Almighty painter

Chapter 540 Enemy
"You see, this painting reminds me of Prometheus. Because he helped mankind, he was hung on the cliff, and the circling eagles kept tearing his chest and pecking at his liver. The only thing The difference is that although this god in Greek mythology is from the Titan family, he is probably not as tall as the giant in the picture, so tall that he leans on the mountain like he is leaning on his bedroom. "

"Look at this painting. This kind of waves has obvious rhythm and temperament...similar to a minuet. Its waves are like the peaks of the musical spectrum, and the ripples are semitones of different strengths and weaknesses..."

Miss Elena thought for a moment, touched the dog's head, moved the wheelchair, and opened the guard panel of a small upright piano in the corner of the room next to it.

The difference is.

All the lower parts of this piano, where the white keys of a normal piano are, are made of dark ebony.

The black keybars that represent semitones in all normal pianos are entirely made of ivory.

The color of the black and white keys is exactly the same as the color of the common black and white piano keys.

Just like the small hunting knife with a porcelain handguard, there is a gold inscription on the panel of this frame that reads "Schimmel Piano Company dedicates this 'Kelpie' to Miss Elena and wishes her a happy nineteenth birthday." Look at the spray-painted nameplate words.

This piano named "Kelpie" should also be a very interesting collection.

However, the Miss Elena who celebrated her birthday was definitely not Anna.

Schimmel pianos are still very popular in Europe.

But after 1947, it was illegal to use real ivory to make piano keys.

Don’t talk about production these days.

According to the new EU ivory trade ban a few years ago, this kind of thing is the same as the Eastern Xia's attitude towards cultural relics before the Song Dynasty. It is completely forbidden to even trade them in the name of antiques.

This piano was already at home when Anna's grandfather celebrated his nineteenth birthday.

There are many pianos in the mansion.

The estate currently employs a dedicated craftsman who is responsible for maintaining the nine pianos in the hundreds of rooms in the mansion and a total of 237 antique clocks of various types.

Pianos are usually judged by model.

But certain custom models of pianos, or pianos in concert halls, will have their own exclusive names, just like the naming tradition of high-end Italian violins.

Of the many pianos in the manor, only two have this honor.

Both are produced by Schimmel in Germany.

One is the huge nine-foot grand piano "The Unique Elector" placed in the main hall. It was Anna's birthday gift when she was six years old.

The manufacturer thoughtfully moved the sustain pedal, which is used more frequently during daily playing, to the position of the left foot.

The other is the "Kelpie", a small piano with only 83 keys that has the keys reversed.

Kelpie is a water fairy in British mythology and legend, similar to a mermaid, but her upper and lower body can transform into a horse and a fish respectively.

Anna stretched out her palm and made a few simple scratches with her fingertips.

The sound is not very accurate.

The sound of the action of the action of the action of the piano box with a few keys is a bit muffled.

normal phenomenon.

After all, the piano hadn't been tuned by a tuner in a long time.

"August, you know what? I think I can pop out all these paintings." Anna tilted her head and smiled with her lips pursed.

She placed the small picture frame in her hand on the music stand on the cover.

Put your fingers on the surface of the keys, first a G7 chord in C major, and then transition to a deep and calm D minor.

The sound is like dark green sea waves.

The development of Western music and the development of art are twins that complement each other.

Baroque, classicism, romanticism, impressionism... most painting styles in art books can find corresponding melodies on the piano.

This is no coincidence at all.

They are themselves completely homologous.

Monet was influenced by Ukiyo-e and took the path of Impressionism. Debussy, a representative figure of Impressionist music, was inspired by his "The Sea", which was also the most famous Ukiyo-e print - "The Great Wave off Kanagawa". inside".

(Note: The picture shows the cover of the first edition of Debussy's "La Mer" score released in 1905.)
Synesthesia is a talent and cultivation that is very important when appreciating music and painting.

The spiritual connoisseur is able to break down the barrier between sight and hearing.

When you hear the music, you think of the picture, and when you see the picture, the corresponding melody comes to mind.

