(There will be Xie Meng, specifically at the end.) ）

As soon as the connoisseur speaks, he knows if there is one.

The famous paintings that Director Tonks has admired and the art appreciation meetings he has participated in are almost too many to count.

To put it mildly,

Even at professional art seminars or the Taylor's Museum of Art's annual exhibitions, there are people who are talking nonsense on the podium.

The larger the exhibition, the more so.

Not only strange experts who don't know where they came from, but also many more parliamentarians and government officials who don't know where they come from, like to express their opinions on works of art.

The senior bureaucrats of the British Empire were very concerned about giving themselves a love of art in front of the public and the media.

At a meeting, the leader always has to say two sentences, and there is not much difference between the south and the north, ancient and modern, Chinese and foreign.

Curator Tonks even heard the nonsense.

Generally speaking, if you don't know how to draw and are afraid of making mistakes and being embarrassed, the easiest way is to pull history.

For example, in Turner's "The Dismantled Dreadnought", he recalls the glorious history of the defeat of the French at the Battle of Trafalgar. It is customary to look at landscapes on the River Thames to remember the glory of the Victorian empire on which the sun never sets.

Usually the secretaries of the civil servants of the government write speeches in this way.

Except for being a little dull and boring, basically nothing can go wrong.

If these bureaucrats are interested in taking off the script and trying to play a paragraph on their own, it will be miserable.

It is good to treat the prostitutes in the pre-Raphaelite moral paintings in the exhibition as aristocratic ladies, and it is not uncommon to distinguish between gouache and watercolor, and it is not uncommon for low-grade jokes such as watercolor and oil painting to appear.

And those who can split the aesthetic composition of a painting as thin as this detective cat are not to mention a handful, and all of them are elites in the industry.

Tonks would be okay if a well-known scholar could say such a thing, but Detective Cat is just a web illustrator.

And Anna was even more surprised by the angle of the detective cat's evaluation of the painting.

appreciating works of art,

In fact, most art critics talk more about big, abstract concepts.

The proportions of the blank space in the composition of a work, the eye contact between the figures, the natural transition between the lake and the sky, and the spiritual reflections nurtured by the painter's pen are the embodiment of different artistic genres in this work......

The detective cat is able to subtly capture the details of the artist's creation.

She doesn't ignore even the smallest brushstrokes, and she tells the story full of details, as if she has seen the process of the painter's creation.

"The typical idea of art criticism of a great painter."

A thought popped into Anna's mind.

It's the difference between watching others draw and drawing with a pen yourself.

The most striking difference between a curator and a painter-turned-art critic is the details.

Meticulous attention to detail and discernment is a privilege reserved for senior painters when they appreciate their paintings.

It's not that the curators don't want to capture and analyze the details of these paintings, it's that it's also a little too difficult for them.

Especially oil paintings,

Unlike drawings or gouache paintings, oil paintings are covered with layers of paint, and layers of colors are superimposed on each other. The light reflected from the outside world penetrates the pigment from the bottom up, constantly being absorbed and mixed by various spectra, which forms the visual effect that is finally captured by the audience.

It is not difficult to work backwards from the final picture.

From the big picture, it can be seen that those scenes are painted first, those contents are painted later, and what is the overall composition idea of the painter, Anna can easily do it.

But like the detective cat, even the smallest changes in warm and cold brushstrokes can be captured.

All I can say is......

It's not usually difficult.

At least as the detective cat just described, on this "White Lake Baikal", many small details in the fan paintings were originally ignored by Anna.

Listening to the Detective Cat Lady's gentle tone, she even had a sense of sudden enlightenment.

Anna knows that although she loves art, she has objectively limited talent for painting.

Read the book a hundred times, and its meaning will come to light,

This is only half true in the field of painting.

Even if you look at a thousand paintings and appreciate 10,000 famous paintings, even if you grow up in an art museum from childhood to adulthood, you really can't see it if you are not a painter.

If you want to really eat a painting completely from beginning to end, in addition to knowing how to appreciate beauty, you have to draw it with a pen yourself.

The detective cat is not only an oil painter, but also a master of this way.

Why do such painters have to hold on to their knives and paint, isn't it good to do serious oil painting!

