Almighty painter

Chapter 321 Career Path
The cultural environment is different.

Western artists and artists influenced by the Han cultural circle actually pursue different mental states.

Of course, there are also Western artists, such as Van Gogh and Gauguin, who burned their lives and fiercely fought against the world.

But in recent decades.

People like John Lennon who transcend the real world in their artistic conception and pursue more compassionate and peaceful concepts of universal love and peace are more mainstream.

Anger and sadness are negative emotions in the minds of these artists.

Traditional Chinese paintings appear to be leisurely landscapes with far-reaching artistic conceptions. However, Gu Weijing feels that the state of mind pursued by painters, whether as a person or as a painter, is actually more intense.

Mr. Cao said that a painter should cultivate three kinds of Qi in his heart.

It is the righteousness that sees the world being unfair and wants to draw out a sword to help.

It is the anger of seeing the country broken and the people displaced.

It’s the inscription on the gold medal list, the joy of the wedding room’s flowers and candles, or the desolation of seeing the withered old trees, the westerly wind and the thin horse...

The anger burning in his chest is exactly the kind of energy that needs to be nourished in these three parts.

Gu Weijing was very angry when he saw Brother Hao doing many evil things, but he was so beautiful.I saw European tourists taking a rented local beautiful girl, sitting on a sliding pole and being carried across the embankment of the Yangon River.They are just lazy little losers and wretched old men in their own country. They only rely on the exchange rate difference and social welfare, and they come here to be the boss and are very angry.

Even if he encountered blackmail from the local patrol this morning, he was still very angry.

Gu Weijing is an angry person deep down, not a peaceful and peaceful person.

The grievance that gnawed at him in his chest was what Gu Weijing really wanted to express.

This restless flame is the source of his empathy with the world.

Grandpa Gu Tongxiang’s idol is a painter named Zheng Sixiao.

A representative figure of the surviving painting school after the demise of the Southern Song Dynasty, the "Xiao" in his name was a variant of the same pronunciation as "Zhao" in the Zhao and Song Dynasties in ancient times.

This guy's life simply explains what tmd is the antonym of "quiet and peaceful".

Old Man Zheng is the most famous flower painter in the history of Eastern Xia, especially good at painting plum blossoms.

This guy can compare the rootless Mo Mei in his writing to their wandering life after the destruction of their country and family.

After the fall of Suzhou, he cried, laughed and cried every day, going crazy. It is said that he often cried blood while painting, and the plum blossoms in his paintings were as deep as dried blood stains.

There are even many quirks in life. Every time he sits down, he must face the south to show that he does not look forward to his motherland. The old man was almost dying of illness, but he personally ordered a memorial tablet to be set up with the words "Zheng Sixiao was unfaithful and unfilial during the Song Dynasty." "These nine words, and then he passed away.

When I was young.

When Gu Weijing listened to his grandfather telling this story about Old Man Zheng, a crazy old man like Mi Heng from the old TV series Romance of the Three Kingdoms would always appear in his mind.

The long gown clung to his skinny frame. Every time he came to a place, he would first stare at the sun with his head held high and his hands behind his back. He would figure out where the south was like a human compass, and then he would pat his buttocks and sit down. Next, I coughed up blood while drawing.

In the mind of Gu Weijing, who was addicted to watching cartoons at that time.

The plum blossoms painted by old man Zheng Sixiao are never drawn with a brush, but have a cartoonish feel, just like Guanyin Bodhisattva touching the lively willow branches in the world with the talisman water in the jade bottle.

The artist's blood spurted onto the paper, and dots of plum blossoms grew out of it.

At that time, Gu Weijing did not understand that the story told by his grandfather was probably a condensation of the "character and integrity" that generations of Eastern Xia literati have been pursuing.

But he felt that Old Man Zheng in the story was cool and classy, ​​or...

Very artistic.

A bloody cough and the inky plum blossoms growing on the white paper were Gu Weijing's first professional impression of the artist industry in his life.

Even today.

Gu Weijing also felt that the crying Zheng Sixiao was more stylish than the "special quirks of artists" praised by countless media in the lives of painting masters such as the promiscuous and promiscuous Picasso and the collector Andy Warhol. More performance art.

