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Probably I should keep a closer eye on the art scene here, learn a bit more and move beyond just looking out for people painting flowers and landscapes.  Besides the Impressionists , there were a couple of smaller displays to enjoy.     Fernando Zobel: Order is Essential (National Gallery Singapore) This is the first solo exhibition of works by Fernando Zobel (1924-1984), a Filipino artist with a cosmopolitan spread in his experiences and art. Zobel's interpretation of van Gogh's A Wheatfield with Cypresses Penitentes Also on display were works by artists connected to him and by other Filipino artists. St. Thomas Aquinas, Alfonso Ossorio (Zobel's relative and friend) San Vicente Ferrer (artist unknown) Jose Joya And yes, order in art, please. Verse: A View of Things to Come (The Arts House)   A very interesting collaboration between art and poetry (my friend FS tells me it’s called ekphrastic poetry), with the artwork done by former prisoners and poems b...

National Gallery Singapore was conceptualised in the early years of this century, officially opened in 2015 and became another grand building I did not step into .  This one is a grand  old  building, more accurately,  two  grand old buildings (built in the late 1920s) – the old Supreme Court and City Hall – now functioning as one.   It was the Impressionists who brought me here!   With extremely poor knowledge and conventional preferences in art, this is no surprise, I suppose.  I do like the Impressionist style for its pretty, float-y feel, and I like knowing what I’m looking at.  For example, if it’s a tree, I need to know it is a tree, and if it’s the sea, I need to know that’s what it is.  This exhibition is just right for me!   Visit to a Museum, Degas, 1880 Enter... People were enjoying Renoir Pissarro, Monet, Renoir Monet more Monet, and probably the seats as well and some hands-on work Amo...

Oh my word, Park Gyu-young!  From the spoilt, clueless rich kid in  Romance is a bonus book , she transformed into elegant, gentle, genteel Dali.  When I saw her in  Romance , I thought she was destined to play supporting roles but she proves me very wrong.  She can be soft-spoken, soft- hearted, sad, scared, subtle, stylish, cheeky, throw in a few fiery moments, make us laugh, and speak English well!  Well done, young lady! OH MY WORD, Kim Min-jae!!  It is so refreshing for him to come to life here after the melancholy of  Do You Like Brahms .  He is wonderful as genuine, funny, smart, single-minded and kind-hearted Mu-hak.  Never thought he could do comedy so well.  He is cute with that so-pleased-with-himself private smile whenever Dali unexpectedly says something affectionate.  And all his little pouty lines – “I just wanted you to be happy”, “I just wanted to be with you”… aww…...