“Bravo！ The lecture is awesome, such a wonderful detail analysis, whether it is me or the audience friends on the podcast platform, it should be hearty to listen to. ”

Anna Howe did not hesitate to express her praise and appreciation.

"In particular, your views on the contrast between warm and cold color spots and the prominence of colors are really impressive, and I think you should know a lot about Impressionism."

She turned to Tonks and asked, "Mr. Curator, do you have anything to add to what the detective cat said?" ”

"Uh......"

Mr. Curator blinked and glanced at the speech he had prepared.

Impressionism's changes in light and shadow...... Well, the other side said it.

Detail of the contrast between the lake and the sky...... Well, the detective cat also said it.

……

There are so many points that a painting can talk about, and to put it bluntly, there are so many points.

This kind of classical salon-style podcast, the normal mode should be that everyone chats together.

It's like talking about cross talk, you say a word, I say a word.

Each person expresses a point of view, and the host adjusts the atmosphere from it, and talks about a painting for about ten minutes, and everyone talks about two or three points of view, and the conversation and laughter are over.

It's like playing Flying Flower Order to start reciting poems with a specific word, there are so many verses that originally meet the requirements, and the first person to appear first memorizes ten or eight sentences, and the people behind it are difficult.

But Gu Weijing has no experience, and Anna is happy to give Detective Ms. Cat a chance to show herself.

So he analyzed the painting almost in detail, and said all the points he could think of.

Curator Tonks hesitated at this point.

If Gu Weijing's previous analysis made the curator ashamed and now speechless, he has nothing to say, this is too much to think about.

Mr. Tonks, a veteran curator who has been immersed in painting appreciation for half his life, only wants to talk, and can always talk about new ideas.

But the curator is also arrogant.

He is a truly international curator.

It is an exaggeration to say that the world's art scene moves for him, but it is a fact that there are many world-class artists in the conversation and laughter.

What everyone has already talked about, Tonks will discuss it again, and it will inevitably be suspicious of picking up people's teeth.

He pondered for a moment.

"Detective Cat Lady, what a wonderful presentation."

"So I have a question, do you think this painting has no shortcomings?" Curator Tonks dug a pit faintly.

He realized that the detective cat had just been talking about the details, and had ignored a more fundamental deficiency in the painting.

This is also a common mistake made by many painters who do not have enough experience.

"What are the possible shortcomings of this painting? What I can see is that the brushstrokes are too hard, there are too many details on the lake surface that affect the attention, which makes the picture look messy, and the style of the brush is ......"

Gu Weijing recalled the style of the brush on the light curtain in his mind.

The oil painting technique of the third order of the profession is great, but it is far from perfect.

"Wait a minute, none of these questions you said are wrong, but they are not big mistakes."

Curator Tonks shook his head, interrupting Gu Weijing's assertion.

"These ideas are too ingenious, and if you judge by the standards of a truly good work of art, there is actually a more fatal shortcoming in this painting, and you didn't point it out."

Mr. Curator touched his chin.

"Hmph, I'm an illustrator after all."

Curator Tonks has regained his sense of superiority as a veteran curator.

The detective cat may indeed have some research on the picture, but he is too much of a "taxi driver" for other employers, and his more fundamental aesthetic ability for art is a little insufficient.

"Mr. Curator, what you mean by the lack of visual appeal are you?"

Anna understood what Curator Tonks meant, and at this time she interacted in order to avoid the embarrassment of the detective cat.

It doesn't matter if it's appealing or emotional, it's the extent to which the painter integrates his emotions into the picture.

To put it more bluntly, it is whether the painting is moving enough or not.

Painters with good technique and a strong sense of spatial structure are more likely to make their works expressive.

But that's only relatively.

Whether a painting has expressive power depends on whether the painter has the passion to paint and the sufficient understanding of the content of the picture.

At such times, illustrators have a natural disadvantage because they are not drawing their own inspiration.

Illustrators are just tools for your contractor.

The industry's requirements for illustration are mainly to draw beautifully and meet the requirements of employers, to the point that they don't care much about whether the picture creation itself is passionate enough.

