Almighty painter

Chapter 359 Fusion
Professor Amada scrolled the screen of his phone in surprise.

It was a set of oil paintings on easels taken from different angles. The paintings had just been completed, and Amada Riki could even read the fresh smell of the paint that had not yet solidified through the lens.

The painting method is quite ancient.

He is so old that he seems to have stepped out of the frozen history displayed in an art museum.

Vigorous and far away.

"Hmm...new body painting? I believe what you said, this is indeed not Miss Katsuko's work."

Riki Amada looked at the paintings on the screen and then glanced at Uncle Sakai next to him.

"It's not anything else, it's just that it's too rare. It draws on the form of gongbi and heavy colors, and uses the mutual influence of environmental colors to create rich tonal levels, allowing the paint to maintain relative authenticity."

"Without a deep understanding and enthusiasm for Eastern Xia art, it would probably be extremely difficult for me to choose such a challenging painting method that combines Chinese and Western heavy colors with line drawing. In my impression, Gui Qianjin still prefers traditional oil painting. Bar."

Is this guy so discerning?

Even Sakai Kazunari was shocked.

Even though he is an expert in curatorial direction, he imagined what the other party should have to say.

Unexpectedly, this senior Yutian, as a strong man who came here, explained Gu Weijing's painting method in just a few words.

Isn't this too professional?
When Kazunari Sakai first saw Gu Weijing's works, he didn't even think of Lang Shining in his first reaction.

He only roughly understood many professional terms after searching online.

Kazunari Sakai has always felt that he has quite a reserve of knowledge.

Could it be that he invisibly...not only raised the average weight of Tama's tenured professors, but also lowered their average educational level?

The fat uncle touched his belly and became seriously worried, whether he should consider making up extra classes or something.

"Haha, Sakai-san, it's not that I'm so good anymore. You may not know that this could even be said to be one of my professions for a time."

Riki Amada looked at Professor Sakai and said happily. "What a coincidence, isn't it?"

"Your university..."

"I'm not afraid of others laughing at me. I studied Japanese painting in Vienna for my PhD. As you know from this major, I originally went there because the school had a high ranking so I could graduate with a diploma."

Amada Rikiya said frankly: "But, I later got the teaching position of Tama. When I want to be evaluated as an associate professor, I have to make serious efforts to do some research. The research topic is Qing Dynasty court painters in Eastern Xia."

The art of Dongxia has long had a specific group of people and markets overseas, and its vitality has never been cut off.

Especially when Rikiya Amada was in school, there was a certain enthusiasm for studying oriental art in the academic world.

Journals are eager to receive similar submissions.

Famous people like Huang Binhong are all overseas experts who specialize in research and regularly hold seminars in places like New York.

Even topics like "Mountains in Chinese Painting" and "Water in Chinese Painting" are so boundless that even a 300 million-word paper may not be able to explain them clearly.

Nowadays, graduate students in the art history department who choose such a broad topic will most likely be rejected directly by their instructors.

Even if you are chosen, it will take five to ten years, and you will need to do a lot of voluminous literature in order to produce a mature and excellent paper.

In the 80s and [-]s, well-known scholars could publish a review of several thousand words overseas in a journal as large as "Asian Art".

The topic he chose for that year was "Exploring the Changes in the Painting Techniques of Court Painters in the Qing Dynasty".

As the most famous painter in the Qing Dynasty, he was also a representative figure of the spread of Western France to the East.

Castiglione's painting method must be the top priority of research.

"Awesome, this kid has earned the guidance of Senior Amada."

Flower sedan chairs are carried by everyone.

The atmosphere was heightened here, and Uncle Sakai didn't mind giving it a thumbs up with a smile.

"Speaking of greatness, it's not that I am great, but that this painting is great. What I just said about impressionism combined with Yamato-e painting, just take it as a joke."

"Isn't this design, this idea, more sophisticated than my few words?"

"Opportunistic, don't get me wrong, this is not a criticism. It is also opportunistic. The opportunistic is good, the clever is even better. Being able to draw like this is even more of a skill."

Riki Amada swiped the screen and clicked his tongue twice, "I'm still a person who has done special research, and my ideas are still limited. Castiglione, new body painting... Do you think he wants to participate in the Singapore Art Exhibition? This My energy is directed towards this year’s Best Rookie.”

