korea were designed to be portable. As the French journalist-diplomat Georges Ducrocq wrote 100 years ago, "When they cannot enjoy the countryside, the Koreans have their screens to provide them with the illusion of it." And though people in 21st century Paris can't go back to the kingdom...
...Heng-ming, 86, an army colonel during the period of KMT rule, has the advantage of the long view. Wu still has Communist shrapnel in his throat and stomach from the civil war. When his army retreated to Taiwan, he left behind his wife and infant son. Years later, Wu learned that his wife's father was killed by the abandoned son during the Cultural Revolution. "He tortured him," Wu says. "It was a time when the young were told to turn against their elders." He says he no longer harbors resentment against the Communists and says the ghosts...
...Xian's case, his staggeringly beautiful sculptures speak for themselves. During a residency at Sydney College of the Arts in 1998, he began producing a series of porcelain busts, hand-cast and decorated in Ming and Qing Dynasty motifs. But it was an Australia Council?funded trip back to China the following year that equipped him for stardom. There, in a workshop outside Beijing, he became skilled in the 700-year-old techniques of cloisonn?, a painstaking process of copper-wire enameling which he applied to full body-casting. Human human?lotus, cloisonn? figure I, 2000-01, took out Australia...