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After returning to Beijing from Jiangnan, his painting style changed dramatically. Sometimes the painting is full of breath, earth-shattering, dazzling, and bright colors; Sometimes it is painted gray and withered, distracted, gloomy and obscure, like the graffiti of a bad child.

He seems to be in a state of emotional and creative madness. For most of the year, he has been closed to customers, painting in the dark and in a large studio that was converted from an old warehouse lent to him by the art company. No one could find him and approach him, and a few former chicks Xiaomi, who took the initiative to come to the door, were also rejected by him unkindly. His friends said that he didn't know what evil he had fallen into, and that he was about to go crazy. By the autumn of that year, the company had rented a pavilion for several young and middle-aged painters to exhibit their new works. Zhou You's works have once again attracted wide attention from the art world.

There is a huge painting entitled "Jiangnan Neon", which is always full of people. The painting is as large as the outer wall of a super-large shipping container, and the brilliant colors, grandeur and grotesque content of the picture made all the audience, art critics and peers stop at the exhibition.

——On the vast surface of Taihu Lake, there are two huge neon and rainbow, which bend from the middle left of the picture to the middle right of the picture. Thousands of brilliant spots of color form two parallel neon rays of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, blue, purple, blue, green, yellow, orange, red. The color patches of light spots jump and flicker: green in red, red in green; blue in orange and orange in blue; There is purple in yellow, and yellow in purple. Red and green, orange and blue combination, thousands of colors are old, and the chaos is orderly. This highly contrasting use of complementary colors makes the color of the picture extremely restless. The light of the two ribbons and the fourteen colored chains exploded into the sky with countless tiny colored dots, like hundreds of thousands of golden darts, silver shuttles, copper clusters of steel flowers, forming an earth-shattering color wave shock wave. The colors were expanding, the light was expanding, radiating in an arc, and the whole sky was burning and trembling.

The vast expanse of water in the lower half of the picture completely reflects the neon in the upper half of the picture. Chains, dots, expanding waves of light, swelling tides, shock waves, and burning and trembling skies sink into the water. The strange light, tumbling and boiling, set off huge waves and tides in the lake, surging like a tsunami.

On the whole, the four neon lights and twenty-eight colored chains above and below the picture form two huge rings. Strange and colorful, like two rolling hot wheels. The dynamic combination of Tai Chi fish-shaped color blocks makes people feel that the huge hot wheels are jumping and spinning, rushing into the water and into the sky. The aura seemed to spin faster and bigger, and countless circles of color radiated and spread out to the entire picture, like the Big Bang, blasting the bright light, the fire, and the flood into three-dimensional space and in all directions.

The author seems to have estimated the explosive power of the picture, and in an ingenious and mysterious way, he drew 7749 golden hoops and 9981 spells on the frame, making the frame a prison and turning the tide. This deception exacerbates and threatens the viewer, greatly enhancing the effect of the neon light exploding on the screen.

When all the dazzling viewers want to trace the source of the explosion, they will focus their eyes on the center of the aura, which forms a strong contrast between the inside and outside of the circle - here is a tender and leisurely and quiet Jiangnan smoke and rain. On a looming arched bridge, stood a woman, with a graceful figure, like water and mist. Only her face is clearer, it is a strangely beautiful face, if you distinguish it carefully, it seems to be two faces, one large and one small, which are the superposition and ghosting of two-dimensional images. The result is a mixture of beautiful young women and maidens. It seems that the viewer's eyes will have a sense of astigmatism, and it is difficult to focus on a specific level. The eyes of the beauties in the painting are even more peculiar, as if there are eyes in the eyes, pupils in the pupils, and eyes in the eyes. The words are also compounded and ambiguous, containing all kinds of ambiguities that are confusing. However, when people's eyes are re-glued to the contours of the large face, one can feel that her eyes imply a mysterious and melancholy love; If you move your gaze to the level of the small face, you can see the innocence and heat in her eyes. When people squint and savor it, they are haunted by a dreamlike feeling, as if speaking of their heart's desire......

