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Visual Arts
Ke
Ping's Photographic Pieces:
Recent Additions
France
Paris
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City
skyline
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The
Seine
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The
Seine: Pont Neuf ("new bridge", 1607) at the western tip of
Île de la Cité, which is however the oldest of Paris' bridges
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UNESCO,
where I worked in the past summer
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UNESCO:
Fontenoy gate
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Rue
de Rennes
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Café
de Flore, the so-called "Existentialist Cafe", where French
existentialists used to meet and where Zhou Enlai, Leon Trotsky, and
Earnest Hemingway frequented in the early 20th
century when they were in Paris
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L'avenue
des Champs Elysées (name of the avenue referring
eponymously to the abode of the heroic mortals of Ancient Greece and
Rome: the Elysian Fields): To Place de la
Concorde
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Bastille
Day on L'avenue des Champs Elysées (1)
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Bastille
Day on L'avenue des Champs Elysées (2)
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Amazed
eyes
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A
dog waiting anxiously for its owner at the entrance to a supermarket
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A
dog vagrant with its owner
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Tour
Eiffel
(Eiffel Tower)
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Tour
Eiffel: Arched legs set on masonry piers
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Jardin
du Luxembourg (Luxembourg Park)
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Jardin
du Luxembourg: Bust of Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880)
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Sorbonne
(Universites de Paris), where Madam Curie studied
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Pantheon,
formerly the Church of Sainte Geneviève in Paris, designed (1764) in
the classical style by the French architect Jacques Germain Soufflot,
now the resting place of Victor Hugo,
Voltaire, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Émile Zola, Madam Curie, and many other French heroes
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Pantheon:
Monument to the National Convention
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Pantheon:
The Crypt
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Pantheon:
Tombs of Hugo and Zola in the crypt
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Notre
Dame de Paris (1163-early 14th century) from across the Seine
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Notre
Dame de Paris: The Sunday Mass
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Hôtel
des Invalides, built by Louis XIV (1638-1715) in 1670 as a hospice for war veterans
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Hôtel
des Invalides: The Court
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Hôtel
des Invalides: Statue of the funeral procession by the Tombeau de
Napoleon (Tomb of Napoleon)
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Hôtel
des Invalides: Tombeau de Napoleon
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Statue
of Denis Diderot (1713-1784) on the Boulevard St Germain
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Statue
of a female nude in front of the Hôtel
de Ville (town hall)
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Opéra
Garnier (1875), a grandiose consecration of the "Napoleon III
style"
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Opéra
Garnier: The Dance by Jean Baptiste Carpeau
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École
des Beaux Arts, where
Xu Beihong, Lin Fengmian, Wu Guanzhong, and many other major artists and fine arts
educators of modern China studied in the early 20th century
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Musée
d'Orsay
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Musée
d'Orsay: Jean Baptiste Carpeau (1827-1875): Alexandre Dumas Fils et
sa Femme
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Musée
d'Orsay: Jean Baptiste Carpeau (1827-1875): Madame Delthil de Fontreal
(1871)
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Musée
du Louvre: Statue at the head of Pont du Carrousel
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Musée
du Louvre:
Gate
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Musée
du Louvre:
Le Grande Galerie, the main picture gallery
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Musée
du Louvre: Venus
de Milo
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Musée
du Louvre: Louis
David (1748-1825): Les Sabines (Detail) (1799)
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Musée
du Louvre:
Camille Corot
(1796-1875): Souvenir de Mortefontaine (1864)
Fontainebleau and Barbizon
Fontainebleau (small town
in the Fontainebleau Forest, southeast of Paris; residence for the kings
of France, including Francis I, Henry IV, Louis XIII, Napoleon, Louis
XVIII, Louis Philippe, and Napoleon III; seat of the North Atlantic Treaty
Organization until 1965)
Barbizon (village of
painters at the edge of the forest of Fontainebleau, birthplace of the
Barbizon School [1830-1870])
The Loire Valley
Tours (west central France)
Villandry (southwest of Tours)
Chenonceaux (northwestern
France, 29 km east of Tours)
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A
16th-century farm
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Châteaux
(construction begun in 1515 by Thomas Bohier, revenue collector for
King Francis I; later became the favorite residence of Henry II's
widow Catherine de Médicis, whose son Francis II and Mary, Queen of
Scots, were married here in 1560. In 1747 Jean-Jacques Rousseau lived
here, as he wrote in The Confessions, "we went to pass the
autumn in Touraine, at the castle of Chenonceaux, a royal mansion upon
the Cher, built by Henry the II., for Diana of Poitiers, of whom the
ciphers are still seen, and which is now in the possession of M. Dupin,
