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Albeni approached the bronze sculpture of a man and waved to his assistant, who consciously went down.

"Students, what you are going to learn today is the art of sculpture. Before you learn how to sculpt, you must first know where the beauty of a sculpture is. Only with eyes that are good at discovering beauty can you carve a beautiful work of art. Take a look first. This bronze work, this work is a finished product carved by myself. Can you guess what this work is?"

"I don't know." The Druid knew Albeni's personality very well, so it was okay if he didn't know, but he had to speak.When the bronze sculpture was brought up right now, the druid scratched his head and didn't even think about what it was, so he confessed first.

Rembrandt looked at this work, and he searched for it because he knew about sculpture art, but he couldn't find this work among the famous sculptures. "Sorry, teacher, I don't know what this work is either."

Zhang Bi didn't have much contact with the sculpture itself, so naturally she shook her head and had no opinion, but Sally seemed to think of something, and said in the next second, "I think this work is a bit familiar, although I can't tell what it is, but I always feel that he is very similar to a work by Master Rodin."

"Like Master Rodin's work? Tell me what kind of work it is?" Alberni asked.

"I probably thought too. I can't think of any works."

Sally shook her head, but her performance undoubtedly stood out among several people. Albeni nodded in satisfaction, but realized that the Chinese man hadn't spoken at this moment.

Albeni's face turned upside down, and he yelled at Wang Ding with a hideous expression, "I said Chinese, you didn't answer my question this time, I think you really don't want to attend lectures here, so you should go out Bar."

"No, that's not the case." The reason why Wang Ding didn't express his opinion for a long time was because the jade tablet in his arms had already made a judgment on this work. The sculptures are very similar, and the name of that one has been displayed on the jade plate.And Wang Ding knew far more than this information.

In order not to misunderstand the teacher, Wang Ding will simply say, "Mr. Alberni, this work is like what Sally said. It is very similar to a very famous sculpture by Master Rodin. The name of that sculpture is The Bronze Age. Of course, it is not accurate enough to say that it resembles the Bronze Age. I would like to express it more precisely that this work is the "Conquered One" of Master Rodin imitated by Mr. Alberni."

"Oh? The conquered?"

Several people were stunned. None of the people present knew what kind of work The Conquered was.But for the names of the Bronze Age, Rembrandt, Sally, and Druid are all clear.

"Go on." The doubts of others did not affect Albeni at all, he became interested after listening to Wang Ding's words,

Of course Wang Ding could continue talking, but Wang Ding didn't want to rely on the hints on the jade plate to show off his knowledge here. "Mr. Albeni, I really want to go on, but I really don't know. So I hope to learn about this conquered man from the teacher."

Wang Ding's modesty immediately made Alberni's disgust towards him disappear, and as the distance drew closer, Alberni said in a soothing manner. "Okay, let me tell you something, and, please sit down!"

Wang Ding made a small performance, and Alberni told him to sit down. Through this action, Wang Ding also knew that Alberni was not an unreasonable teacher.

Approaching the sculpture again, Alberni said loudly, "When the Franco-Prussian War broke out in 1870, Rodin enlisted in the army with blind nationalism and patriotism, and returned home due to illness. Rodin, who was penniless, once engraved his own statue on his statue. The name of his teacher Carrière to make money, was found out and kicked out of the studio. Soon, Rodin went to the Netherlands and Italy, where he was impressed by Michelangelo. He hurried back to Belgium, spent 18 He sculpted a male body in a month. He asked a young soldier with a beautiful figure to be a model for him. He made this statue into a walking man holding a stick in his left hand and pulling his hair with his right hand. The man raised his head Staring blankly, it looks very innocent and natural. Rodin's [***] man was given a common human surname, which shows human apprehension, shyness and awe. It is life-sized, and Rodin named it The work in front of the eyes of the "vanquished" is the imitation of Rodin's vanquished."

Everyone nodded, Wang Ding was surprised that the name of the work was called Rembrandt Terrace and Druid correctly.But Alberni had another problem at this moment.

"Wang Ding, you got the name of the work right, so you don't need to answer the next question. The remaining four of you tell me, what do you think of this piece of the conquered?"

Druid wanted to win back after being compared by a Chinese. When the teacher asked, he actively grabbed the road. "I think it's very good. This piece of the conquered man shows the positive and optimistic mental state of human beings advocating freedom in that era. The stick in his hand is his protest, he is fighting for freedom, and he is crying out in his heart."

"No, I think this work should show a kind of awakening. Men should want to use their sticks to criticize and fight against that era." Rembrandt gave different opinions.

"What about the two of you?" Albeni filtered out Rembrandt and Druid who expressed their opinions, and saw Zhang Bi and Sally.

Zhang Bi looked at this work, and she felt that the man's muscular lines were very strong. In that era of belief in beauty, it should be a good art sculpture.

