"Maybe we do need to make sure. ”

"It's better to wait until you get Pulitzer. Delis squeezed her eyes: "When the time comes, not only the god of art, but also the god of news will agree to you two." ”

“……”

Their unprecedentedly detailed investigation into tribal conflict in Africa sparked an important response in the Western world, which helped the two of them to be nominated for this year's Pulitzer Prize for Research and Report, the most prestigious journalism award in the United States and even the world.

Gu Hagi heard the name of Chu Weiwei in France, and it was also because of this nomination.

However, whether they can win the award or not, neither of them is more sure, and the competition is very fierce. But judging from the current situation, the probability of them is not low, and when it is revealed in April next year, if Chu Weiwei can indeed win the award, she will undoubtedly become one of the most outstanding Chinese journalists - in the Western world.

At that time, Chu Weiwei didn't know whether the god of news would support them messing around, but there was no doubt that once their messing was exposed, the influence would be much greater.

Thinking about that scene, Chu Weiwei felt that it was better not to be happy for a while.

……

Richard, a reporter for The Washington Post, thinks this could be the highlight of his career.

There were five people at the dinner table.

His old friend Gaspe Jones and his son Jones Jr., then Gerhard Richter, then himself, and the last one left was Lin Haven.

"Three of the most well-known artists of our time sit together, and I doubt that if I take a picture, I might get the Pulitzer Prize. Richard exclaimed, "It's so rare that my words come from the bottom of my heart." ”

"Yes, Gaspe and I don't have more than a few years to live, and if nothing else, this picture is at least relatively rare - if any of us go first, of course it will never be possible to take the same one. Gerhard smiled and said, "It's Lin, you can shoot for a long time." ”

"Shoot until I go after you?" Richard looked at Gerhard in amusement.

The other four people, the youngest Jones Jr. was also in his fifties, and Lin Haven sat among them, looking a little out of place to outsiders, but obviously, the people inside, including Lin Haven himself, would not feel anything wrong.

"I can't do it, I can't show that effect at all. Old Gaspé was no joke, and while he waited for Richard's warm-up to finish, he almost couldn't wait to ask: "I tried the simple, an apple, and porcelain, but the result was the same, and there was no way." ”

Gerhard also nodded: "I think it is very difficult to achieve the effect of your "Porcelain Eight Works", and it is almost unimaginable like "Black Dragon Pool". ”

Richard, as a journalist, would not have reported these words, but he would still have been shocked to hear that the two contemporary masters seemed helpless in the face of progenist classicism.

Lin Haven was not surprised.

He has only been in contact with oil painting for seven or eight years, but in these seven or eight years, Chang Shuo's foundation is not to mention, starting from Velázquez, dozens of great masters of the classical academic school in history, he has been more or less enlightened, such as Velás Guizhi and Ingres, and can reproduce all their artistic achievements - this kind of accumulation, no living person can do.

Of course, this is not to say that source classicism necessarily requires so much accumulation. After all, as a post-scholar, it is different from the pioneer, the road has already been walked, as long as you walk up step by step. However, this accumulation is enough to show that the difficulty of this genre is by no means something that can be learned by a contemporary master like Gerhard or Gaspé in a few months.

Gerhard is a little better, his own academic foundation is still there, and the old Gaspé is difficult, painting neo-Dadaism all his life, and his achievements are concentrated on the philosophical level, not on the technique - Pollock's so-called drip painting method, specifically, is an oil drum, a brush, the canvas is spread on the ground, the boss is the boss, and then the brush is dipped in oil, and it is not painted on the canvas, but let it drip on its own and then wipe it.

It's almost the feeling that you drip oil on your white clothes while eating, and wipe it with your hands.

What's the trick behind this?

Therefore, the old Gaspey is not only talented in learning source classicism, but he may not even be comparable to Wang Peng in terms of current conditions.

That's kind of brutal.

Facing the eighty-six-year-old man, Lin Haven was really embarrassed to say that he respected the old and loved the young, so he turned to the eighty-two, younger Gerhard: "Source classicism is a technical school, and the lake in "Black Dragon Pond" has a total of forty-two layers, and each layer has a different thickness and strength. The combination of forty-two layers, in the end, shows that effect - just like our rocks, a layer of stone and a layer of soil, a layer of formation formed over hundreds of millions of years, and then this landform appears. So don't look at the ground as ordinary, but it's actually very artistic. The deformalization of art should be expressed in such a way that the land under our feet, the eternal river, is art, superb art – not Pollock. ”

Little Jones frowned, revealing an incredulous look: "Forty-two layers! This combination is almost infinite, how can it be done." ”

"It's a fusion of technique and soul, you're not doing math, when your brushstrokes touch the canvas, you know it's lighter here and there's heavier, it's very subtle, but you just know it, and then you can do it, you can direct your brush up and down, and together you can achieve the effect in your mind. Why I say that source classicism is the supreme unity of talent and diligence, that's it.

You have to be able to imagine it first, then you have to be able to perceive it, and finally you have to be able to control it and be able to do it, so that there can be really good results. ”

“…… Magic out of nothing?"

"The lake is there, the land is at your feet, how can you create something out of nothing? It's just that these things that exist in front of our eyes don't want to be copied on the canvas so easily, not to mention, you have to force your own things into it.

They will also be unhappy.

Of course, it can also be cool.

It's up to your luck – but only if you can put it in, no matter how you use it. ”

Gerhard, Gaspé and Jones Jr. all quieted down, thinking about Lin Haven's words, which can be summed up as "I'm awesome, so good that you can't imagine it." And so, the more they think about it, the more desperate they feel – and in the process, they deny themselves.

They can't.

And there's no time to do it.

Especially for Gaspé and Gerhard, the frustration and disappointment is indescribable.

Lin Haven looked at them and suddenly said: "If you are willing to go to China for a while, maybe you can go to my studio, although the word 'teach' is a bit rude, but I am indeed a teacher who is very good at teaching students, very powerful." ”