The curator turned to look at Uncle Sakai.

"Is he a student of our school or a disciple in your studio? The lines, structure, and shape are all so excellent. He looks like a future Asian art star."

Riki Amada made a half-serious joke.

Although he said this to give Issei Sakai some face, the child Professor Sakai mentioned was probably around 24 or [-] at most.

To be able to reach such a level of painting at this age, and to possess such momentum between his brushes and ink, he is still a junior to Kazunari Sakai.

Future achievements will not be low.

Curators value painters' artistic creativity more than painters.

What a great idea!

In the past, Rikiya Amada's impression of Castiglione's retro painting style was that he only regarded it as the subject of academic research, a "past tense" painting method that can already be incorporated into the history of art, and a display item on a museum stand.

Between its difficulty.

Few modern painters would devote themselves to studying it as their own artistic direction.

Or.

It is a very well-known painting method that is already dead.

Famous means valuable, dead means rare.

Rare things have always been valuable, so I thought of submitting this kind of painting to the Lion City Art Exhibition. The time and place are perfect.

Renhe?

Professor Kazunari Sakai has now found himself. Isn't this the harmony of humanity?

The most amazing thing is that this is not even a work that he deliberately forcibly combines different painting elements with the so-called "just goal of winning a prize" in his mind.

It’s not about imitating Castiglione for the sake of painting him.

The entire painting is highly mature and calm.

The rich color levels and heavy-color pigments work well together, and the two-dimensional meticulous painting system is supported by the focused perspective system of sketch lines.

There are also the Seurat-style short and layered dense lines that carve light, and the delicate textures dragged out by the skin of the fingertips.

Young blood blends into ancient painting techniques.

New body painting has disappeared from the curator's artistic vision for many years, but suddenly it is revitalized again. "Ambitious, ambitious."

Calculate your age.

Even Amada Riki was sure that there was a high probability that there must be an expert behind this guy to give guidance... maybe it was the chubby Sakai Kazunari.

Wasn't this guy the one who became famous with his paintings at art events back then?

A mature path should have been explored.

This child has probably been preparing for this year's art exhibition and experimenting with painting techniques since he was fifteen or sixteen years old.

It took ten years to sharpen a sword, and the fourteen states were in ruins.

"Professor Sakai, such a thoughtful guy is so terrifying. It's natural that he can reach this stage this year. He is not only fleshy, but also full of heart. And modern young people are really very timid in order to become famous."

Amada Riki also sighed in his heart.

The more he thought about it, the more he felt like he had guessed the truth.

In this way, there is a good explanation for the fact that a guy with such excellent painting skills has not been prominent in the art world of Japan's younger generation for a long time.

It's obvious that he was secretly working on his ultimate move there!
What people want is to achieve a blockbuster effect without being famous.

After ten years of hard work, is it worth changing to a big news in the spotlight?
Definitely worth it.

Being a painter is the same as being an actor. Working as an extra in Hengdian for ten years is not as much as the second female lead in any TV series.

The art industry is winner-take-all.

No matter how much hardship you endure on the way to fame, you will feel so happy after becoming famous.

"Maybe the artist who painted this painting will be at your age in another 20 years. If I can still work, I will be like today, running over and begging others to open a painting exhibition."

At first, Riki Amada was just talking about welcoming and sending people off.

Think about it.

Instead, he began to become serious.

"It's inconvenient for such an outstanding young man to be in front of the exhibition. After he wins the award, can you introduce me to him?"

Amada Riki also spoke and even stood up and bowed directly.

"Please, Mr. Sakai."

If you make the right move, the process by which a top artist is gradually exploited by the market can not only make a lot of money for his gallery.

It can also directly frighten the curators who have worked with him for a long time.

The former Nanjo Shio followed this path.

"Uh, oh, oh oh... ok, ok, these words are too strong, Amada-senpai, you don't have to be like this."

The thoughtful fat conspirator Kazunari Sakai is a little at a loss.

He didn't even understand why the atmosphere suddenly became so serious when he was looking at the painting.

In order to cooperate with the other party, I had to stagger up from my seat, hold out my sore belly from doing abdominal rolls, and lean forward with a grin on my face to return the favor.