"I feel good."

"I think it's pretty good too." After Sally finally expressed her opinion, Albeni didn't say anything more, he just shouted at the assistant outside again.

Then the assistant and the guys from just now moved over another sculpture.

This is still a bronze sculpture of a naked man, 1.74 meters high.This sculpture truly shapes a well-proportioned and perfect young man's human body. His posture is very natural and vivid. The left leg supports the whole body, the right leg is slightly bent, and the toes are slightly touching the ground.The left hand seems to be holding a stick, and the right arm is raised, with the hand resting on the top of the head, so that the muscles of the trunk and limbs rise and fall accordingly.His head was tilted back slightly, his eyes were closed, as if he was about to wake up from a dream.The whole posture and facial expressions are very harmonious. He is stretching his whole body, he is breaking free from all restraints, and he is beginning to release his inner strength.The outline structure of the whole body is not only uniform and perfect, but also reflects precise anatomical knowledge.

"What do you think of this work?"

If Alberni just asked everyone to talk about this sculpture, it would look much more comfortable, but after the previous work was discussed, and this one was presented at this time, everyone still saw the difference between the two. a connection between.

"Rembrandt you say."

"I think this work is much better than the last one. Through this work, I found the flaws of the previous one.

The stick in the previous sculpture destroyed the overall beauty of the sculpture.It feels like it has a feeling of being abstracted from the sculpture.However, after removing the stick, the second piece of sculpture is more expressive, focusing on the human body, and every detail is carved into wood. "

"Druid."

"Yes, on the whole, this second sculpture is indeed better than the first one. The lines of the whole body are clearer and more comfortable. The man looks more temperamental and spiritual, without the suffering of struggle. I don't know. What's going on, it's amazing."

What Druid said was correct, but Wang Ding compared the two sculptures and found that there was not much difference between the two sculptures, only the difference of a stick.

And just taking that stick can give the sculpture a new meaning. It seems that the shape of the sculpture is really crucial.

The ultimate vividness does not mean that a place is outstanding, it does not mean that a person can see that thing at a glance and attract everyone's attention, but that the sculpture has an overall aesthetic feeling without dividing a certain part.Perhaps Alberni laid the groundwork so much to convey this point.

Wang Ding sensed it, and Alberni naturally also saw the comprehension of the students, and continued, "Master Rodin took this first sculpture to participate in the exhibition that year, but "The Conquered" was destroyed at the exhibition. After the failure, a friend of Rodin’s called Van Raspur encouraged him and suggested that Rodin cancel the stick and change its name to “Bronze Age”. Rodin followed his friend’s advice. He also felt that bronze The name of the era is very appropriate for this sculpture, and it gives the statue a new meaning. And the second sculpture you see is the Bronze Age of Master Rodin that I imitated."

"The Bronze Age It represents the transition of human beings from primitive society to the Bronze Age, and it symbolizes the "dawn of mankind" or "the awakening of mankind". You can see this sculpture, which truly shapes a well-proportioned and perfect young man's human body , His posture is very natural and vivid. His left leg supports the whole body, his right leg is slightly bent, and his toes are slightly on the ground. His left hand seems to be holding a stick but he has already taken away the wooden stick. His right arm is raised, and holding his hand on top of his head is no longer a matter of grabbing hair. As soon as such a movement was established, the muscles of his torso and limbs fluctuated accordingly. His head was slightly tilted back, his eyes were closed, as if he was about to wake up from a dream. The whole posture and facial expressions were very harmonious, He is stretching his whole body, he is releasing all restraints, and he is beginning to release his inner strength. All of this is actually because of a small change in movement and the removal of the stick. And just this change has created two different sculptures. The first sculpture is an ordinary sculpture, and the second sculpture becomes a famous sculpture."

Having said that, the five of you all know where the key link of the sculpture that Mr. Alberni wants to talk about is. For a perfect sculpture, every detail must be finely carved and studied. Only in this way can it be achieved. A good carving.

"This is the end of the study of the Bronze Age, students. Next, I want you to add something to another sculpture. You need to complete his extension according to this shape."

Speaking of which, Albeni called the assistant again, and the assistant was already ready. When Alberni called him for the third time, he brought up a sculpture without a head and hands.

When this sculpture was launched, everyone knew it.Because all five students present knew that this sculpture was nothing but one of the three treasures in the Louvre Museum, the Goddess of Victory of Samothrace.

The goddess has an oval face, a straight nose bridge, a full forehead, a slightly raised mouth corner, and a smooth chin.His expression is dignified, demure, dignified, his body is slender, his left leg is slightly curved, revealing the undulating rhythm of the curve.She is plump and holy, soft and pure, elegant and noble, full of youth and life, which is the perfect unity of spirit and flesh, the harmony of love and beauty, the natural unity of God and man, and constitutes the human body. The universe of beauty is an idealized symbol of human pursuit of female beauty.

