Almighty painter

Chapter 88 Art Journals
Gu Weijing was originally dealing with the news about the order on Fiverr in his room, when Uncle Sakai came to the door, he was called out by his grandfather.

"Are you painting these two paintings?"

Uncle Sakai has always had a good impression of Gu Weijing.

At this time, he asked straight to the point.

Gu Weijing had nothing to hide, so he nodded.

"You are the master that the translator spoke of, sorry..."

"Oh! You have great eyesight. Lian Shengzi didn't pay attention to that dirty work at the time, but you saw it."

Uncle Sakai is quite free and easy.

He moved his eyes to the two paintings that were drying in the shade side by side at the door, "He is a good seedling who learns painting, and it seems to be very suitable for Impressionism."

He is a real connoisseur, so he can naturally judge from the dryness of the paint. The time before and after the creation of the two paintings did not exceed one month.

Compared with the realistic oil painting, the second painting is almost completely improved.

Perhaps Gu Weijing himself is better at copying,
However, the control of the brush and the coordinated feeling of the shape make the two paintings not on the same level at all.

The progress is really big.

"Perhaps...he realized something from that painting when he copied it."

Uncle Sakai thought in his heart.

Many painters have moments like this.

Especially when you are in your 30s, and after 40, your artistic style will enter a mature stage.

With past practice and accumulation, the paintings gradually show their personal style.As long as you realize something occasionally, you will have a rapid and substantial leap compared to before.

Although Gu Weijing is a little younger.

However, there is no shortage of geniuses in the art industry who leap from the dragon's gate with a flash of inspiration.

Compared with Titian, who is in his 20s, he has become the top painter who has gained fame in Florence.

The level of this painting is not too unbelievable.

"I don't know how long this state can last."

Uncle Sakai once again quietly raised Gu Weijing's evaluation in his heart.

It's hard to become a talent in art,

But with such good painting skills at a young age, you have the capital for success.

of course,

It's just money.

But since Gu Weijing can be favored by Professor Lin Tao, there is no shortage of noble people who can lead the way.

As long as he realizes this several times in the next ten years, and his luck is not too bad, there is no reason why he can't become a very successful painter.

"Can you take out the original painting you bought and let me admire it?"

After a few polite words, Uncle Sakai immediately put forward the main purpose of his trip.

It was too dark at the calligraphy and painting night market that day, so he just glanced at it hastily, and intuitively felt that the old church looked good.

If it is an ordinary painting, if you miss it, you will miss it.

Professor Sakai himself is a big expert in oil painting, especially in Japan, where there are many impressionist collections, he has never seen any good paintings.

Apart from other things, even the treasures that Monet himself did not circulate in the market, he personally worked on them at the invitation of private collectors. There are not ten paintings, but there are still five or six.

However, that picture is really a little different.

Impressionist painters are sometimes nicknamed the Sunshine School, and their main focus is the hazy effect of the mixture of light and air in the sun.

Impressionism with dark tones is like a flame sealed by cold ice crystals. Colors and emotions must reach a delicate balance and blend with each other.

It's not that I can't draw,
If you are not careful, the picture will be dirty.

It's rare to see such a good painting.

It would be a pity to miss such a painting.

Even if you can't buy it, Uncle Sakai thinks it would be nice if you can appreciate it.

Therefore, before leaving Yangon, he made a special trip to find out the buyer's address and made an extra trip.

At first, he was a little curious to meet that young man with venomous eyes.

Secondly, Uncle Sakai really wanted to take a closer look at the details of that painting.

Gu Weijing turned around and took out the "Old Church on a Thunderstorm Day" from the studio.

A good painting is not afraid of being appreciated by others.

From a utilitarian point of view, as far as the market value of an unknown artist is concerned, it is not as good as Professor Sakai Kazunari's random comment on how good the painting is.

Professor Sakai took the picture frame with both hands, and looked closely at the details of the painting with the brush against the light.

"Hmm... a very good impressionist painting, very good."

He accentuated his tone slightly and raised his eyebrows.

Now the whole painting has been taken care of very clean.

Uncle Sakai immediately judged that although the painting skills of this painting may not be called one of the top ones in Impressionism, it has already entered the threshold of quasi-first-class.

Put it in a general art museum, it is definitely a very good collection.

He stepped back slightly to observe the overall impression of the painting from a distance. The reason why Impressionism is called Impressionism is that it needs to see the feeling of fusion of color points from a distance.

