Almighty painter

Chapter 80 The Noisy Human World and the Threshold of Participating in Art Exhibitions

After grandpa put down the phone, Gu Weijing returned to his bedroom.

Gu's calligraphy and painting shop is the ancestral property of the Gu family, and it certainly has an extraordinary meaning to Gu Weijing.

But he has more things to worry about now.

Gu Weijing turned on the computer and entered the entry of "Singapore Art Biennale Award-Winning Works Over the Years".

The computer automatically jumps, and the first one is the homepage of the Lion City Art Exhibition.

At the top is the introduction of the art exhibition.

The Lion City Art Biennale is a new cutting-edge art exhibition in Asia in recent years, and its history is not too long.

It was held for the first time after the millennium.

During the last period of Mr. Lee's administration, the founding father of Singapore, whose life was full of ups and downs, set his sights on high-tech industries and tourism culture.

Lion City was just an ordinary port city in history. In the 19th century, it became a stopover place for boatmen, laborers, and sea gold diggers. Compared with many famous historical cities in East Asia, it has no obvious advantages. .

Singapore needs to create a tourist card of its own.

Therefore, the Lion City Art Biennale, Asia International Art Festival, Art Fair, F1 Singapore Grand Prix... and other large-scale international events are held here one after another.

Now it is the seventh art biennale, which was originally scheduled to be held two years ago, but due to the impact of the epidemic, it has been postponed until the end of this year.

Every year, a specific theme is selected by the curator committee of the Biennale, and all works must be carried out around this theme.

This year, the Singapore Art Biennale has a total of six curators, one Singaporean art connoisseur, and five art critics from five continents.

Perhaps it is because the epidemic has made Singapore deserted, so the theme chosen by the curators this time is "hustle and bustle", which translates to: "Hustle and bustle in the world".

For an art exhibition, this can be said to be a theme in which a hundred flowers bloom.

As long as you have inspiration, you can basically draw whatever you want.

This is a good thing for all painters who want to participate in the exhibition.

Gu Weijing remembers that a few years ago, the theme of a famous European art exhibition was chosen as "female artists", which caused some controversy.

From an industry perspective, there is nothing wrong with that.

Although it’s not a few hundred or even decades ago that women were only considered secondary roles as mannequins, vases, tools to inspire male painters to create art.

But it is true that in the oil painting industry, until today, female painters still have far less opportunities than male painters.

That's why some art critics even suggested that everyone should use a neutral name for submissions in art exhibitions or art competitions.

Gu Weijing doesn't feel like many people think this theme is overkill.

But objectively speaking, art exhibitions with this theme, even if they do not restrict the contributions of male painters, are indeed quite unfriendly to male painters.

After all, even if the curators and the jury don’t know what is politically correct, if too many male painters are selected to participate in the exhibition, it will be the same as the greatest literary and artistic works that have ever been born on African soil. The title is also called "Out of Africa", which is too black and humorous.

Fortunately, this theme has no tendency, and everyone stands on a unified starting line.

Freelance submissions for the Biennale are called for from all over the world.

Gu Weijing had already applied for the registration form two weeks ago.

He moved the mouse to the column of exhibited works over the years, and randomly selected a work from the electronic album of exhibits with the theme of "Life" in 2012.

He activated the identification technique.

【Oil painting: "Whale Song at Sea"】

[Sketch Technique: Lv.4 Occupation First Level (2678/5000)]

[Oil painting technique: Lv.3 semi-professional (964/1000)]

【Emotion: Casual】

……

【Oil Painting: "The Man Carrying a Pole"】

[Sketch technique: Lv.4 professional level 512 (5000/[-])]

[Oil painting techniques: Lv.4 occupation · first level (1130/5000)]

【Emotion: Casual】

"This "Person Carrying a Pole" won the third prize in the student group."

Gu Weijing was the first to click on the electronic picture album of the student (amateur) group. After throwing out two skills at random, he had a rough judgment on the level of these amateur groups.

He found that the process of appraising oil paintings is different from Chinese paintings, and the skill level experience value of sketches will also jump out.

This was not beyond Gu Weijing's expectation.

