Almighty painter

Chapter 112 The Dissertation Controversy

Miss Mona really didn't want to meet any of her classmates at this time.

She is the chairperson of the Girls' Student Union, a man of the hour on campus, and an excellent little queen.At this time, this tearful and fragile appearance is not at all the demeanor of himself in the past.

If there is anyone she is particularly unwilling to meet.

Then it is Gu Weijing.

The moment she saw the other party, Mona even panicked for some unknown reason.

When she gets along with Gu Weijing, she always has a kind of psychological advantage, and she feels that she should be a strong, elegant and noble party.

With a trace of arrogance with ease.

But now the eye circles are red, and the self who cried just now is obviously insulated from the words elegance and pride.

Adolescent love is like a peacock with its tail open. Whether Mona realizes it or not, subconsciously she doesn't want to show her small side to the other party.

"Yes, I did try to curry favor with Professor Cruz, and it wasn't very successful. But so what?"

Mona wrinkled her upturned nose, forcibly suppressed the panic in her heart, and prepared to use sharp words to drive away this inappropriate guy who appeared.

"At least I tried my best, and no matter the result is good or bad, I don't regret it. What about you? How many days have you been to the studio! If you, Gu Weijing, have the courage to do the same thing, I will think it better You."

"If you come to mock me for wanting to go through the back door, it's up to you. If you come to comfort me, you can get out. I still don't like your pity."

she sneered.

"That's not the case. Miss Mona, we are good friends."

Gu Weijing bent over and shook his head.

He looked at the stubborn Indian girl and said in a gentle voice: "I saw the message you sent me on the weekend, and I know you are worried about me. It's just that I was busy drawing outside that day..."

"Worried about you? Who wants to worry about you? I'm not your mother."

Mona pursed her lips.

Speaking of this.

The anger in her heart came up again.

I hesitated for a long time that day, and then kindly sent a message to Gu Weijing.

As a result, she hugged her phone and waited for half an hour, only to hear the word "busy".

What a big shelf!
Love will not come.

It seems that Miss Ben is rushing to beg the other party.

"I went home and wanted to contact you again, but you seemed to delete me directly."

Gu Weijing said softly.

"Heh, it's none of your business to do what I like."

Mona said blankly.

I deleted you just to express "I am very upset".

I didn't block you, if you really cared about me, wouldn't you try to add it back yourself?
She sneered in her heart.

Gu Weijing shook his head and stopped talking.

Mona saw Gu Weijing take out a white sketch paper from the small bag behind her, and handed it to Mona.

"I don't know why I've pissed you off lately, but Miss Mona, here's a little present from me. I think it should make you happier than Jerry's roses."

Gu Weijing said with a smile.

Mona was taken aback.

On the sketch paper in the boy's hand was a sketch of a girl with long hair and a shawl.

This is completely different from Gu Weijing's usual sketch style she has seen.

Not only are the painting styles different,

And the strokes are extremely beautiful.

In the painting, the girl turned her face slightly.

The clean and crisp curve of the pen pulled out a tied ponytail behind her head, she was wearing a skirt with belts fluttering in the wind, a bunch of gold rings were clasped around her bare arms, and she had a bright and confident smile on her face.

"This is my portrait."

Looking at the charming girl who appeared vividly on the paper, Mona's original anger towards Gu Weijing disappeared in an instant.

She was in an art class,
With Mona's popularity in the study, there is no shortage of ways for male students to put a sketch drawn for her in their love letter as a confession.

Logically speaking,

A clichéd little routine like a portrait can't impress Mona.

But Gu Weijing's painting is completely different from those works that gave Mona a completely different feeling.

The exquisiteness of the brushwork is one aspect.

More importantly, the emotions contained in the picture.

The very simple brush and ink lines clearly point out the aura of agility and self-confidence in the young girl, which makes the painting no longer pale, as if it is alive.

Mona fell in love with the painting instantly.

She understands that this sketch is definitely a very, very careful work.

It may even have taken a considerable amount of time, countless exercises and scraps, to complete such a painting.

pity……

He should put this thought into his college application portfolio!