"The colors are also handled very well...reminds me of Monet's 'Rouen Cathedral'."

Uncle Sakai made the final evaluation: "Good painting."

"What is "Rouen Cathedral"?"

Gu Tongxiang on the side asked a question.

The art news here in Yangon is relatively closed, and he himself is not very interested in Impressionist oil paintings, so he is relatively unfamiliar with this name.

"Basically, the Impressionists did not have works with religious themes, but among the works depicting architecture, the most famous one that belongs to the same theme as this painting is Monet's "Rouen Cathedral."

Sakai Katsuko found a picture of "Rouen Cathedral" on her mobile phone, handed it to Gu Tongxiang, and explained,

"Rouen Cathedral is the most majestic Gothic building in France. Mr. Monet once painted more than [-] works related to the church. They were made under different sun rays in the morning, noon and dusk. The bottom of the sky The colors range from blue, yellow to rose. This kind of thunderstorm is not even painted by Monsieur Monet."

Sakai Katsuko stared at the picture frame in his father's hand, then turned his head to look at the dry oil painting at the door.

She finally couldn't help but speak.

"It seems that there are only two colors, the white church and the dark sky, but the colors are changing everywhere. How did the thunderclouds be painted? This feeling of tumbling and flowing seems to be alive. The painting is really wonderful. "

Sakai Katsuko said this to Gu Weijing.

My father said to himself that the biggest shortcoming of her current works is the paleness of emotion.

Always empty dead things - this is Uncle Sakai's evaluation.

Sakai Katsuko could feel what his father meant, but it was easier said than done.

No matter how many different brushstrokes I tried in the studio, I didn't make much progress.

How should I express my emotions?

She has been troubled by this problem for a long time.

Komatsu Taro's award-winning work "Sunrise in Osaka" is the best painting of emotional expression among young painters Sakai Katsuko has seen.

Whether she liked the hints her mother gave her about marrying Komatsu Gallery or not.

Even Katsuko Sakai would not deny that Komatsu Taro is a good painter.

However, Komatsu Taro’s Austrian separatist painting style influenced by his father almost completely abandoned the expression of lines, and the large area of ​​color was spread wantonly, showing vague, chaotic and ambiguous emotions, similar to Gu Weijing’s. The difficulty of copying this painting is completely different.

It can also be seen from the theme.

"Sunrise in Osaka", the topic itself is very flattering.Red sun, light blue sky, dark blue sea.These colors can be combined casually, and you can paint casually without digressing.

But Gu Weijing's copying of "The Old Church under a Thunderstorm Night" copied the feeling of thunderclouds-the dark clouds contain a trace of lightning rolling, and the hidden colors give Katsuko Sakai a completely different feeling. new feelings.

She originally thought that among her peers, no one could draw better than herself.

Seeing Gu Weijing's paintings at this time, even if they are copies of works, I admire him, and I also have some desire to compete.

"How did you paint the base color... Did you mix red, blue and gray... No, you don't have to tell me, you can give me a palette and a canvas, I want to study it myself."

Katsuko Sakai frowned slightly, thinking about the performance of the oil painting.

Gu Tongxiang brought the paint box and palette.

Katsuko Sakai took the painting tools, found a cushion, and sat cross-legged on the spot in front of Gu Weijing's copying works, trying to match the colors.

"Professor Sakai, what do you think is the market value of this painting?"

Although this question is a bit cheesy, Gu Tongxiang still wants to know how much this painting can sell for.

"Tens of thousands of dollars."

Uncle Jiujing made a rough estimate.

"If it is a market transaction, collectors actually pay more attention to the investment prospects and the reputation of the creator. This painting itself is very good, but the artist is not good. It belongs to the category whose artistic value is higher than the market value. There is no way things."

Uncle Sakai thought for a while: "If you want to sell this work, I personally would like to pay [-] US dollars to buy it, and I can also recommend a few friends who are Japanese collectors to you. But it's about this price."

Gu Tongxiang sucked his nose hard.

$[-],

The per capita monthly income in Yangon is more than 100 U.S. dollars, and 50 U.S. dollars is equivalent to [-] years without food or drink.

The first painting bought by my grandson set a record for the most expensive art work handled by Gu's calligraphy and painting shop in the past five generations.

Professor Sakai seemed to really like the painting.