It's completely artistic, isn't it?
Although Old Man Zheng has never had a moment of peace in his life, he has never had peace.

His state of mind was as messy and broken as if eighteen gongs were beating at the same time every day.

In the story told by the grandfather, the plum painting master hated the world so much and loved the world so much.

But Gu Weijing felt in his heart that such traditional Eastern Xia painters were more vivid, kind and real than the calm and compassionate spiritual masters sitting on the lotus platform.

It's not that Gu Weijing has much courage and wants to be Zheng Sixiao.

This kind of struggling and entangled life is a bit too much of a performance art.

Unless you are a masochist, no one wants to live this kind of self-torture.

Gu Weijing just didn't want to lose such blazing anger and unwillingness.

He didn't want to wear it off.

Gu Weijing was even a little afraid that he had really turned into the kind of person who smiled at everything, was carefree, and preached to the world - forgiveness, love and peace.

Although this is the secret to winning prizes in today's art exhibitions and the standard routine of political correctness.

But Gu Weijing still didn't like it.

To have such a life and embark on such an artistic path... the old Zen master, who seems to be ascending to enlightenment every day, with his heart filled with love and peace, is he still caring about himself?
He who has neither joy nor sorrow is a Bodhisattva, a Buddha.

Only not a living person.

Sakai Katsuko said that when a person is quiet enough, he can see his true heart. When his state of mind is as clear and calm as the surface of a lake, he can clearly reflect the career path that best suits him.

Gu Weijing exhaled quietly and looked at the reflection on the lake——

He saw a burning fire.

"Shengzi... What should I do if I feel that my heart will always be filled with unquenchable anger and restlessness, and I will never be a peaceful and peaceful painter? Maybe I will never rise in the east with a stable mind and peace. A feeling of joy.”

Gu Weijing murmured in a very light voice.

Miss Sakai told him that meditation is a process of understanding oneself.

As desires and confusions alternately emerge in the mind, answering these questions is the completion of enlightenment and mind cultivation.

He felt the desire and confusion in Katsuko's mouth.

But he seemed to be stumped by the first question.

Perhaps in essence, he is not a lake in the park with willows in it. There are always various rapids and whirlpools echoing in his inner lake.

Sakai Shengzi felt Gu Weijing's well-proportioned breathing pause for a moment.

The girl smiled. "I think, then don't waste time."

"I let you imagine that you are a lake, but I don't mean to make you forever calm. Tranquility and peace are just the paths chosen by many artistic predecessors. It does not mean that they are the only correct answers. I also hope that my Gu Jun will have own character.”

Gu Weijing felt Miss Sakai's voice in his ears, which seemed to come from a very far away place.

"You are a lake, it can be deep or shallow, green or blue, turbid or clear, none of this matters. The important thing is to be strong enough to carry it all, to feel the anger flowing in your heart, to feel Various ripples and waves come and go in rapid flashes, just like the movements of spring, summer and autumn, the various changes of rain, sunshine, wind and snow.”

"No matter the ebb and flow, you still have enough calmness in your heart to observe these emotions and pick up the brush to express them, rather than being controlled by emotions like Gu Jun just did. You should be able to recall the difference between these two emotions .”

"My mother said that people who can truly reach the peak of art will always be the masters of their emotions, not their slaves. She said that powerful artists are not immune to the influence of emotions, they -"

Sakai Katsuko's lips curled up into a smile.

"Even if your heart is in turmoil, your writing can bloom like a lotus flower."

Mrs. Sakai explained these principles to her daughter one by one, and asked her to write them down when she was very young.

Even if Shengzi is an exquisite girl, based on her life experience, she may not have a deep understanding of these theories.

She just remembered it.

Many truths are just principles when first heard.

Only when you have experienced each item, cried and laughed, can you truly understand.

That being said.

However, when art students really encounter problems like Gu Weijing.

Did any elders teach him these summarized principles that are worth a thousand dollars in advance?

There is often a huge difference in the difficulty of polishing the soul.

There are a dazzling array of excellent painting teaching materials in the world.

The YouTube is also full of masterclasses such as "Yayoi Kusama Teaches You Pop Art", "36 Online Lectures from the Oil Painting Department of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts", and "Appreciation of Qi Baishi's Art Style", all produced by famous artists.