The momentum of the picture and the peculiar artistic conception of the composition have left a hot impression on critics and audiences. Many friends and viewers asked Zhou You about the deep meaning and mystery of the painting, and Zhou You replied that it was just a dream and hallucination of his. Art critics could not figure out the author's true intentions and connotations, but they were touched by his creative ideas and passion, and the effect of the light and dazzling color of the picture, and gave high praise, and the general audience said that the painting was beautiful and beautiful. In those days, the owners of several star-rated hotels and hotels sent people to Zhou You to buy this painting. Since this painting has attracted so many audiences, if it is hung in the lobby of the hotel, it will definitely attract guests and add color to the hotel. There is an Oriental Neon Group Company, which is the most earnest. Zhou You heard that they had originally planned to pay 200,000 yuan to ask a painter to make a large mural related to neon. I didn't expect that there were already ready-made and sensational works here. They sent someone to negotiate that the company was ready to invest 300,000 yuan to buy back the painting of "Jiangnan Neon" and hang it in the hall of the company's headquarters as the group's corporate image, and print it on the company's promotional albums, wall calendars, and advertising color pages.

But Zhou You refused all the people who came to buy this painting.

This painting was originally made for a rainbow. Shui Hong hadn't seen it with his own eyes, how could he be willing to sell. This is perhaps the world's biggest love letter to date, a love letter full of infatuation and love, just beginning. This is how Zhou You expresses and depicts his emotions and state of mind. This painting is probably only understood by him. In addition to him, if there is a second person who can understand the meaning of this public love letter, it is the rainbow on the edge of Taihu Lake.

A week before the opening of the exhibition, he called Shui Hong. He hopes that Shui Hong will come to Beijing to visit this exhibition. He said almost nothing but eagerly invited her to the exhibition. He believed that as long as she looked at the painting, he didn't need to say anything more.

But Rainbow was always noncommittal. first said that he couldn't spare time, and then said that Ah Ni was about to take the midterm exam. Later, let her think about it. Every time Zhou You called to ask, he couldn't get a definite answer.

The night before the opening of the exhibition, Zhou You called Shui Hong for the last time. Shui Hong said softly, I wish you a successful exhibition. A muffled thunder sounded in Zhou You's ears, the phone hung up, and the roar of thunder continued for a long time.

During the whole exhibition, Zhou You was depressed. If Shui Hong really doesn't come to Beijing, then what else can he do to give this painting to Shui Hong? The love letter was too big to be mailed; And no matter how many times the color picture is magnified, it will not release the effect of the picture. Besides, he couldn't tell Shui Hong on the picture, so that she could see his real "blood and sweat" in the giant painting. For more than half a year, he spent more than half a year in a large warehouse studio with a tin roof. In the hot summer, he stayed in the hot and humid studio with a room temperature of 39°C all day long, sweating, brushing, and mosquitoes. Even he didn't know how he got through that hard work. It was as if he had gone through a whole summer of purgatory of love. The most unbearable thing is the mosquitoes in the western suburbs. While he was launching a fierce summer offensive against the rainbow, he was also bombarded and dived by a swarm of flower-footed mosquitoes. He didn't know how many mosquitoes had sucked his blood, and he didn't know how many mosquitoes had lazily stopped on the painting after sucking his blood, and pressed them into the slimy picture with a paintbrush. People often say that the work of hard work is actually an exaggeration; But if this painting is his painstaking work, it is true. He estimated that at least 100 blood mosquitoes had been incorporated into his paintings. If you look closely at the painting, some of the oil paint brushstrokes in the picture still have the flower feet and remains of mosquitoes, as well as blood stains.

During the exhibition, Zhou Youzhen hoped that an art company would be willing to fund the dismantling and shipping of his giant paintings to Suzhou for exhibition, so that he could send the paintings to Shui Hong. But how can the small building of Rainbow fit this painting? If only Shui Hong was an unmarried lady, then he would have escorted this love letter to her palace in person at all costs. If she didn't think it was heavy enough, he could paint more and heavier, like Michelangelo, and fill the walls and dome of her palace. Draw for a lifetime, and you won't finish it until the next life. After leaving Suzhou, he once hoped that he could forget about Shui Hong, but Shui Hong was like a magic tree born day by day, growing out of control in his heart. His love, his dreams and impulses of love were doubled by separation, and Shui Hong was more like a beautiful and strange banshee, which fascinated him deeply, unforgettable, and deep into the marrow of his soul. Whether the rainbow opens the door or not, he will continue to paint.

