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I don’t have a “bottom line” in my acting.  Not until I start to act the character, I wouldn’t know where it would take me to, and I just go with the flow.  If I set a ”bottom line” for myself I would be limiting myself, and I would never be able to get to the next level.
~ Tony Leung talks […]

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Yue Minjun has became extremely famous since this May, after his painting, “Portrait of the Artist and His Friends” was sold for more than USD3M in Sotheby’s Spring Auction of Contemporary Chinese Art.

In Yue Minjun’s works, what you’ll find is one after one laughing faces.  They are indeed his “self portraits” depicted dramatically using high […]

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Stumbled upon this fascinating video some days ago which collaged female portraits from the last 500 years of Western Art into a continuous film.   Awesome work.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUDIoN-_Hxs

Is there a formula for beauty?  It’s particularly interesting to see the female protraited in the modern cubism and expressionism paintings (such as those by Matisse and Picasso) towards the end […]

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I simply found myself lost for words for the architecture of Antoni Gaudi (1852-1926). 
  
He definitely was the “God’s architect”for his works were so unique, mysterious, dream-like, complex and imaginative that they resemble no architecture we see on earth.  Gaudi’s earlier works were designed in the style of Gothic and traditional Spanish architectural modes, but he soon developed his own […]

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