Backtracking to the Age of Literature and Art

Chapter 33 Crafts and Fine Arts (plus more)

"Qu Aiguo, come and host it."

Yu Dong, who was surrounded by circles, beckoned to Qu Aiguo and told him to start the discussion quickly.

Qu Aiguo nodded and greeted the classmates: "Everyone, go back to your place first, the discussion will officially begin."

Two months after the start of school, Qu Aiguo also established his dignity in the class. The students cooperated and soon returned to their respective seats.

Next, everyone expressed their opinions and shared their thoughts on the competition.

Yu Dong has been listening carefully. During the listening process, he noticed that the students paid more attention to the topic selection stage.

This "decoration design" competition has no specific topic, as long as the works of interior design can participate.But we all know that there is a huge difference between interior design and interior design.

The first one is that the building types are different, it can be an apartment, a villa, or even a certain exhibition hall.

Even the same type of building may face different groups of people. Apartments are also divided into high-end and low-end, and the people living in them are also divided into young and old men and women.

Students are afraid that if they choose a small topic, they will have no advantage in grading, and if they choose a large topic, they may not be able to control it.

After listening for a while, Yu Dong opened his mouth and said, "This competition, don't worry about grading. How to choose a topic mainly depends on what kind of works you want to create. If you like designing an apartment, choose an apartment, and if you like designing a villa, choose a villa. ...all according to their own heart."

Hearing Yu Dong's words, the students thought about it seriously. Taking advantage of this opportunity, Yu Dong said a few more words: "Besides choosing the topic, I also heard two things. First, some students are worried that they are right If you don’t understand the decorative materials, the created works cannot be realized. Second, many students want to grasp the popular elements and cater to the market. These two points are not necessary. We are arts and crafts majors. Although we will face crafts in the future, the core But in art. If you are now blindly catering to the public and considering decorative materials, your creativity will be limited by them, and you will never escape.”

"The public's aesthetics should be cultivated by you, not by the public's nose."

At this time, Wang Kuo raised his hand.

Yu Dong nodded and motioned for him to speak.

"Mr. Yu, I can understand that you don't cater to the public, but I don't quite understand that you don't consider the decorative materials. If you don't even consider the decorative materials, the work cannot be realized, and everything is empty?"

Yu Dong laughed, "If in the future, when you graduate and become interior designers, someone commissions you to design a plan, and the decorative materials will definitely need to be considered. But now, I hope that you will use your whimsy to show everyone different works.”

"Students, this era is changing at a high speed. Every day there may be new materials that you have not seen before. What you think can't be realized today may be realized tomorrow. Maybe one day, the streets will be made of glass. Even an ordinary office can be covered with beautiful carpets, the color TV in people's homes is so large that it takes half a wall to display, and the lights are more beautiful than you can imagine."

Wang Kuo imagined the scenes depicted by Yu Dong, swallowed and said, "Is this possible?"

Yu Dong shrugged, "I don't know, but it doesn't prevent us from imagining. What I mean by saying this is that I hope you will be at the forefront of the times, rather than being dragged by the times."

The students didn't understand what Dong was saying, and Yu Dong didn't expect his words to make them have a sense of transcending the times.

He only hopes that someone can listen to his words a little bit, and let these words leave a seed in their hearts. He believes that this seed will eventually grow into a towering tree.

……

Before the discussion ended, Yu Dong left early.

After Yu Dong left, Wang Kuo approached Qu Aiguo and whispered, "Don't our teacher Yu graduated from the Chinese Department? Why does it sound like you know so much about engineering and beauty?"

Qu Aiguo glanced at Wang Kuo: "What you said, that Xunlu still studied medicine."

"Those two things."

"You, don't care if it's a different matter. Just tell me, does Teacher Yu make sense?"

Wang Kuo nodded: "It makes sense, but I don't think the glass building he said is unlikely."

"It's impossible. There are glass buildings. The Lever Building in New York was completed in the 50s."

"Can that be the same? You are talking about a glass curtain wall, and it's not all glass."

"Then you're just trolling."

"Okay, even if it's a glass curtain wall, it can't be all over the street, right?"

"I think it's possible."

"The big one needs a half-wall color TV?"

"I'm sure, you can really lift the bar."

……

Yu Dong didn't know the argument between Wang Kuo and Qu Aiguo after he left. Even if he knew, he would feel relieved.

They can discuss because of their own words, at least it shows that they have listened to their own words.

After leaving the classroom, Yu Dong went to have a meal and then returned to the dormitory.

There were two envelopes on the table in the dormitory, one was a letter and the other was a telegram, both received in the morning.

The letter was sent by the pen pal "Golden Horse and Jade Rooster Veteran", asking how Yu Dong was working at Jinyi and what books he was reading recently, while he himself remained in Jiangcheng to teach.

The telegram was taken by Yang Xiao, and the content is very simple.

"It's fixed, serialized, look at the river."

There are not many words, but the meaning is clear.However, Yu Dong even thought that the word "serialization" in the middle could be omitted.

He first wrote the reply letter to the "Golden Horse and Jade Rooster Veteran", and then studied his recent work, considering when it would be convenient to ask for leave.

Now that the traffic is inconvenient, it takes at least three days to go back and forth between Jinling and Rongcheng. For insurance, he has to prepare for four days.

After researching for a while, Yu Dong found that there was time next week, and if it was later, he would not be able to spare time.

Yu Dong was also an activist, he did what he said and went straight to Wu Changxin's office.

As he expected, Wu Changxin hadn't gotten off work yet.

Yu Dong knocked twice at the door, Wu Changxin lowered his head and shouted to come in, then looked up to see Yu Dong, and said unexpectedly, "Yu Dong, why are you here at this time?"

"I'm here to ask you for two days off." Yu Dong said with a smile.

"Ask for leave?" Wu Changxin put down his pen, "Which two days?"

"It's actually two and a half days, next Thursday and Friday, plus half a day on Saturday morning."

Wu Changxin squinted his eyes, "In addition to the weekend, you have four days off, is there something wrong?"

"I'm going to go to Rongcheng."

"It takes so many days to go to Rongcheng. Can I ask you what you are going to do in Rongcheng?"

"I submitted a novel to "Science Fiction World", and it has been decided. I am going to interview."

In front of Wu Changxin, Yu Dong had nothing to hide.And he wasn't going to hide it from anyone about his own writing of science fiction.

"I don't know much about "Science Fiction World". Do they still need to interview for drafts?"

"Because it's too long."

"Oh." Wu Changxin pondered for a while, nodded and said, "I'm sure, but before you go, you have to arrange the things at hand, and you can't delay your work."

Hearing that Wu Changxin was on leave, Yu Dong happily thanked: "Thank you."

Wu Changxin waved his hand, "No thanks, I have always encouraged you to create things. I watched "Mending the Sky", and it was very good, but I didn't expect you to write a science fiction novel."

　Thank you for the 100 reward of [My Destiny]
　　
　
(End of this chapter)