Chapter Fifty-Six: Professor Shen's Afterhand
Seeing Hengchuan Lu appearing, Da Wu and Xiao Wu's expressions immediately became very unnatural, but Professor Shen got up calmly, walked over with a smile and shook hands with Hengchuan Lu. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
Just seeing that Hengchuan Lu, who looked indifferent, had just sat down, Pan Yan asked:
"Professor Yokokasa, what do you think of ink painting, and how does it compare to your Japanese ukiyo-e?"
Professor Yokokawa seemed to have listened to the cowhide of the Chinese painter for a long time in the background, and felt that it was ridiculous, and said in a low voice:
"To be honest, I really don't understand, who came up with the concept of ink painting? As we all know, Oriental culture has been the birthplace of Japan since ancient times, and I have studied a lot of materials, and I have never seen any ink paintings in history......
As soon as he said this, the audience who supported the two factions at the scene and in front of the TV felt the smell of gunpowder strong, and said while watching TV.
"It seems that there will be no fight on this scene, Yokokawa really turned his face directly. ”
"But isn't it, this ink painting followed the hype of "Tang Bohu Dots Autumn Fragrance", which caused their Japanese ukiyo-e sales in the art market to drop by 10 percent in this week, this Yokogawa is the chairman of the ukiyo-e painting association, can he not be in a hurry?"
"There's a good show to watch now~"
For ordinary audiences, this is just a struggle between artists, but for the art circles of the two countries, it is a showdown between the two countries' art circles, competing for a title.
For the sake of fame, chess players can vomit blood in the ring, painters paint in front of the canvas, until the oil runs out, and the artists value this social name even beyond their own lives.
Because the value of art cannot be quantified, but the reputation of different arts in society is real, and the huge fame will make the artist be admired by thousands of people, and the value of his works will jump by a hundred times and thousands of times, and the celebrities will be eternal.
Originally, only Japanese ukiyo-e was the dominant one in the Oriental art painting market, and it can be said that the weight of Japanese paintings and the right of Japanese painters to speak in art occupied an absolutely dominant position in the Oriental painting circle.
However, if a new genre of ink painting emerges, then Chinese painters will open up another battlefield and threaten the power of the Japanese painting world to dominate Asia.
For most people, it doesn't matter whether the ink painting is true or not, what really matters is the huge economic interests behind it.
The art market is never a struggle between the superior and inferior of art itself, but a contest of discourse, and interests are everything.
In the face of Yokogawa's questioning, Professor Shen was not in a hurry, obviously prepared, picked up the microphone and said:
"Academic arguments are very normal, Professor Yokokawa looked at the materials, and I read the materials, his words do not prove anything, we have to speak with facts, I heard that today he brought an instrument, if it is an oil painting, we should have used linseed oil or other botanical garden as raw materials, it is better to use an instrument to measure, you will know whether it is true or false. ”
Professor Shen said, unexpectedly asked the accompanying staff to take out a picture scroll, and as soon as he opened the picture scroll more than 2 meters long, everyone's eyes went up.
Su Huai fixed his eyes, and was also surprised, it turned out that this was not the same painting as the "Spring Tree and Autumn Frost Picture" he saw before, and last time he used oil painting techniques, but this time it seemed to be watercolor...... Obviously, the Huaxia Academy of Fine Arts has long known that this "Focus Interview" is going to be a moth. I've been prepared.
It seems that he still underestimated the Huaxia Academy of Fine Arts......
The audience looked at this colorful landscape painting, and they all felt very exquisite from the bottom of their hearts, and they were all amazed, only the expression on Zhang Min's pretty face next to them froze.
This...... What's going on, isn't this not the painting of Da Wu and Xiao Wu last time...... Are they fake?
In her mind, Professor Shen's master and apprentice were originally great artists with both virtue and art, but now that they found out that they were cheating, Zhang Min's faith in her heart couldn't help but loosen a little.
Could it be that everything I knew before was a hoax? There is no ink painting in this world, and our nation has no history and culture of its own?
What followed was a feeling of extreme disappointment, how could you, swindlers of the Academy of Fine Arts, deceive the feelings of the people of the whole country? How could you do this......?
This unexpected change caught Hengchuan Lu and Pan Yan a little off guard, obviously not expecting Professor Shen to be so prepared.
Then the chemical instruments they borrowed so hard this time were in vain?
However, when Hengchuan Lu was stunned, Pan Yan showed the eagerness of his ace host, and pretended to ask casually:
"It turns out that this is the "Spring Tree and Autumn Frost Picture" made by the two Wu teachers, it is really exquisite, and it is indeed worthy of the name, so can you please Professor Shen to explain to our audience the techniques of brushwork in this ink painting?"
As soon as he said this, Professor Shen was stunned for a moment, he had indeed studied a set of rhetoric for the so-called technique of ink painting, but it was based on the improvement of the original oil painting.
This time, he received the news that the other party wanted to use an instrument to measure the oil content of their ink, and he asked a colleague from the Academy of Fine Arts to paint this new "Spring Tree and Autumn Frost Picture" based on watercolor painting techniques overnight, in order to catch the other party off guard.
He originally thought that he would be able to win a big victory by taking out this new painting, but he didn't expect Pan Yan to suddenly ask a question that he couldn't solve in such an unexpected way.
You must know that this is a live broadcast in front of the people of the whole country, if you rashly use the previous rhetoric to explain, even if it will not be exposed on the spot, it will leave a handle afterwards, and it will not be able to get away with it.
When Professor Shen thought of this, cold sweat came down, he didn't expect the host Pan Yan to be so tricky, so he could only smile and push:
"Let's leave professional knowledge in the classroom, there is not enough time now. ”
Pan Yan was a sharp-minded person, and when he noticed that Professor Shen's expression was slightly wrong, he knew that the opportunity could not be missed, so he grasped it tightly:
"It's still early for the program, Professor Shen, the purpose of your visit this time is also to promote the art category of your ink painting, take the opportunity to popularize knowledge to the national audience, come and applaud, welcome Professor Shen to explain to us~~"
The applause rang out, but Professor Shen waved his hand again and again, but he refused to come forward to explain.
At this time, Yokokawa also reacted, and found that the other party was not completely ready, so he stepped forward and took a closer look at this "Spring Tree and Autumn Frost Picture", his eyes lit up, and he said in a deep voice:
"It's not like oil painting, it's like the technique of European watercolor painting...... Professor Shen, is this what you painted?"
This kind of questioning was originally very normal, if in normal times, many people would only think that Yokokawa was unconvinced and picked a bone in the egg, but now Professor Shen has been shirking on the spot and does not dare to answer positively, then things will be different.