In terms of technical learning, ordinary people in the Internet era have access to excellent educational materials.

However, compared to most art students.

Children of great painters are more likely to become great painters, and nine out of ten apprentices of a master of painting will still be masters of painting.

In addition to the intergenerational inheritance of networking techniques.

What plays a key role is the summary of these ideas passed down by word of mouth.

This is something like the "mental method" of painting, which allows their children and younger generations to better hone their own moods when they are at a low mood.

It is impossible for Professor Sakai and his wife to prevent their daughter from experiencing emotional ups and downs throughout her life.

But he has already prepared a method to prevent Shengzi from being knocked down as easily as Gu Weijing when she meets the threshold of her heart.

It's like wanting to fire a furnace of porcelain from Ge Kiln.

On one side is the second-generation painter who has the clay formula, furnace temperature, and kiln opening time summarized by his parents and teachers based on their life experiences.

On the other side was a country bumpkin who was groping bitterly while holding the broken pieces of porcelain.

The yield rate and finished product rate of both parties are inherently not on the same level.

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Mr. Sloth once opened a corner of the traditional European aristocratic family education for Gu Weijing.

So now, Miss Sakai is giving him the "family education" that only great artists can have.

"So when I was very young, my mother asked me to imagine that I was Lake Biwa outside Kyoto. It is quiet, beautiful and majestic, with changing winds and clouds, but still pure. Neither storm nor dust can diminish its brightness. She let me not only connect with the lake surface, but also Resonate with the entire 'water body'. When it is stormy outside, the depths of the water body are always quiet. When you are emotionally agitated and uneasy, there is still a small space deep in your heart that allows you to pick up a paintbrush."

Katsuko was fascinated by the sunlight shining through the awning.

"The water body of the lake in your heart is made up of all the people you have loved, all the people you have hated, all the bitterness, bitterness, emotions and six desires. It is the projection of your life experience. Only a deep enough lake can set off a big enough wave. of waves.”

"Only when you have experienced enough things and gained enough insights into life can you draw the most profound paintings."

Gu Weijing suddenly realized.

He was fascinated by the profound meaning contained in Sakai Katsuko's exquisite rhetoric.

A lake that is deep enough can create big enough waves. This is more impressive than love and peace, without joy or sorrow.

Is this Mrs. Sakai’s life sentiment?

Man is such a complex creature.

That old fairy-like blond aunt who looks aloof and likes to look at people through her nostrils actually has such a philosophical and poetic side.

"So, you need to immerse yourself in your heart, go into the deepest part of your soul, and ask yourself what is your greatest desire and what is your greatest fear when embarking on the path of being a painter?"

"Desire and fear are the yin and yang sides of a person's soul..." Katsuko Sakai breathed out, "It is also an artist who can firmly grasp the anchor point of the brush in his hand despite the turbulent lake water and stormy waves."

"I want to paint well and become a great painter."

Gu Weijing answered almost as a conscious reflex.

He heard Katsuko Sakai sighing quietly in his ear.

"Katsuko, I'm sorry, is this answer a bit tacky?"

Gu Weijing’s answer is really not special.
If you pick up a random art student on the street and ask him what his dream is.

Most people will give this answer.

An extraordinary dream is usually the most ordinary of all human dreams.

Sometimes Gu Weijing really felt that he was indeed a common man.

"No, I sigh not because your answer is tacky, but because your answer is almost the same as my previous answer. This may be the reason why you can't calm down."

"Gu Jun, you still don't understand what you want most."

Sakai Katsuko touched Gu Weijing's forehead lovingly, as if she felt what her mother felt when she touched that cute little girl.

"Paint well? Or become a great painter? There can only be one greatest desire, and this... these are two different things."

Miss Sakai stared at Gu Weijing's face: "Many people mistook them for the same thing, but it is actually completely different. Just because a person can paint well does not mean that he can become a truly great painter. In the same way , Just because a person can't draw well doesn't mean he can't become a great painter in the worldly sense."

"My father has always privately believed that Andy Warhol was just an excellent art speculator, the best wavemaker in the everlasting wave of art speculation. He was the richest painter, not a great creator. . On the contrary, he has also seen too many outstanding painters buried throughout his life."

(End of this chapter)