Almighty painter

Chapter 108
Since the Republic of China,
Dongxia's big painting school is constantly being influenced by world art trends, and very few of them know nothing about oil painting.

On the contrary,

The artistic spirit is open,

Standing still can only be abandoned by the times.

Many well-known great painters, such as Huang Jiannan and Wu Guanzhong, who won the silver medal of the Louvre Museum in France and whose works are collected by the Louvre Museum, etc.These old gentlemen who have repeatedly sold more than [-] million yuan in auctions all belong to the type of traditional Chinese painting and oil painting, they can paint, and they can paint well.

Mr. Cao himself does not often paint oil paintings.

But it doesn't mean he doesn't understand oil painting.

Cao Lao’s early disciples, including the senior brother who died young, Professor Lin Tao himself, and the third junior sister Zhou Ming are all artists who have made great achievements in oil painting.

On the other hand, the last two apprentices seemed to hold back a lot of energy in their hearts. They wanted to take over the teacher's position in the traditional Chinese painting circle, and they devoted less effort to oil painting.

The first moment Professor Lin Tao saw this painting, he was amazed by Gu Weijing's unique oil painting texture and line shape.

The level is very good.

Not at all inferior to some of the older students in his studio.

Putting it on the CAFA campus, known as the cradle of Asian artists, may not be shocking, but it can definitely be said to be a good seed for future outstanding artists.

What surprised him even more was the rapid progress Gu Weijing had made during this period of time.

Gu Weijing's line ability, Lin Tao's pen sketch about the Shwedagon Pagoda not long ago, is almost inseparable.

It was good,
Compared with a month or so ago, today is a new atmosphere that is completely different.

"With hard work, but also with talent."

Professor Lin Tao nodded.

Practicing meticulous painting itself is an all-round improvement of a painter's line modeling skills, and it has a similar effect on sketching and oil painting modeling.

However, analogy also varies from person to person,

Not everyone can "pass" so fast.

This level of progress made Professor Lin a little envious.

It's just the overall feeling of the painting, why... so weird.

"Oh, what am I supposed to be? It turned out to be a meticulous oil painting, quite ambitious."

Lin Tao took out the old painting mirror from the glasses case and put it on. After thinking about the painting for a while, he felt the sense of fragmentation emanating from the painting as a whole.

"The idea is good, but unfortunately..."

Gu Weijing's thoughts and intentions in this painting can be seen almost at a glance in front of an experienced artist like Professor Lin.

Professor Lin Tao is no stranger to fusion painting.

The road of painting, which is a mixture of Eastern and Western art trends, is a steep road to the sky.

This road is indeed heavenly.

In the past 200 years, all those who have followed this path successfully are world-class artists whose paintings can set off a bloodbath in the auction house.

Needless to say, the origin of the famous Impressionism and Oriental painting.

Establishing a school is the lifelong dream of any artist.

Dongxia is able to successfully integrate Chinese painting experience into oil painting techniques, whether it is Zao Wou-ki or Wu Guanzhong, the painting style is almost self-contained,
There is already a rudimentary form of establishing a sect.

What's more valuable is.

It can ignore the differences in artistic aesthetics.

Foreigners can't appreciate Chinese paintings, and the Asian market is relatively indifferent to Afrofuturism.

However, the fusion of painting methods, regardless of east, west, north, south, China, France, Germany and Japan.

All have achieved great success in almost any art market.

Like two sides of a coin.

While this painting method has unlimited potential, it is also dangerous at every step.

This road is really very difficult.

The blending of different artistic styles is the field that most tests the painting skills.

Fusion painting pursues the effect that 1+1 is greater than 2.

The painting method of fine brushwork oil painting does not mean that you draw a bunch of grapes with fine brushwork, and then use oil painting to draw a group of static sketches of apples, which can be called fusion painting when put together.

This can only be regarded as a strange thing that Easterners can't understand and Westerners can't understand.

"It's too late, and it's too early."

Lin Tao looked at the "Lucky Orphanage in the Sun" and shook his head regretfully.

At Gu Weijing's current age, like many people who have received a good professional art education, his painting style has already been finalized.

The mediation, pointing, joining and dyeing of meticulous painting.Techniques such as thin rubbing, over-dyeing, stamping, and stippling of oil painting have all formed the habit of muscle memory.

This is by no means a bad thing.

It's just that the pursuit of fusion painting is to break the boundaries and jump out of the tradition.

The painter's textbook-like muscle memory of the techniques he has learned, when the two painting methods are integrated, it is easy for people to fall into the limitations of previous thinking and cause obstacles.

