Almighty painter

Chapter 101 Collecting Wind (thanks to Alston—King's leader)
(There will be more Xie Meng updates, the details will be at the end.)
As soon as the expert opens his mouth, he will know if there is any.

Curator Tonks has admired famous paintings and participated in art appreciation meetings. There are almost too many to count.

You are welcome to say,
Even in professional art seminars or the various annual exhibitions of the Taylor Art Museum, there are still some people talking nonsense on the rostrum.

The larger the exhibition, the more so.

Not only strange experts who came out of nowhere, but also more parliamentarians or government officials who came out of nowhere, all like to express their own opinions on works of art.

The senior bureaucrats of the British Empire are very concerned about labeling themselves an art lover in front of the public and the media.

When holding a meeting, the leader always has to say a few words. There is not much difference in this point between ancient and modern China and foreign countries.

Curator Tonks could even hear the nonsense.

Generally speaking, if you don't know how to paint and are afraid of making mistakes and shame, the easiest way is to talk about history.

For example, facing Turner's "The Dreadnought Disassembled", recalling the glorious history of beating the Frenchmen in the Battle of Trafalgar.It is customary to recall the glory of the Victorian Empire in which the sun never sets in front of landscape paintings on the Thames.

Generally, the speeches written by the secretaries of government civil servants follow this routine.

Apart from being dull and boring, there is basically no big mistake.

It would be a disaster if these bureaucrats got excited and wanted to play off the script for a while.

It’s okay to regard the prostitutes in luxurious clothes in the pre-Raphaelite moralizing paintings in the exhibition as noble ladies. They can’t distinguish between gouache and watercolor, and low-level jokes such as watercolor and oil painting have not never appeared.

And there are only a handful of people who can split the aesthetic composition of a painting as finely as this detective cat, and all of them are elites in the field.

If a well-known scholar can say such a thing, Tonks can accept it, but Detective Cat is just an online illustrator.

And Anna was even more surprised by the way Detective Cat evaluated the painting.

Appreciate works of art,

In fact, most art critics talk more about big and abstract concepts.

The proportion of blank space in the composition of a work, the eye contact between the characters, the natural transition between the lake and the sky, and the spiritual thinking nurtured by the painter, the embodiment of different art schools in this work...

Detective Cat can skillfully capture the details of the oil painting author's creation.

She does not ignore even the tiniest strokes, and speaks in detail, as if she has seen the artist's creation process with her own eyes.

"Typical art criticism ideas of great painters."

An idea popped into Anna's mind.

This is the difference between watching others draw and drawing with a brush.

The most striking difference between a curator and a painter-turned-art critic is the details.

Meticulous and discerning, this is the privilege of senior painters when appreciating paintings.

It's not that the curators didn't want to capture and analyze the details of these paintings, but it was too difficult for them.

especially oil paintings,
Different from sketches or gouaches, oil paints are layered on top of each other, layers of colors superimposed on each other.The light reflected from the outside world penetrates the paint from bottom to top, and is continuously absorbed and mixed by various spectra, which forms the visual effect that is finally captured by the audience.

It is not difficult to reverse this process from the final picture of forming a phase.

From a general perspective, it can be seen that those scenes are painted first, and those contents are painted later. Anna can easily do whatever the painter's overall compositional thinking is.

But like Detective Cat, even the slightest changes in warm and cold brush strokes can be captured.

can only say……

Not usually difficult.

At least as Detective Cat just described, in this "White Lake Baikal", there are many small details in the fan paintings that even Anna originally ignored.

Listening to Ms. Detective Cat's narration in a gentle tone, she even felt a sense of enlightenment.

Anna knows that although she loves art, her talent for painting is objectively limited.

Read the book a hundred times, its meaning will come out by itself,
This truth is only half true in the field of painting.

Some painting skills and the underlying details of using a brush, even if you have seen a thousand paintings and appreciated [-] famous paintings, even if you grew up in art museums from childhood to adulthood, you really can’t see it if you are not a painter.

If you want to really understand a painting from beginning to end, in addition to knowing how to appreciate beauty, you have to paint it yourself with a brush.

Detective Cat not only understands oil painting, but he is a master of it.

