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Art Being Chinese

Art is Long, Life is Short

Intense eyes peer out from under white, bristly eyebrows. The look is hard to interpret: wary and suspicious? resolute? resigned?  defiant? Beard and mustache blend into one white stream, flowing down cheeks and spilling onto the front of his tunic. He leans on an insubstantial staff, barely sturdy enough to bear his weight. It’s a strange-looking […]

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Non-Fiction Picture Books

Lessons from my Coffee Table Books

What Matisse and Cézanne taught me  about color, pattern and creating order This is Susan Caba’s fourth blogpost for Dr. Bookworm. Her others are “where you headed from here,” “i sleep with other people’s dogs,” and “The Bear on the Stairs: Tales of the Prairie, with Paintings.” Glossy, glamorous and lush with photos and generally sparse […]