Dunhuang flying murals have an incomparable artistic status in the world.

Don't look at the remoteness of this place, it is almost like a rural mountain, but it has the highest level of cultural relics protection status in the country.

Masters and famous artists who have been here are like carp across the river, when will it be your turn to be such a young nonsense?

People don't believe it at all, and they just want to wave him away.

But the one or two hundred beautiful students all gathered around to watch the excitement without smiling.

The expression of a firm snickering is easy to make the staff of the scenic spot, as well as the national cultural relics experts, wonder, do you really have any great background?

Wan Changsheng really has.

With the qualification of the gold medal of the National Youth Exhibition, he can be regarded as an expert in domestic Chinese painting.

Is it an expert who has published eleven white drawing textbooks in a row and still sells well?

But he doesn't have to use these names to oppress people.

Sit down directly and show the line drawing of the mural in front of you on your drawing board.

The friends tacitly helped him serve the little horse, the drawing board, the paper, and the brush, and then retreated, leaving the position of Wan Changsheng to everyone present.

Everyone has seen a lot, and it is not uncommon, but there are silently raising their mobile phones to record this moment of pretending......

Wan Changsheng really didn't want to pretend to be forced.

It's just that this is indeed his old job.

The best in the business.

Dunhuang murals, the main theme is the statue painting, that is, the various gods and Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, kings and dharma that people worship, but also the Buddhist scriptures story paintings with these as the protagonists.

Isn't this the job Wan Changsheng is most familiar with?

If the young man who once painted in the Guanyin Temple was only at the level of a painter, the continuous refining and improvement in the past few years has made his techniques more and more exquisite.

Being able to win the gold medal at the National Youth Exhibition shows that at least the skills are impeccable.

Why did he dare to say that the Dunhuang murals were not good?

In fact, most of the line drawings he saw were line drawings of murals copied by cultural relics restoration experts or craftsmen.

Even more precisely, those mottled wall murals can't say how high the painting skills are, after all, from the former Qin, Northern Dynasties, Sui and Tang dynasties to the Western Xia and Yuan dynasties for hundreds of years, most of the people who came to this inaccessible and desolate place to paint were only craftsmen.

I have to describe it vividly, the content of these world-famous Dunhuang murals is as resonant and popular as the poems of Li Bai, Du Fu and Su Shi.

But it's just the content and style of the murals that are extraordinary.

As for the handwriting inscribed on the wall, the calligraphy is not necessarily exquisite.

The same calligraphy, written by craftsmen and ordinary people, and written by calligraphers are two different things.

With a single horizontal and vertical stroke, the calligraphy work contains the muscles and bones of the pen.

The same is true of white drawing, which seems to be an ordinary line, but in fact it is full of all kinds of exquisiteness in Chinese painting.

Dunhuang murals, the precious is these precious works of art that have been accumulated since more than 1,000 years ago, these precious imaginations accumulated over hundreds of years, incredible colors and shapes.

It is the artistic charm of the glorious and undiminished in this vast sea of hundreds of caves.

Of course, it is good to restore and save it as it is.

There is no need to take it out of context, but every line has to stand up to scrutiny, because the Dunhuang murals want this kind of rough characteristics of the northwest.

However, when it comes to sorting out and inheriting these artistic shapes, it is best to ask a painter to paint them.

Because as Wan Changsheng said, these things are to be preserved as art and then circulated.

This kind of artistic treasure, even if it is a rough line, it is up to the painter to discern whether it is intentional or unintentional.

Not to mention that if it is the style of painting of the academic development school, then someone needs to refine the essence of it.

If Wan Changsheng is ashamed to explain it like this.

Perhaps there will be a controversy, who said that the Dunhuang murals have to be corrected to conform to the techniques of Chinese painting, and who said that these cultural relics must be preserved according to traditional techniques?

Dunhuang murals have their own unique status in the history of world art!

When will it be your turn to be younger?

A lot of arguments are fruitless.

Wan Changsheng can do it, and it is not comparable.

Looking at the Late Tang Dynasty Bodhisattva in the cave, the starting hand is the precise and slender line, the rat tail of the ding, the golden hook and the iron wire!

There is no need for a pencil to make a draft, and after the printing mode is turned on, it can be done in one go from the side of the drawing paper, and it is very familiar and flowing!

As the saying goes, connoisseurs will know if there is one as soon as they stretch out their hands.

Even if you are not an art professional, most of you can draw these cultural relics with a pen, and at this moment, you immediately feel goosebumps from your body.

The more people who have painted on a daily basis, the more they know how much skill this painting contains.

Even Professor Gou said back then that Wan Changsheng's white drawings have the shaping skills of ancient Buddha statues.