Of the seven illustrations that Mr. Hyperion asked Anna to admire, only the first person in the field of illustration deserves to be the first, and Jane Arnold's paintings can make the audience find warm feelings.

Detective Cat Lady's sketch can only be considered serious.

But then again, the others don't paint as well as the unpretentious style of the detective cat.

Even the painting of the well-known artist De Jong Van Doorne, Anna's evaluation is inexplicable and incomprehensible.

"The mood of the painting is not good, but it is not bad either...... Detective Cat Lady, you are an illustrator by training, so it's normal to not be that sensitive. ”

Anna reassured.

Anna was pleasantly surprised that the detective cat had such a deep understanding of oil painting.

She knew that it was much more difficult for a painter to express his emotions than to simply practice his skills.

Picasso also has some paintings that seem to be perfunctory.

Basically, if the picture is coherent enough and the brushstrokes are serious enough, it can be regarded as a good painting.

Most of the normal works of a professional painter's life are also in this emotional range.

It's normal for detective cats to not see the problem.

"If you say...... Where is the emotional deficiency that Director Tonks pointed out, then it is ......"

Anna was just about to take the topic when she heard the detective cat speak.

"It's just that this painting isn't 'cold' enough, right?"

Gu Weijing thought for a moment.

In the process of dismantling the painting, the light curtain in his mind did feel that the painting was more ordinary in terms of emotions than the technique.

On the system panel, I only got the evaluation of [simple work], and the biggest problem is that the painting is not cold enough.

Seeing the snow and chilling the heart - this is the highest pursuit of a painting depicting winter.

The art of calligraphy and painting can see the whole of Paris from "The Ball at the Pancake Mill", and you can hear the rumbling thunderstorm from "The Old Church on a Thunderstorm".

The name of this painting is "White Baikal", and the word white is in the title alone, which naturally depicts the surface of the lake frozen by heavy snow.

But Gu Weijing didn't feel the cold in the imagery during the identification.

It's like a piece of paper covered in white paint.

"You see that? Why didn't you just say that? ”

Curator Tonks's prepared words were held in his mouth, and he snorted a few times.

"The lack of empathy with the scenery is what I think the painter painted in the studio to the photograph."

Gu Weijing said his inference: "But I don't think there is anything wrong with this, this is also something that can't be helped, you can't really go to the cold Baikal to paint." ”

Impressionism is more respectful of capturing the fleeting light and shadow in reality and nature, and advocating on-site sketching.

This admiration is also relative,

Just as it is impossible for those painters who paint religious paintings to really see God, asking people to paint the freezing Baikal on the spot is obviously a bit difficult for a strong man.

"Who says you can't?"

Tonks snorted in his heart.

What is it to go to the shore of Lake Baikal?

This sentence is not suitable for him to say, this is a public program, and if it is said to ordinary audiences, it is somewhat arrogant that he does not eat minced meat.

But that's what Tonks was thinking.

For the big artists' studios that Mr. Curator has access to on a daily basis, it is part of his work to go to various places to collect style.

Those who spent more than 100,000 dollars to go to the North Pole on a nuclear-powered icebreaker of the former Soviet Union, spent millions of dollars to buy an island in the Pacific Ocean to live in seclusion, and hired two dozen Nepalese Sherpas to labor if they wanted to see the snow-capped mountains, and forcibly carried them up Mount Everest.

Ubiquitous.

As long as technology can be achieved, even if they go to the moon to collect wind, these big artists are willing to wave money on it.

This is not a joke.

The first commercial passengers of Space X's Starship flight around the moon are six artists, and the commercial ticket is expected to cost more than $200 million.

Compared to these lavish spends, a trip to the shores of Lake Baikal is really just a walk around the small park on your doorstep.

"Okay, that's it for this painting, let's talk about the next painting......"

The last place he wanted to express his opinion was also made up by the detective cat.

At this time, Tonks completely lost interest in continuing to talk about "White Baikal", and he took the initiative to divert the topic.

"Let me tell you what I think of this watercolor......"

This time, without Mr. Sloth's invitation, Tonks took the lead in chatting honestly at this time.

Thank you to the big alliance leader, Xie Meng will release it tonight or tomorrow.

(End of chapter)