century, such as the mourners, cultures from the court of bergandy to the 19th century, including van gogh, and beyond master pieces. and she served as the assistant curator for the blockbuster, girl with the pearl earrings, including impressionists on the water and matice from sf mona to be honored later this year. we invited melissa to speak because he told me that his cloud series was inspired by growing up looking at dramatic skies in dutch landscape painting. welcome. >> thank you to everyone who came out this evening to the main branch of the public library, i felt like it was encased in a cloud with all of the fog and the rain and everything and so i have literally taken on this assignment with a great personal interest and i am seeing clouds everywhere. and when they first called one morning, and introduced herself and told me a little bit about this panel and this project i thought great, i know about clouds i see them every day and i work at the legend of honor, exposed to the sea with the massive mountains and clouds and i thought a piece of cake and i will just talk about cloud

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she bought renoirs, she bought a picasso, she brought van goghs, and these were what was on the wall of oppenheimer's childhood home. when his brother, frank oppenheimer, later in life lost his job because he was a communist, frank had only to sell one of these paintings to provide for himself and his family in great style for the rest of his life. so it was a very cultured family, very wealthy family. they lacked for nothing, you know, whenever oppenheimer showed an in anything, if he showed an interest in painting, his parents would go out and buy him the best paints and the best easel, and he developed an interest in building blocks. he developed a passionate interest in rocks, collecting rocks. and he joined the mineral logical society in new york and actually arranged to give a paper at the grand old age of 12. he was 12 years old when he delivered a paper to thissociy . one thing he didn't have much of as ahi, though, fun. [laughter] he had very few playmates. and he went to school rather late. he, you know, is 12 when he went to school. he was already intellectually precocious

impressionism and i went there and i thought if i couldn't copy michelangelo i could copy vincent van gogh. [laughter] so i came back and painted and my mother said she sought death and madness in my paintings. with this painting i applied to the art school of chicago and i thought i had a 10 show. >> you basically lied about your english, right? or misrepresented. >> i couldn't fill out the application form. my name, i didn't have an english name. i saw in the neighborhood a wise man who said you should give yourself an american name, angela so i printed out angell and many years later when my daughter was 11 years old i gave her the application form as a gift. don't ever forget where your mom came from. my daughter looked at the name anchee min. she said mom, that is not anchee that is angle. the next line was. i consulted my chinese dictionary. the 1970 version. there is no explanation so i didn't know how to fill out male or female. i didn't know which one to circle. the rest was impossible to go on so i took it to a friend who helped me fill out the form and the english language skill