Almighty painter

Chapter 332 A gift to Mr. Cao
Gu Weijing threw the brush into the brush washer aside.

He lowered his head and looked at the still wet scroll on the page. Even when he came to his senses, he was slightly frightened.

The painting is so beautiful!
In order to paint the painting "The Little Prince", Gu Weijing walked through the boundless nebulae in candlelight and watched the sunrise with the young lady on the sand dunes 44 times before he got the last painting of the "hard work" level. .

in front of you.

The second Chinese painting of the same standard in his life was lying alive on the table in front of him, the ink was as red as blood.

The painting process was not painful at all, he was just slightly mentally exhausted.

The kind of slight sleepiness you get after returning home from a long journey.

He looked at the "Wisteria" he had painted, then turned to look at Tang Ning's "Hundred Flowers" hanging on the wall. He picked up a brush hanging on the window sill to dry next to him, put it in his mouth and gently Biting lightly.

This behavior is very childish.

Gu Weijing developed a habit when he was helping his grandfather take care of artworks when he was a child. Chinese paintings are very delicate and are afraid of moisture and dryness. Under normal circumstances, the ambient humidity cannot be higher than 60%. In order to keep the paint moist and bright, it is best not to be lower than 48%. [-]%. Use the tip of your tongue to feel the tip of the brush. It is not astringent, not wet, and moderately soft.

Licking it gently, you can feel a hint of moisture on the tongue coating, but there must be no real moisture. This is the ideal condition for placing calligraphy and painting works.

This is a traditional method passed down from generation to generation.

When he grew up, after Gu Weijing finished painting, he still liked to bite the pen occasionally.

After Sakai Katsuko discovered her boyfriend's little habit, she was a little worried. In the past two weeks, she tried many times to ask Gu Weijing to correct this bad habit of biting pens.

Historically, Wang Ximeng, the court painter of the Northern Song Dynasty who painted "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains", was said to have nothing to do and liked to lick the paint and hang up his pigtails.

The plant-based pigments used in Chinese paintings are okay, and plant extracts such as rouge are not harmful. However, dark red pigments contain almost every water of mercury, and yellow pigments almost contain arsenic, which is a close relative of arsenic.

As for the quick-drying test paints in oil paintings, all of them contain heavy metals such as manganese, lead, and cadmium as additives that allow the oil paint to solidify quickly.

Although talking about toxicity regardless of dosage is a hoax, there are very few toxic substances in a washed and dried paintbrush.

But it's not just a snack for fun, right?
I like to check the humidity. Ready-made humidifiers are everywhere, but they are no more accurate than licking a brush.

When Gu Weijing was painting, Sakai Katsuko never influenced him.But whenever I see Gu Weijing preparing to stuff a brush into his mouth, he will pat his forehead lightly.

There is a row of lemon-flavored lollipops stuck on the pen holder in the small studio.

That's not for little Jasmine, but for Miss Katsuko's boyfriend.

She believed that Gu Weijing had an unconscious biting and chewing habit called pica.

This is a disease that needs to be corrected. He likes to bite things. Whenever he bites a pen, Ms. Katsuko will caringly peel a lollipop next to him and feed it to his mouth.

Just like Pavlov's dog.

In the future, if you develop muscle memory conditioned reflexes, your boyfriend will stop biting pens and start biting lollipops instead.

Katsuko Sakai’s boyfriend development plan has achieved little success so far, but the power of habit is very powerful.

In the dead of night, when Miss Sakai is not around, Gu Weijing still likes to gently bite the tip of the brush with his teeth as he did when he was young.

Testing for humidity is just a side thing.

What he likes more is the taste of the sporadic residual ink remaining between the gaps of the brush on the tip of his tongue. It is bitter when he first enters the mouth, but the aftertaste is slightly sweet.

Pious monks in the Middle Ages would beat their naked backs with rattan leather straps inlaid with thorns, believing that the pain would allow their bodies to better establish direct communication with the gods in the sky.

And Gu Weijing liked this kind of bitterness.

The meaning of bitterness is a kind of hidden bridge, linking the painter and his calligraphy and painting works together, like a vague and absent link.

Lemon-flavored lollipops can't give him such a sense of security.

Gu Weijing bit the tip of the pen, and the clear feeling on the tip of his tongue reminded him that the shocking and moving painting in front of him was painted by his own hands.

This work may not be the most awesome work in his life, but it is the perfect ending to the late spring he is about to usher in.

Those lifelike wisteria flowers and leaves forever solidified his state of mind on the paper.

Since then.

It will never wither over time.

