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201 Blog Posts Under This Category Now Displaying Page 5, Blog Posts 101 to 125 « Previous | Next » Page 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Category: Lifestyle » Art A Renovated National Palace Musuem in Taipei and Grand View Exhibition - CatherineYen(20,979) ![]()
Cup in Lotus Shape (Song to Ming Dynasty)
Collection of National Palace Musuem-Taipei, Taiwan
Caligraphy of MiFu (Song Dynasty)
Collection of National Palace Musuem, Taipei, Taiwan
The special exhibition Grand View: Painting, Calligraphy and Ju Ware from the Northern Sung...Category: Lifestyle » Art Introduction of an Outstanding Interior Artist--Carol Vilhelm Holsoe - CatherineYen(20,979) ![]()
The biography of Carol V. Holsoe- Danish (1863-1935)
A highly acclaimed artist of the Danish school, Holsoe paints landscapes, genre scenes and interiors. The son of famed architect Niels Peter Christian Holsoe (1826-1895), the fine arts were inCategory: Lifestyle » Art Introduction of a Realist Artist- Antoine Vollon - CatherineYen(20,979) ![]()
(Title: Flower painted 1857)
Vollon, Antoine ( b Lyon, 20 April 1833; d Paris, 27 Aug 1900). French painter. Having worked for a maker of enamelled metalwork and an engraver, Vollon attended the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Lyon (1850–52), where he won awards in printmaking. He...Category: Lifestyle » Art WELCOME - peglegmeg(2) I hope you enjoy this blog! Happy Spring!!! Category: Lifestyle » Art Introduction of Russian Beauty -Artist, Philip Andreyevich Maliavin - CatherineYen(20,979) ![]() Title: The Peasant Girl
Philip Andreyevich Maliavin was born on 1869 in a large village of Kazanki (Samara Province, now the Totsk District, Orenburg Region) comprising 340 households. Hardly any of the peasants could read and write. Philip’s artistic nature manifested itself at an early...Category: Lifestyle » Photography Ashes and Snow-by Gregory Colbert - CatherineYen(20,979) ![]() The Vision of Ashes and Snow
“In exploring the shared language and poetic sensibilities of all animals, I am working towards rediscovering the common ground that once existed when people lived in harmony with animals. The images depict a world that is without beginning or end, here or there...Category: Lifestyle » Philosophy A Letter to the Readers - CatherineYen(20,979) ![]()
Private collection-Jade Camel (circa Han to Tang Dynasty)
I was suffering from the back ache for a while and today I began to do some gardening and participate a gorgeous art exhibition, I start to work and try to make my body and spirit would evoke the harmony. I sometimes go to visit...Category: Lifestyle » Art The Art of Wang Hwai Qing (b. 1944 BeiJing, China) - CatherineYen(20,979) ![]() The art of Wang Hwai Qing (b. 1944, BeiJing, China)
"Six tables" --oil painting by Wang ,Hwai Qing
I noticed Wang's arts in early 1995, that's 12 years ago, his paintings depicts his earnest serach in Chinese Ming furniture's passion, all these antiques represent the Chinese old...Category: Lifestyle » Religion Introduction of Lugang Mazu Temple - CatherineYen(20,979) ![]()
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Engraving Ceiling of the TempleCategory: Lifestyle » Photography Earth from Above-A Great Photographer-Yann Arthus-Bertrand - CatherineYen(20,979) ![]() Earth from Above-The Art of Yann Arthus-Bertrand
The French greatest photogrpher, Yann Arthus-Bertrand had taken series of photographs such as "Earth from Above", "Horses" etc. The former one is especially amazing in recording of the earth from above by 365 days. Yann is not only taken...Category: Lifestyle » Art A Memory of Ex-Director of Taipei National Palace Musuem -Mr. Chin, Xiao Yi - CatherineYen(20,979) ![]() A Memory of Ex-Director of Taipei National Palace Museum
- Chin, Xiao Yi
Mr. Chin Xiao Yi and Tiffy Xiao Kong's hand (w collected ink stone)Category: Lifestyle » Familly and Children The Glove-a remembrance for the family days - CatherineYen(20,979) ![]()
Andris
The Glove
See, whose glove is that small,
With warmth and hope,
The hands I have ever hold,
Gentle like the spring breeze flow,
Of thee I have been told,
The little boy with benevolence, justice and glow.
Category: Lifestyle » Art Remembrance--by French poet Authur Rimbaud - CatherineYen(20,979) ![]() Remembrance
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Water, clear as the salt of children's tears,
Suddenly in sunlight,, women's bodies, all white;
Streams of silk, pure lilies, bright banners,
Beneath remparts where an armed Maid appeared.