Why does such a painter insist on painting with a painting knife? Isn't it good to do decent oil paintings!

"Bravo! The speech is awesome, such a wonderful detailed analysis, whether it is me or the audience friends on the podcast platform, should be listening heartily."

Anna Howe expressed her praise and appreciation without hesitation.

"Especially your views on the contrast of warm and cold color points and the mutual emphasis of colors are really impressive. I think you should know a lot about Impressionism."

She asked Tonks, "Mr. Curator, do you have anything to add to what you said about Detective Cat?"

"Uh……"

The curator blinked his eyes and scanned the speech he had prepared.

Impressionist light and shadow changes... Well, the other party said it.

The details of the contrast between the lake and the sky...well, Detective Cat said that too.

……

There is only so much that a painting can say, to put it bluntly.

This kind of classical salon-style podcast, the normal mode should be for everyone to chat and discuss together.

It's like talking about cross talk, you say something, and I say something.

Each person expresses a point of view, and the host adjusts the atmosphere from it. They talk about a painting for about 10 minutes. Each person expresses two or three points of view, and the chat and laughter are over.

It's like playing Feihua Ling to recite poems starting with a certain word. There are only so many poems that meet the requirements.

But Gu Weijing is inexperienced, and Anna is happy to give Detective Ms. Cat a chance to express herself.

So he almost analyzed the entire painting in detail, and said everything he could think of.

Director Tonks hesitated at this moment.

If Gu Weijing's previous analysis made the curator feel so ashamed that he is now speechless and has nothing to say, it would be overthinking.

Mr. Tonks, a senior curator who has been immersed in painting appreciation for half his life, just wants to talk, and he can always talk about something new.

But the curator is also arrogant, okay?

He is a truly international curator.

It may be exaggerated to say that the world's artistic scene is moved by him, but it is a fact that there are many world-class artists in the conversations and jokes.

If Tonks discusses what others have already said, he will be suspected of picking up the old man's teeth.

He thought for a moment.

"Ms. Detective Cat, what a wonderful speech."

"Then I have a question, do you think this painting has no flaws?" Curator Tonks dug a hole quietly.

He realized that the Detective Cat had been talking about some detail and had overlooked a more fundamental inadequacy of the painting.

This is also a mistake that many painters without sufficient experience often make.

"There may be deficiencies in the creation of this painting? What I can see should be that the brush strokes are too hard, and there are too many details on the lake surface that affect attention, making the picture look messy, and the style of the brush..."

Gu Weijing recalled the brushwork style of this painting on the light screen in his mind.

The oil painting technique of the third-level professional is great, but it is far from perfect.

"Wait a minute, none of the problems you mentioned are wrong, but none of them are big mistakes."

Director Tonks shook his head and interrupted Gu Weijing's conclusion.

"These views are too ingenious. If judged by the standard of a truly excellent work of art, there is actually a more fatal flaw in this painting, which you did not point out."

The curator touched his chin.

"Hmph, I'm an illustrator after all."

Director Tonks has regained his sense of superiority as a senior curator.

Detective Cat may have done some research on the picture, but he has been working as a "taxi driver" for other employers too much, and he is somewhat insufficient in the more fundamental aesthetic ability of art.

"Mr. Curator, what you mean by insufficiency is the appeal of the picture?"

Anna understood what Director Tonks meant, so she spoke out to avoid the embarrassment of Detective Cat.

Whether it is called the appeal of the picture or the emotion of the painting, anyway, it is the degree to which the artist integrates his own emotions into the picture.

To explain it in more straightforward terms, it is whether this painting is moving enough.

Painters with good techniques and a strong sense of spatial structure are more likely to make their works expressive.

But this is only relative.

Whether a painting has expressive power or not depends on whether the painter has the passion to paint and has enough understanding of the content of the picture.

At this time, illustrators have a natural disadvantage, because what they draw is not their own inspiration.

Illustrators are just tools for your drafting employer.

The industry's requirements for illustrations are mainly to draw beautifully and meet the requirements of employers, and they don't really care about whether there is enough passion for the creation of the pictures.

