- The Beverly Arts
Updated: Apr 30, 2023
Author: Joey Zhou
Music: YouTube Link: https://youtu.be/0bX4XCl3N0E
This poem about the month of May in Los Angeles was created in 2017. It is actually a lyrical poem with a narrative, meaning there is also a story being told. The narrative is the plot between the hero and the heroine in the poem, and has over four scene transitions. The line "I can't believe the brown tears at night" refers to the heroine with brown eyes, while the line "a girl named May is cute among patinas" refers to an imaginary female that is part of the atmosphere. In the phrase "separate pain, like a bloody bite" the author describes the pain of a broken heart. Although short narrative poems are far from pure poems, if the author expands them, they can become novel poems where the story is told in verse rather than prose. The opening of the poem is reversed at the end, reflecting the author's own "neoclassical style".
Paris orange lipstick shimmers in a Beverly Hills store
Along the street, white roses indulge in May, a few strands of beauty
And Gucci fragrance, touching, reflecting the handsome
Instant space restores the skin and restores the sexy.
Missing in May, like a coyote at night, foraging
Always calms down
Personal love is like hunger, the fear is terrifying, in the cold wind, lonely and arrogant
How many times have you ever wanted to use compassion, embrace love, and separate pain, like a bloody bite.
Imagine like every second, the face is pink, escape into the chaos of red wine
Drink montage...
Standing on the roof of the Millennium Hotel, looking down, not drunk or returning, legs trembling
Drunk with another dimension...
The national flag swaying the peace of the Four Seasons
How many moments have been missed,
The wind slowly...
I can’t believe the brown tears at night, I continue to watch the noble seat, the transparent ice cup is filled with ice cream, exuding the charming limit of vanilla
How many times have I chosen between licking and kissing...
Drunk, drunk, stepping into the hotel in May
A girl named May is cute
Between patinas,
A hundred years of porch, a hundred years of seats
A hundred years of flavor, a hundred years of foundation,
All return, return again...
Come on, Los Angeles!
Come on, May youth like Los Angeles!
Written in the early morning of April 15, 2017.
"Flowers" - Haoyue Tan (2020)
Haoyue Tan (or Tan Haoyue) is a young artist from China who brings her own perspective to painting that is full of energy and life. Her brushstrokes are bold and expressive, with colors often mixed and blended on the canvas, giving the viewer a sense of movement to the underlying layers and textures of the paint. You can feel a free spirit in her artwork and a strong sense of self-confidence to break away from the traditional techniques in Chinese painting, and create a new style that is all her own. In many of Tan's paintings, you see things that are hidden beneath the complexity and depths of the layers, and while most of her paintings are completely abstract in nature, others have a person, face, or something recognizable that gently emerges from the rest of the painting.
"Night Walk" - Haoyue Tan (2019)
"Xiang" - Haoyue Tan (2016)
Haoyue Tan was born in Chongqing, China in 1999, and graduated from Chongqing Art School in 2016. Since graduating art school, she has been involved in many exhibitions in China as well as Europe, and has been active in the art community. She is a member of the China Contemporary Women's Painting Association and the New Knight International Art League. She is very accomplished as a young artist, with her artwork already being collected by individuals and institutions, including the Chinese Contemporary Art Museum in Chongqing, Shangdaoi, China.
"Treading Flowers" - Haoyue Tan (2020)
"Palace Cloth" - Haoyue Tan (2019)
While her brushstrokes are strong and fearless, there is a softness and femininity to Tan's paintings. The shades of pink and choices of brighter colors lend a more gentle and floral tone to her paintings that might otherwise seem turbulent and disturbing. It is her mix of fearlessness and femininity that captures your attention and draws you into her paintings. As you follow the ribbons of color, dots of paint, and sweeping movements of mixed colors, you can almost feel the rough edges of the paint that wind around the painting.
"Gone with the Wind" - Haoyue Tan (2019)
As a part of the next generation of female artists, Haoyue Tan is creating her own style that goes beyond the traditions of the past to bring a new vitality and perspective to the future of Chinese contemporary art.
Haoyue Tan
Haoyue Tan
- The Beverly Arts
Updated: May 1, 2021
Professor G. James Daichendt, Street Artist Robbie Conal, and TV Host Joey Zhou
San Diego, California, USA. 29th April, 2021. TV Host Joey Zhou interviewed Professor G. James Daichendt, PhD, and street artist Robbie Conal (via Zoom) at Point Loma Nazarene University in San Diego, California. Daichendt serves as the Dean of the Colleges and Professor of Art History at Point Loma Nazarene University and has written six books, including a book about Robbie Conal and his life as a street and guerrilla poster artist. Robbie Conal is well-known for his posters that depicted American politicians in a gnarly style, and were distributed throughout a city overnight by a volunteer guerrilla postering army.
Joey Zhou invited artist Jiannan Huang, one of the top artists in China, to join the interview via his iPad. The artists were able to have a discussion about street art, world art, and ask each other questions. After their discussion, James Daichendt signed a copy of one his books as a gift to be sent to Jiannan Huang in China. Robbie Conal is considered one of the country’s foremost satirical street poster artists, and his art is collected by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the San Jose Museum of Art, the San Diego Museum of Art, and many others. The name of the book is Robbie Conal: Streetwise: 35 Years of Politically Charged Guerrilla Art by G. James Daichendt.
