Almighty painter

Chapter 166 Summary of the Essence of New Body Painting

Gu Weijing closed his eyes and felt the rich content covered in the "Summary of the Essence of New Body Painting" provided by the system.

Holding a brush, holding a brush, coloring, using a brush, focus and perspective...

Massive amounts of information flow through the mind,
There was even a colorful hallucination in front of his eyes, as if he had walked into the Forbidden City of the Qing Dynasty 300 years ago, and was witnessing how this third-rank foreign painter with a flower feather on the top, who was awarded the title of Emperor Qianlong, painted with his own eyes.

He once obtained Wang Wei's "Notes of Mojie".

That book is more like a literati essay written by a traditional scholar-bureaucrat in the Eastern Xia Dynasty, with a strong literary temperament.

Although there are many refreshing painting skills,
However, it is still far from this "Summary of the Essence of New Body Painting", which is comprehensive and detailed in explaining the painting techniques of Castiglione's works.

The works of court painters like Castiglione have been inherited in an orderly manner, just like porcelain from official kilns, they rarely flow to the people.

Therefore, more than 90.00% of Castiglione's works are collected in the Forbidden City on both sides of the Taiwan Strait in Dongxia and museums in the United States, Japan, and France, and most of them are well protected.

There are many experts and scholars who specialize in the study of new body painting techniques both at home and abroad.

However, it is based on the completed works to restore the painting techniques.Or according to the painter's own painting experience, try to figure out and study the works.

The difficulty of the two is completely different.

The rich colors and gorgeous visual perception of the painting scroll are interwoven with the most subtle brushwork.

Wanting to reverse it is like guessing from a grand symphony how the fingertips of the first violinist's left hand gently stir the hair-thin strings.

Not impossible, just very difficult.

In history, there are actually many painting techniques that have left paintings but lost their painting techniques.

The double hook heavy color technique of Chinese painting, certain pigment formulas of Western tempera painting, the light perspective technique of the Renaissance...

Some are because of the war, some are because the skills are too complicated, some are because of the self-preservation of the minority painting schools, or even simply because some pigment ores were exhausted a hundred years ago.

We can only leave future generations of scholars racking their brains to speculate and restore amid futile sighs.

Gu Weijing didn't know either,
This art theory work is systematically restored and summarized based on Castiglione's works.Or the artist Castiglione Castiglione in history really wrote down his technical experience, but it was lost in the long river of time without being known to outsiders.

Lang Shining's specific painting techniques are like a black box.

There are many records about his painting characteristics in the literature - "the scene is grand, the brushwork is natural, the painting is delicate, and there is no failure".

There are few records of the detailed drawing methods.

In the memoirs of Nian Xiyao, a famous official and great painter in the Qing Dynasty, he mentioned a few words that he had learned Western heavy colors from Lang Shining and benefited a lot.

And it is recorded in "Living Records of the Qing Dynasty" that Qianlong once ordered, "Select six more smart and delicate children from the House of Internal Affairs, and follow (Lang) Shining and others to learn line drawing. This kind of painting is quite delicate and refreshing. , cannot be lost.”

Later generations can find these historical records in a few words, which makes people think endlessly.

Gu Weijing is well aware of the preciousness of the reward of the system.

In the history of Dongxia, there are actually very few professional art "textbooks".

The famous "Painting Classics" and "Six Methods of Painting" are more often just a literary work about the philosophy of art on a macro level, rather than teaching techniques.

Want to learn the real thing.

Otherwise, cast a good tire.

Otherwise, first be a painting boy serving tea and water with the teacher for five or six years and seven or eight years.Then he will be an apprentice for a few years, and finally test his character. After passing five trials and killing six generals, it is considered too much for a great painter to receive five or six true disciples in his lifetime.

The apprentice wished he could be more important than his son.

That's why Mr. Cao's acceptance of apprentices will be a major event that shakes the painting world.

In ancient times, Wen Zong and Hua Zong in the scholar-bureaucrat class accepted closed disciples, and the emperor might pay attention to it.

Court painters who specialized in painting for a living were even more reluctant to teach others the skills of housekeeping.

Father to son, son to grandson, hereditary iron rice bowl.

As long as you don't lose your skills, you won't starve to death.

Until Gu Weijing learned painting when he was a child, when the old man taught him the traditional Chinese painting techniques passed down by his family, even if it wasn't very advanced, even the uncle who didn't do this line of work would not let him listen.

This "Summary of the Essence of New Style Painting", which explains the painting techniques in detail, is undoubtedly worth a thousand dollars.

In ancient times, just understanding this book thoroughly was enough for a top painter to start a school.In martial arts novels, this is a peerless cheat that is enough to set off a bloodbath in the world.

