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“Flight of the Majestic, a trio of cranes soaring above a lotus-covered pond, by Lee Kyung-Song.”
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“It’s similar to the jade cabbage, but this one is a chunk of jasper perfectly sculpted into a piece of meat. And it looks exactly like a cooked pork belly. It’s so realistic I have to fight the urge to pick it up and pop it into my mouth. There are even little dimples carved into the surface like pores. The colors are perfect, and I have a hard time believing this is a natural piece of stone.”
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“(Swimming Beyond, by Chang Ying-Hom), landscapes of Chinese mountainsides and gardens (again by Lee Kyung-Song), and temples (by Huang Shufu). In his versions, Gong Gong added a classical lilt to each of these modern paintings, highlighting the old over the new. Like the reverse of Picasso’s cubist interpretations of Velazquez’s baroque-style Las Meninas.”
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“Then we come to the crown jewel of the National Palace Museum, and all remaining thoughts of the hunt fly out the window. A white-and-green piece of jadeite is carved into a Chinese cabbage, complete with a locust and katydid hiding in the leaves. The body of the cabbage is white and the leaves green, the perfect use of the natural color of the stone. I feel a kinship with the unknown artist who carved this. They looked at a chunk of imperfect, uncarved jade and saw a cabbage head, just like I see patterns in nothing.”
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“X was active in the 1960s before disappearing. They started with street art, graffiti, and murals that defied convention by expressing criticism of the government and depicting gay and lesbian relationships. While Taiwan is progressive now—being the first Asian country to legalize same-sex marriages in 2019—back in the ’60s, it wasn’t as accepting. X’s art varied in medium and subject, but the centralizing, defining characteristic of their work was the letter x over people’s faces—sometimes a giant one instead of any features, and other times replacing the mouth and/or eyes, depending on the message.”
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