"The indoor humidity is a little bit high now, but it's not yet to the point where the ink won't dry completely or the humidity will damage the painting like in the rainy season in July and August. When the rain stops during the day tomorrow and the temperature goes up, it should be noon. The painting is almost done...well, what words should I mention that would be better?"

Traditional Chinese painting pays attention to inscriptions and postscripts.

Gu Weijing first took a piece of his seal seal and carved it on the corner of the rice paper as a signature, then raised his eyebrows and thought.

Gu Weijing also broke and then stood up, but his mentality was similar to Uncle Sakai, but also fundamentally different.

After Professor Kazunari Sakai painted that painting, he felt at peace and let go. He didn't care much about whether anyone saw the painting or how much it could be sold for.

Because he already has the most important audience, Mrs. Cruz.

Sri Lanka is like a rainbow.

The rest are all noise.

Gu Weijing was different. He painted this painting just to meet Tangning's doubts and to show it to others.

Uncle Sakai paints paintings of tranquility.

What Gu Weijing paints are paintings of competition that meet challenges, paintings of new life after letting go of fear and self-pity, and paintings of adulthood.

He wanted to use the paintbrush in his hand to paint his own dignity on Tangning.

The inscription and postscript read - "To the seniors?"

He was a little soft. Tangning didn't talk to him so well.

Or write - "Draw it for you?"

It's a bit vulgar, and Gu Weijing's classical proficiency is mediocre, he writes in vernacular, and he also used prompts like scolding a shrew. I don't know how Tangning felt when she saw it.

Gu Weijing himself felt that such a great work had been insulted.

Ok……

He fell into deep thought for a long time. He went to a European-style English-speaking international school, and his classical Chinese skills were inherently insufficient. It was difficult to think of a letter, expressiveness, and elegance that could express his mood.

Gu Weijing bit his pen.

The picture was drawn, but the prompting stumped me.

After thinking about it, he hesitated whether to visit Old Man Wu next door tomorrow morning.

This old man practices calligraphy, and he writes questions like this for people every three days. He has a specialization in the art, so he should understand.

Huh?
Gu Weijing suddenly patted his head.

He suddenly realized that he had made a mistake. In "The Godfather", the old godfather said that a person who can understand the essence of a thing in an instant has a different fate than a person who spends half a lifetime unable to see the essence of a thing clearly.

Gu Weijing calmed down and suddenly realized that he had mistaken the nature of the matter.

Tang Ning protested against him because the female painter hated him?No, this statement is too flattering to him.

It was because Mr. Cao showed his love for him.

The essence of the matter is always Mr. Cao Xuan's attitude.

The rest was completely unimportant to Gu Weijing.

Therefore, when someone says that you cannot express her divine will without painting, what he should do is not paint a great work in response.

If you advocate some demonstrative words on the scroll and give it to Tangning, the other party may not care at all.

What he should dedicate to... is Mr. Cao.

After understanding this, Gu Weijing knew what he should do now and how to write.

He raised his head and glanced at "Hundred Flowers". This work was also very innovative. It was different from ordinary Chinese paintings. Apart from a small signature with the word "Ning", there was no inscription.

In the blank space on the right side of the picture, Tang Ning mentioned the four words "Qiongpa Jiecui" in regular regular script.

He only learned about the extraordinary origin of these four words after listening to Professor Lin Tao.

Qiongpa and emerald green are not only referring to the flowers and trees she painted, which are colorful and frosty white, but also a metaphor.

Among the four great talents in Jiangnan, Wen Zhengming became famous at the oldest age and had the highest achievements.Whether it is books, paintings, or articles, Wen Zhengming can be ranked ahead of people like Tang Bohu and Zhu Zhishan.

Considered by many scholars to be No. 1 in artistic attainments during the Ming Dynasty.

When Wen Zhengming was a young man, he was a guest at the Zhao family in Tianshui. He painted a total of eight volumes of "Flower Pictures", including bluegrass, wild flowers, and crabapple roses. The whole painting is simple but not simple, fresh and pleasant, and has a long meaning.

The first page of this set of "Flower Pictures" mentions the four words "Qiongpa and Cui".

Ms. Tang Ning is not only imitating the past and paying homage to the famous ancient flower painters, but she is also an artistic super star of Chu Feng Chu Cry, catching up with the momentum and ambition of the ancients.

People today are not necessarily inferior to the ancients.

Tang Ning hoped that her simple "Hundred Flowers Picture" could serve as a reminder of the four words "Qiongpa and Cui", which would be better than Wen Zhengming's eight-volume complicated flower pictures.

When later generations of literati mentioned this allusion, they first thought of Miss Tang Ning, and then the great talent of the Ming Dynasty.