Much of Gu Weijing's sense of disobedience when painting comes from this.

This is the result of conflicting thoughts and old habits.

Theoretically, learning fusion painting should be similar to how Zhang Sanfeng taught Zhang Wuji to play Tai Chi, forgetting the old painting rules, and under the guidance of the master, to achieve the point where there is no trick to win.

For example, Mr. Zhu Naizheng, the vice president of CAFA, only takes the essence of oil painting, abandons the painting method of oil painting, and likes to use Chinese-style brushes to paint oil paintings.

In theory, such a painting method is easier for children who are like a blank sheet of paper to master.

too early to say
It is because whether it is traditional Chinese painting or oil painting, Gu Weijing is still far away from reaching the point of mastering and mastering, and lifting weights with ease.

The masters who can truly enter the Tao through painting,
Nature can also rise above the hindrances of old habits.

However, this is more difficult.

Lin Tao has never tried this style of fusion painting.

It's not that he can't draw.

It's just that with Lin Tao's status, he naturally can't demand himself by general standards.

Among the artists in the Eastern Xia painting circle, there are probably three best artists who have integrated traditional oriental elements into Western oil paintings.

Take Professor Lin Tao's judgment on himself.

He is not as good as Zao Wou-ki in his grasp of oriental aesthetic images, he is not as good as Wu Guanzhong in terms of the combination of ink structure and Western colors, and he is not as good as Zhu Naizheng, a great painter with decades of calligraphy skills, in terms of neat lines and transformation of oil painting brushes.

After all, he is the oldest living disciple of Mr. Cao.

I can't be the best, I can't draw my own characteristics,

There is suspicion of imitation.

The higher the status, the greater the pressure.

"After all, I am a child, and I don't know the heights of the sky and the earth."

Lin Tao was a little funny.

In his opinion, this painting is too ambitious.

It's like a child trying to swing two pairs of heavy sledgehammers, staggering, which makes people want to smile.

The two different artistic styles of Chinese painting and oil painting collide the whole picture.

However, the layout of the screen and the use of the pen itself are surprisingly well-proportioned.

At least, Lin Tao believes that Gu Weijing's overall painting skills have improved a lot this month.

This news should be shared with the teacher.

He thought about it, and instead of privately sending it to Mr. Cao, he forwarded this photo to the teacher group.

"It was painted by a young man who wanted to participate in the art exhibition. What do you think?"

Lin Tao typed.

"The style is very fragmented, but the flaws are not hidden. The strokes are handled well, the lines of the characters are drawn very accurately, and the small details are not bad. If the person who draws is still a student, the future can be expected."

Third Junior Sister Zhou Ming replied first.

"This style of painting is also a young man. Is it the early works of Cui Xiaoming, the son of Cui Xuanyou of Xiangjiang Gallery?" Zhou Ming asked.

"Is that the little painter who held a solo exhibition at the age of 20? I saw his paintings a few years ago. In terms of brushwork alone, it is not much better than this painting, but the overall feeling is much more harmonious. One of Xiao Cui's current paintings It might sell for thirty thousand dollars."

Lin Tao shook his head.

The style of fusion painting is too difficult to go.

Among all the new generation painters of the younger generation, there are some well-known ones, and the only young person Lin Tao can think of trying to take this path is Cui Xiaoming.

If you want to accurately summarize this young painting hero, then it is probably the version of "Katsuko Sakai who is ten years older".

Cui Xiaoming is very similar to Sakai Katsuko in many aspects.

His father "Da Cui" is Cui Xuanyou, a German-born Chinese artist, and his mother is a realistic oil painter in Germany.

This has created his innate conditions beyond most ordinary painting students.

It is said that when he could not speak when he was a child, he would splash ink on the drawing board with a brush and oil paint.

Like mother tongue education.

Children with aura are deliberately exposed to this kind of fusion culture environment by their parents, and they are deliberately cultivated in the direction of fusion painting at every stage of their growth, so it is easier to integrate the two painting methods without sticking to boundaries.

It doesn't matter whether his parents' art education ideas are shrewd or sharp.

The effect is remarkable.

Today, Cui Xiaoming's painting skills may not be too outstanding among professional painters.
But relying on this fusion of paintings, the price of some of his fine paintings has reached the order of [-] US dollars.

This amount is already very high.

The painter itself is a very steep pyramid. The painter who earns a lot of money earns faster than robbing a bank, but in the eyes of ordinary painters, one or two thousand dollars is considered a big order.

