Evgeny Kissin in Taipei

Taipei National Concert Hall, 3/24/29

A child prodigy is becoming a matured great master, of which people have never disappointed in his brilliant technique and his willingness to outgrow his inborn musicality.

In Romeo and Juliet, he plotted and vividly told the story in his playing; in Prokofiev's 8th Sonata, he absolutely took the advantage of being a Russian pianist, showing off his characteristics, his stubbornness, his vast engrossing sound; in his Chopin fantasy, as beautifully fantasising as a chopin fatasy would sound, I wish there was more color and timbre nuances; in Chopin's etude, Bravo, bravo, poetic and almost humanly impossible volocity and concentration.

台北美術館之旅2 : 連建興

恐龍時期的文明; 禁慾的黑貓; 甘密湖的早唱 ;

畫家在夢幻寫實的構圖中，運用動物的擬人化，

透漏了人性淺意識裡動物的層面，

表現獸性, 慾望！

然而對照的動物 , 經常卻是文明的（恐龍），溫馴的（獅子），與禁慾的（黑貓）一方。

1962 年生，年輕一輩的連建興，在他的作品中，常可窺見他是佛洛伊德的的擁護者, 動物農莊Geroge Owell 的支持者。以嘲諷趣味夢幻的方式表現人類千年來的自以為是，天下唯我獨尊的幻覺。 是個具創意，深度思維, 活在深層意識的畫家。可望他作品的更進一步的超脫...在技巧上更為活絡，色彩筆觸更有變化。 那時，市場絕是超出300萬的價值呢...

台北美術館之旅１： 郎靜山

1950 年代的攝影作品，像是水墨山水，人總是那麼的渺小。天地總是那麼的遙不可及。一些的荒蕪，一絲的無奈，最終理想的的天人合一，也許在大師，郎靜山的鏡頭下，結構，光影, 暈染，與意境勝過一切的真實與解析. 　

Venice 5: Freedom and Opulence

Look! Surprisingly....Their eyes are on the chest of women....

Where did these men place their eyes on in the painting, manifests the voluptuous longing and freedom of love predominating the golden age of Venice.
Not that promiscuity became recognized, but the attempt to emancipate from the confinement of church could be found here.

While the plump nude women posses such center of attention, disregarding the theme, either religious or mythological, profound or seductive, the physical appeals of wealth and opulence truly demonstrate the affluence and richness of Venice in the 16 th century.

Venice 4: Veronese

*Allegory of Wisdom and Strength

*The Marriage at Cana, Detail

*Susana Bathing

*The Battle of Lepanto

*The Marriage at Cana

Veronese, Paolo (1528-88). Venetian school. After Titian . Few of his paintings are dated or can be reliably dated, so his chronology is difficult to construct.
Marble columns and costumes of velvet and satin abound in his work, and he used a sumptuous but delicate palette in which pale blue, orange, silvery white, and lemon yellow predominate. His penchant was for feast scenes from the Bible rather than incidents from Christ's Passion.

Venice 3: Mannerism

Mannerism (It. maniera, "manner, style")
A movement in Italian art from about 1520 to 1600. Developing out of the Renaissance, Mannerism rejected Renaissance balance and harmony in favor of emotional intensity and ambiguity. In Mannerist painting, this was expressed mainly through severe distortions of perspective and scale; complex and crowded compositions; strong, sometimes harsh or discordant colors; and elongated figures in exaggerated poses. In architecture, there was a playful exaggeration of Renaissance forms (largely in scale and proportion) and the greater use of bizarre decoration. Mannerism gave way to the Baroque. Leading Mannerists include Pontormo, Bronzino, Parmigianino, El Greco and Tintoretto.

Venice 2: Tintoretto

Veronese, Titian, and Tintoretto constitute the triumvirate of pre-eminent Venetian painters of the late Renaissance (1500s).


Last Supper 1594
Deliverence of Arsenoe 1560
Miracle of Slave 1548
St Mark's Body Brought to Venice 1548

Tintoretto (1518-1594): Jacopo Comin; Venitian School

Like Crimson Rambler ...

American Impressionist....

They are so much more realistic than French Impressionist Artists...

In comparison with the French school, the light and /color and so the imagination and/playfulness were not present, but stillness and harmony.

Venice 1: Masqure Festival

" Venice " 2009






We are always wearing masks, pretending that we are incessantly invincible and blissful , yet we are so vulnerable and unfathomable insight.

Being compassionate means that you need to open up your mind to others, even though you appear to be so vulnerable. Put down your sheild, and protection, while you know you may be hurt or touched by this person....

Jimmai Kyanze Rinpoche

何為輪迴說？

在睡夢中的意識，也就是, 讓我們生生世世流轉的意識，
不是我們的頭腦，而是我們頭腦以外的東西。
這是一種很細微的東西。 比起我們五官接受的意識還要精細!
倘若你能夠查覺它，能夠感受他的存在，
能夠主宰他，而不受外在的干擾，
你便可以自由自在的解脫了！

你並不需要相信輪迴一說，
因為意識的存在是個真相。
是個無始無終的存在。.------Jimmai Kyanze Rinpoche