Almighty painter

Chapter 265 Purple Qi coming from the east
"If you want to go one step further, you just have to work hard on both, the pragmatic and the practical. Only when the virtual and the real are combined can you combine hardness and softness."

During the video call, Professor Lin Tao was stroking his beard and pointing with a finger.

Art is a very personal subject.

In theory,
The difficulties that plague each individual artist are different.

The bottlenecks that limit a painter's progress to the next level also vary from person to person.

A breakthrough path suitable for one artist may not necessarily be suitable for another artist.The advice given by outsiders is tantamount to asking for a sword.

At this time, the benefits of having a master-level teacher by his side who can ask for advice at any time began to manifest again.

Lin Tao himself has experienced this stage.

Most of his brothers and sisters, those carefully selected students in the studio from among the proud sons of CAFA, have also experienced this stage.

Although he can't help Gu Weijing break through the "karma" directly with a few words, but he can give very feasible and true suggestions based on half a century of painting experience and from a high-level perspective.

[Retreat] and [Practical].

It seems like a vain rhetoric without any gold content.

But don't underestimate the value of this sentence, how many teachers in the Dongxia Painting Association who walked outside alone and started with tens of thousands of dollars for a painting, carried thousands of dollars a tael of Lapsang Souchong during the Chinese New Year , with boxes of Feitian Moutai in the trunk, came to the door to ask Professor Lin for advice honestly and politely as a disciple.

What I want to do is to open my mouth to myself or to my junior Professor Qiu Lin, so give me some pointers.

Traditional Chinese painting, calligraphy, preaching and teaching have always been true to pass on one sentence, and falsely passed on thousands of volumes of scriptures.

Charlatans can talk so much and make you dizzy, but they have no nutrition.

A master like Lin Tao hits the nail on the head with just a few words, and the price is worth gold.

Even if a junior like Gu Weijing is a genius, he is only a sapling at this age.It is far from the time to think about how to establish a sect, form a whole, and form a forest of its own.

The small saplings do not grow up, most likely because the roots are not deep enough.

The small painter can't break through the bottleneck, most likely because of his own accumulation is not enough.

The so-called retreat of art practitioners is nothing but reading, and the so-called pragmatism is nothing but painting.

How to read, how to draw.

Among them there is great emphasis.

Professor Lin Tao didn't choose any textbooks that teach the details of painting. It is enough for him to teach the art techniques.

in his heart.

What Gu Weijing lacks most is not the painting experience, but the orthodox Chinese culture.

Although the child's ancestors were court painters.

However, the whole family has migrated to Southeast Asia for too long, and the living environment lacks the cultural environment that Mr. Cao or Tang Ning, such a family of literati, have been familiar with.

Gu Weijing learned painting from his grandfather since he was a child, and he learned more about "skills" than "Tao".

Compared with Western aesthetics, the most important feature of oriental art is that what is drawn is not only the pattern, but also the character and spirit of the artist.

So he deliberately selected Mr. Yang Renkai's "National Treasure Floating and Sinking Records" and Mr. Li Lincan, the former deputy director of the Taipei Palace Museum in Dongxiabao Island, "Heavenly Rain and Flowing Fragrance".

These two are relatively unpopular painting books.

The former summarizes a large number of allusions to the national treasures of the Eastern Xia Dynasty and the stories of protecting these lost cultural relics during the Anti-Japanese War. It makes people read with high spirits, sighs, and sadness and joy.

The latter systematically sorts out the art context in Chinese history, covering everything from painting and calligraphy to pottery, architecture, sculpture, and the concept of life and death.

Professor Lin Tao asked Gu Weijing to read these two books every day.

You can read without seeking deep understanding, but you have to read it over and over again.It is not limited to the exact words of a certain chapter, but pays attention to the overall atmosphere of the book.

Gradually, when reading, all the implication and spirit conveyed between the lines of the pen and ink words are integrated into the heart.

When Mr. Cao Xuan taught Lin Tao and his brothers and sisters to paint, he repeatedly emphasized that only when an oriental painter understands the responsibility of artistic inheritance and understands the feelings and elegance contained in each famous painting of the predecessors, Rooted in 5000 years of cultural heritage——

Only then can one stroke of ecstasy be invincible.

Draw while reading.

The old man asked Gu Weijing to continue copying the painting "Hundred Flowers" by Tang Ning's junior sister, but he didn't have to copy the whole painting.

Other flowers are skipped and not painted, only wisteria flowers are painted.

