Shu Tao thought that there was something wrong with her eyes, because she was relatively close to the painting, and the theme of the whole painting was dark red, with alternating light and shadow, but she could still recognize that this painting was not just red.

It's like a snowflake when there is no signal on CCTV, and if you look closer, it's more like a drop of blood stuck to the canvas. Densely packed, there is no trace of pattern on the canvas.

Shutao rubbed her eyes, and looked at it carefully, this painting made her eyes hurt a little, she seemed to be unable to tell for a while, thinking that this was a huge test board, just like the kind of graphic that detects whether you are color weak or color blind during the hospital physical examination.

She asked Ma Jun, who was standing in front of the canvas: "How can this be called 'Cabbage'? I think it should be called a heart, or something with blood! But I think your painting is particularly in line with the theme of this exhibition: the light of desire, but I think this painting should be called "The Disaster of Blood", which is pretty much the same!"

"This joke is not funny," Ma Jun didn't seem very happy when he heard the words "Bloody Light Disaster", "You stand a little farther away." ”

Shanzi answered: "Yes, Shutao, step back, you stand in my position and take a good look at this painting." ”

Shumo moved to Shanzi's side, and then cast her eyes on the canvas, and she immediately saw what it was, and a huge cabbage was impressively presented in front of Shutao. "How?" she asked.

Ma Jun smiled and said: "Due to the different distance between the object and the eye, the angle of view of the two eyes will be different, and the image seen will also have some differences due to the different angle of view, and the brain will feel the three-dimensional scene according to this difference." ”

Shanzi took Ma Jun's words and continued to explain to Shutao: "Ma Jun's painting uses this principle to generate a series of repeated patterns in the horizontal direction, and when these patterns coincide in the two eyes, you can see a three-dimensional image, that is, a cabbage on the paper, but this cabbage is red. ”

"Yes, my series of creations are all different forms of cabbage, blue, green, purple. In fact, at first I painted hyper-realistic still life cabbage, and I painted them from the period when they were fresh and juicy with water droplets, until they withered and changed color and finally rotted and wilted. Record their delicate life to dying death. ”

This coincides with Ma Jun's life journey, and he seeks an outlet in this way. He has experienced the life and death process of 10,000 cabbages, and tries to use this kind of bystander's perspective to observe life, or to see how fate brings about the ruin and death of a thing, so as to exercise and adapt to the ruthlessness and ruthlessness from life to death.

He was afraid that day would come, and he was afraid that his father would die because of him. He must go through the death process of the cabbage to adapt to the death process of the person.

Shu Tao seemed to understand it, so he asked: "Then why did the painting style evolve into such an incredible abstract style today?"

Shanzi and Ma Jun looked at each other for a while, and the two laughed together, and Shanzi said, "Come, let's sit down and talk." ”

Shu Tao sat down, and felt that the original artwork was not only a pleasing painting, but also so many secret passages of the Xuanmen, so he waited with great interest for them to tell her about it.

Shanzi said, "Actually, every painter is afraid of one thing. It is our own work that has been imitated, and we have to put those effects in the painting that cannot be reproduced, and we must retain a little effect from the beginning of the painting...... This means that when a painting is finished, you can not only see the final result, but also some of the brushstrokes from the original draft, and those brushstrokes that we couldn't even replicate when we painted the same work a second time. ”

After Shanzi finished explaining the basic principles to Shutao, she took a sip of water and waited for Ma Jun to answer the question that Shutao had just asked.

Ma Jun stared at the sky-high cabbage with his eyes, and said to Shutao: "You see those brushstrokes and effects, some of them are formed by accident and cannot be repeated. When others copy my paintings, some brushstrokes and effects can't be painted, and they are done in one go by very subconscious feelings, so there is no way to copy this painting, and I have retained some of these brushstroke effects in my paintings, and I know that I painted them at a glance. In the past, I have always used stereotypical realism as my personal style, and the realism is far beyond the effect of photographs, and you must know that photographs cannot restore the images that can be seen by the naked eye, while a skilled painter can restore what the naked eye sees through the movement of his eyes, brain and hands, so everything can almost be fake. ”

Shu Tao's brain was instantly dizzy and dizzy when Ma Jun said this, so he asked, "What about later?"

"Later, I played a game with Shanko. Ma Jun smiled.

Shumo asked curiously, "What game?"

Shanzi answered: "Riddle game." ”

Shu Tao didn't understand, so he asked impatiently, "What kind of riddle game?"

