Almighty painter

Chapter 351 The Aesthetics of Light
The room returned to a quiet atmosphere.

Katsuko Sakai looked at her boyfriend in front of the easel for a few seconds.

After hesitating for a moment, he obediently moved his head back to the computer screen in front of him and continued to code seriously.

Just for a moment, she actually opened her mouth to say something more.

Shengzi really hoped that Gu Weijing would sit in front of the computer and spend a heart-to-heart afternoon with her like he was in the reading room of the library on the Dulwich campus.

The father lets them enjoy the process.

Create a paper together.

In Ms. Katsuko’s mind, it was a two-person date that belonged to the two of them.

The warm and happy feeling it brought was on her little "romantic" list quietly, and it was even better than going to the cinema to watch a movie together.

One day in the future, Sakai Katsuko longed for them to jointly create the same oil painting and hold the same joint art exhibition.

The works from the Singapore Art Exhibition...

Anyway, there are still a hundred days left, so just find other time to paint.

Didn't Katsuko Sakai just put down the afternoon painting plan casually? Besides, after the general framework structure was laid out.

It’s hard to say what the essential difference will be if you paint one more painting or one less painting.

If she were a judge of the organizing committee.

Throwing emotional bonus points, Gu Weijing's previous "Lucky Orphanage Under the Sun" also reached the level of audition breakout.

No matter how fierce the competition is this year, it’s just a question of whether you can win the prize.

Normally, it would be a green light for such a distinctive painting to be shortlisted in the main exhibition hall.

If they don't produce a better work, they can even submit it tomorrow.

Sakai Katsuko and Gu Weijing are at their age and do not have the advantage of Singapore's local household registration. They have set the goal of participating in the exhibition, which is already very ambitious.

If they want to take a higher goal as their own, they are suspected of not knowing how high the sky is.

Sakai Katsuko didn't know about the shocking bet between Gu Weijing and Cao Xuan about recruiting disciples. She only thought it was because of the pressure brought by the bet reward for the Abu Dhabi Art Museum painting exhibition set by Ma Shi Gallery.

"Alas, this is an extremely difficult goal to achieve. I am lucky to get it, but I am destined to lose it. Gu Jun can just let it go."

It is true that the fusion painting method is the crown jewel of painting, and its difficulty is as challenging as climbing a snow-capped peak.

Monet and Renoir simply absorbed Eastern art philosophy and integrated it into oil painting art.

In essence, the technique is still that of traditional oil painting.

The more recent Korean Dansaekhwa School, or some Japanese relief print artists, also engage in fusion.

It is also an inversion of the Impressionist method, using local traditional painting language and integrating Western art philosophy.

Uncle Sakai pointedly commented that the fusion painting method was very clever, but the creative method of her little boyfriend Gu Weijing also added a lot of technical difficulty to her.

Simply put.

[Local Techniques + Foreign Philosophy] is the less difficult part of fusion painting.

New wine in old bottles can be compared to music, which is probably playing Alice on the pipa or guzheng, or playing Erquan Yingyue on the violin, or playing House of Flying Daggers on the piano.

It’s just a matter of changing the music score, and it’s relatively easy to get started.

As long as it's not out of tune, it generally doesn't sound too unpleasant.

The combination of [local techniques + exotic techniques] suddenly increases the difficulty.

Creativity, inspiration, understanding, and high proficiency in different genres of painting are indispensable. It has touched upon the blending of the underlying languages ​​of different arts, similar to using the guzheng and the violin at the same time to form a symphony, or singing "Overlord" "Farewell My Concubine", but uses musical stage drama-style singing and modern soundtrack and lighting.

This mode of artistic transformation is more thorough, recreating a novel art form from the bottom.

The impact and subversion are stronger.

When it comes to acting, it can be very successful, and it can also be very disappointing.

Gu Weijing's current painting "Sunshine Orphanage" imitates Castiglione's "New Body Painting" painting method and ideas.

Internationally, all the masters who have become famous for this have spent decades of hard work and research before they finally have a vision.

The girl heard the eagerness in Gu Weijing's words.

Sakai Shengzi did not doubt that Gu Weijing would be qualified to stand in the same position as these masters one day, but Shengzi would also feel it.

That probably wouldn't be today.

