The greatest show on earth opens today to the world, and it's live from Beijing, but not for those in US though who would only get to watch it on NBC tonight, twelve hours late. But it's better late than never, and we await with unabated breadth, ready to savor the essense of what China was and has become, all condensed into three hours of fanfare and show extravaganza.To commemorate the occasion, I have prepared five chinese brush paintings, using the one-stroke technique to save time, one each representing a ring in the now ubiquitous symbol of olympism shown above taken from here. Each of the five colors, black, blue, green, red, and yellow, symbolizes each of the five continents overlapping to indicate a shared and unified destiny. And together with the white background, the six colors represent all the colors that are used in the national flags of all countries on earth.
2 comments:
Mm!! My favorites are the last two. The bird looks a little strange in the last one, though...
My favourites are the second and fourth ones. What an ingenious way to celebrate the Olympics, keep it up!
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