The image of the goddess also precisely shows the typical characteristics of classical Greek female names.

But, of course, Victory is not complete, her head and arms are missing, but her wings are so suggestive.The Goddess of Victory is still considered a masterpiece of ancient Greek sculpture. No matter from which angle, the viewer can see and feel the majestic posture of the Goddess of Victory spreading her wings.

Her upper body leans slightly forward, her strong and plump body with graceful posture, and her vigorous and huge wings flying high, all fully reflect the majestic posture of the winner and the passion of cheering triumphantly.The sea breeze seems to be blowing from her front, the thin clothes faintly reveal the plump and flexible body of the goddess, the texture of the dress and the carving of the folds are amazing.The back flap of the clothes and the spread wings form an extremely smooth line, and the wavy lines of the legs and wings form an obtuse triangle, which strengthens the forward posture.

However, in the continuous development of history, many people have thought about adding heads and arms to the goddess of victory, especially her head. The goddess of victory without a head is still missing. People will hope that she can have a bright smile. Bright eyes, pretty face.

Albeni didn't say much more. At this moment, he gave each of the five people a piece of paper and a pen. The pen and paper were for the five people to describe the head and arms of the Goddess of Victory. Of course, there were already figures on the paper. After the original painting of the Goddess of Victory, the five people only need to continue to sketch the picture according to the original painting, and those who can perfectly draw the Goddess of Victory, supplement it with more charm and artistic conception, naturally have the basic foundation in sculpture. painting skills.

Albeni thought that the next step would be to enter the next round of sculpture learning with himself, and it is absolutely impossible to become a sculptor without the foundation of painting and the thinking of composition .So there is no need to ask him to waste time here and waste his feelings.

At the beginning of painting, Zhang Bi's painting skills are good. After he got the painting of the goddess of victory, he conceived the movements of the arms and the facial features on the head.

Druid was not good enough in painting. He made a few strokes, but those strokes destroyed the temperament of the goddess of victory.

Because Sally had already imagined the goddess of victory many times in her mind, she regarded the goddess of victory as her mother.The black eyes, black hair, and oriental nose are depicted, and they are presented satisfactorily.

The goddess of victory in Rembrandt's heart is naturally western, so the woman's head he presented has western blue eyes, blond hair, straight nose, and the movements of the arms borrowed from the Mona Lisa's crossed chest style, But once drawn like this, it made the woman rush forward, and the appearance of spreading her wings to fly was restricted.

Wang Ding first observed the sculpture as a whole. The reason why the goddess of victory in Samothrace can become a classic is that its incompleteness is a bright spot, like the Venus of Milos, but it is she who is inferior to Venus. It lacks the most concentrated communication place of the human spirit, the human head.

Human facial features convey spirit and emotion, Wang Ding did not draw the arms, because it feels like superfluous.At the moment of starting the pen, Wang Ding originally wanted to draw an oriental head, but the pen moved miraculously in his hand, and he was a little uncontrollable.

Surprised, Wang Ding just held the pen lightly, but the pen moved on the paper by itself, and Wang Ding's consciousness followed suit in the next second, and he saw a perfect goddess of victory in his mind.

this?Is there a new ability?

……

"Have you finished drawing?"

Wang Ding's pen was still moving, and Albeni seemed to have seen it, but he didn't ask any more, "I'll give you one more minute. Although the Statue of Victory is a classic now, I believe that if you can draw more If there is a complete goddess of victory, the Louvre will consider putting the new goddess of victory in the museum for the people of the world to visit. Of course, if anyone among you can really complete a perfect goddess of victory, I will also feel for you pride."

Albeni didn’t see the paintings of several people that had been presented before him. Sally’s painting would depict the head of an oriental woman. The complete orientalization of her facial features gave Alberni a sense of distance. Similarly, the Western women in Rembrandt Terrace are too westernized, and the restrained posture of the arms is completely inconsistent with the overall temperament of the goddess of victory. It is even more impossible to apply this painting method to the sculpture of the goddess of victory.

Then there is the woman Zhang Bi completed, which has the taste of a self-portrait. It is not good to say that the painting skills are good, but it is completely wrong to say that it matches the goddess of victory.

That druid is not good at drawing skills at all, his drawing eyes are not like eyes, and his nose is not like a nose, so there is basically no need to think about it.

At this moment, Albeni was just waiting for Wang Ding, waiting for Wang Ding's painting, and he was looking forward to the performance of Wang Ding, a Chinese.

"I finished the painting." Wang Ding watched the pen freeze at the last stroke, smiled slightly, and then the whole statue of the goddess of victory was formed! (To be continued.)