But none of the bosses who asked him to buy paintings were from Suzhou, not even from Changzhou, Wuxi. Zhou You was miserable and extremely disappointed. He really wanted to fly to Suzhou immediately and "kidnap" Shui Hong to Beijing to read his love letters. He looked at the viewers who lingered in front of the painting and did not want to leave, and really wanted to shout: "Go away, what is the use of you seeing!" Halfway through the exhibition, he was looking forward to a miracle every day – the rainbow would suddenly appear in front of him, but the exhibition hall was crowded and empty.

In the past six months, Zhou You has spent countless painful and sleepless nights in bitter love and crazy love. He lost weight on his cheeks and body, and spent tens of thousands of yuan on painting materials and long-distance phone calls, but Shui Hong was like a floating phantom that was inseparable from him, and he refused to land. Zhou You has no way back on the wrong path of love, behind him is the deep valley is hell, every step he takes, the abyss and hell behind him will also follow the next step, always following behind. He walks slowly, and they follow slowly; He goes as fast as they go. He lived on the edge of a cliff and at the entrance to hell, and anxiety and horror shattered his sleep. If one day Shui Hong doesn't even answer his phone, if Shui Hong finally says to him: No! He would immediately take a step back in absolute absoluteness, to soberly appreciate the feeling of falling from a cliff in the sky, and to appreciate the practice of the opposite direction of that peak experience. It must have been a masterpiece of performance art full of love and despair. He would never have lost the courage to complete this work. The composition has long been formed in a dream—he will be wrapped in a huge linen canvas and fall to the bottom of the abyss, crushing against the cold, hard rock with a muffled thud. At that time, his white ** and red plasma will splash his swan pen and swan song on the canvas. The word "love" written in large blood will appear on the linen canvas, and his love is condensed in purple-black plasma, which will be the last love letter he will give her.

Sometimes Zhou You is so in love that he can barely control himself, his face is pale, and his whole body is convulsed. Not long after, he was sweating profusely, his face flushed, and he collapsed limply on the bed. From Shui Hong's gentle voice on the phone, he heard her hesitation and vacillation, and heard the tenderness in her heart that was difficult to cut off. He regained his confidence, and he thought that even if it was a claustrophobic quark particle, he would use the neutron cannon of his artistic life to blast it open. Blasted out a mushroom cloud of love that is brighter and more brilliant than a thousand suns.

The exhibition has entered its final days, and Zhou You has slowly calmed down after his frequent spasms of love. He was still wondering how to get Rainbow to see his series of love letters. He stood in front of another of his paintings, thinking that it might be more appropriate to send them to Rainbow. The size of this painting is 2m×l.5m, which is much smaller than "Jiangnan Neon". This untitled modern painting is surrounded by many viewers, who seem to be both curious and confused.

——The background of the picture is an antique huge clay bottle, inlaid on the eaves of the Jiangnan houses with Daiwa powder walls, and it is like a door in the shape of a wine bottle opened on the wall, the background is virtual and the colors are simple. On a dark gray patterned background, seven lips flutter and float. In the left row, the three lips arranged in turn are slightly open, apparently the lips of a man, which appear thick and broad, the color is brownish-red, and even the thin folds on the lips are clearly drawn; The row on the right is the woman's four lips, with the lip line to outline the half-open and half-closed outline, the lipstick is bright red, and the woman's warm breath is conveyed, which is emotionally moving.

All the viewers who pass by this painting will stop and admire it. The lips of three men and four women jumped eye-catching in the mist of Jiangnan dwellings. Like two strings of red lanterns hanging in front of a house, one string of three brown ochre and the other string of four bright red. What does that mean exactly? The female audience stared at the lips of the three men—the handsome man longed, full of love trembling; The male audience stared at the red lips of the four women—the fresh lips were so seductive that they were so intriguing. But what is the author trying to express? Zhou You heard several audience members talking about it, probably because the man drank three sips of wine and the woman drank four sips of wine...... Someone corrected and said, no, there is a big wine bottle in the back, so after a man and a woman drank wine, the man kissed the woman three times, and the woman kissed the man four......