Check it out.

Just these four words, there are so many ways to do it, which not only show the magnanimity and style, but also have ancient elegance.

The academic background of the scholarly family was truly unparalleled by Gu Weijing, which made him think that he would never be able to come up with such an exquisite word play.

Gu Weijing pondered for a moment.

He took out the tip of the brush from his mouth, dipped it on the inkstone next to him, calmly, and finally wrote on the surface of the rice paper.

"Junior Gu Weijing dedicates it to Mr. Cao Xuan, whom he admires. I wish Mr. Cao can be like the oiran of hundreds of flowers, and he will be blessed with a longevity cup every year."

Teacher Cao, this title just feels right.

It is normal for a junior to call an elder a teacher. He did not overstep his bounds by calling himself a disciple, and expressed his true intentions and wishes.

He thought for two seconds, and then wrote the seven words "white hair full of hairpins and pens Yuxiu" below this line of words.

It was Ms. Tangning who inspired him.

Tang Ning likes to use allusions from Wen Zhengming, and Gu Weijing can also use the same allusions from Wen Zhengming.

The white hair with hairpins and the delicate brush strokes are a tribute to Wen Zhengming's career achievements. He was the longest-lived painter in the feudal history of the Eastern Xia Dynasty. He lived from the middle of the Ming Dynasty to the late Ming Dynasty.When he was born, he was still in the year of Chenghua, and when he died, Nurhachi was already born.

When Wen Zhengming was young, his artistic level was not as famous as that of Tang Bohu and others among his peers, but he lived a long life, and the older he became, the stronger his brush became.

He only became famous at the age of 30, became a master at the age of 50, and was already the No. 60 painter in the Jiangnan Painting School at the age of 1. After reaching the age of 90 or 100, looking forward 100 years and looking back [-] years, there is almost no one who can rival Wen Zhengming.

Return to nature, the more you paint, the more fairy-like you become.

The same expression is appropriate when used to address Mr. Cao Xuan.

These few lines of Gu Weijing's words are a bit shameless and flattering.

But yes.

He is just flattering!
Ms. Tang Ning has the elegance of a scholar, and a child like him also has the transparency of a businessman.

There's no harm in a little kid being sweet.

Gu Weijing has already figured it out. The emotional master's love teaching on YouTube said that if you love someone, you must speak out boldly.The same goes for wanting someone to be your teacher.

You must do your job of painting seriously, and don't just sit in the studio and paint without saying a word, as if others are rushing to accept you as their apprentice.

Xiang often flattered Mr. Cao and painted a picture to express his desire to become a disciple. He was happy and so was Mr. Cao.

How great.

Gu Weijing smiled slightly, feeling that he really had a good plan.
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In Germany, in front of the old Bauhaus-style complex of HFBK (Hamburg Academy of Arts), a rehearsal of extras broke the tranquility of the past.

The photographer kept adjusting the static head movement of the Sony movie camera in his hand, and above his head was a DJI Inspire 3 professional drone that was designing and programming air waypoints to fly back and forth.

The beautiful girl wearing a green backless dress was trying to create a look that the director described as "melancholic yet sexy and charming" in front of the sculpture in front of the school gate.

It's hard to say whether it's sexy and charming or not.

In the outdoor cold wind of less than [-] degrees Celsius in Hamburg in April, even though the girl put a shawl on her bare back to block the wind before the shooting officially started, her face was still a little pale from the cold, and she was melancholy. .

However, the director did not give the signal to start filming, and no one in the filming location complained.

Even the heroine didn't run to the camera car that was just a few dozen meters away with the heater on to avoid the cold wind. Everyone was concentrating and holding their breath, as if waiting for something.

at last……

A brief electronic sound of "beep" came from the teaching building in the air.

This is the unified bell ringing for the first class in the afternoon at the University of Hamburg.

The bell sounded like the referee's starting gun, and everyone on the set immediately became busy.

The assistant took the cloak off the girl's back and threw it on the prop table aside. The drone took off and the lens was controlled by the focus operator to focus on the door of the teaching building.

"Quick, quick, quick, today there is Professor Cao's brief history of Oriental Art. The brother who signed up for that class said that class will end on time. Professor Cao has already gone out. In another 3 minutes and 24 seconds, the old professor will walk out of this door. And across the lawn in front of the building from the side, the photographer was ready to capture this shot, there was only one chance."

The director took a look at the message on his cell phone. He arranged for an internal agent among the students who were chosen to take Professor Cao's course by drawing lots, and immediately ordered in his mouth.

(End of this chapter)