Word: moons
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...proportion of water to ink on his brush. Animals and birds also make symbolically important appearances throughout the exhibition, which opens under the gaze of a lively 9th century temple carving of a tiger, the protective symbol of Korea. Cranes, which symbolize longevity, are well represented, too. In The Moon and Two Cranes in the Middle of Bamboos, the birds are beautifully rendered in black ink, colored pigment and gold in a hanging scroll from...
...scholars alone in their pavilions admiring nature, or meandering through the countryside on the backs of donkeys, or on a picnic?challenging one another to produce the best picture or most expressive calligraphy. One of the most charming is Yi Song Rin's 1748 Sage and Child Under the Moon and the Pine. Confucian philosophy acknowledges the centrality of man, the importance of learning, the appreciation of nature and the cycle of life. All are here, as the little boy, holding his lunch box in one hand and his scroll box under his other arm, follows the aging scholar through...
...into the Sea of Japan (or East Sea) earlier this month. And U.S. officials have been warning that spy satellites have detected increased activity around a suspicious test facility in the northeast of the country that may presage an underground A-bomb test. South Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki Moon last week told a local TV news service: "I'm extremely concerned that the situation is getting worse...
...King of Pop's Michael Jackson's Moon-walker...
...from contrabassoon to erhu (as bridegroom and bride), in a sliding scale of culture. With Inguz (1996), named after a Viking rune symbolizing fertility, the clarinet threatens to soar at any moment into Gershwin-like rhapsody, but gives birth to something else - music as anthropology. For her 2000 opera Moon Spirit Feasting, the composer spent time in Malaysia observing the Hungry Ghost Festival, when Chinese communities entertain ancestral spirits with a month of street theater and song. In this sense, Lim's music is a votive offering to her past...