Many people have no concept of the professional income of a painter.

Take the Hurun Artists Rich List as an example. The top ten Dongxia artists on the list are all in units of [-] million. There are quite a few whose works can be sold for more than [-] million yuan a year. have.

The top few painters have a total personal net worth of less than a billion and are ashamed to meet people.

But at the end of the list, there are also some painters who "can only" sell for a little over a million.

In some years when the art market is relatively cold, if you add up all your works in a year, if you can sell 90 million RMB, you will be able to enter the ranking list.

This is one of the largest art markets in the world, and all art and painting practitioners are included in the top [-].

Considering that Xiao Cui is only in his 20s.

The market generally believes that as long as he walks on the road of fusion painting for a few more years, it is only a matter of time before the market price surpasses that of his father Da Cui.

The future is limitless.

"It's not him? Another student who doesn't know the heights of the sky and the earth wants to challenge fine brushwork oil painting."

The meaning in Zhou Ming's words was a little bit overwhelmed: "Should I say that he didn't know the severity, or that he was brave. This road is not easy to walk."

"Who drew it?"

Junior sister Tangning asked concisely.

"@唐宁. There will be a special spring auction in Xiangjiang next month. Let's make an appointment to get together at that time. Here, I wish Xiaoning Junior Sister's special sale to exceed [-] million Hong Kong dollars."

Seeing that a very busy little junior sister is making a fuss, Zhou Ming @shimei.

"Okay, I'll make an appointment at that time. I also wish my sister a smooth sailing for her solo exhibition in Paris this year at the Creuse Gallery."

Junior sister Tang Ning changed the title of the painting back to Gu Weijing's painting again.

"@林涛, who drew it?"

She seemed very interested in this question.

"You must be an excellent student in Senior Brother Lin's studio. You should let the child calm down and paint oil paintings or Chinese paintings in a down-to-earth manner. It is not difficult for the student group with this level to participate in the Beijing Art Exhibition. This style is not something he can master now. .”

Zhou Ming speculated.

"The student group is not enough. Mr. Cao's expectation for him is the Singapore Biennale, and the master group will win."

The group was silent for more than ten seconds.

"@林涛, is that...that kid from Myanmar?"

Zhou Ming asked.

The bet between Mr. Cao and Gu Weijing was only circulated in a small area, but these disciples naturally knew about it.

"Yes, it's Gu Weijing's painting."

"It looks a bit interesting, but it's just excellent among ordinary people. It's far behind Xiao Ning's age. Xiao Ning, what do you think?"

Ever since he got the news that Mr. Cao might want to take on another apprentice, Zhou Ming has been a little curious about what his little junior sister from a family of calligraphy and painting in the south of the Yangtze River thinks.

Things are rare.

Cao Lao's direct disciple can almost be said to be the most resounding golden signboard in the Asian painting circle.

Naturally, the fewer the number of people, the more valuable it is.

Faced with the possibility that there may be an extra junior at any time,

Although older apprentices like Lin Tao and Zhou Ming felt a little weird, they were not unacceptable.

The one who suffered the biggest "loss" was junior sister Tangning.

The meanings of closed disciples and ordinary disciples are always different.

Even in the modern teacher-student relationship in the West, the youngest student in the laboratory with a Daniel tutor will be looked up to.

In the more intimate teacher-disciple relationship in the Eastern style, the closed disciple is often the one most favored by the teacher.

Cao Lao's eldest apprentice is no longer alive, and whoever is a closed disciple can almost be recognized as Cao Lao's successor by the outside world.

If expected,
He is also the heir to the artistic legacy.

Whether you like it or not, objectively speculative collectors prefer to speculate on concepts and stories when they speculate on works of art.

It's unrealistic for Tangning's status as a closed disciple to double the market price of Tangning's junior sister's works, but a ten to fifteen percent increase in the basic price is still very real.

After hearing Elder Cao's decision, Junior Sister Tangning's mood must have been delicate.

"It's so ambitious, I just want to run before I learn how to walk. Cao Lao's Chinese paintings alone are enough for him to learn for a lifetime."

really,

Tangning's tone was a little displeased.

"I don't think so. If you want to be a painter, you don't have the courage to create a new style. It's better to be a painter. If he can only follow me Cao Xuan for the rest of his life, it will be disappointing. This kid is very friendly to me. Appetite. In this regard, you are not as good as him."

No one refuted this sentence,
Because it was Cao Xuan himself who spoke.

(End of this chapter)