Sketch itself is known as the foundation of all Western modern art schools. No matter what style of oil painting or watercolor painting you are, it is all based on lines and colors.

As long as it is related to lines, it is absolutely inseparable from the sketch as the basis.

Any great oil painter, anyone, has worked hard in sketching.

Even if it is a Fauvist painter.

You can tell from the name of this genre that the paintings of Fauvists are wild enough.

They don't like rigid lines, but are keen to use bright and thick colors. They often use the pigments directly squeezed out of the paint tubes to create strong picture effects directly with straightforward and extensive brushwork.

But the sketches of the founder Matisse are good.

There is also a special sketch exhibition.

For oil painting, you don’t even have the basics of sketching, what you draw is deformed, the girl you draw is thought to be a monkey, and the apple is thought to be a watermelon, so what creativity are you talking about?
It should be because of the electronic album rather than the real work. The ideas of these people's paintings and the separation of line and color are far less clear than the real thing that he directly touched the picture of "Kingfisher Singing Bamboo".

But it's probably enough to see.

In all fairness, from a student's point of view, these people draw very well.

They are not a few years older than Gu Weijing, but their proficiency in various techniques has reached the same level as Gu Weijing who has obtained the panel.

Even a certain item is stronger than him.

Mr. Cao was right. Possessing a first-level professional skill is almost the threshold for participating in the painting and calligraphy exhibition.

If the sketches and oil paintings have reached the level of professional painters, then they should be able to stand on tiptoes and reach the level of winning awards.

Gu Weijing has given up the idea of ​​continuing to use identification techniques on the paintings of the amateur group.

Because although the level of these people's paintings is indeed good, they are not so high that they can't understand them, and they have not yet reached the level of excellence that has an impact on him.

It's not worth continuing to spend identification.

He switched to the picture album of the master group in the screening column above, which is also his goal for this competition.

The style of the electronic album on the entire page suddenly becomes very different.

First of all, in the 2012 Singapore International Art Biennale, only three-quarters of the selected works of the master group were exhibited by the student group, and the number of pages of the album was more than three times that of the student group.

And each picture album of the master group has a special artist introduction and evaluation appreciation, and each picture is a special homepage.

Any one of these works can be called excellent, with rigorous brushstrokes and exquisite painting techniques.

【Work title: "Flying Bird · Sea Water · Red Sun"】

[Sketch technique: lv.5 professional level two]

[Watercolor Painting Technique: Lv.5 Professional Level [-]]

【Mood: A Simple Work】

[Remarks: Techniques that are one level higher than the highest skill of the host cannot accurately display the experience bar, and will cause mental fatigue. Please use the identification technique with caution]

Gu Weijing just casually looked at a watercolor painting with identification techniques, and felt a certain amount of mental depression during the separation of a large number of colors.

This is a side effect of forcibly analyzing works with a higher level than myself.

Fortunately, this uncomfortable feeling is only fleeting.

"Two occupations at the second level." Gu Weijing smacked his lips.

Painting appreciation is a very subjective thing.
Even if this kind of art exhibition has a professional committee and art connoisseurs to select, it is inevitable that excellent works will be buried, or mediocre works will be shortlisted by chance.

But generally speaking, the painters who can participate in the master group are at least on the same level.

This gouache painting is not good enough to win an award. If you want to participate in the master group exhibition, you should at least have a similar level.

"It's not an easy task to advance to the second level of two professions."

Gu Weijing felt the pressure.

He already has two professional first-level skills, and it seems that he is not far from the second-level professional skills.

But it can't be calculated that way.

Each skill needs to be upgraded to 5000 experience points, and the two skills are [-], which means that he needs to spend at least [-] US dollars to buy tickets to participate in the art exhibition.

Moreover, in art exhibitions, especially overseas art exhibitions, the requirements for Chinese paintings to be exhibited are much higher.

It may be necessary to have a third-level career, or even higher, to impress those overseas judges only by relying on the impact of Chinese painting.

However, it is not easy to improve painting skills.

But painting has never been just a rigid job that simply tests technique.

And emotions.

Gu Weijing found a particularly interesting painting among the shortlisted works of this year's master group.

It was a gloomy oil painting.

