Monday, October 29, 2007

How to paint a huge sacred banner laid on floor --

Korean female monk painting at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco.

http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=1448872329&context=set-72157602185537957&size=l

Note the respect with which she carefully sits on a white sheet of paper and uses other sheets of paper to protect the completed painting from smudging.

The eyes are painted in -- "opened" last, as in Buddha images in Burma with a special ceremony.

Height and dating--I think it's over-valued--like big breasts and thick lips in women.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/jun/18/the-shorter-mans-search-for-love-one-woman-cried-when-i-told-her-how-tall-i-am?utm_sour...