"Friend, can you switch seats with me?"

Frank and an uncle next to Chen Xiao changed seats and sat directly beside him.

Chen Xiao looked at Frank, but he didn't expect to meet a painter by taking a random bus, and it seemed that he was still very famous.

The three conditions for joining the fund seem very simple, but it is very difficult to achieve.

"Mr. Chen Xiao, I like your piano music very much, and that symphony, which can be called a classic. ”

Chen Xiao blushed a little: "Frank, I call you Frank, and you can just call me by my name, I didn't expect you to be good at painting and understand so much about music." ”

Although Frank's Chinese is good, it still sounds a little jerky, so Chen Xiao took the initiative to change it to English in order to take care of him.

Frank smiled and spoke English, which was much more fluent: "I don't really know much about music, but when I'm drawing, I like to listen to music."

The last time I went to China was to find creative inspiration, and this painting was created while listening to "Cat's Rhapsody". ”

Frank turned on his phone and showed Chen Xiao a picture.

Chen Xiao looked at it curiously.

It was an oil painting, and it was a bit messy, but if you looked closely, you could see that it was a willow tree.

The willow tree seemed to be experiencing a gust of wind, and its branches were wild.

However, if you look closely, you can see that through the use of color in the painting, you can feel the mood of the willow tree in the painting.

It was a wild feeling, like his rhapsody.

And this is just looking through the mobile phone screen, if you really look at the oil painting, I believe this feeling will be even stronger.

Chen Xiao couldn't help but admire: "Frank, your sketching ability is too strong, the colors are too beautiful, this is not an ordinary sketch, but the materialization of your mind and emotions; this is not an ordinary realistic oil painting, but an image oil painting!"

Frank looked at Chen Xiao in surprise, originally when he saw Chen Xiao, he just wanted to say thank you, but he didn't expect that this musician also knew how to appreciate oil paintings.

"Chen, you can also draw?"

"A little bit of understanding. ”

Chen Xiao does know a little, and when he was in college in animation school, he often made some strange animations.

Oil painting animation is also one of them.

Although the teacher didn't require them to learn how profound they were at that time, Chen Xiao still learned a lot of oil painting knowledge because he never forgot it.

Even because he had drawn oil painting animations, he could draw oil paintings.

But if you do oil painting, it's not possible.

"You can see that the imagery I have made is already very good. I think that although the realistic painting is also good-looking, it is beautiful everywhere it hangs, and the classics are full of the Su school, and the Su school is full of classical.

But it's better to paint that kind of realistic painting than to take a photo, so in France, we prefer this kind of freehand painting, which has a soul. ”

It seems that there is sometimes a chain of contempt between the painting schools.

Frank seemed to open the conversation box and told Chen Xiao about what he had seen and heard in China: "You have more vision than many people in your country, and I also met a master in your Huaxia, and he said that he was an Imagist painter by scribbling, which is simply miserable." ”

Frank squinted exaggeratedly as he spoke, as if he couldn't stand it anymore.

Chen Xiao didn't care: "There are also many famous Chinese-style oil paintings in Huaxia, and these works are also very good."

After all, there will be a few liars in every country, which is very normal, but there are natural cultural differences between our East and West, and not everyone can break through this boundary. ”

"That's right, abstract painting, at the beginning, the United States wanted to compete with Europe, and there was an artistic revolution, and those who couldn't paint were hyped up as masters. But there's a difference between abstraction and abstraction, so some people can get buy-in, some people can't. ”

Chen Xiao thought for a while and said: "In fact, the value of art does not lie in realism or abstraction, but in the fact that there is capital invested in it, it has value and becomes a master." ”

Frank clapped his hands in agreement: "It is because of this atmosphere that capital is becoming more and more magnified, and art is becoming more and more insignificant. ”

"Yes, how many people can really dedicate themselves to art?"

Frank felt that he had met a bosom friend, although he didn't know if Chen Xiao could paint, but he still had a lot of insights into the appreciation of oil painting.

Frank: "Chen, I'm going to Annecy to attend an art exhibition, otherwise you can go with me, believe me, this art exhibition will not disappoint you?"

"Sorry, I'm going to the animation festival, maybe it's too late. ”

"I know that the Annecy Animation Festival is going to be tomorrow night, and the exhibition is during the day, so it's just in time, and if you don't attend this exhibition, you'll definitely regret it.

You know, this exhibition is organized by several foundations and the Pompidou Cultural Center, which is something that is rare in many years, but you can't miss it!"

Chen Xiao hesitated, this exhibition seems to be a bit unusual, it should be very interesting to have an art institution second only to the Louvre to take the lead.

Moreover, when I arrived in France, I didn't even have time to play, so it seems that it would be a pity to miss this exhibition again.

Frank: "Don't worry, you will be able to keep up with the awards ceremony of the animation festival, besides, the animation festival has nothing to see other than the award ceremony, which is not as attractive as those famous paintings." ”

Chen Xiao was moved: "Okay! Then go to the art exhibition!!"

"Yes, that's right. ”

So Chen Xiao got out of the car ahead of schedule under the leadership of Frank, and then Frank chose a hotel and the two of them stayed.

The money was still paid to him by Frank.

After arriving at the hotel, Frank finally took out his painting and showed it to Chen Xiao.

Although he also wanted to show Chen Xiao the real painting before, it was too messy outside, and it was easy to break the painting, so he endured it and didn't take it out.

This painting has been simply framed, Chen Xiao looked at this painting, and sure enough, it was more exciting than looking at the photo.

Frank was also very satisfied with his work, Chen Xiao didn't say anything yet, he himself praised it first: "Outside the mind and things, I am the only thing, this is like the unity of heaven and man that you Huaxia said." It's like being in harmony with nature and the universe. ”

Chen Xiao secretly glanced at Frank and found that he had a serious face.

Isn't it embarrassing to boast about yourself like that?

It's also a skill.

"Frank, you know our Chinese culture very well. ”

But he just didn't learn to be humble, he added in his heart.