Even among the seven illustrations that Mr. Hyperion let Anna appreciate, only the well-deserved No.1 in the illustration industry, Mr. Jane Arnold's paintings can make the audience feel warm.

The sketch of Mrs. Detective Cat can only be considered serious.

But then again, the other people's paintings are not as good as Detective Cat's unpretentious style.

Even the well-known artist De Jong Van Doorn's painting, Anna's evaluation is inexplicable and incomprehensible.

"The mood of this painting is not good, but it's not bad either... Ms. Detective Cat, you are an illustrator, it's normal to be less sensitive."

Anna comforted.

Anna was very surprised that Detective Cat had such a deep understanding of oil painting.

She knows that for a painter, expressing one's emotions is much more difficult than simply exercising skills.

Picasso still has some paintings that seem perfunctory.

Basically, if the picture is coherent enough and the brush strokes are serious enough, it can be regarded as a good painting.

Most of the normal works of a professional painter in his life are also in this emotional range.

It's really normal for Detective Cat not to see the problem.

"If there is... the emotional inadequacy pointed out by Director Tonks, it is..."

Just as Anna was about to take over the title of the painting, she heard Detective Cat speak.

"It's just that this painting is not 'cold' enough, right?"

Gu Weijing thought for a moment.

In the process of dismantling the painting with the light curtain in his mind, he really felt that the painting was more ordinary in emotion than technique.

On the system panel, I only got the evaluation of "Simple Works". The biggest problem is that this painting is not cold enough.

To look at the snow and feel a chill in your heart—this is the ultimate pursuit of a painting depicting winter.

Painting and calligraphy appraisal can see the whole of Paris from "The Ball at the Pancake Mill", and can hear the sound of rumbling thunderstorms from "The Old Church on a Thunderstorm Day".

The name of this painting is "White Lake Baikal". The word "white" is included in the title of the painting, which naturally shows the lake covered by heavy snow.

But Gu Weijing did not feel the coldness in the image during the appraisal.

It looks like a piece of paper simply covered with white paint.

"Did you see it? Why didn't you say it just now?"

Curator Tonks held back the words he had prepared, and sniffed his nose several times.

"Lack of empathy with the scenery, I think it should be drawn by the artist facing the photo in the studio."

Gu Weijing expressed his inference: "But I don't think there is any problem with this. There is no way to do it. You can't really go to the freezing Lake Baikal to paint."

Impressionism is more respectful of capturing the fleeting light and shadow in reality and nature, and of sketching on the spot.

This admiration is also relative.
Just like those painters who paint religious paintings can never really see God, asking people to paint the freezing Lake Baikal on the spot is obviously a bit of a force.

"Who says you can't?"

Tonks hummed inwardly.

What is it to collect scenery on the shore of Lake Baikal?
It is not suitable for him to say this sentence. This is a public program, and if it is said to ordinary audiences, it will be somewhat arrogant.

But that was what Tonks was thinking.

For the studios of great artists that Mr. Curator can come into contact with on a daily basis, going to various places to collect folk songs is part of the job.

Spend 10,000+ dollars to go to the North Pole on a nuclear-powered icebreaker from the former Soviet Union, spend millions of dollars to buy an island in the Pacific Ocean to live in seclusion, and hire two dozen Nepalese Sherpa laborers if you want to see the snow-capped mountains. On Everest.

Everywhere.

As long as the technology can be achieved, even if they go to the moon to gather wind, these great artists are willing to wave their money to go there.

This is not a joke.

The first batch of commercial passengers of Space X's currently announced starship flight plan around the moon are six artists. It is estimated that the cost of this single commercial ticket will exceed [-] million US dollars.

Compared with these generous works, going to the shore of Lake Baikal to collect scenery can only be regarded as a circle in the small park at the door of the house.

"Okay, that's it for this painting, let's talk about the next painting..."

See the last place where he wanted to express his opinion, which was also filled by Detective Cat.

At this moment, Tonks completely lost interest in continuing to talk about the "White Lake Baikal", so he took the initiative to change the subject.

"Let me tell you my opinion about this watercolor..."

This time without Mr. Sloth's invitation, Tonks took the lead in chatting honestly.

　Thanks to the great leader, Xie Meng will release it tonight or tomorrow.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)