Almighty painter

Chapter 74 "Hundred Flowers Picture"

"Old Cao said that the level of this painting has not yet reached the threshold for participating in the professional group of art exhibitions."

Professor Lin Tao's WeChat reply was very level: "Master is generally not willing to praise others, you can figure out what the old man means by yourself."

Haven't reached the threshold for participating in the professional group of art exhibitions?
Gu Weijing looked at the new news on his mobile phone and understood what the little old man meant.

"In other words, it has reached the level of participating in the ordinary student group."

Almost as estimated.

His original foundation is better than that of many college students from the local art academy.
The lv.4 professional first level on the system panel should be average among professional painters, but it is extremely excellent in the field of art students.

Mr. Cao should be very satisfied with his progress.

"Don't be too proud. This is the work "Hundred Flowers" written by my junior sister Tang Ning when she was 22 years old. It is also the next lesson that Mr. Cao has assigned for you."

Professor Lin Tao sent a message.

It was a press release from the official website of Shanghai International Art Biennale a long time ago.

[Tang Ning, a close disciple of the master of Chinese painting Cao Xuan, won the gold medal of the Shanghai International Art Biennale for "Hundred Flowers", setting a record for the youngest winner]

This is a press release from Modu's official media.

The accompanying picture is a girl in her 20s, wearing a beige coat, standing between government officials and the old man of the organizing committee.

She is holding a golden trophy in her hand, on the left is Mr. Cao who looks much younger, and behind her is a four-foot Chinese painting.

The photo in the press release is not clear, but the link gives the portal to the official sub-album of the art exhibition.

Gu Weijing rummaged through the competition albums for the same period, and found the "Hundred Flowers Picture" painted by Tang Ning that was mentioned in the news at the top of the electronic album.

"This is... a naked show of skill."

The moment Gu Weijing saw the electronic album, he ruled out Ms. Tang Ning, who is now considered to be the top female artist in the Mesozoic Era of Eastern Xia. Back then, the judges awarded the award because of Cao Lao's current status as a closed disciple.

The theme of the whole painting is a flower tree,
The branches are covered with colorful flowers, colorful and colorful.

The name of this painting is "Hundred Flowers Picture" - there are not a hundred kinds of flowers in the picture, but there are more or less fifty or sixty kinds.

"Really great."

Gu Weijing praised.

For flowers in oil paintings, if you learn one kind, you can learn everything. At most, you just pay attention to some changes in light and shade.

But the flowers in Chinese paintings are different.

Hemerocallis, iris, crabapple, magnolia, peony, morning glory, okra, peach blossom, narcissus, lily, wisteria... There are dozens of different corresponding painting methods.

In this "Hundred Flowers Picture", dozens of painting methods and flower paintings of dozens of artistic conceptions are ingeniously blooming on the same flower tree.

The orchids are drawn vertically and horizontally, the plum blossoms are proud, and the lotus is like a hibiscus emerging from the water... Gu Weijing is not a master of Chinese painting appreciation, but at least he can see that it has the pattern of a famous artist.

Just because of the different postures of these dozens of flowers, it is well-deserved to win the gold medal.

"Your next homework is to copy this painting and learn how to draw each flower. This painting itself is an excellent teaching material for Chinese painting. I will teach you a flower painting technique every week. This week Let's start with the orchids."

Professor Lin Tao wanted to officially start teaching, and Gu Weijing had no reason to disagree.

"By the way, I've already contacted Junior Sister Tangning in the UK. An insurance company will contact you soon to confirm delivery."

Gu Weijing was taken aback.

He guessed the answer in his heart, but he still couldn't believe it.

"Receive what?"

"Of course it is "Hundred Flowers". If you copy it, you must copy the real one. Your home has a gallery, so I don't need to say how to maintain the painting and calligraphy works. This painting is only for loan to you, so don't damage it."

Professor Lin Tao's tone between the lines was very flat, as if he was talking about a trivial matter.

In the field of painting, a masterpiece of calligraphy and painting is like a set of profound martial arts cheats.

Even famous painters often copy works in art galleries.

