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• 03.09.11
  Professor Leander S Hughes (Saitama University) on Master Ben Lau Uncategorized | (0)

  PROFESSOR LEANDER S. HUGHES ON THE ALPHASEER More than a decade has passed since I first met Ben Lau, but I remember the occasion well. I was a student at the Rudy and Lola Perpich Center for Arts Education, and Ben was a special guest at our school, invited to present before our entire student body. Things got off to a rocky start when Ben put a black and white copy of a Cezanne and one of a Pissarro side by side on the overhead and asked the audience which was a better composition. Ben never ...
• 03.09.11
  Master Knox Martin on Ben Lau Uncategorized | (0)

  Shortly after teaching at the Yale Graduate School—I left because of interim politics—I find myself teaching at the Art Students League, my alma mater, with hilarity in kiddo plangent ricochets. Meeting with an extraordinary cross-section of so-called artists, painters, sculptors, poets, and people like others. Seeing a thousand people, gigs at other universities and schools—I meet Mr. Ben Lau at the Art Students League—sort of like James Joyce meeting Svevo-—in his classroom, reading his effort and proclaiming “Sir, you are a genius”—I let fall this intelligence on Ben. I have said of Ben, “If you fell off a ladder—and your brush hit the wall—it would be beautiful.”What gives me the status, position, altitude to ...
• 02.15.11
  THE ONLY WAY to view Cezanne’s painting at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Uncategorized | (0)

  ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Ben Lau <alphaseer@gmail.com> Date: Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 9:24 PM Subject: Fwd: Cezanne To: Ben Lau <alphaseer@gmail.com> Thus has the great master Knox Martin spoken...! (Referring to the forwarded Knox Martin e-mail at the second half of this post.) Cezanne is such a holy man, a true hero,-- yet illiterates everywhere in the world have cheapened him unto a type of commercial bargain that whosoever can mutter a line of gibberish and subsequently get it published somewhere may walk away with a piece of him, believing that no one under the holy sky is watching,--or even ...
• 01.17.11
  COMPOSITION IN ART: THE EMBRACE OF YIN AND YANG Uncategorized | (0)

  Knox to me show details Jan 7 (10 days ago) STUNNING!!!!!!!!!!   KNOX Figure 1: Satyr and Nymph Series 941 by the Alpha Seer formerly called Ben Lau ***************************************************************************************************************** The great master Knox Martin (www.knoxmartin.com) says "Stunning!!!!!!!!!!", and please note the number of bars in this hearty exclamation.... When Knox Martin says stunning, no one in the world can argue against it, since he is the ULTIMATE authority in this game. So are you saying you don't believe in authority...? BRAVO, my son...! No,...don't get me wrong! Now wait a minute: I was just about to applaud you, except for the fact that, when all of a sudden, looking ...
• 01.01.11
  COMPOSITION AS INHERITED FROM THE GREAT CEZANNE Uncategorized | (0)

  Figure 1: 0210 by Pablo Picasso Not too many of you have got the basics of a composition yet, --I am afraid! Several young persons here have it, and their gratitude and delight is a form of energy that radiates,-- young people are more likely to receive the profound knowledge of composition, as a curious and malleable mind have they!  Then the Alpha Seer could sense that some old folks from his Wah Yan past also have it. However, if the majority of folks on my "Enlightened Friends Panel" still don't get it, there could ...
• 12.29.10
  DELICIOUS BUT DIFFICULT TRUTH Uncategorized | (0)

  Connect these two Picassos with the Knox Martin below, then compare them with the Chinese calligraphy by the great Sui dynasty calligrapher, Wang Hsi Tzi. Why, simply connect the dots! (I apologize for the terrible reflections, but reflection is exactly what I want to tell you at this point,...) .................................................................................................................... Finally, ask yourself this: What is the common thread that provides the linkage for those 4 magnificent images? Once you see that linkage, or lineage, REALLY SEEING IT,...no pretense at all in this business, no self-deception: like: Oh, I can see that...oh, yeah, there it is, staring out at me, etc...-- ...
• 12.14.10
  THE OTHER SHORE Uncategorized | (0)

  Figure 1: satyr and nymph series 170 Figure 2: satyr and nymph series 171 The realized one essentially exists in the fetus stage, innocent, without prior conditioning, surrendering, vulnerable...-- Nothing is for him pure or impure, neither is there enlightenment, nor darkness, noble or ignoble, -- whereby the observer is also the observed, and color is emptiness, and emptiness, color... . For such a being it is learned and understood that anything seen, heard, received, acted upon, thought about, tasted, is nil but emptiness. He cannot be categorized as born, nor can he, characterized as unborn.... since he no ...
• 12.06.10
  PROFESSOR LEANDER S. HUGHES ON THE ALPHA SEER Uncategorized | (0)

  Figure 1: Satyr and nymph 168 (upper) and Satyr and nymph 169 (lower) PROFESSOR LEANDER S. HUGHES ON THE ALPHASEER More than a decade has passed since I first met Ben Lau, but I remember the occasion well. I was a student at the Rudy and Lola Perpich Center for Arts Education, and Ben was a special guest at our school, invited to present before our entire student body. Things got off to a rocky start when Ben put a black and white copy of a Cezanne and one of a Pissarro side by side on the overhead and asked the audience which ...
• 11.28.10
  WHAT IS A MASTER? A DISCIPLINE? A DISCIPLE? Uncategorized | (0)

  Figure 1: Blind Man's Buff by the Alpha Seer A master is one who has arrived. He is the one you should surrender to if you want to understand a discipline. What is to be surrendered? Your own ego! In Japan, the Zen practice may show a master relentlessly beating an inattentive initiate with a cane. Folks here in the West are shocked, and think that is barbaric, unbecoming, or rude....one man beating another with a cane as though he were just an animal? That is unsightly! It is NOT rude, unbecoming, nor barbaric at all! On the contrary, that ...
• 10.29.10
  THE GREAT KNOX MARTIN AT WOODWARD GALLERY, NYC Uncategorized | (0)

  Woman with Flowers, 2010, Acrylic on linen, 18 x 22 inches Woman with Red Shoes, 2010, Acrylic on linen, 75.5 x 62 inches Young Woman, 2010, Acrylic on linen, 18 x 22 inches Bathsheba, 2010, Acrylic on linen, 18 x 22 inches Woman with Flowers, 2010, Acrylic on linen, 18 x 22 inches Grapes, Lemons and Tomatoes, 2010, Acrylic on linen, 58 x 44.75 inches Woman and a Plant, 2010, Acrylic on linen, 18 x 22 inches Woman Looking, 2010, Acrylic on linen, 18 x 22 inches Mary Ellen, 2010, Acrylic on linen, 18 x 22 inches Knox Martin Woman: Black and White Paintings September 15 - November 13, 2010 For nearly ...

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