A composer once said that the best music paired with the best critics requires "seeing".

There is no need to play any instrument, the brain is the instrument.

When you look at the staff in your hand, musical phrases will ring in your ears, just like traveling through an art exhibition, with intuitive, delicate and subtle light and shadow flowing in your heart.

Twenty-four different major and minor tones correspond to the twenty-four main colors painted on the canvas.

From the pure white C major, which symbolizes purity, primitiveness, and solemnity like destiny, to the bright yellow, blazing E major like the sun, to the F major, which is like slightly flowing red wine with a silk texture...

The flying notes are the painter's brushstrokes.

This is what Anna meant when she said that she could "play" a work for August.

In her office at Oil Painting magazine, there is an electric piano that is easy to store.

When writing art reviews at work, if this work can attract her enough.

Anna might write a few lines, meditate for a moment, play a few times on the keyboard next to her, get the feeling right, and then write again.

An excellent painting is itself an excellent piece of music.

It doesn’t have to be beautiful, it can even sound bad.

Just a little bit.

It has to be interesting.

Elena doesn’t like Van Dorn’s works precisely because Van Dorn’s works always feel like a mess of sticky ink.

It's like squeezing together the train whistle, the steel factory, the white noise of the radio, and the vibration of the crawler tracks - a bit like some kind of avant-garde experimental music.

But Anna wouldn't call this feeling avant-garde experimental music.

This is unfair to avant-garde musicians.

Experimental music must have ideological expression. For example, at the beginning of the 20th century, during the war, the Soviet Union tried to combine the sounds of train whistles, factory furnaces, and tram operations through the coordination of underground parties and workers’ committees. ... through strict time control, a melody similar to "The Internationale" is synthesized.

At sunrise in the early morning, when workers start working.

The capitalists and big factory owners thought everything was business as usual, but little did they know that the sound of "Intrachonal will come true" was already echoing over the entire city.

It was the largest experimental music experiment in human history to date.

Very Russian romantic.

Noise can express boredom, and silence can become deafening when orchestrated appropriately.

Unfortunately.

Miss Elena has never felt any ideological content in Van Dorn's paintings.

Fan Dorn is obviously one of the people with the best painting skills that Anna has ever seen, but he is elegant but not elegant, and thoughtful but not thoughtful.

It's just pretending to be "artistic" and "profound".

Looking at his paintings is like watching Beethoven smash his piano.

Anna never had a good look on such people who were willing to degenerate.

The cat lady is doing just fine.

exactly.

Cat ladies are awesome.

Although the overall emotional investment is insufficient compared to the cover painting of "The Little Prince", it is usually difficult to talk about profound thoughts in the illustration category.

But at least, she has always been impeccable in this aspect of beauty. "The War between Birdmen and Giants" is like Dvořák's fantasy suite. The rigorous melody brings the solemnity and tranquility of Greek mythology, but it also contains the spirit of fairy tale romanticism.

"Midnight Palace" is like Schumann.

It has a very strong fairy tale temperament, the moonlight is melting into the pond, and the whole painting is covered in pink mist.

When it comes to "Battleships on an Expedition", it has become Beethoven's style again, with that strong appeal and majestic spirit, the frequently changing "brush" variations on the canvas are intertwined, and even the painting style is rendered The drumbeat of war to come.

……

Looking at these illustrations, she felt like she was listening to a grand concert that could make music lovers cry pious tears.

Countless masters and conductors gathered together, and the music flowed endlessly.

The end of each tune is the beginning of the next one.

The length of the melody simply depends on how long Anna's eyes stay on the picture.

If the thoughts don’t stop, the notes won’t stop.

no doubt.

Among the seven or eight illustrations, Miss Elena's favorite must be the "Queen" that the other party once sent to her.

In terms of artistic attainment, it is not necessarily higher than the other works, but Anna loves it very much.

It looks like Haydn or Handel.

It has an epic quality and is close to a solemn chant.

Like the sun, moon and stars, they sparkle in my mind.

She clapped her hands and made a decision happily.