But there are people coming and going in the art museum, especially those famous paintings. Among the tourists queuing up, it is difficult for you to even have time to calm down and appreciate them, let alone set up an easel in front of you to copy them.

In the past few years, a great artist wanted to obtain the convenience of copying the treasure of the National Museum of Fine Arts of Spain, "The Lady of the Palace".

He went through various contacts, and finally pleaded with the current king of Spain, Felipe VI, before he obtained permission to copy for an afternoon.

Today's electronic technology is very advanced,
even so,

There is also a big difference between electronic photos and authentic works of famous artists when professional art practitioners copy them.

It may be better to watch the real work for 10 minutes than to look at the electronic picture album for a whole day.

The light and shadow under different angles, the grainy texture of the paper, the feeling of the brush strokes... the authentic work is the original work, and the photo is the photo.

Painting learning is a very expensive business, and painting tools and paper only account for a small part of the learning cost of art students, and all kinds of copying are the real big ones.

Basically, the top private art schools spend less than half of their class time in organizing students to travel to major art museums in Europe to copy the authentic works of masters from the middle school period.

Even an international middle school like Gu Weijing's would set up summer camps or winter camps in various famous art galleries every holiday.

Including round-trip hotel air tickets, visas, and local ground pick-up, the registration fee is about [-] to [-] U.S. dollars in one month.

For Gu Weijing's family background, it was indeed a bit too expensive.

But he didn't expect that he would be lucky enough to copy the authentic painting of Hundred Flowers, and let him hold it in his hand, so he could copy it as he wanted.

This is the gold medal work of the Shanghai Art Exhibition Biennale.

Although it is not a mature work of the painter Ms. Tang Ning after the age of 30, this painting is more or less worth $10,000+.

Being able to teach directly to one's own hands to observe and learn is the supreme trust and love.

"Thank you."

"Thank you, Mr. Cao, that's what he meant. Junior sister Tangning has the best foundation in painting among brothers and sisters of our generation. Although I always think that the bet is just a joke. But if you can do it in the next few months Not to mention winning an award, maybe she really has the opportunity to participate in an international art exhibition.”

……

Forrest Gump said that life is like a piece of chocolate, you never know what the next piece will taste like.

The care of the elders is like a cup of warm hot cocoa, but there will also be some things that make Gu Weijing feel like he has a lump of shit in his throat.

His online store was badly reviewed by people.

Three days ago, on Gu Weijing's virtual panel, he suddenly found that he had a single negative review for no reason.

When I opened the website, I found that the latest order of Detective Cat Online Shop was a big [BAD] negative review.

This is as dazzling as a speck of ink on a white paper in a row of good reviews.

It is not uncommon for an artist's paintings to encounter negative reviews from buyers.

After all, art is a very subjective thing.

There are many people who think that Picasso's paintings are ugly.

But Gu Weijing still had an impression of this guy's order, which was an illustration of a fat blue man. To be honest, there was no technical content, and there was almost no possibility of a bad drawing.

He originally thought that he had encountered a client who wanted to blackmail a painter for free with bad reviews.

There have always been such people,
After finishing the painting, I want to be picky and want to reduce the remuneration, which has been done by some difficult guests since the Middle Ages in Europe.

Gu Weijing still has tasks to do, and the system's chain of tasks requires a positive rating of 90.00%, which means at most one of the twenty orders is not positive.

Seeing that his task is about to be completed.

He doesn't want anything to happen now.

Gu Weijing immediately contacted the buyer, hoping to revise the manuscript for the buyer, or get a full refund. The only requirement is that the buyer can cancel the bad review.

As a result, Mr. Hao Hao, who had some problems when submitting the manuscript, suddenly became very determined at this time.

A few minutes later, a long comment was added to his transaction records.

"An expensive piece of shit for three hundred dollars."—that was the title of the order review.

He clicked in to evaluate and found that the buyer's tone was full of hostility.

He didn't say clearly where his painting was bad, but throughout the article he compared his painting with the fat blue man drawn by another online store called "Cheap but not bad".

Fatty Lan, to put it bluntly, as long as you know how to draw a circle, you can draw it. It's hard to make a big difference.

See here.

Gu Wei made a clear understanding,
He should have met his peers.

(End of this chapter)