Zhou You listened to it and almost laughed out loud, how could the audience understand the painter's thoughts. However, he thinks that this understanding is not bad, and it seems that this picture can be reminiscent of love. Of course, Zhou You will not reveal the secret of this painting to anyone. When many painters asked him, he replied that whoever wants to be what is it.

Zhou You decided to wait for the exhibition to be over, and then dismantle the painting and send it to Shui Hong. He wants Shui Hong to tell the meaning of the painting, and let Shui Hong solve the puzzle and name it. Lao Wu definitely couldn't understand this painting. Only the painter's love letter can be publicly displayed to the lover's husband. When she received this love letter, Zhou You would immediately call her and ask her, isn't it? Isn't it? Shui Hong's face must have appeared that blush for the second time, and finally she will definitely answer yes. As long as she answered this word, Zhou You would give up everything to hug her and kiss her, snatch her from Lao Wu's hands, and hold her firmly in his arms. Although Shui Hong and Lao Wu once had sincere love, for more than ten years, the pursuit of emotions between them has distanced. Zhou You couldn't stand Shui Hong's perfunctory and boring family life, and he couldn't accept Shui Hong's inertial infusion of love to maintain her brain-dead marriage. During his few days in Suzhou, he intuitively decided that Shui Hong's happiness was a hypocritical appearance. He wants Shui Hong to pull out the needle by himself and regain the vitality of life. He suddenly felt that there was still a huge amount of energy stored in his heart, every painting he exhibited in this exhibition was a love letter, and his love letter had just written the first page, and he would be a complete collection of love letters that Shui Hong could not finish in the second half of his life.

In this autumn exhibition, Zhou You achieved a lot of success. Good reviews are like a tide, and the trend is like a bird. The dreamy world in his heart, his fanatical pursuit of love and beauty, and his clear and colorful flowing and rotating colors have brought an equatorial sea breeze to the painting world, full of negative oxygen ions, which eclipses those ingenious commercial paintings. Zhou You himself believes that although the driving force of money seems to be strong, compared with the rocket-like push of love, it is just fireworks. However, Zhou You's judgment was too naïve, and now there are too few artists like Zhou You, although he proudly rose into the air, but the fireworks of commercial painting like a festival carnival soon drowned out his brilliance. Several of his newspaper friends were so angry that they scolded him for being sick, and he was simply obsessed. Originally, they were counting on Zhou You to take advantage of the situation, make himself hot, and sell a few paintings at an astonishingly high price, especially the "Jiangnan Neon" that many families are vying for. Newspapers can also be used as front-page news reports, creating a commercial sensation for Zhouyou, and from then on, they can be positioned at a high price level. They repeatedly advised and enlightened Zhou You, saying that China is full of painting blindness, and that those big money, merchants, and institutions who have the money to buy paintings, and those art dealers who make a lot of hype, often determine their admiration and contempt for painters according to the price of their paintings. And Zhou You, this guy, actually marked all his works with the words "not for sale", isn't it self-destructing popularity, self-depreciation, and self-deprecation of huge profits? They don't know what Zhou You wants to do, and his precious "non-sale" really makes friends in the art world puzzled.

Although at the repeated requests of the audience and Zhou You himself, Zhou You even took out a rental fee to extend the exhibition for another two days, but the miracle still did not appear, and in the empty exhibition hall, the noble and beautiful figure of Shui Hong was just his illusory illusion again and again. Several other painters were stained with Zhou You's light, and he did not sell his paintings himself, but he solicited buyers for them. As a result, these painters made a lot of money. When the exhibition finally had to end, Zhou You's paintings were dismantled and pulled back to the warehouse untouched. The biggest success of this exhibition has become the biggest failure of the exhibition. Zhou You's failure was entirely due to Shui Hong's absence. By the last minute of the end of the exhibition, she still didn't come to Beijing after all, so what use is Zhou You's painting for her alone with almost blood and life? Zhou You sat on the big truck carrying the paintings, and really wanted to plant it backwards with his eyes closed, and let the wheels behind him crush him into a final work.

