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Poetry in Painting: The Work of Ming Ren
Su Tung-p’o, the great eleventh century scholar, painter and connoisseur wrote of his friend’s work,
When I savour Mo-chieh’s poem’s, I find paintings in them; When I look at Mo-chieh’s paintings, there are poems in them. (1)
In the work of the twenty-first century landscape painter, Ming Ren, one finds poetry as well. Continue reading “Poetry in Painting: The Work of Ming Ren”
MING REN : “Magic Happenings”
In every artist there’s a solid streak of sheer bravery. My friend the painter Ming Ren has it. Continue reading “MING REN : “Magic Happenings””
呼喚和回應﹐任敏的繪畫
呼喚和回應﹐任敏的繪畫
藝術作品呼喚著，觀者、聽者及讀者回應著。觀者的感覺回應著那些展覽在畫廊、博物館或在家中的作品(甚至是垃圾堆-或許是一件在垃圾中閃亮的珍寶)的色彩與光線﹐尺度與形式的誘惑。聽者的身軀回應著節奏和旋律﹐乃至壯闊的和弦與錯綜複雜的管弦樂。讀者的思想回應著字裡行間描述所帶來 畢生的記憶和期待。是的，記憶﹐是思維對藝術作品的誘惑所產生的回應。我們觀賞﹐聆聽﹐和閱讀﹐但所有那些都存在個人一生之久記憶的背景中。因此﹐任敏的作品呼喚，每個人的回應不同也成了個人所特有的獨特記憶。 Continue reading “呼喚和回應﹐任敏的繪畫”
Call and Response, the Paintings of Ming Ren
The work of art calls; the viewer, the listener, the reader responds. The viewer’s senses respond to the seduction of color and light, scale and form, the place of the work in a gallery, a museum, or home (or even the dump—perhaps a shining treasure in the trash). Continue reading “Call and Response, the Paintings of Ming Ren”
The wind is swirling and the clouds are floating
When my fellow schoolmate Ming Ren returned from America, he brought back his new catalog of his most recent works. When friends visit from afar, there is always the sense of nostalgia borne by a familiar passing breeze. These new works allow one to experience that, as if one is floating among the clouds. Continue reading “The wind is swirling and the clouds are floating”
A FORCE OF NATURE
On a recent Monday evening, I helped my sixteen-year-old son prepare for his upcoming physics test. We reviewed formulas for velocity, gravitational pull, momentum, acceleration, and centripetal force. Immediately following our study session, we began talking about a show of Ming Ren’s paintings that we had both seen. Continue reading “A FORCE OF NATURE”
How Qi Finds a Home in the Artist’s Studio
“Fire and water have qi but do not have life. Grasses and trees have life but do not have perceptivity. Fowl and beasts have perceptivity but do not have yi (sense of right and wrong, duty, justice). Men have qi, life, perceptivity, and yi.” Continue reading “How Qi Finds a Home in the Artist’s Studio”
Kaleidoscopic Images-In honor of Ming Ren and his works
20th century commenced the era of abstractism as a demonstrator of art forms. It integrates reality with spirituality, art with life, internal world with physical ambience, therefore depicts the new cognition of the nature in an astonishing manner. Continue reading “Kaleidoscopic Images-In honor of Ming Ren and his works”