Ma Jun was a little anxious to read the book, so he stopped deliberately selling Guanzi, and told her: "We set a password in the painting and let the other party guess." Or put your own secrets in the painting through various forms of expression, which is like writing a diary, but the diary will be opened and peeked at, and the secret words in the painting, but you look at it directly, you may not know that there is another mystery in it. ”

Shutao thought for a while and said, "That means Shanzi's paintings, and there are also secret words?"

Shanzi smiled and said, "The benevolent see the benevolent and the wise see the wise, and look at it horizontally as a peak on the side of the ridge." ”

Ma Jun said: "The process embodied in the technique of the "Cabbage" series, as well as its complicated materials, and various different preparations, are like a vast and very meticulous project, every step and every detail cannot be ignored, and science and rigor have been fully reflected here. It's as complex as your makeup today!"

When Shutao heard Ma Jun say this, she knew that Ma Jun was teasing her again. Shanzi on the side sneered when she heard this, and then she couldn't help but dare not laugh.

Shu Tao pouted and said, "Ma Jun, you are really a person who holds a grudge, and you still remember that I made you late today because of makeup!"

"Now, you know why my paintings can fetch a high price, right? Actually, you should be with us more and feel the influence of this art, so as not to talk about paintings in the future and laugh and laugh generously!" Ma Jun thought it was incredible that Ma Jun had gone to such lengths to make up a bunch of lies in order to answer Shu Tao's question about why his paintings could fetch tens of millions of dollars.

"No wonder, this cabbage of yours is so expensive! By the way, how big is your oil painting?"

"Hahahaha!" Ma Jun laughed when he heard Shutao say this.

"What's the matter, am I stupid with this question?"

Shanzi smiled and said to Shutao: "You are not stupid in this question, but the first half of the sentence was wrong." ”

"What's wrong?" Shutao asked.

Ma Jun breathlessly said: "This is not an oil painting, this is acrylic on canvas! Its area is 200×200 centimeters." ”

Shutao reacted immediately, she regarded herself as a gallery manager, but she didn't know how to paint at all, and she instantly felt ashamed. She didn't refute, just stared at the painting and didn't know what to say. I was afraid that I would lose if I said too much, and I was laughed at by Ma Jun, so I didn't say a word.

Shanzi asked, "Shumo, can I make a request?"

Shutao suddenly came back to his senses and asked, "What are the requirements?"

"Can my huge painting 'Struggle' be removed on the same day as 'Cabbage'? I have my own reasons for not being able to speak, and in order to apologize, I will give 12 paintings as a gift. In other words, the remaining twelve paintings can be displayed and sold in galleries, but this "Struggle", I hope you don't sell it, keep it as your own private collection, and it will be a priceless treasure in the future. ”

Shu Tao thought that the painters might all be insane, so she made a mystery to show that she was different from ordinary people, and that her paintings were peerless! She thought for a while and said, "You mean that this painting is kept in my house as my private collection?"

Ma Jun said: "It's better to do this, I think you can promise Shanzi, such a good deal, it's a fool not to do it!"

"You're a fool!" Shu Tao glanced at Ma Jun, turned to Shanzi and said, "Then it's decided!"

After speaking, they sat together again and chatted about some family matters, and Shu Tao received a call from Shu Lei: "Hey, sister, are you free this afternoon?"

"I'm busy with the art exhibition! If you have something to say, talk about it, let it go!" said Shu Tao impatiently.

"Why don't you come to my house and accompany me to see something. ”

"What is it?" Shu Tao didn't know what poison was being sold in her sister's gourd.

"You'll know when you come, see you or leave!" After speaking, Shulei hung up the phone without warning.

Shutao raised his head and looked at Ma Jun and Shanzi and said with a smile: "My sister who is not worried about me is looking for me, then I will go first." ”

Ma Jun immediately got up and said, "I'll go with you." ”

"Is that good? My sister didn't invite you!"

Shanzi on the side smiled and said, "You just give him a chance." ”

Shutao said proudly to Ma Jun: "First, look at Shanzi's affection, and second, see that you popularize art knowledge for me today, and allow you to accompany Queen Ben for a day! Let's go." ”

Ma Junle happily stretched out his hand and gestured a respectful gesture and said, "Niangniang, please." ”

"Xiao Junzi is good!" Shu Tao raised his head and strode out of the studio.

After they left, Shanzi's face turned from sunny to cloudy, and she picked up her mobile phone and sent a message to Ma Jun: Is it safe to put Shutao in "Struggle"?

Ma Jun replied: This can only be the case for the time being.