Uncle Sakai also told Katsuko.

The most difficult thing is the collision between philosophy and philosophy.

It has been separated from tangible things and has completely entered the realm of metaphysics. When such a work is born, in the mind of the creator, every star in the world is shining in his creation, whether it is paint or musical notes. , spinning brightly around them.

At this point, it doesn’t matter what the artistic medium is. Even street graffiti drawn casually with chalk can be like a sharp sword, piercing the hearts of its target audience, making them feel sore at the tip of their noses and burst into tears for no reason. of falling.

Even Uncle Sakai is not sure whether there has ever been an artist in history who could truly combine different abstract philosophies completely and freely.

Picasso, the master of abstract cubism, and Marquis Dali, who pursues breaking down barriers and unifying dreams and reality on canvas, are both very challenging to the audience.

Not general enough.

On the contrary, Professor Kazunari Sakai could hear a somewhat similar flavor in Debussy's "La Mer" and "Moonlight".

Not to mention this kind of magical realm that my father said, few masters in the past and present have been able to achieve.

My boyfriend is this age.

In the field of combining the dual techniques of Chinese painting and oil painting.

If you can make your works "not weird" as a painting, you have surpassed most people in the world.

Even in countries with very developed art industries such as Japan, Eastern Xia, and the United States, they can still be called "a dragon and a phoenix among people" without any water.

Perhaps in terms of emotional depth, it is not as good as her "The Girl Reading Poems to the Cat".

It was enough to impress many judges.

Where is the technical difficulty score?
They are all about the same splash, including a two-and-a-half-week backward somersault in the air, a two-and-a-half-week pike, and a straight up and down popsicle jump. The final scores are of course very different.

I want the painting to be "touching", but maybe I'm a little too hasty?

The son of Cui Xuanyou, the great Cui in the world, is Cui Xiaoming.

His parents wished that when he was still wearing diapers, they deliberately guided their children to drink cow's milk and wolf's milk, holding brushes and brushes in their mouths, and rolling together in piles of ink and paint, just to cultivate a smooth and comfortable painting in their hearts. Spirituality.

It won’t be easy to practice the day after tomorrow.

My boyfriend just experienced such a huge emotional upheaval on a small fishing boat, and now he wants to make a breakthrough, maybe it is too reluctant and risky.

Ms. Sakai was thinking wildly.

She was a little worried, so she accidentally pressed the wrong keyboard keys and typed several wrong letters.

The built-in wrong word annotation function of Windows immediately left several eye-catching red lines on the screen.Shengzi hit the delete key a few times, grabbed a small pillow with a rabbit pattern from the sofa next to her and stuffed it into her arms. She also peeled off a lollipop and put it in her mouth.

The sour and sweet taste entered my mouth, and I suppressed the urge to speak.

She knew it from a very young age.

Respecting each other's artistic choices and giving each other ample space to paint are the first principles for art-student couples to get along.

A good girlfriend or boyfriend discovers that his partner is not in the right state.

Be brave enough to press the pause button on your opponent.

When Shengzi saw Gu Weijing's ghostly appearance in the botanical garden, he immediately poured a basin of water over him in a domineering manner.

More often than not, you have to learn to let go.

Especially when she believes that her lover is mature enough, no matter how optimistic Shengzi is about his attempts, all she needs to do is to encourage and hug him in time after failure, instead of tugging on his ears and telling him, "Don't try. You can’t do it anyway.”

As far as I can remember, my mother never criticized my father before entering the studio.

Even Uncle Sakai saw that his daughter Katsuko was hiding in the studio secretly eating matcha daifuku and mochi dumplings under the guise of painting at certain times. Her mother rolled her eyes and curled her lips to endure it.

At this moment, Shengzi resisted her worries and the urge to have sex with her boyfriend, and devoted herself to revising her paper.

"Anyway, Gu Jun has been painting all morning. He is in good spirits and energetic. At most, he did not achieve the desired effect, so it should not put too much burden on him."

Miss Sakai whispered to herself.

……

The soft sound of water flowed.

Gu Weijing casually put the paintbrush in his hand into the pen washer containing thinner next to him.

Shake gently.

The remaining paint between the brushes gathered into a small vortex, and then spread around, dyeing the newly replaced brush wash water into a hazy and layered sea blue like the sky on the canvas.