If the drawings of these paintings are successfully awarded, they may be loaned out for a short-term art exhibition, and eventually they will be placed in the exhibition hall of the publishing house together with the historical award-winning works and replicas of the award-winning works.

It’s okay to hand over other drawings to the publishing house.

Irina decided to secretly keep this manuscript of "The Queen".

Anyway, the cat lady said it herself.

This is a painting based on her. The other person must not care much about his little selfishness.

"Well……"

August stared aggrievedly at the mistress who said she wanted to play the piano for it. In fact, he was having so much fun there that he simply left the dog aside.

There was a gurgling sound in the throat.

The dog is very dissatisfied now.

It arched its big black nose on the ground and turned in circles, like a little fragrant pig smelling black truffles in the ground. There was an obvious look of hesitation in its pupils.

Unlike pigs who love truffles, dogs hate the taste.

Super, super, super annoying.

As a common working dog breed of hunting dogs and police dogs, the Springer Spaniel has an unimaginably sensitive nose.

Anna's spirituality is full of synaesthesia, and she can appreciate colors as music at best.

August, on the other hand, can easily mistake colors for his sense of smell.

Yes.

sense of smell.

Dogs are born with color weakness, and some of the world they see seems like a world in a black-and-white movie.

But Anna is not just talking nonsense when she says that their dogs appreciate art.

Springer Spaniels can use their sense of smell to capture and track trace amounts of gas molecules in the air.

It can smell traces of blood diluted 2000 million times that even sophisticated forensic laboratories would be hard-pressed to distinguish.

You can also smell the change in the taste of swimming pool water after adding a spoonful of acetic acid.

The changes in smell brought about by the painter's different paint formulas on the canvas were as clear to Auguste as the candlelight in the dark night.

If your nose can recognize colors, you can naturally recognize other things, such as Ngawang's hair.

Anyone who has ever owned a cat knows this.

Cats are cute, but they shed a lot of hair in daily life, which is an almost impossible problem to eliminate.

Gu Tongxiang did not agree to keep a cat at first because he was worried about cat hair floating around in the calligraphy and painting shop.

While Gu Weijing was packing the paintings, Awang was taking a nap next to the box.

Inevitably, a few scattered hairs drifted into the packing box.

No one can notice such tiny details.

But August is not human.

It's a dog.

He is a very, very arrogant dog.

Anna once took August to a girls' school to participate in social activities, and he was left in the school playground.

result.

All the children on campus went to play with the fat orange cat brought by the teaching assistant from the next class.

Although, August is quite cool and likes to scare children by showing his teeth.

Although, August is more fierce. Whenever someone touches him, he will bark so fiercely that even the President of Austria will bark twice.

Although, with August's consciousness, he disdains playing with these children.

……

But these are not those blind yellow-haired girls, leaving such a handsome, noble, and beautiful big dog without the attention of the crowd, surrounding them as if they are meeting the emperor.

And the reason why he went to play with that stupid cat who had no other purpose besides rolling around, being cute, and acting coquettishly.

Especially Anna couldn't help it. She ran over and hugged the ugly orange cat, touched its ears and said "so cute".

At that time, the smell that filled the little master's body was often the same as when he was combed before.

That's August's special taste.

Anna loved cats when she was a child.

She originally wanted to choose a beautiful noble cat to keep, but her aunt bought August because she insisted that dogs are smarter than cats, understand human nature better, and can help her understand what love is.

August is a big dog who is as smart as a child of several years old.

At that moment, its self-esteem suffered a huge blow.

The petty grudge-keeping has ended now.

August generally disdains taking grudges against other animals.

As the only king whose territory covers the entire Elena Manor, surrounded by tens of thousands of acres of land, pastures, lakes and forests.

His sphere of influence is larger than that of an average tiger.

But this taste.

This sexy bitch tastes different!
August looked at the cat hair on the ground, then wagging his tail, he ran to Anna's skirt and rubbed it between her calves.

Alarm bells rang in my heart.

"Woof woof! Master, do you like another cat?"

(End of this chapter)