#tunastudies

[weishenyu]

finally breaking out my set of juice sweet milk pens on the CN lyrics to tell your world :-) the vanilla blue is my favorite, they all write very smoothly, although i’d probably only use honey as a highlight on white paper

[weishenyu]

今日學的詞 [Daily Vocab]

想把日常新詞寫下來；今天看完骨科跟爸爸去咖啡店，點了一杯 「金銀花拿鐵」 （用茉莉花茶，蜂蜜，和葉子奶做的）和番茄奶酪帕尼尼，特別適合今天的天氣（今年的初雪！）。

因為咖啡店牆上展示很多當地畫家的作品，我們開始聊台灣有名的藝術家。特別談了朱銘和洪通：朱銘是一位雕塑家，最有名的作品是他的［太極］雕刻，去年才過世的。他的美術館裡我爺爺的墳塋很近。

洪通是70年代初名的 「東方的畢卡索」。50歲才開始學畫，他的藝術使用原始主義裝飾常見的幾何紋漾。雖然很快的成為全臺焦點人物，隱居後速被大眾遺忘，窮困終老。

茉莉花茶 [mòli huāchá] - jasmine tea (can also use 香片)

金銀花 [jīnyínhuā] - honeysuckle

奶酪 [nǎilào] - cheese

帕尼尼 [pàníní] - panini (loanword)

初雪 [chùxuě] - first snow

展示 [zhǎnshì] - exhibit

雕刻 [diāokè] - sculpture/carving

原始主義 [yuánshǐzhǔyì] - primitivism

幾何 [jǐhé] - geometry

隱居 [yǐnjū] - withdraw from society

[eng tl under the cut]

Wanted to note down new vocab words I come across on the daily; After my appointment at the orthopedics, I went to a coffee shop with my dad and ordered a honeysuckle tea latte and a tomato mozarella panini, which was perfect for today’s weather (this winter’s first snow!).

Since the coffee shop was exhibiting a lot of local artists’ paintings, we started to talk about famous painters from Taiwan. In particular, we discussed Ju Ming and Tong Hong—Ju Ming was a sculptor most famous for his Tai Chi sculptures, having only passed away last year. His museum is very close to my grandpa’s gravesite.

Hong Tong was an artist popular in the 70s, known as “The East’s Picasso.” Having only started painting at the age of 50, his works were known for commonly featured the geometric shapes of primitivism. Although he quickly rose to become one of Taiwan’s central figures in the art world, he was quickly forgotten after choosing to live in seclusion, and died in relative poverty.