"The boys and girls in my school apologized. They either went to the concert or gave me a new mobile phone. At least they also went to eat high-end Japanese or French food. In the end, you used a cheap sketch to deal with me?"

Miss Mona's heart warmed up, but her mouth was still full of persistent sarcasm.

She glared at Gu Weijing, hesitated for a moment, and took the sketch paper from the boy's hand.

"I want you to forgive me, well, I have three demands on you."

Mona thought for a while, and she stretched out three fingers.

"First, give up your idea of ​​a big painting that doesn't make sense. It's good to have artistic ideas, but you should keep your feet on the ground."

"Second, come to the studio with me every day at noon, after school, and on Saturdays and Sundays, and honestly prepare the materials for applying to universities. I have already checked the information. In this year's school recruitment fair, Rotterdam The bonus question given by the university is Fashion Design. In addition to the basic portfolio, to be on the safe side, we also need to prepare an additional ten to fifteen art design drafts inspired by fashion. Now time It's already tight."

"Thirdly, Professor Cruz's office is in the teaching building on the north side, which is Room 203, Block B. He has something to do now, but I ask you to take time to visit this professor this afternoon. You are right about one thing, this Madam is indeed not an easy-going woman, but she is the wife of a great artist, so she has the right to be arrogant. In fact, your basic painting skills are better than mine. It is not difficult to make a good impression on the professor. It is not difficult to become a student of Professor Cruz. Remember You must be respectful..."

The corner of Gu Weijing's mouth twitched.

He listened to Miss Mona telling him how to please Mrs. Sakai solemnly in his ear, and he felt a strange feeling in his heart.

"What are you doing with this expression, I'm serious."

Mona frowned and reprimanded: "It's not good for you to be arrogant at a time like this. You have to learn to be smarter. Kou Kou, the goblin, is going to flirt with the beautiful new transfer student shamelessly." .”

After stabbing Kou Kou casually, Mona continued: "The art industry is most concerned with connections, and if you can get in touch with this kind of art giant family, maybe you can save ten years of detours. "

"Thank you, Mona."

Gu Weijing smiled.

Even though the girl's tone was a little harsher, he could still tell that it was for his own good.

"Mona, let me ask you a question, are you willing to believe me?"

He looked at his childhood sweetheart with a serious tone.

"What do you mean?"

Mona frowned.

"I think excellent art is penetrating. Even if there is only one good enough work, it is more moving than a hundred mediocre paintings. As for the studio, it is close to life and can draw truly moving paintings. I found A better place to paint than in school. If you want, I hope to invite you to my new studio to paint together."

Gu Weijing patiently explained.

"You are my best friend since I was a child. I am happy to share all the good things with you. Even if you can't get into Mrs. Sakai's improvement class, it doesn't matter, if you believe me. Then I am willing to take out for you Time to design a portfolio, guide you in painting..."

"Okay, enough!"

Mona's face darkened, her pretty face was as cold as ice.

"I don't know how to live or die, who do you think you are? Conquering the judges with a painting, I would believe what Miss Sakai said. You? This is the funniest joke I've heard this year."

"Gu Weijing, I never knew you were so naive, you got a few good grades in school and thought you were a great painter. Even your grandfather Gu Tongxiang is just a second-rate painter in an art desert!"

"I'm sorry... Mona, please trust me. I have my reasons, but I can't tell you right now."

Gu Weijing stared into the other's eyes.

Cao Lao's matter is a private agreement, and the content of the paper written with Sakai Katsuko also needs to be temporarily kept secret.

There was another reason at the back of my mind.

Since talking with Mrs. Sakai,
Gu Weijing didn't know how to deal with the relationship with Sakai Katsuko.

Especially in front of Miss Mona, whom I have a faint liking for, I am a little afraid to mention it.

Miss Katsuko is of course very good.

But if he asks himself now,

Which one is more important to me, Mona or Ms. Sakai, probably because Mona's companionship with her since she was a child is more profound.

