TITLE: Kähler form on the Blow up of a Kähler manifold
QUESTION [7 upvotes]: Given a Kähler manifold $X$, the blow up is a Kähler manifold aswell (see Hodge theory and CAG by Voision Prop. 3.24).
The idea is of course to use the pull-back the Kähler form $\pi^*\omega_X$. It says that this form is not positive, but only semi-positive and I fail to see why exactly.
Positivity of $\omega_x$ means that locally we can write $\omega_x= \sum_i \alpha_i dz_i\wedge d\bar z_i$ with $\alpha_i$ real and non-negative.
Now $\pi^*\omega_X= \sum_i (\alpha_i\circ\pi) d(z_i\circ\pi)\wedge d(\bar z_i\circ\pi)$.
Obviously the coefficients $(\alpha_i\circ\pi)$ still remain positive, so somehow the differential forms $ d(z_i\circ\pi)\wedge d(\bar z_i\circ\pi)$ must vanish on some special tangent vectors in a neighborhood around the blow up? 
I am also not sure, if my notion of positivity is correct or appropriate here.

REPLY [2 votes]: If $M$ and $N$ be complex manifolds of the same dimension and $π:M→N$ is a holomorphic mapping, then for a volume form (as measure )$Ψ$ on $N$ the pull-back $π^∗Ψ$ is positive outside aramification divisor of $M$ and may not be a positive on the whole of $M$. There is a classical paper of P. Griffiths 
http://publications.ias.edu/sites/default/files/nevanlinna.pdf
From Principles of Algebraic Geometry by Phillip Griffiths and Joseph Harris, we have:
Let $Y\subset X$. If $Y$ is compact then blow up is Kahler but to construct the metric on $Bl_YX $substantially you use $π^∗ω+εc_1(\mathcal O(−E))$ where $E$ is the exceptional divisor and $π:Bl_YX\to X$ is the canonical surjection
Definition of positivity of pull back of kahler form as current is different with what you wrote , see this paper. See also the definition of pull back of current https://arxiv.org/pdf/math/0606248.pdf
See Lemma 34. of this paper