With this book,
There should be a way to understand the sense of fragmentation of the fusion painting style that has been bothering me.

Gu Weijing suppressed the excitement in his heart, quickly threw all kinds of wild thoughts out of his mind, and calmed down.

he knows,
The system only gives knowledge cards, not one-stop skills.

What is needed between knowing how to draw and actually bringing the drawing to life on paper is often extremely tedious practice and hard work.

The tricks in "Mojie Notes" are more experiential than technical.

Take stirring cinnabar with fingers as an example. It takes a lot of experience to discover this trick, but even a kindergarten child can easily do it after knowing the final method.

Even so,

It took Gu Weijing a whole noon time to mix and match the most appropriate colors on the mural of "Picture of Respecting the Buddha and Protecting the Dharma".

Berryman's "Anatomy of the Human Body" can only produce amazing effects if it is matched with Menzel's basic painting experience of Lv.

If it was replaced by Gu Weijing's original sketching level, he would immediately become a dog riding Lu Bu, which can only be said to be amazing in the field of middle school students.

If you really want to use the knowledge cards rewarded by the system for your own use, and draw them to the point of Castiglione, you still have to practice.

……

At night, the lights of Gu's Painting and Calligraphy Shop were still on.

After returning home, today Gu Weijing was not in a hurry to go back to his bedroom.

Just got a new knowledge card, and it's hard for him to fall asleep without drawing something.

Gu Weijing wandered around the front of his small gallery for a while, and finally stopped in front of a wall.

【"Bean Blossom of Changchun Atlas"\"Bean Blossom of Changchun Atlas"】

【Type: Ink and color on silk (fine reproduction)】

【Artist: Qing Lang Shining】

[Price: US$1500 / 368 million kyats]

Gu Weijing carefully removed the scroll of this picture scroll from the wall and put it on the table beside it.

This picture scroll is a replica of collection-level cultural relics produced by the East Xia Cross-Strait Palace Museum Cultural Relic Collection Exchange Project in 2017.

At that time, in addition to issuing imitations of some famous paintings, some commemorative lacquerware and fine blue and white porcelain were also produced.

Although the collection-level prints are copied and printed by machines, they retain Lang Shining's original painting brushstrokes very well, which is not comparable to the cheap souvenirs sold in front of tourist attractions.

The cost of each purchase price is more than 800 US dollars,
Mr. Gu bought a batch of Castiglione's works at that time,
In addition to this "Changchun Atlas of Immortal Calyx: Dou Hua", there are also several "Ju Rui Tu" and "Qianlong Emperor's Grand Review" for sale in the store.

All are selling well.

Basically, the galleries in Yangon are mainly engaged in the business of foreign tourists.

When European and American tourists come to Southeast Asia, they want to buy some oriental scrolls besides local oil paintings when visiting galleries.

But, to be honest,
Just like the courts of the Qing Dynasty didn't like traditional oil paintings.

Traditional Chinese paintings that do not focus on realism may be a bit too "exotic" for them.

If you don't have enough cultural accumulation, you really don't appreciate it.

Western tourists are very obsessed with some cool, oriental concepts, but at the same time the threshold of contact should not be too high.

It would be best if they could understand something half-understood.

For example, cultural concepts such as "ninja" and "bushido" are in a mess in Europe and the United States.

The fusion style of art works is awesome here, without any cultural barriers.

Lang Shining's new body paintings were able to handle the emperors of Kang, Yong, and Qian in those days, and now they can handle these tourists in European and American scenic spots with ease.

Gu Weijing has seen blond-haired and blue-eyed foreigners covering their mouths and shouting "OMG" more than once in the store, thinking that these paintings are so cool.

They can not only understand it, but also think that these paintings are full of Eastern Xia style, which is rare to see.

It's a pity that the Palace Museum copied it in small batches at the beginning, and now only this "Douhua Picture" is left in the gallery.

The effect of imitation prints under the technique of calligraphy and painting identification is definitely not as good as the authentic ones.

In any case, the look and feel is better than a cold electronic album, and it is more convenient than drawing on an IPAD.

["Fairy Calyx Changchun Atlas: Bean Flower"]

[Oil painting techniques: Lv.7 master level [-]]

[Chinese Painting Technique: Lv.6 Professional Painter·Third Level]

【Mood: A Simple Work】

When Mr. Cao asked him to study Castiglione's style of work, Gu Weijing had seen many of Castiglione's works, and had already appreciated this "Douhua Tu" with the technique of calligraphy and painting appraisal.

The results are actually quite surprising.

The mood is only the evaluation of a simple work, but there is really nothing.