The name of this oil painting is "Fisherman". It adopts the technique of stippling, and uses small color dots arranged next to each other for coloring.

Pointillism is a relatively complex oil painting technique.

What it requires is that the color points on the entire painting are closely arranged, but there must be no overlap, which is similar to the principle of light color mixing on the display screen.

The author of this painting obviously did not do a good enough job on this point.

From Gu Weijing's current perspective, it is easy to see that the opponent has a lot of color spots stained and polluted together without using skills.

This painter's painting skill is average in the amateur group, and it can only be called terrible in the master group.

What really attracted Gu Weijing's attention was that, even if it was an electronic album, compared with other works, this painting obviously had a kind of vitality that was different from others.

Gu Weijing launched the calligraphy and painting appraisal technique.

Distorted sea water, boiling waves, fishermen wrestling with the sea...

The sound of wind, rain, sea water, and the fisherman's groans all merged into a sigh that passed away in Gu Weijing's ears.

【Oil painting: "Fisherman"】

[Sketch technique: Lv3 semi-professional (813/1000)]

[Oil painting techniques: Lv4 occupation · first level (1220/5000)]

【Emotion: I feel something in my heart】

"No wonder it gives people a different feeling. The emotion of this painting has reached the [feeling in the heart]!"

This is the first time that Gu Weijing has seen a work whose emotional evaluation has reached above [Simple Works].

With the mood panel, he knows how difficult it will be to maintain a concentrated mood throughout the process of painting a painting, not to mention the evaluation of a higher stage of [feeling from the heart].

【Painter: Thomas Santisima (Venezuela), researcher at the Venezuelan National Museum of Fine Arts】

【2012 "Life"·Singapore International Art Biennale, shortlisted works of master group】

Gu Weijing saw a line of short text at the link below, which seems to be the evaluation given by the curator organizing committee to the painting.

[The artist's line expression is not precise enough, and the oil painting technique is still immature.But the painter showed the spirit of struggling with the sea, and the vitality of the fisherman's tenacious struggle.The artist depicted the spirit of a tough guy fighting the ocean from the perspective of a bystander, and the whole painting gave the judges a unique perspective of the ocean. 】

[Therefore, it is specially selected to be shortlisted for the master group exhibition. 】

"Either it is painting skill, or it is the emotion that makes people's eyes shine, the two must account for at least the same amount."

Gu Weijing nodded.

Painting skills can be improved by experience, but emotions can only be improved by life experience. Having a good emotional expression is always the only way for a great painter.

Emotions are even more important than pure techniques. The third step of the professional task on his system panel is also related to emotions.

[Serial Mission: First Look - The Way of Career (Final Mission)]

[Current task: Complete a work of any subject with a length of more than 8 inches, and reach the emotional rating-feeling and above. 】

[The ultimate reward for serial missions: a random legendary skill]

"Legendary skills?"

When Gu Weijing saw this skill description just now, if he said he was not impressed, then it must be a lie.

Although I don't know the specific content of the reward, just the word "legendary level" shows the preciousness of this skill.

Menzel's painting experience, which made him flourish in the illustration world, is only perfect. It is hard for him to imagine what kind of skills can be called legendary by the system.

But as the final reward of this chain task, the degree of difficulty to complete it is much higher than the first two.

Whether the first two items are to improve skills to reach the first level of the profession, or to meet the number of orders received on Fiverr, these are tangible requirements.

The 8-inch space is not too big, but it can't be finished in a few minutes. How to maintain the enthusiasm for a long time... Gu Weijing just found out some ways in the orphanage.

"It would be great if the system could give itself a few more tasks."

Thinking of this,

He reopened the panel and stared at a row of skill details under [Painting and Calligraphy Appraisal].

[Special Effect [-] (Soul Sensation): During the process of appreciating the master's paintings, there is a chance to trigger a limited task.Note: Appreciating works that are far ahead of your current aesthetic attainments may cause additional mental burden to the host, please use skills with caution]

"In the process of appreciating the master's paintings, is there a chance to trigger a limited task?"

Gu Weijing suddenly realized one thing, he seems to be able to actively trigger the task now.