For a small painter who has no story to tell and only works of art appreciation, the price is quite generous.

It should not be sold at a higher price at the auction, and even if the buyers come with the purpose of making a fortune from art speculation, it is very possible that the auction will fail.

But the old man still didn't express his opinion, he turned his head and looked at Gu Weijing: "This is your painting, you can decide for yourself, don't have psychological pressure."

"Sorry, Professor Sakai, I don't want to sell this painting. I really like this painting and my sense of communication. I want to spend a while copying it."

"Think about it, there is a chance to copy at any time, but not everyone is willing to pay such a high price."

Uncle Sakai was not angry, but just stared at Gu Weijing.

Gu Weijing shook his head.

He knew that Uncle Sakai had already given a very high price, but he still didn't want to sell it.

"Sorry, Professor Sakai."

Uncle Sakai seemed not to be angry, but seemed to appreciate Gu Weijing even more. He patted Gu Weijing on the shoulder.

"It doesn't make sense for you to become a good painter. I guess Professor Lin won't give me this chance. But if you really have no good place to go after graduating from university, welcome to my studio."

Since people are unwilling to sell,

Uncle Sakai didn't force it either.

"Shengzi, Gangchang, let's go."

"You go first, I will take a taxi back to the hotel later."

Sakai Katsuko stubbornly rejected his father's suggestion.

She is now sitting in front of Gu Weijing's copying work, holding a palette in one hand, and a paintbrush in the other hand is constantly experimenting with new colors on the palette, smearing on the canvas on one side .

Prussian blue with rose red and a very small amount of lemon yellow...

It should be the effect of mixing the three primary colors to produce this kind of pigment...

But what is missing?

Sakai Katsuko frowned in distress.

"Katsuko, you need to draw more with your intuition." Uncle Sakai shook his head and pointed out.

"What is Intuition? 5.00% Tartrazine."

Sakai Katsuko looked at the color palette in her hand, raised her brows lightly, with a slightly confused expression like a housewife reading the ingredient list on a line of food: "I put too much or too little."

"Miss Shengzi, can I say a word?"

Gu Weijing said softly at the side: "It's not about the [-]% or [-]% lemon yellow. You pay too much attention to restoration and lack...truth."

Katsuko Sakai's oil painting background is better than that of Gu Weijing.

And he was amazed by his sensitivity to color.

He needed to activate the painting and calligraphy appraisal technique yesterday to adjust the colors. Sakai Katsuko just adjusted the color based on his intuition of the color of the picture.

The problem is that Sakai Katsuko's color tone is too good, and the control of the pen is too precise, but it lacks variety.

Impressionism emphasizes change, and sometimes the color of each stroke is changing.

Although there is only a slight change, it has lost the essence of Impressionism.

Gu Weijing dared to guarantee with his head,
The original painter named Carroll must have painted the scene in front of the rolling thunderclouds on a heavy rainy night.

Thinking of this, Gu Weijing suddenly realized a very important thing.

"Uncle Sakai, have you heard of this female painter of Carroll?"

In the field of painting, my knowledge is not comparable to that of Uncle Sakai, maybe the other party has heard about the origin of the mysterious female painter Carol.

"No, if I've heard of it, I told you just now."

Uncle Sakai shook his head and denied, "Probably some unlucky female painter of the twentieth century. You also know that female painters would have fewer opportunities. If it was a century earlier, probably even I would not agree to let Katsuko Learn to paint."

"It's not the 80th century. This painting should have been created in the [-]th century, or even in the [-]s of the [-]th century or earlier."

"What? Are you sure? Why do you say that."

Professor Sakai's face suddenly became serious, and he knew what it meant.

Impressionism itself is an art that was just born in the second half of the 19th century.

At that time, even Monet had just painted "Sunrise Impression".

His skills in viewing this work are very mature, and he thought it was a work after the [-]th century.

"There is a high probability that this is the case."

Gu Weijing stated the reason for his speculation.

"That's going to be fun, kid."

Uncle Sakai shook the fat on his chin as if smelling a delicious pitbull.

"Although I still don't know who Ms. Carroll is, it must not be easy for a female artist to create works in this era. Would you like to listen to my advice?"

"You say?"

Gu Weijing signaled himself to be all ears.

"Such a good opportunity, why don't you post an article and ask?"

Uncle Sakai looked at one side of the picture frame and suggested.