The most noble in oriental traditional culture is the peony flower, which is "blossoming and rich", followed by the wisteria flower, which is known as "the purple spirit comes from the east".

Depicting wisteria is not as graceful and cumbersome as painting peonies. The process of expressing images with a brush is much simpler than depicting plum, orchid, bamboo, and chrysanthemum, which carry deeper aesthetic images and cultural connotations.

But it can be connected with Chinese culture.

Li Bai once praised the lingering beauty of wisteria with his famous poem "Wisteria hangs on cloud trees, flowers tend to spring in Yiyang. Dense leaves hide singing birds, and fragrant wind keeps beauty".

Emperor Qianlong was even a wisteria lover. He wrote poems and poems about wisteria all his life, but his level was mostly limited.

More importantly.

The wisteria flowers are clustered in clusters, single flowers are like butterflies, flower bases are like supporters, and flower stalks are like orchids.

For a small piece of wisteria, in the process of drawing vines, use Chinese script, when drawing petals, use lower script, and when drawing leaf veins, use the smallest brush for outlining.

There are also differences in the gestures of different flanks, centers, and counter-forwards.

It almost covers most of the techniques that need to be used in flower painting.

Once you have practiced wisteria well, you will have practiced more than a dozen different running brushes.Just like the eight methods of the word "Yong" written by calligraphy and painting lovers when they are writing posts, once the word "Yong" is written, the horizontal and vertical folding hooks are also written at the same time.

Thinking of Professor Lin Tao's advice on the phone, Gu Weijing in the auditorium turned over a page of the book in his hand.

The branches of good birds are also friends.

Gu Weijing happened to read Chapter 9 of "Tianyu Liufang" today, a chapter about flower-and-bird paintings and literati feelings.

He saw that Mr. Li Lincan talked about the realism of the Song people, the freehand brushwork of the Tang people, how to adapt to nature with one's mind, and what kind of mentality the ancients used to paint the fern leaves and grass leaves under the pen, and the wild grass and flowers are lovely. Cute, a little mesmerizing to watch.

Gu Weijing's fingers naturally began to draw on the fabric armrests of the seats in the school auditorium.

[Experience value of Chinese painting techniques +11! 】

[Experience value of Chinese painting techniques +15! 】

[Experience value of Chinese painting techniques +12! 】

[Experience value of Chinese painting techniques +9! 】

……

On the virtual panel of the system, a series of prompt messages constantly appeared.

The experience bar began to move towards the end of the first level of the profession at an unpleasant but perceivable speed.

Even though the content of the text he read has nothing to do with the painting technique directly, Gu Weijing can still feel a kind of potential transformation and sublimation happening between the invisible lines drawn by his fingers.

"It's really convenient to have a grandfather on the phone."

Gu Weijing can now feel the good intentions of the practice tasks assigned to him by Professor Lin Tao every day.

Borrow the meaning of other people's words to nourish the pen and ink style in your heart.

Especially when he read that Xu Wenchang, one of the three great talents in the Ming Dynasty, had a rough life and failed to meet his talents, so he had to devote himself to calligraphy, painting and landscape. Throw it in the wild vines!"

This phrase is used as a metaphor for my own pearl, abandoned by the ruthless world affairs and the dark bureaucratic system of the late Ming Dynasty, and confused with weeds.

The silk painting of wisteria flowers and vines in the book is extremely delicate and lonely.

Although this is only an illustration photo on a book rather than the real thing, even though the mineral pigments on the original silk have faded into a pool of smudged ink over the course of more than 300 years.

Gu Weijing still has a deeper understanding of the flower language and emotional sustenance behind the four-character image of the wisteria flower "Purple Qi Comes from the East".

"Toss toss in wild vines, toss...toss...to wild vines."

Gu Weijing muttered to himself this inscription, which contained a lot of resentment and helplessness.

With his fingertips, he splashed ink with a large brush, and smudged with a small brush at other times, pointing out bunches of wisteria flowers on the rice paper in his mind.

Gu Weijing narrowed his eyes slightly, wandering away from the noisy and irritable campus auditorium.

He felt that he was walking in a sea of ​​wisteria flowers, surrounded by flying petals, and he seemed to be able to smell the faint fragrance of flowers at the end of his nose.

The flower shadows sway like a purple waterfall.

Just as Gu Weijing was getting closer to the essence of wisteria painting, he sensed someone standing in front of him.

"No date, I have a girlfriend, find someone else."

He popped a few words out of his mouth without looking up.

Don't blame Gu Weijing for his impolite tone.

