Visual Art

Edwin on January 28th, 2012

Time after time, I have been wondering what I should be doing in this blog. First off, I have shortened the description of this blog to include only “oil paintings” and “Chinese culture“.
Ideas so broad and free from any restriction. More often than not, this blog has been about oil paintings and Chinese culture. The [...]

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Edwin on May 21st, 2011

Water painting, as not many has heard of, differs from the commonly seen watercolor painting. This also known as Chinese Ink Paintings on Water.
Perhaps some may have know about the traditional Turkish painting technique of Ebru (also known as paper marbling in other cultures).
Or Suminagashi paintings, the ancient Japanese technique of painting on water [...]

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Edwin on June 22nd, 2010

Visiting an art gallery is more relaxing, as compared to listening to music repertoire in a concert hall. Soothing music is not that distracting to our ears, some audience may just fall asleep in the midst of listening. Some prefer to have it noisier and more energetic, such as trance or rock concert.
I play my [...]

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Today’s post will be short.
In about less than 2 weeks, one of the best oil paintings by Claude Monet will finalize the auctioned price at Christie’s. The paintings entitled, “Nymphéas” or Water Lilies, painted in 1906.
This set is just one out of the 250 oil paintings in his life time. Every artwork [...]

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