The dry wind and sand in the western suburbs blew his eyes. He misses the small bridge in the water lane in the south of the Yangtze River, the soft and moist rain and mist, the quiet building by the river, the beautiful rainbow and the lovely little Ani. The north may be really cold, so cold that it almost seems to have entered the Xiaoice period. Such a cold place is probably not suitable for placing water rainbows. Zhou You was busy in vain for more than half a year, and the offensive in spring, summer, and autumn not only did not gain an inch of land, but instead ceded land and paid compensation, and lost troops and generals. The heavy sense of frustration and loss once again pressed on Zhou You's heart. He stood in the car and shouted in the wind: "Shui Hong, why don't you dare to love?" People who dare not love, what strength is there to live? But I know, you love me, you will love me......" His long hair, which had not been cut for more than two months, danced wildly in the wind. Zhou You was like an African lion who had been defeated in a duel, with wounds all over his body, staring at his red eyes, and determined to rush into the dueling arena again.

Soon after the exhibition, Zhou You was quickly ignored and neglected by the art world and the business community. Only a few shrewd and discerning collectors, some professors and critics, are still concerned about watching Zhou You's artistic development. A professor said to Zhou You that it is better to follow the path you want to take, because art has its own value that cannot be measured by the market. But Zhou You also ignored such comfort. He seemed to be cut off from society, and even the people who cared for him and loved him before felt that he had nothing to say to them. He is becoming more and more lonely and isolated, and society sees him as an incredible pioneer monster that can only be shunned.

Since Zhou You's two beautiful girlfriends left him, he is actually no longer so confident in his personal charm and artistic charm. He felt this golden magnetism stronger than love, attracting more and more practical women. Could it be that Shui Hong is a beauty who can't pull out the golden magnetic field? Zhou You remembered the woman named Shu Li, he once loved her, he loved her for five years, Shu Li was originally so chivalrous, she obviously loved Zhou You, but she finally flew away. Shui Hong has been unable to break free from her small family, is it still because she can't give up her husband who owns property? Zhou You felt deep despair, and he asked himself, did he really have to be like many so-called avant-garde art fake madmen, stop engaging in art like a tendon, and have to go to those art dealers, first the villain and then the gentleman, earn a fortune that can make his beloved woman live and work in peace and contentment, earn an apartment no less than the small building in Suzhou, earn all the things she wants, build a comfortable love nest, and then think about art? Going for your second artistic peak?

In extreme hesitation, Zhou You doubted the so-called artistic value for the first time. He remembered what Shu Li had said to him before leaving. Shu Li said that there is no absolutely pure love in the world, and love is conditional. At that time, he stubbornly rejected the "conditions" that Shu Li wanted to shape him and transform him, and would rather let her fly away than give up art to make money, but this time, maybe he can't and shouldn't be stubborn anymore. He felt that he could sacrifice anything for the sake of Rainbow. A woman who can make you give up everything to pursue must be the true love that is hard to find in a lifetime. True love should be above art, how can art be compared with love? Would he rather spend a few years painting commodity paintings, painting the propositional compositions of those art dealers, and being forced into prostitution like many scholars today, and being reduced to the dust of art for a few years? So what's the difference between this and Shu Li's curve to save love? He shook his head in confusion, and gradually felt that he understood Shu Li's behavior a little.

However, deep down in his heart, Zhou You still didn't want to believe that Shui Hong was a woman like Shu Li. Otherwise, how could he fall in love with Rainbow? If Shui Hong is a woman who is greedy for money, status and material enjoyment, she has the "capital" to throw away Lao Wu and marry a multimillionaire who is richer than Lao Wu. Shui Hong is Shui Hong himself, and Shui Hong and his soul seem to have a dark river connecting with each other. When I saw her for the first time, the tranquility in her eyes was like water overcoming fire and softness overcoming rigidity, and it had conquered him forever.

When the strong northwest wind began to howl, Zhou You decided to launch a winter offensive against Shuihong. With the tragic heart of a wild goose death squad, he was ready to fight to the death with the gentle Taihu Lake rival.