It may be that the pictures of ladies, flowers and birds, and ink painting are not Wan Changsheng's strengths.

Only this kind of Buddha mural painting, or Sutra Painting, is a large-scale mural that emerged from the Sui and Tang dynasties, which is used to comprehensively express the overall content of a sutra and promote the imaginary Elysium.

This is Wan Changsheng's most thoughtful form.

Even if the experts who have been immersed in the murals of the Mogao Grottoes for many years are accustomed to seeing the peerless exquisite murals in the surrounding area, they can't help but marvel at this moment: "There are mountain people outside the mountain......

"Ah, this finger, it should be drawn like this, I said this fingertip ratio ......"

"It's not a matter of proportion, it's the line, and this teacher really uses the line...... Give Lao Xing a call, this time I really met a master. ”

That's right, Wan Changsheng does not deny the exquisiteness of the Dunhuang murals, what he proposed is only to record, if the Dunhuang murals are to be recorded in the form of line drawings, and sorted out into documents and manuscripts and other materials.

It's better to be a little more technical, this is the opinion of academics and folk artists.

It is precisely the transformation from a folk artist to an artist.

It is also expected that this kind of top-level artwork worthy of permanent circulation can have a more rigorous and exquisite appearance.

Half an hour later, the curator of the museum hurried over here, and what he saw was a complete line drawing of the mural!

And it's almost as it is rubbed on the entire wall!

I also made up for some of the peeling and missing samples!

Any idea what that means?

Most of the line drawing manuscripts in Dunhuang are records taken out of a single object, and it is almost impossible to make a full record of the entire wall.

Because the murals in each cave are often full of paintings from heaven to earth, in all directions.

This means that the paper is hemispherical, or arc-topped, and if you transfer it to a flat white paper, many details will inevitably not be connected.

It's like the earth is round, and Russia should be Canada, but after the world map is flattened, the Arctic Ocean is fragmented and deformed, or all world maps are deformed at higher latitudes, and Russia is not as big as it seems on the map.

It is difficult for ordinary people to convert the picture of the dome into a flat surface.

Therefore, it is only possible to put China in the center alone to show accuracy, or to draw a certain country.

It is rare to see the entire wall of the Dunhuang murals hand-painted.

Wan Changsheng is a breeze.

Because he understands this way of painting, and even knows what the Buddha statue represents.

So when he encountered the picture that was peeling off due to natural weathering, he combined the surrounding line patterns and knew what was missing, so he made up for it on his manuscript paper.

At this time, the entire onlookers, research experts, and museum leaders were shocked: "Do you know what that is? ”

Wan Changsheng's life is bland: "Yes, in the eyes of a professional painter, this line should go like this, what's so difficult about this......"

People are going to cry......

Some cultural relics restoration experts have been studying here for decades, and the repair progress is so slow that even this side has not been repaired, and that side has peeled off again.

The characteristic of the Dunhuang murals is that the Bodhisattvas are not all solemn and treasured, but with a strong anthropomorphism, either graceful or strong and majestic, but it really makes the restoration experts white-headed.

Everywhere to find out how this shape came about, you have to confirm that there is a correct source, and then dare to start.

But in the eyes of a painter like Wan Changsheng, or when he himself has experienced painting so many murals, how can there be so many rigorous shapes, and as long as the craftsmen are busy, they are all efficient and free-will.

It should be said that this is the distance between the artist and the restoration expert.

When there weren't so many artists in the country, restoration specialists were skilled trades, not art trades.

This is the same as the situation of the Palace Museum, Lao Jingtou and they are all employees trained from the children of workers and internal vocational schools, first in technical work, and then in art work.

But the things they studied were the works of the top masters in history, and some of them required artistic talent, so they didn't necessarily be able to keep up.

In the last ten or twenty years, a large number of arts and crafts artists have entered the restoration profession and integrated real artistic talent into the restoration.

It was the capital, and the palace museum, where everything was taken precedence, had only begun to become systematic in recent years.

For this ancient civilization full of top-level cultural relics, it will take some time to spread all over Dunhuang, and of course, it is not far away.

Just like Wan Changsheng's appearance here, it is an accident and an inevitability.

So the next scene is inevitable.

It can only be said that over the years, so many painters have come and gone to sketch.

I'm afraid how many people stand in front of the Dunhuang murals and can't help but kneel.

is a freak like Wan Changsheng, and he has to add the strength of the post-90s and post-00s newborn calves who are not afraid of tigers, so they dare to put forward such a shocking suggestion.

The things of our ancestors are good, but we can also improve on this basis.

Otherwise, those who are self-contained will live more and more like the ancients thousands of years ago.

There is another guy with such a mixed reputation in history, that is Zhang Ergang.