朱銘﹕掉棄是為了得
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P39 | 副刊．文化 | 圈來圈去 | By 卡夫卡 2010-06-01
闊別四年，台灣著名雕塑家朱銘重臨香江舉行個展，應畫廊「誰先覺」的邀請，把半新半舊四十五件雕塑展示於置地和交易廣場等中環心臟地帶。
七十二歲的朱銘，精神抖擻得不像個風塵僕僕的旅客。跟卡夫卡大談他的新作「人間系列—游泳」時，更是雀躍。
游泳是朱銘木雕創作的延續，是他對各樣素材特性有了深刻認識後，樂意駕馭不鏽鋼、青銅和木材。
「『太極系列』粗獷、『游泳系列』精細，材料、風格、效果和態度都截然不同。」七十年代末開始創作太極系列，朱銘把他對太極的領悟消化融和在作品中，如今的游泳系列，又是他嗜好的投射。「游泳是我生活一部分。」朱銘的作品，無論是小玩意還是大型雕塑，一直有價有市，像上周佳士得春拍，朱銘的「太極系列－進步推攔捶」就拍出1186萬元天價，對此朱銘表示與己無關。「跟藝術無關的不會去選擇，那是保護有限生命的重要職責。」朱銘曾說。
問到對香港公共雕塑的評價、拍賣市場現況，甚至展覽內容，老人果然全都答不上口，也不關心，訪問於是乎只圍繞藝術。
棄技保韻
卡記看過他的半自傳《朱銘美學觀》，感覺是一本做人處世的指南，非常實用和具啟發性。當中棒打藝術家的一句話真的假不了：「藝術家開拓不出自己的風格，因為看不到自己的局限。」於是我問已屆古稀之年的朱銘，身體機能退化有沒有局限了他的創作？
「沒有，但我已作了部署，如果有天身體不行，我會用適合退化身體用的方法去創作，應該沒問題的。」老人言語堅定，沒半點忸怩。
朱銘當年把房子押上也要拜師楊英風，但他一直鼓吹人要把學到的技術、形式掉棄，才能把智慧和精神氣韻保留下來。
「如果不懂得丟掉，滿腦子是別人的東西，那只是雜念，只會妨礙你。如果當年我沒有忘記老師的東西，就不會有鄉土系統，要是我不忘記鄉土系列，就沒有後來的太極和人間系列。」朱老師語重心長道，學習「掉棄」這堪稱「修行」的內在轉移工程，才是他一生鑽研的大智慧。心眼如果不開，別人再如何使力，給予再多的提示，自己也醒不來。
他認為，工藝技巧是匠氣，藝術家需要內涵藝術不是學習，是修行，靈性的培養，全身心的淬煉。
朱銘的藝術生涯經歷了三個時期，強調每個時期做到不想幹的時候自然會進入新領域，上世紀八十年代迄今他就創作了「人間系列」。「電視一開就有新的問題出來，所以人間系列是做一百年也做不完的任務。」
灑脫豁達
他呼籲各地政府重視城市雕塑，多給機會予新晉藝術家。「不是每個人都是畢加索，應該多給未成名的人機會，好壞也沒有關係，否則再有才氣的人也沒有成功機會。」原是農村孩子的朱銘十五歲拜師李金川學習木雕，迄今其雕塑作品散落世界各地，「太極系列」分別現身於香港的中國銀行、交易廣場及中文大學，1997年更成首位非歐洲藝術家，於巴黎梵登廣場展出。1999年，已累積了一定財富的朱銘，甚至在台灣買下一片山頭，建了朱銘美術館—他的藝術王國。
「可能一天我不在，就會擴建美術館，把更多作品放進去。」朱銘總結說，沒有絲絲不捨與遺憾。
Monday, April 05, 2010
Sunday, March 07, 2010
日常生活的幼兒教育
關於日常生活的幼兒教育，《愛因斯坦不玩識字卡》有很多具體建議，以下我摘
錄其中一些：
1. 小心買些甚麼。
2. 我們不用買太貴的玩具，最重要的是你跟孩子一起玩。
3. 由強記到情境學習。
4. 多逛花園。
5. 少逛商場，多留家裏。
6. 真的數東西，不是只看電視去學數東西。
7.學數學要從孩子專注的東西學起。
8. 父母不要太計較成本效益。
9. 從他的言語開始發展下去。
10. 跟着孩子的思路講。
11. 不要讓孩子看那麼多電視。
12. 讓孩子多看書。
13. 注意你在人家面前怎樣談及自己的子女。
14. 把孩子當作是一個成人看待。
15. 問問孩子有甚麼心事。
16. 跟孩子討論人家的感受。
17. 對孩子說話時小心自己的語言。
(摘錄自"天農百部)
以上的17項，說難不難，說易也不易，最重要的，是大家緊記這些台詞，好好演活父母的角色。
關於日常生活的幼兒教育，《愛因斯坦不玩識字卡》有很多具體建議，以下我摘
錄其中一些：
1. 小心買些甚麼。
2. 我們不用買太貴的玩具，最重要的是你跟孩子一起玩。
3. 由強記到情境學習。
4. 多逛花園。
5. 少逛商場，多留家裏。
6. 真的數東西，不是只看電視去學數東西。
7.學數學要從孩子專注的東西學起。
8. 父母不要太計較成本效益。
9. 從他的言語開始發展下去。
10. 跟着孩子的思路講。
11. 不要讓孩子看那麼多電視。
12. 讓孩子多看書。
13. 注意你在人家面前怎樣談及自己的子女。
14. 把孩子當作是一個成人看待。
15. 問問孩子有甚麼心事。
16. 跟孩子討論人家的感受。
17. 對孩子說話時小心自己的語言。
(摘錄自"天農百部)
以上的17項，說難不難，說易也不易，最重要的，是大家緊記這些台詞，好好演活父母的角色。
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Chinese New Year
Chinese New Year is about gathering, meeting up old friends. It's lovely that I can reconnect to Julian and Dr. Ng, and a groups of SociSo friends - Iris, Sussanne, Pauline, Doris, Maple. It triggers lots of new and old feelings. Times really flies. I haven't been back to HKU for years.