"Can I ask, from the perspective of a curatorial expert like you, if this child wants to continue to develop in this direction of painting, what should be his next artistic path?"

"Professor Sakai, do you really want to ask for my opinion?"

"If so, I specially invited you here. Of course I want to hear your advice."

"Is that so..."

Amada Riki looked directly into Kazunari Sakai's eyes for a moment, then returned his gaze to the phone screen.

this time.

The curator was silent for a long time.

"Well, his painting method has reached this stage and is quite mature. He himself is the master of his painting method. There are not many places where outsiders can give pointers. I just give some suggestions and you can listen to them."

"I won't talk about the techniques. Professor Sakai is beside me and he can give you more pointers than me. It's boring to do what you like. But when I looked at this painting, it reminded me of one thing."

"Oh?"

"I wonder, Professor Sakai, have you ever read "A Dream of Red Mansions"?"

"Dream of Red Mansions."

Uncle Sakai twisted his neck in confusion, "I read some chapters in high school. In college, in the Oriental Art Overview class, "Dream of Red Mansions" was the required reading recommended by the professor, and I also briefly read the version translated by Ito Shuhei. .Not too impressed.”

Among the four great classics, "Dream of Red Mansions" is almost the most extreme book in Japan.

"The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is almost a household name.

Not to mention the total sales of tens of millions of copies of the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" series of games produced by Koei Koeisha, the old TV series was so popular that even the emperor was alarmed when it was printed in Japan.

In fact, even the new version of the Three Kingdoms TV series, which has been criticized the most online, has a pretty good reputation among Japanese young people.

The praise rate in the online discussion group even surpassed that of NHK's heavy-budget Taiga drama "Taira Kiyomori" of the same year.

Water Margin and Journey to the West also have their own fans in popular culture.

Dream of Red Mansions is very coldly received, probably to the level that ordinary Japanese people have barely heard of its name.

But in the professional field of art and culture, "A Dream of Red Mansions" is still irreplaceable as the first of the four great classics.

There are still many professional red scholars in Japan, and it is widely read among art students and literary youths. Even as early as the Meiji era, it was selected as one of the most important official textbooks for learning Chinese.

Amada Riki also smiled: "At the end of the last century, I was a visiting scholar in the capital of Dongxia. I talked with everyone about art and their respective cultures all day long. A professor in Dongxia mentioned the core of Japanese art and used a film "The Tale of the Heike" can be summed up. The ringing of the bells of the Gion temple tells the story of the impermanence of the world; the flowers of the Sal tree lose color, and the ones that are in bloom turn to decline like the vicissitudes of life. This is what is called mourning for things."

"I nodded and said it made sense. It gave me a sense of pure beauty in the vast white land. I heard that Mr. Feng Zikai once said that "The Tale of Genji" is Japan's "Dream of Red Mansions". I always thought that Dream of Red Mansions is a love story about a man who hates a man and a woman who hates her. It’s too simple. On the contrary, The Tale of the Heike, in which glory and wealth are just like a dream on a spring night, is more similar. When I was in school, the Red Mansion was my favorite.”

"There is only one thing. After all, Cao Xueqin's poetry cannot conceal the limitations of the difficult and craftsmanship of Qing poetry. It is a bit inferior to the momentum of Li Du in the real prosperous Tang Dynasty."

"The other party told me that I was wrong. The poems in the Red Mansions were just wonderful."

Riki Amada recalled for a moment, "He told me that an art critic from Eastern Xia once said that Cao Xueqin's poems were like the water plants in "A Dream of Red Mansions"——"

"Put it in water, it's beautiful. Wring out the water, only dry grass blades are left."

"I kind of understand what you are talking about, Amada-senpai. However, please make it more clear." Sakai Kazunari's eyes were a little confused.

"The painting you showed me is like Cao Xueqin's poem."

"Whether it is oil painting, sketching or meticulous painting techniques, if taken alone, it cannot be said to be ordinary, but it may not be outstanding among the entire group of painters. Its greatest advantage is that it can be integrated with each other under the right circumstances, just like When water plants meet the river, the whole painting suddenly comes alive."

"This is the chemical reaction of art. If you want to make a breakthrough - the focus should be here."

(End of this chapter)