Diversion of angles; No--the current carries gold
And loads its...Category: Lifestyle » Art Han Tang Music and NanKuang (Instruments) - CatherineYen(20,979) ![]() Han Tang music and Nan Kuang Lyrics and Tune
Title: Tune of Love Sickness by Han Tang Music Group
The newly revised blog system can't support chinese character, so the article can't dispaly herewith, but I would like to paste the pictures of Nan Kuang music, which would deliver a...Category: Lifestyle » Art The Arts Village in Chao Thau, Kaohsiung Hsien, Taiwan - CatherineYen(20,979) ![]()
The photos in Arts Village- Chao Thau
Pay your visit to the splendid place in southern Taiwan
I paid a visit to Chao Thau Arts Village( Kia-A-Thau Artist-in-Residence) on August 24, which is only 2 km from my Kang Shan's house , ICategory: Lifestyle » Philosophy (posted 32 days 23 hours ago.) Paradox Times in Life - CatherineYen(20,979) ![]()
"Lotus series" painted by author Catherine Yen, year 2000
Today we have bigger houses but smaller families, more amenities but less time,
We have a higher education level and more knowledge but less common sense and competence to judge,
We have more experts but more problems,
More...Category: Lifestyle » Familly and Children (posted 37 days 15 hours ago.) Home alone - fending off robbers or working? - Creative(54,965) ![]() In my case, I am home alone working thank fully!
I have worked from home since having my children a few years ago and it has it's pros and cons but for now this is how I want it to stay.
Despite the fact it is a tad isolated, I can fit my hours around my children and still manage to...Category: Lifestyle » Art (posted 39 days 1 hour ago.) Making your own cards - WARNING can be addictive! - Creative(54,965) ![]() Anyone who has dabbled with making their own handmade cards knows it can be hugely addictive. Usually this is harmless aside from the ever decreasing space you might have due to card making equipment and card making supplies slowly overtaking every inch of spare room in your home!
This is...Category: Lifestyle » Art (posted 45 days 21 hours ago.) Lucian Freud --A Compelling Visual Contact of His Art - CatherineYen(20,979) ![]()
Oil painting by Lucian Freud , "The Interior"
Freud's big oil painting " Benefits Supervisor Sleeping" (circa 1995) will be auctioned in May at New York Christie's , which is estimated in US$35M and will break the record of Jeff Koons' "Hanging Heart" (US$23.5M), it will rewirte the...Category: Lifestyle » Shopping (posted 47 days ago.) Sex Sells--But I'm Not Buying - Alf Gordon(13,356) (Warning: If you're offended by frank biological terminology, reading this blog entry would be a VERY bad idea.) They're everywhere, and you're blind if you miss them. On television, on billboards, in magazines, in newspapers. Scantily-clad busty females and muscular half-dressed males are... Category: Lifestyle » Relationships (posted 50 days 2 hours ago.) How to spot a Gold Digger from 20 paces! - Creative(54,965) ![]()
Gold Diggers are both male and female,despite the stereotypical view that they are usually female. Women are just as likely to find a male latch onto them for their money as a man is. Gold digging is also not restricted to heterosexual relationships. Some people love money and the trappings of...Category: Lifestyle » Opinions (posted 52 days 20 hours ago.) I Protest! Public Benefit, or Personal Agenda? - Alf Gordon(13,356) I just missed the protests and revolution of the 1960s. (Yeah, I know, it's killing me.) By the time I was aware enough to know that there were other things going on in the world outside my little microcosm, protesting was done, hippies were passe, and disco was in. (Like I said, it's killing... Category: Lifestyle » Familly and Children (posted 57 days 17 hours ago.) Intelligent children bullied in school? - Nerd culture - Creative(54,965) ![]() Someone asked the question recently on a science forum as to why it is that clever children in schools are generally bullied, ridiculed and labeled nerds, while the simpler yet more 'dazzly' looking children are often the most popular.
Myself I think that lack of popularity has less to do...Category: Lifestyle » Opinions (posted 58 days 23 hours ago.) I'm Walking: Pedestrians Free From the Letter of the Law - Alf Gordon(13,356) Yesterday I had an epiphany: Pedestrians get all the breaks. Seriously. Unlike drivers, pedestrians don't have police watching out for their every mistake and issuing tickets for the least little infraction of the law. As a result, they take full advantage of their immunity by violating as many... Category: Lifestyle » Just for Fun (posted 59 days 15 hours ago.) God loves me – the day my parachute failed to open! - Creative(54,965) ![]()
In 1989, my next-door neighbour did a parachute jump. I watched as he nervously paced up and down in his ‘all in ones’ and then went with his group to the small domestic plane that was to take him up.
Things were a tad different in those days to now. People were allowed to jump solo and... |
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