Chinese New Year is about gathering, meeting up old friends. It's lovely that I can reconnect to Julian and Dr. Ng, and a groups of SociSo friends - Iris, Sussanne, Pauline, Doris, Maple. It triggers lots of new and old feelings. Times really flies. I haven't been back to HKU for years.
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Sunday, May 24, 2009
Lovely Hot Milk Tea
What a wonderful time to try the traditional hot milk tea in fast food shop again! I haven't tasted any coffee or tea for the last two weeks. It's a been a touch experience to suffer from eye retina infection. Painful and terrible. I just cut away all caffeine drinks. My eye is swellow, full of red colours, loss some eye sights, and I have to keep in dark and rest all the time. Although my body suffers, my spirit is peaceful and fine. It's a good learning to me, learn to take a rest and stop, learn to be patient to my body. Thanks so much for my wife, friends' supports and blessing!
Sunday, February 22, 2009
Sunday, December 28, 2008
Thursday, December 25, 2008
Day Trip to Disneyland
Today is a relax holiday. Wake up late at 10am. Have a relax breakfast and lunch and we set off for disneyland. We just visited the "Car", "Small World" and "Mike's Christmas Home". It's a relax and wonderful day here. No rush, nu hurry, no pressure, just walk around, shoot photo and keep on saying "Merry Christmas". I am so surprised that I meet two colleagues there. The world is so small.
Now I've got my annual pass and can visit anytime next year!
Today is a relax holiday. Wake up late at 10am. Have a relax breakfast and lunch and we set off for disneyland. We just visited the "Car", "Small World" and "Mike's Christmas Home". It's a relax and wonderful day here. No rush, nu hurry, no pressure, just walk around, shoot photo and keep on saying "Merry Christmas". I am so surprised that I meet two colleagues there. The world is so small.
Now I've got my annual pass and can visit anytime next year!
Monday, December 22, 2008
Enjoy the Day
We tend to complain too much! Complain the world is unfair, the boss is so bad, the work has too much pressure...sometimes when we take the time to rethink, there are so many things that we need to treasure, so many things that we should appreciate and say thank you!
I'd played tennis tonight. It's windy but I kick the tennis ball with full swing! Good hits. What a happy moment!
We tend to complain too much! Complain the world is unfair, the boss is so bad, the work has too much pressure...sometimes when we take the time to rethink, there are so many things that we need to treasure, so many things that we should appreciate and say thank you!
I'd played tennis tonight. It's windy but I kick the tennis ball with full swing! Good hits. What a happy moment!
Sunday, December 21, 2008
Monday, December 15, 2008
Sunday, September 07, 2008
The Olympic Games
The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not to win but to take part, just as the most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.
“ Olympic Creed” – by Pierre de Fredy, Baron de Coubertin, founder of the modern Olympic Games
What is Sport?
Anyone who has played it knows the thrill of victory, and the bitterness of defeat. But it is what is gained from participation – motivation, discipline, sportsmanship, teamwork, fair play, self-esteem and prowess – that are they worthy lessons learned and what sustains one through the adversities of life.
Together, these qualities form the basis of the ethos of sport.
Sports haven been closely tied with culture, how a civilization perceived itself and the strength of a nation. The Greeks of antiquity were perhaps the first to institutionalize sporting events through the Olympic Games.
It is thus that HKU places such an emphasis on an all-round education that includes student participation in sporting activities to cultivate not only the mind but the body – because a healthy body goes hand in hand with a healthy mind.
The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not to win but to take part, just as the most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.
“ Olympic Creed” – by Pierre de Fredy, Baron de Coubertin, founder of the modern Olympic Games
What is Sport?
Anyone who has played it knows the thrill of victory, and the bitterness of defeat. But it is what is gained from participation – motivation, discipline, sportsmanship, teamwork, fair play, self-esteem and prowess – that are they worthy lessons learned and what sustains one through the adversities of life.
Together, these qualities form the basis of the ethos of sport.
Sports haven been closely tied with culture, how a civilization perceived itself and the strength of a nation. The Greeks of antiquity were perhaps the first to institutionalize sporting events through the Olympic Games.
It is thus that HKU places such an emphasis on an all-round education that includes student participation in sporting activities to cultivate not only the mind but the body – because a healthy body goes hand in hand with a healthy mind.
Sunday, August 31, 2008
Batman 3
I've watched the Batman at IMAX Megaobox finally. It is a lengthy movie. It is a "sad" and sophisticated story. The Goham city is never a white nor black city, it's just like its cloudy and muddy sky. There is no absolutely right nor wrong. No absolute good or evil. The most encouraging and promising scene is passenger from both ferry refuse to destroy each other...maybe they just fear, or maybe they just can't decide...but at least it tells us that the basic and fundamental nature of human being is still good.
I've watched the Batman at IMAX Megaobox finally. It is a lengthy movie. It is a "sad" and sophisticated story. The Goham city is never a white nor black city, it's just like its cloudy and muddy sky. There is no absolutely right nor wrong. No absolute good or evil. The most encouraging and promising scene is passenger from both ferry refuse to destroy each other...maybe they just fear, or maybe they just can't decide...but at least it tells us that the basic and fundamental nature of human being is still good.
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