A Malaysian artist Hong Yi, nicknamed “RED”, used coffee stain to draw Taiwanese singer Jay Chou’s portrait.  Hong Yi, 26, spent 12 hours to complete the Jay Chou coffee stain portrait in Shanghai on Valentine’s Day.  Hong Yi was inspired by Jay Chou’s song “Secret” (Bu Neng Shuo De Mi Mi).  She described the coffee in the song is cold because the main character has been thinking too much about the past.  So the coffee cup stains she used to complete the portrait are not incomplete to show that love is not perfect.  The colour of the coffee also reflects autumn, a season where all the leaves are dropping.

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A Chinese Sex Cultural Exhibition was held in Vientiane city, Fuzhou on Feb 4, 2009.  The sexual cultural is still hard to be accepted by the public and there were only a few middle-aged people went to the exhibition.

The sexual cultural exhibition was sponsored and organized by Population and Family Planning Commission of Fuzhou City.  Such exhibition was the first sexual exhibition held in Fuzhou.  The exhibits were provided by China Sex Museum founded by Liu Dalin and Hu Hong-xia.  There were 800 exhibits, including pottery, porcelain, sculpture, etc.  The oldest item was a nine thousand years old pottery goddess.  Since it was the first exhibition held in Fuzhou, the Fuzhou citizens still could not accept it and there were only few people came to visit.

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The painter of “Oriental Goddess” is Li Zhuangping, 61, and his daughter Li Qin is 23 years old.  His work was inspired by Qu Yuan’s “Mountain Ghost” and Guo Moruo’s “Mountain Wu’s Goddess”.  He then saw that his daughter matched the features of the goddess in the tales, so he asked her daughter if she would like to become his nude model.  Li Qin agreed and both of them worked on the paintings for several years and finally created the amazing works.  Li Zhuangping said that he wished to paint the hamorny between human and nature, human and animals, and also human and human.

“Mountain Wu’s Goddess” a.k.a. “Wushan’s Goddess” is a goddess in ancient Chinese mythology.  Her real name was Yao Ji.  There are different sayings about her origins, some said she was the daughter of the Mountain Wu, some said she was Emperor of Heaven’s daughter, and some said she was the daughter of Emperor Yan.  She was never married when she was alive.  When she passed away, she was buried in Mountain Wu, and later became Goddess.  She used to seduce several emperors in dreams, and this led to the using of “Wushan (mountain Wu) Goddess” to praise a pretty lady.

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Thomas Hart Benton Working on His Painting “Rape of Persephone” in His Studio Using Live Nude Model Thomas Hart Benton Working on His Painting “Rape of Persephone” in His Studio Using Live Nude Model Photographic Print by Alfred Eisenstaedt. Product size approximately 16 x 16 inches. Available at Art.com. Embrace your Space – your source for high quality fine art posters and prints.

On Nov 7, nine monster models made of abandoned spare parts appeared on Hangzhou streets.  The artist spent one and a half year to assemble the ‘steel monsters’.  Two of the earliest creations were sold at RMB 40,000.

On the same day, it was the opening of the West Lake creative market at Longyou Road.  There were many creative items, such as t-shirts, postcards, paintings, leather decoration, dolls, stickers, etc.

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Recently a post titled “Student from Shenzhen University Ultimate DIY Dormitory Modification” was spreading like wild fire on Chinese forums, and it gained a lot of hits and discussion.  A guy modified his 2 m x 0.9 m dormitory bed into a creative private space with three boards and a curtain.

The dormitory bed consisted of lights, computer, and air circulation facilities.  The monitor could be easily adjusted and position.  There was also a writing desk which can be put away at anytime.  The keyboard, mouse and headphone were hanged on the wall.  By spinning a knob, all these things can be used.  The small space also has three board to put daily supplies.  The most notable thing was the calligraphy hanged on the bedside, which wrote “Study House” on it.

The owner of this DIY dormitory bed was Shenzhen University’s Wang Xu.  Wang Xu was 20-year-old young man from Shenzhen.  Currently he was sophomore student of Shenzhen University’s Faculty of Law.  Wang Xu said that he had never stay with other people before.  When he just moved into the dorm, he already had the thought of having a private space.  However he had removed the electronics under the pressure of the school as the school did not want other students to imitate.

Wang Xu came up with the ideas bit by bit, and he bought all the materials before the summer vacation.  During the October holiday, he assembled all the materials at home and then moved back to the dorm.  The cost for the whole modification only spent him 2000 RMB.  After living at the newly designed space for 20 days, he showed the photo of his DIY dorm on the school forum.  This attracted 100 more people visited his room.  He became a popular guy in the university.  He was even invited to talk about the design on the school radio, and also invited by the school of architecture to discuss about the design with the graduates.

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This beautifully painted pig mask was purchased in Hong Kong in the 1970′s.  The 7 inches mask is made of painted papier mache.  However the mask was sold.

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The title for this half nude scuplture was “cumulus cloud drifting snow”. The sculpture was an image of a woman in Qing Dynasty palace, sitting on a chair way exposing breasts and thighs. The private part was covered with a white square towel and it was uncoordinated with the original material. Many audiences noted this in the China Art Gallery Exhibition Hall.

The staff recalled when the sculpture was not covered with hand towel when the exhibition started. It was added soon after the display.

Li, the sculptor, said the creation of sculpture used the Empress Dowager Cixi as a prototype. “Half bare” creation was only to express his understanding of history.

“When it was sent for approval, the relevant department had not raised any objection.” Li said on 8th July afternoon, the opening of the exhibition, Chinese Artists’ Association (organizer) said there were complaints from audiences and told him that his work needed to be ‘censored’. Li had no choice but covered Cixi private part.

The saying of “complaints from audiences” was not confirmed by Chinese Artists’ Association as there was no one in the office answering the calls.

Source: 6park