"You don't have to apologize to me. If you insist on going your own way, reality will slap you in the face. As for me... this is my answer to you. Gu Weijing, you are really disappointing."

Mona folded the sketch in hand into a ball, threw it into the trash can beside her, stomped her feet angrily, turned and left.

……

In the reading room in the afternoon, everything was quiet.

Only the rustle of documents being flipped quickly, the typing of a keyboard and the occasional conversation.

"In Ms. Carroll's pen, the technical characteristics of Impressionism are very mature. For this point of view, we can mirror Shapiro's "Still Life Painting Theory"..."

Gu Weijing, who entered the working state, temporarily put what happened in the morning behind his mind.

He flipped through the marked sticky notes on the literature, and quietly expressed his views.

On one side, Katsuko Sakai's white fingertips danced lightly on the keyboard of a small laptop, and entered the inspiration of the thesis they discussed and completed into a complete manuscript.

"By the way, I actually have an opinion. Should this be revised? One of our speculations about Carroll's true identity is whether the views of Monet's lover and first wife Camille are too arbitrary. The odds are too small."

Gu Weijing's fingers lightly paused on a viewpoint written by Sakai Katsuko in his notebook.

"It has been a century and a half, and the possibility of finding information about the original painter himself is very small."

Sakai Katsuko explained: "My father's point of view is that it's just speculation anyway, and the more bluffing the content, the better."

When they started writing the thesis, although Carroll's specific identity was still in their cognition, it was still full of fog.

But Uncle Sakai still suggested that they give a few speculations about Carol's true identity.

This is a little trick when writing a thesis.

Liberal arts papers, especially art papers with a certain "archaeological" nature, often rely purely on guesswork about the owners of some unknown works.

It's like when a hunter randomly shoots a few shots at the empty woods. If you finally find a duck in the trap, you are naturally awesome.

The value of the thesis is doubled.

If it misses, there are a few gunshots and bluffing, which can bluff the readers, which is also good.

You can call it water, but this is almost an unspoken rule for knowledgeable people in the industry.

It's even more outrageous than Uncle Sakai's suggestion to put an Impressionist work of unknown origin on the head of Monet's wife.

Classic examples include that there are a large number of unknown tombs of the Eastern Xia and Han Dynasties that were all proved to be the tombs of Cao Cao by N professors in N different articles.

In the end, whether it is the academic circles or the media, they will be tired of the news of finding Cao Cao's tomb.

But there are also positive examples.

For example, the famous businessman Schliemann was a fan of ancient Greek legends. He dug a lot of places in the Balkan Peninsula in the [-]th century. As long as he dug up something casually, he announced that he had found the ruins of Troy.

The academic circles think he is talking nonsense,
In the end, one day he really happened to be fooled by him, and he became famous overnight, becoming an archaeologist just like Carter who discovered the tomb of Tutankhamun, Koldew who discovered the city of Babylon, and Shang Boliang who deciphered hieroglyphs. A big man who cannot be avoided.

Among the several tentative names they have put forward that may be Carroll, the most important name is naturally Monet's first wife Camille.

"Although their names are somewhat similar and their ages are also similar. But Camille's hair color is clearly recorded as dark, and according to the missionary's diary, the young female artist's hair color is A rare golden red."

"Maybe you dyed your hair?" Sakai Katsuko said.

Since it is a wild guess.

From a rational judgment, in fact, there is a high probability that Carroll's real identity will not be verified.

Then, if this painting can be placed on the head of Monet's wife, whether it is the market value of "The Old Church in a Thunderstorm" or the academic gimmick of the thesis, it is more valuable than installing it on the head of an unknown little painter.

"It will be about ten years before commercial hair dyes are promoted by L'Oreal on a large scale, and the possibility of hair dyes is not very high."

Gu Weijing shook his head.

"I found it from Uncle Sakai, and found it in the Paris Telegraph Register in the French Archives. At that time, in the block near the Moulin Rouge, the red-light district where Impressionists often gathered, there was a studio owned by a woman named Carla. I personally think , we can replace Camille with her."

(End of this chapter)