Similar to this kind of political work assigned by Emperor Kangxi to the Qing Palace Academy of Painting, requiring paintings to praise Ruixiang, the painter's lack of passion is completely understandable.

It's just the painting technique...

I can't say how bad Castiglione's paintings are,
The master-level painting skills are not bad at all, and they already belong to the small group of people at the top of the pyramid.

But compared to Lang Shining's fame and historical status.Especially because of the refreshing and outstanding look and feel that this painting brought to Gu Weijing, compared with the strong expectations it aroused.

In the analysis of the system, the artist's technique is very mediocre.

He is a stamp madman, hardcore collector of cultural relics, and Emperor Qianlong, who has seen countless famous paintings handed down from generation to generation. After seeing him, he was so excited that he wrote a poem himself saying "The photo of Shi Ningshan, I was a teenager" to praise him painter.

A master at the first level and a professional at the third level are indeed not high.

Take the works that Gu Weijing has admired as an example,
Oil painting is not as good as the female painter Carroll.

Don't compare Chinese painting with Mr. Cao, even Mr. Cao Xuan's youngest disciple, Tang Ning, is much inferior to the level when he was in his 20s.

Thinking about it carefully, although this result was unexpected, it was also reasonable.

Lang Shining was never among the best painters in oil painting.

Don't mention Europe at that time. Among the missionaries who came to Beijing, there are still two or three people who can have a similar level of painting skills as Castiglione in the records.

When it comes to Chinese painting that pays more attention to talent and charm, Lang Shining has never seen the local painters and scholar-bureaucrats of Eastern Xia.

Whether it can be ranked in the top [-] in the same period is actually a bit in doubt.

Some painting methods are born with the charm of 1+1 greater than 2.

Lang Shining's oil paintings are not top-notch, and Chinese paintings are even less outstanding.

However, relying on the ingenious fusion of painting styles, he was favored by three generations of emperors. He was selected as the top ten greatest painters in the 268-year history of the Qing Dynasty, and became a high-ranking official who was awarded the third rank.

Gu Weijing prepared his pen, ink and paper, and stared at the "Dou Hua Tu".

Lang Shining's surviving works include oriental styles using brushes and rice paper, as well as works using linen canvas and Western painting utensils.

New body painting is a kind of thinking and concept of painting, not limited to painting tools.

The "Summary of the Essence of New Body Painting" in his mind is divided into two chapters.

They are mainly painting flowers and plants and natural scenery, paying attention to the oriental composition framework and Western light and shade, light and shadow colors [Western heavy color chapter], and painting buildings and figures, combining Western line structure perspective focus and oriental implication and style [Lines] Drafts and paintings].

Compared with the Western method heavy color chapter, the line draft painting chapter has more fusion of sketch lines.

Gu Weijing planned to start with the simpler aspects first.

This "Picture of Bean Flowers" is a typical work of "Western method heavy color", and the fields involved are only [Chinese painting techniques] and [oil painting techniques].

The moment he picked up the brush, the "Summary of the Essence of New Body Painting" in his mind began to give a large number of painting details.

"Western style emphasizes color, focusing on oil painting, supplemented by Chinese style. Flowers and birds are all fronted to choose light, dilute or discard the projection effect, the objects are soft, fresh and lively, and the colors are wonderful..."

The so-called heavy color of Western France,

It can be simply understood as transforming Western oil paintings in the way of Chinese paintings.

The flowers and birds are retaining the light and shade effect of the oil painting, abandoning the gray tone of the large-area projection, so that the whole picture looks soft in color and adopts a small and fresh style.

In some cases, you can even boldly use some water-insoluble mineral pigments for color adhesion.

Of course, this is just a theoretical method of "Western method heavy color".

Many scholars of later generations have already summed it up, but it is not the same thing when they are painted.Just like the theory of relativity is there, whether an atomic bomb can be built is still a distance away from the five constants.

Gu Weijing's previous understanding of these theories was also very shallow.

The paintings he draws are neither east nor west, neither Chinese nor foreign, they are completely different, and they look extremely bad.

But now, the "Summary of the Essence of New Body Painting" provides not only theory, but also specific operational details.

"To draw bean flowers, first dot the leaves, then jacquard, and finally write the branches. Western oil painting is heavy on proportion, so the branches and leaves cannot be connected to the flower heads in a straight line, and they are filled with emerald green curves. The changes in light and shade are filled with the reverse brush strokes in the center, and the veins and leaves are integrated. "

Gu Weijing thought for a moment.

According to the guidance above, when drawing bean curds, you should point out the leaves first, then draw the petals, and finally draw the branches with emerald green curves to fill in the gaps between them.

In order to express the change of light and dark shadows, the center of the brush should be used to trace the veins and leaves with an upside-down brush.

(End of this chapter)