Only what kind of work is considered a master work.

Gu Weijing pondered for a while, and found the "Hundred Flowers Picture" by Professor Lin Tao's junior sister Tang Ning on his mobile phone

He activated his skills.

This time, the mental shock was much greater than when I first appreciated the watercolor painting.

He felt a numbness in his brain, a feeling of electric shock all over his body, his head hurt and heavy, his head was dizzy, and he even had slight hallucinations, feeling that countless flowers bloomed and withered on his body.

【Work Title: "Hundred Flowers"】

[Chinese painting technique: lv.7 master level [-]]

【Mood: A Simple Work】

"The first level of master, that is, the third level of lv.6 professional painter is the first level of master, but what about my task?"

Gu Weijing closed his eyes and meditated for a few minutes, and waited until the numbness on the top of his head subsided slightly before looking at the panel in front of him.

The painting by the painter Tang Ning itself is a work of virtuosity, so it's not surprising that the emotional value only got the evaluation of "Simple Work".

Just as Gu Weijing speculated, this Chinese painting is the most skilled work he has seen so far, reaching Lv.7.

But no new tasks appear on the panel.

"Either it's a matter of probability, or it's just a beginner's level, which is not enough to trigger the task."

Unwilling to give up, Gu Weijing released the calligraphy and painting appraisal technique to a simple draft work on Fiverr that he drew with the blessing of Master Menzel's skills.

It should be because of my own work, this time there was no mental shock.

However, the picture does not present the line structure decomposed in the mind like other works.

Only a dry panel emerges.

【Work Title: "Untitled Network Illustration"】

[Sketch technique: lv.9 master third level (limited experience)]

【Mood: A Simple Work】

"Not yet, is the content not complicated enough, or is it because the painting has no soul of its own under the blessing of Menzel's skills?"

Gu Weijing licked his lips.

He was unwilling to give up just like that, and a very bold idea appeared in his heart.

Gu Weijing still couldn't restrain his curiosity.

Now he not only wants to trigger the system's task, but also because he wants to know how far the greatest painters in human history can reach in the system's evaluation.

Gu Weijing had several options in mind.

Otherwise, take a taxi now to the site where the murals are being repaired, and take a look at the "Picture of Respecting the Buddha and Protecting the Dharma" restored by Mr. Cao.

This is the authentic work of the top painter that he can personally come into contact with now.

If it is an online electronic album, he is more inclined to his favorite impressionist works.

Although well-known works such as "Mona Lisa" or "Night Watch" have become part of popular culture.

But if we talk about personal hobbies, Gu Weijing prefers the impressionist painting style.

Traditional Chinese culture has influenced RB painting, and Japanese painting has influenced Impressionism. East and West are combined, and the world's art trends are mixed with each other on a small oil painting paper.

Especially the representative painter Ray Arnold of Impressionism.

The painter was trained in painting oriental porcelain and traditional screens in his early years, and his works reflect the effect of flying cotton wool similar to porcelain painting.

Warm, warm and bright.

Satisfied his imagination of the beauty of all oil paintings.

pick one of two,

Gu Weijing knew that if he wanted to appreciate the works of a painter of this level, he would definitely bring himself a huge mental burden.

I can only choose one, and even a painter may not be able to analyze it.

After hesitating again and again, he chose Leano's masterpiece.

For no other reason than curiosity killed the cat.After all, Mr. Cao is a living painter, and he is likely to become Mr. Cao's disciple. He has plenty of time to listen to Mr. Cao's teaching experience on painting.

He just wanted to use the convenience of the system to experience the pinnacle of Impressionism over a century.

"The Ball at the Moulin de la Pancake, Reano."

Gu Weijing enters the entry.

　Hello, it's finally time for this book to hit the shelves.

　　It will be on the shelves this Friday, I hope everyone can support it.

　　Updates will also start tweaking.

　　Starting from today, the basic update is one more five thousand words.

　　In addition to the basic update every day after it is put on the shelves, if there is time, I will add another update, that is, daily million.

　　For the author, I think it's best to walk the talk.

　　There has never been a day and night, so I dare not promise you, I can only add more changes as much as possible.

　　Thank you for your support.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)