ALPHA OMEGA ARTS NEWS
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Happy
Vesak Day! This Tuesday,
millions will celebrate the birthday of the founder of Buddhism. A major teaching of the Buddha is that everything is continuously changing, and the traditional symbol for this
impermanence is the "skull."
Zhang Huan is one of the world's leading contemporary artists and he forms great clusters of these skulls with layer upon layer of thick paints in bright hallucinatory colors. He is also an ordained Buddhist monk, and his "
Spring Poppy Fields" (above) are my
NEWS OF WEEK. What insights into your own life do you see in Zhang Huan's spiritual paintings?
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Happy Vesak Day! This Tuesday, millions will celebrate the birthday of the founder of Buddhism. A major teaching of the Buddha is that everything is continuously changing, and the traditional symbol for this impermanence is the "skull." Zhang Huan is one of the world's leading contemporary artists and he forms great clusters of these skulls with layer upon layer of thick paints in bright hallucinatory colors. He is also an ordained Buddhist monk, and his "Spring Poppy Fields" (above) are my NEWS OF WEEK. What insights into your own life do you see in Zhang Huan's spiritual paintings?