He is indulging in the pleasure of this rare rapid and natural increase in painting experience, and he really doesn't want to be disturbed by Yingyingyanyan who is greedy for his body.

No date?

Originally, Miao Angwen, who was standing in front of Gu Weijing and looked at him coolly from the side, broke his defense a little bit.

What the hell is a date?

Since classmate Xiao Miao hugged Brother Hao's big and shiny golden legs worth more than nine figures, it can be regarded as a complete shotgun change.

Campus fellowship party does not need to wear a uniform school uniform.

Miao Angwen, who used to spend a lot of money and work and study to rent a formal dress, is now shining brightly.

Wearing a Rolex Daytona on his wrist.

The strap is solid gold.

He was wearing a dark suit by Armani, the collar stay was solid gold, and the cuff studs were solid gold.

On the arm is a jadeite Bodhisattva pendant inlaid with gold and jade, and even the ball shoes on the feet are from the old Italian handmade shoe brand Tishtoni.

At the ball he stood like an ant.

And now.

He, Miao Angwen, was really shaking!

Only the wrong name, not the wrong nickname.

Brother Hao looks elegant and thin on the outside, he is a compassionate layman who likes to burn incense and worship Buddha.

Putting this hero in the ancient feudal dynasty, he would definitely be the type of horse thief leader who can eat meat in the Juyi hall, drink in a big bowl, divide the money in a big scale, and those who follow me will prosper and those who oppose me will perish.

He is very bold and generous while killing his subordinates decisively. Not only does he make a fortune himself, but he is also willing to bring his subordinates to make a fortune together.

Although classmate Xiao Miao is dressed in this outfit now, it seems that Guo Degang has the nouveau riche temperament of Guo Degang wearing Fan Xizhe.

But on the other hand,
Artists in the eyes of the real public opinion never look at the clothes but only who wears them.

Great artists wear vests full of holes, and the media will praise them as bohemians.

Damien Hirst wore big leather coats with studded shoulders all day long and thick silver chains.Dressing up under the spotlight is like a bosozoku who is about to hit the street and ride a motorcycle to speed and rob Desperate World in a second.

It also doesn't delay the value of the family who used to be the number one in the world.

"Haha, Brother Miao, your classmate is quite interesting."

Next to Miao Angwen, wearing earrings and wearing make-up, a charming girl lay on his shoulder and joked.

She is a student of another local private middle school.

Dulwich College and several local sister private schools have agreements on campus co-construction.

In addition to Dulwich College, there were students from several other schools in the fellowship evening.

Clothes and horses depend on people's clothes, and Miao Angwen's expensive coat can still attract the favor of those young ladies.

"Okay, you go to the side first, I have something to say to him."

Miao Angwen patted the face of the female companion beside him, waved her hand to signal her to leave, and cast her gaze to Gu Weijing who was sitting on the chair in front of him.

For this peer, what would Xiao Miao say?

Three points of jealousy, three points of ridicule, two points of fear, and one point of contempt.

Miao Angwen had seen the group of sketches and pencil drawings on the campus publicity board.

The painting is indeed not bad. If I seriously think about it, there is a high probability that I will not be able to draw such a work.

Unexpectedly, he even created with old Mr. Cao Xuan.

No wonder Brother Hao thinks highly of him so much.

But what is this?

If a painter wants to become famous, his fate, luck, Fengshui and Fengshui are the first, noble people and wealth are the fourth.

Painting technique is a very backward thing.There are so many people who are capable but not very successful, Gu Weijing's two sketches are really nothing.

A wine glass made of bezoar stones worth $500 million, NFT blockchain pixels worth $1000 million, and shark specimens worth $2000 million.

The history of human art speculation is vast.

Measured in units of 100 years and a century, each century is a wave of sand, which has a long-lasting aesthetic value. Works of art that were once priced in gold will persist in the next century, and they will still be priced in gold, even half nothing.

Most of the art is nothing more than a Ponzi scheme with drums and flowers.After spending these days with Brother Hao, Miao Angwen has already understood everything.

What is its place in art history?

please,

Why do you think so much? This kind of thing is inherently insulated from the 99/[-] painters in the world. Only when you earn money can you truly own it.

"Gu Weijing, you think you are very proud and arrogant now, right?"

Miao Ang smiled warmly.

Gu Weijing boy, you don't know what you gave up.

Thinking of the bright future in front of me, the one-year pre-signed contract with the Korean Academy of Fine Arts and the special access to the Venice Art Exhibition.

Miao Angwen walks with the wind now.

(End of this chapter)