In the summer of 1985 I spent five weeks in Italy playing in the Spolteto
Music Festival near Rome. On days without concerts I roamed up and down Italy
visiting museums and churches to see the great art works which I had just studied
in my art history class. At Sistine Chapel in Vatican I was stunned by
Michelangelo’s breathtaking mural, the Last Judgment. He painted hundreds of
figures on the entire altar wall. But as an artist I know that there is no
secret to it. The hundreds of figures was painted on the wall one by one. A picture
of complexity is just many single objects put together, simple as that.
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| Melisa Li, 12 |
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| Michael Tu, 10 |
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| Herbert Wang, 11 |
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| Lily Song, 8 |
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| That's me in Rome in 1985. Italy is a country of living art history. |
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