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Title: Shirley Created Intergrated Art -- 020: Painting for Bai Juyi A Flower in Haze & Singing It
Artist: Shirley Zhang
Size: 27.36 inches x 27.36 inches (69.5cm x 69.5cm)
Completed Time: Sunday, August 17, 2008
Remarks:
Listen to Shirley Singing the Song/Poem In English on Aug 17, 2008
Listen to Shirley Singing the Song/Poem in Chinese on Aug 17, 2008
Shirley Created Picture & Calligraphy for the Song & Lyric Aug 17, 2008
Learning the Main Meaning of the Song &Lyrics

This is my 20th Combined Paintingthat I created for Chinese Classical Poetry. It is also my 348th painting since 2003 and the 34th painting that I have painted in 2008.The difference is that this is also a Chinese art song that I have learned in my music lesson. :-)

I started this picture as a peony practice Tuesday night this week. At that time, I just wanted to make a practice of my peony painting. I did not think of that I had done a good job. So, I stopped anf threw it as rubbish after I just completed the peony part. Friday evening, my teacher saw it and thought that I had done a good job to start it and I should complete it continuously.

So, tonight, when I was working on my music, I suddenly had an ideal to complete this picture with the calligraphy of this song also the poem, so, I did it and plus some yellow flowers as its background.

How do you think of it? Are you smiling when you know its creating background now? :-)

MAIN MEANING OF THE SONG(LYRIC)

A Flower in the Haze

It's a flower, it isn't a flower,
It's fog, it isn't fog.
(it) comes at midnight
goes at dawn,
comes as a spring dream,
cannot stay for awhile,
goes as the morning clouds
cannot be found anywhere.

CHINESE CHARACTER AND PRONUNCIATION

花非花 -- Hua fei hua,
雾非雾 -- Wu fei wu,
夜半来 -- Ye ban lai,
天明去 -- Tian ming qu。
来如春梦不多时 -- Lai ru chun men bu duo shi,
去似朝云无觅处 -- Qu si chao yun wu mi chu。

How do you think of this picture? Do you like it?

If you have any questions, comments and suggestions, please write to shirley@ebridge.cn or shirleyz004@yahoo.com. You are welcome to publish your opinions in Forum as well.

Shirley Zhang

Written on Sunday, Auguest 17, 2008