He completed the base drawing of this painting before lunch. Gu Weijing originally thought that it would take another two or three hours to completely fill in the colors.

He has painted the same painting twelve times, and traced it with similar brushwork twelve times. He has already become a skilled worker on the assembly line.

What makes fusion painting techniques cumbersome is the concept rather than the painting process.

The last few paintings, the fastest one, took only four and a half hours in total from drafting to finishing.

This time there is another breakthrough in Chinese painting techniques. Gu Weijing planned that his brushstroke speed should be faster.

Who knows.

It took more than half an hour just to trace the blue vista of the sky.

If Gu Weijing knew that Sakai Katsuko was worried about him, he would be moved, smile and shake his head, indicating to the other party that this was completely unnecessary.

When he was in a state of confusion, he would scribble some wisteria petals on the tip of his pen, but he was still exhausted from drawing, and he wanted to tear the drawing paper into pieces and eat them all.

When he is quiet and peaceful.

Although it took him so long to paint the simple sky, Gu Weijing still felt extremely relaxed. His whole body was wrapped in the joy of art, and he could hardly feel the passage of time.

The painting slowed down, but the expressiveness of the entire painting after coloring had a qualitative change from the previous eleven "Sunshine Orphanage" paintings.

At the beginning.

Gu Weijing just followed his usual habit and used cobalt blue mixed paint to color the sky.

At first, it was just a smear like muscle memory. Gradually, when the sun shifted, a beam of sunlight emerged from the gap in the clouds and hit the side of his face.

He subconsciously turned his head and stared at the sky.

Gu Weijing suddenly felt that the color of the sky outside the side window had changed.

The sky is no longer just blue, but also lemon yellow, light cyan, and other complex and indescribable colors, forming a wonderful combination.

The sky is like a huge piece of dyed cloth.

Reflections of sunlight, clouds, sea surface.

ever-changing.

It was a colorful blue, a glazed blue.

In the Dulwich art class textbooks, among the lengthy academic papers that he and Shengzi had read.Every teacher, expert professor takes the trouble to use the same sentence to repeatedly summarize the main idea of ​​Impressionist painting——

"Impressionism is about the aesthetics of light."

The works Gu Weijing is painting are based on Castiglione's painting method and are not the same thing as Impressionism.

But art may be geographically divided, but ideas always lead to the same goal through different paths.

He saw the skylight outside the window, looked at the paint in front of him, and remembered that when he used calligraphy and painting appraisal techniques to appreciate Ray Noah's "The Ball at the Pancake Mill", he heard in his ears "We only record sunlight and air." sound.

Suddenly, it was like being enlightened.

He then understood - what is the aesthetics of light.

Gu Weijing changed the usual paint mix.

He copied the flowing thundercloud colors in Carroll's paintings and used them in the coloring of "Sunshine Orphanage".

Constantly adjusting the color of each part of the paint, the part close to the sun increases the brightness, making the blue sky shine particularly brightly, while some dark sides covered by thin clouds use darker colors.

There is also the beautiful harmony between the blue sky and the big green trees, the cut velvet-like color of the broken sky among the leaves.

The more you observe, the more beautiful it becomes.

The more beautiful it is, the more indescribable it is.

Every plant, every tree, three thousand worlds, is infinitely wonderful.

He expected that Chinese painting techniques, which had been his shortcomings for a long time, would become his strongest points overnight, and would most likely bring considerable help.

He anticipated the outcome correctly, but not the process.

The second-level professional Chinese painting technique did not allow him to achieve any major breakthroughs in freehand brushwork or the like, but it made him aware of the thousands of turns of light, like a bullet shot from a completely unexpected place.

It penetrated the fusion painting barrier that had been blocking Gu Weijing.

The sky is always the same sky, but the painter under the blue sky has a different state of mind.

In the past, when he was painting, he could see the changes in light on the horizon.

When all his energy was taken up by the brush in his hand and the brush in front of him, he no longer had enough energy to appreciate and contemplate.

Now Gu Weijing's writing is not relaxed, but his mood is very light.

For the first time in my life, when I combined painting with painting, I felt that it was light, smooth, and easy to do.

(End of this chapter)