a farmer-general. We amused ourselves very agreeably in this beautiful
place, and lived very well ... Music was a favorite relaxation. I
composed several trios full of harmony, and of which I may perhaps
speak in my supplement if ever I should write one. Theatrical
performances were another resource. I wrote a comedy in fifteen days,
entitled l'Engagement temeraire... I composed several other
little things: amongst others a poem entitled, l'Allee de Sylvie,
from the name of an alley in the park upon the bank of the Cher; and
this without discontinuing my chemical studies." [Book VII])
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Châteaux:
from the bank of the Cher River (a tributary of the Loire)
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Châteaux:
Five Queens' Bedroom, thus named in honor of Catherine de Médicis'
two daughters (Queen Margot, wife of Henry IV; and Elizabeth of
France, wife of Philip II of Spain), and three daughters-in-law (Mary
Stuart, wife of François II; Elizabeth of Austria, wife of Charles
IX; and Louise of Lorrain, wife of Henry III)
Chambord (central France)
Graduate
students' commencement day (1)
Graduate
students' commencement day (2)
Graduate
students' commencement day (3)
Lina
and Diudiu: Looking in the same direction (1)
Lina
and Diudiu: Looking in the Same direction (2)
Diudiu: Yawning
Diudiu:
Dormant
Diudiu: Sad time
Diudiu:
Pausing for breath on a trip
Diudiu: Gazing
ahead
A dove in
the shadow
A
curved path leading to a villa
And quiet flows
the river
Nanjing University Pukou
Campus: Wild flowers in spring
Nanjing: Three trees by the lake
Nanjing: A
boulevard
Singapore: Ministry of Education (MOE)
Singapore: Giving a seminar at the MOE
Singapore:
Backlit wooden bench on Fort Canning
Hong Kong: City skyline from the Peak
(Taiping
Shan)
Hong Kong: A distant
view of the Chinese
University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong: Ladies
shoe model (Landmark, Central)
Ke
Ping's Photographic Pieces
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Skyscrapers & sculpture, NYC
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Students' residence hall, Penn State U
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A house in Carmel, California
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Thanksgiving Day
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New leaves
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Swirling
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Pipa Lake
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Rhus Trail
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Country road
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Victoria Avenue, Cambridge, UK
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Diving seagull
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In the Hassock
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Diudiu: dignified
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Central Park, NYC
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Bother and sister
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Oliver
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Clare
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Anya
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Kelly Egan
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Tomoyo
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Spring
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Childhood home
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In Oxford
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Haystacks in summer
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Backlit tree
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Bristlegrass
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By the lake
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River Cam
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Ely, UK
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Summer clouds
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Hawaii
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Moon over autumn woods
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Old trees in Carmel, California
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A tree singing in the wind
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A cypress in the Monterey Bay
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Manhattan, NYC
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Lady Liberty
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To Pfeiffer Big Sur State Park
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Lake, Hampton Inn, Valpo U
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Surfboarders
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Ke
Ping's Sketch and Oils
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![Châteaux (construction begun in 1515 by Thomas Bohier, revenue collector for King Francis I; later became the favorite residence of Henry II's widow Catherine de Médicis, whose son Francis II and Mary, Queen of Scots, were married here in 1560. In 1747 Jean-Jacques Rousseau lived here, as he wrote in The Confessions, "we went to pass the autumn in Touraine, at the castle of Chenonceaux, a royal mansion upon the Cher, built by Henry the II., for Diana of Poitiers, of whom the ciphers are still seen, and which is now in the possession of M. Dupin, a farmer-general. We amused ourselves very agreeably in this beautiful place, and lived very well ... Music was a favorite relaxation. I composed several trios full of harmony, and of which I may perhaps speak in my supplement if ever I should write one. Theatrical performances were another resource. I wrote a comedy in fifteen days, entitled l'Engagement temeraire... I composed several other little things: amongst others a poem entitled, l'Allee de Sylvie, from the name of an alley in the park upon the bank of the Cher; and this without discontinuing my chemical studies." [Book VII])](../KPA/A_Cas5-E-F-Loire-Chenonceaux-Chateaux1.jpg){kind=link}
![Châteaux (a retreat for French kings, especially Louis XIV [ruled 1643-1715]; construction begun by Francis I in 1519 and completed in 1547; Florentine artist Leonardo da Vinci added a few embellishments to it; World Heritage site) (1)](../KPA/A_Cas5-E-F-Loire-Chambord2.jpg){kind=link}
