Comments on: Chinese Take Out http://lookingaround.blogs.time.com/2008/10/08/chinese_take_out/ Reflections on art and architecture by TIME critic Richard Lacayo. Tue, 08 Dec 2009 15:49:09 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: willwarner http://lookingaround.blogs.time.com/2008/10/08/chinese_take_out/comment-page-1/#comment-571 willwarner Sun, 04 Oct 2009 20:12:57 +0000 http://lookingaround.blogs.time.com/2008/10/08/chinese_take_out/#comment-571 Like Stalin, Mao brutally oppressed and murdered many of his fellow citizens, especially with famines, but also eliminated the rampant corruption of the prior regime, turned his nation into a nuclear superpower, massively improved education, health care, infrastructure, and standards of living, and always seemed wholly satisfied with his bloody national transformations, which is a legacy that does not amount to anything so simple as "wretched statecraft." Furthermore, "revalidating" a historical figure who died decades ago is as absurd a notion as "revalidating" a mountain or a river. Perhaps you meant to use some more coherent verb, such as "praising"? Personally, I've found recent Chinese art less "trite, meritricious [sic] and derivative" than Britart, and I suspect that pernicious windbag Saatchi in particular may be showcasing the Chinese art most familiar to his world instead of the best Chinese art, but I understand that this is a matter of opinion. Love the other stuff you're writing in this post and the next one, though; lots of this is new to me. Like Stalin, Mao brutally oppressed and murdered many of his fellow citizens, especially with famines, but also eliminated the rampant corruption of the prior regime, turned his nation into a nuclear superpower, massively improved education, health care, infrastructure, and standards of living, and always seemed wholly satisfied with his bloody national transformations, which is a legacy that does not amount to anything so simple as "wretched statecraft." Furthermore, "revalidating" a historical figure who died decades ago is as absurd a notion as "revalidating" a mountain or a river. Perhaps you meant to use some more coherent verb, such as "praising"?

Personally, I've found recent Chinese art less "trite, meritricious [sic] and derivative" than Britart, and I suspect that pernicious windbag Saatchi in particular may be showcasing the Chinese art most familiar to his world instead of the best Chinese art, but I understand that this is a matter of opinion.

Love the other stuff you're writing in this post and the next one, though; lots of this is new to me.

]]> By: walhan http://lookingaround.blogs.time.com/2008/10/08/chinese_take_out/comment-page-1/#comment-320 walhan Mon, 13 Oct 2008 15:50:46 +0000 http://lookingaround.blogs.time.com/2008/10/08/chinese_take_out/#comment-320 Thanks for the two posts and very nice demonstrated photos. However, i think Chinese art express china and Chinese more in motions and words (poem and writings) rather than painting.  i agree with you they have good or even excellent arts in paint and recently in fashion. but china's true aroma is in the words. But unfortunately there are no many translations to translate the smells to the rest of the worlds .... yet ---------------- <a href="http://hawa.herhis.com" rel="nofollow"> منتديات نسائية</a>      <a href="http://herhis.com" rel="nofollow"> 2009</a>   <a href="http://herhis.com/index.php?page=main&cat=clothes" rel="nofollow"> فساتين</a>  <a href="http://herhis.com" rel="nofollow"> ازياء</a>   Thanks for the two posts and very nice demonstrated
photos. However, i think Chinese art express china and Chinese more in motions
and words (poem and writings) rather than painting.  i agree with you they
have good or even excellent arts in paint and recently in fashion. but china's
true aroma is in the words. But unfortunately there are no many translations to
translate the smells to the rest of the worlds .... yet

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