"Publish an article? You mean newspapers and magazines, or something like Oil Painting?"

"Art newspaper? Well, they deserve it too."

Uncle Sakai sneered: "Although "Oil Painting" has great influence, they do not accept public submissions. Moreover, it would be too wasteful to publish this kind of subject matter in ordinary art magazines."

"what do you mean……"

At the same time, Mr. Gu Tongxiang's pupils suddenly shrank deeply: "Professional journals?"

"Yes, an unknown but mature female Impressionist painter of the [-]th century was found, especially with a rare dark background. This kind of discovery can at least send an ssci, but I don't think it's even possible to interview one Try A&HCI."

Uncle Sakai asserted.

The social science citation index created by the SSCI American Institute of Scientific Information in his mouth includes 58 subcategories related to art, philosophy, and law, and is a companion article of SCi, an international core journal of science and engineering.

This is the world's most authoritative journal of art professional papers, full of gold.

Liberal arts journals are different from science and engineering journals. If it is difficult to publish papers in liberal arts, it will be very difficult, but if it is professional, it will be very difficult.

Especially for some unpopular art style studies, it is likely that a professor will publish an article in more than ten years.

For a good science and engineering major, master students may need to post several SCI papers before graduation.

And according to the graduation standards of the four major art academies of the Eastern Xia Dynasty, as long as they can post an SSCI, they can definitely be regarded as excellent graduates.

If you switch to a domestic core journal, you will need at least three or even five articles if you want to graduate.

As for A&HCI, its full name is "Arts and Humanities Citation Index", which covers more than 70.00% fewer journals than SSCI, and has always been known as the jewel in the crown of art majors.

"Is it really okay to be able to publish a paper, and it's still A&HCI?"

Faced with [-] dollars just now, Gu Tongxiang could still maintain his composure, but now he heard that he might be able to publish a professional paper.

The old man became restless for a moment.

Not to mention that the painting and calligraphy circles in East Asia have had scholar-official plots since ancient times, and they admire literati-type painters. If they only know how to paint and have no culture, they will become low-level craftsmen.

Let’s talk about modern society, what kind of painter is the painter who stands at the top of the art circle?
If it is said that the art master who founded the sect is the emperor of the art kingdom, professional scholars and artists must be concubines or prime ministers even if they are not queens.

They may not earn as much as those painters on the Forbes Celebrity Rich List, but their social status is not much less.

There are really too many uncertainties in the path of a painter.

Three points depend on yourself, and seven points depend on nobles.Good painting is always the bottom line of success, but professional scholars have the ability to determine their own destiny.

An A&HCI can not only easily knock on the door of any academy of fine arts in the world, but also think about the gold-like tenure-track teaching positions in European and American universities in the future.

A painter's career is generally tied to a paintbrush.

Some painters, like pianists, even insure their own hands, for fear that one day they will not be able to hold a paintbrush.

And if my grandson Gu Weijing can have an A&HCI, I dare not say anything else, he will never starve to death in this life.

Even if you are not good at painting, it is very possible to go to a private art gallery, survive for more than ten years, and become a curator.

"decide as things go."

Even with Uncle Sakai's current status, he can't guarantee that he can post an A&HCI, so he can only speak in an uncertain tone.

"If you have professional guidance. Probably, I'm not sure, you can try "Asian Art" or "Taylor Fine Art". Appreciation and Visual Entanglement", the theme is just a mural... In recent years, the fields related to female artists have been academic hotspots. An unknown female early Impressionist painter and rare impressionist works with cool colors, just these two This content is enough to arouse the interest of reviewers."

Different from science subjects, the research difficulty of many literary and art magazines is not in the research, but in the lack of research materials.

A statue, perhaps buried deep in the dust, a mural from ancient times... After discovery, it only takes a few months for a large number of papers to be born around them.

But to discover them, it takes more than 20 years, [-] years of related archaeological work.

At this point, it may be more like an astronomer who observes stars with a telescope worth billions of dollars in an observatory. Finding stars is only the last step in publishing a paper.

Let me put it this way, if you have the ability to find the diary where Van Gogh recorded his inner emotions when he was painting, you can submit the manuscripts after you sort out the excerpts of the contents.

But you can't find it.

If Gu Weijing hadn't been to the Lucky Orphanage, no one in the world would have discovered the secret of this painting.

　There seems to be something wrong with the title of this chapter.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)