(This chapter is a plus change, and there is a change in the evening, not guaranteed before 12 o'clock.) ）

(Thanks again, Alston-king, big leader!) ）

late at night

Zoom web meeting room.

"The pastoral style of the painting easily reminds me of Giorgione's Concert in the Open Air, in which the author hopes to achieve an idyllic dreamsong of harmony by harmonizing the style of the garden and wild nature. To be honest, the idea is good, but it's a pity that the painter's pen power does not meet the ambition of composition......

"If we compare it to Odilon Redon, who also likes to paint the countryside......"

Gu Weijing wore headphones and listened with interest to Mr. Sloth and Curator Tonks' interpretation of the last pastoral painting, and occasionally added two sentences of his own opinion.

It's really interesting to listen to these veteran bigwigs talk about art.

It is mentioned in "Fu Lei's Family Letter" that the musician Fu Cong liked to follow his father Fu Lei to visit Uncle Qian Zhongshu when he was a child. The biggest hobby of the children in the entire Tsinghua courtyard is to move a small bench and listen to Master Qian talk about art, literature, and the world, which is funny and humorous.

Gu Weijing has a similar feeling now.

It is a pleasure and a privilege to be able to communicate with the bigwigs in close proximity, which is the charm of salon culture so prosperous in old Europe.

His strength in painting and calligraphy appraisal is his ability to review an independent work of art.

The system allows Gu Weijing to disassemble a painting into countless details and fragments.

But for the grasp and interpretation of the entire art trend,

It's a lot worse.

At the end of the day, vision leads to disparity.

He's just a nobody who runs a small gallery on the banks of a remote Yangon river.

Ever since our ancestors took root in Myanmar, they have strayed from the center of the arts.

Europe and the United States regard this place as a desert of modern art, which is both a prejudice and a fact.

In terms of cognition of the development of art in the world, let alone with the two art giants, even Miss Katsuko Sakai is more than an order of magnitude stronger than him.

Watching Mr. Sloth and Curator Tonks quote scriptures and start from a small painting, outlining a classic painter in art history and sorting out different painting styles.

It's like taking a super VIP two-to-one art history class on the spot.

It's enough to make the average art dog go crazy with envy.

Curator Tonks and Anna, in turn, they felt pleasure.

The detective cat's ability to grasp the details of painting is really strong.

The biggest trouble for professional art critics when admiring a work of art is that sometimes there is always some itching in the boots.

They always regret that their words are not penetrating enough to fully express their opinions.

Let's say you describe a place where the color is a little dry.

What is dryness?

Everyone seems to understand, but they don't seem to understand.

It's more of a feeling, and it's harder to explain it clearly.

But the detective cat always answered at the right time and split the argument from the painter's point of view of detail - there was a problem when the colors were juxtaposed and mixed, and the paint was too thin, resulting in the color spots not being mixed sufficiently.

Crisp and direct.

This fluttering sentence is like a wet and astringent cooked cowhide from your nostrils, and like a sharp silver needle, it suddenly picks away a swollen boil on your face.

This kind of refreshing feeling is indeed beyond words to describe.

It's been an hour since the podcast started recording, and it's long past the expected time. Director Tonks' assistant once knocked on the door of the study to remind the curator of the time.

The curator casually dismissed the other party.

He's having a good time talking, and other things can be pushed back.

Mr. Tonks is obviously refreshed now, his whole face is red under the camera, his bald head is shining, and his two small eyes are shining.

At the beginning of the podcast, those small unpleasantness had already been thrown out of the sky by Director Tonks.

For a middle-aged and elderly artist, this kind of soul-piercing pleasure is much happier than telling a meat joke to make a young girl laugh.

"Detective Ms. Cat, are you interested in coming to the Taylor Museum as a special junior art researcher, responsible for explaining the works in the collection every day?"

The main recording of the entire salon has come to an end with the discussion of the last pastoral painting.

Now it's time for the guests to chat – wrap up the whole podcast and ask the guests to talk about a topic that interests them.

It's like the gossip of pulling a relationship after a dinner and drinking.

This link can be long or short, if it is long, you can chat for more than ten minutes, if everyone is not interested, it is okay to end it in a hurry.

Curator Tonks obviously hadn't talked enough, and sent an offer directly.

Junior Researcher of Art?

Anna immediately pricked up her ears.

"Ms. Detective Cat has such good painting skills, it's a pity to give up her identity as a painter and become an art museum tour guide."

She glanced at Tonks with some annoyance.

This balding old British man seemed a bit hateful to her.

Want to grab someone from me?

Anna absolutely can't accept that the detective cat will give up his profession as a painter and spend time to popularize art science for the general public.

The "tour guide" is actually a bit insulting to the position of a junior researcher in art.

They are more like the heads of a small exhibition hall than the tour guides in the museum.

The staffing of an art museum is similar to that of a university, the so-called junior art researcher, similar to a lecturer or teaching assistant in a university.

Engaged in some auxiliary research work, the daily work content is relatively leisurely.

In particular, the Taylors Museum of Art is one of the largest art museums in the world.

The income is not high or low, and it can be regarded as a relatively decent job, with good development prospects and stability.

In general, if you want to get a position at the Taylors Art Museum, you have to be a graduate of one of the top 100 art academies in the world.

For a web illustrator in a third world country, this offer is really sincere.

"Thank you for the kindness of the curator, I hope to be a professional painter for the time being."

Gu Weijing politely declined Curator Tonks' kindness.

This kind of invitation is completely unattainable pie in the sky for myself during the Spring Festival, but now after contacting Cao Lao and Uncle Sakai, the vision is different.

A junior art assistant is not very attractive.

Don't say anything else,

If he can become a closed disciple of Cao Lao, then he will directly enter the history of modern art with one foot, and his status in the art circle may not be as good as that of Director Tonks himself.

"Hey, ma'am, let's be honest. An art assistant at the Taylor Gallery can earn a much more stable income than an online illustrator, elegant and decent. I can also help you get a UK green card. ”

Curator Tonks was a little reluctant and continued to tempt.

Gu Weijing continued to politely decline.

"Okay...... If you are interested, you can contact my assistant. Curator Tonks shook his head when he saw that the detective cat was really not interested in his offer.

"Ahem, curator, I suddenly remembered that something hasn't been recorded yet."

Anna interrupted Tonks' abduction of her next "Van Gogh" and changed the subject somewhat rudely.

"Curator Tonks, as is customary, every guest who attends the podcast, I ask him about his favorite style of painting. What is your favorite art style? “

"Academic." Mr. Curator said without any hesitation.

"Because of Turner?" Anna didn't seem surprised at all.

"Because of Turner." Curator Tonks nodded.

Turner is to the world of English painting what Shakespeare is to the world of English literature.

Especially compared to the dazzling masters in the history of French, German and Italian painting.

The great painters in British history are relatively thin, and almost only one person's name is accepted, which is basically the standard answer in the English style.

"Detective Cat Lady, what about you?"

"Impressionism."

Anna's heart skipped a beat.

Her favorite painter was the impressionist Renoir, but she didn't expect the detective cat to be in the same genre as her.

"Well, impressionism, very popular choice. Like Degas or Monet. If you like Impressionism, I personally recommend you an article on the ...... of works of art: "Curator Tonks is happy to show his erudition.

"The Origin of the Work of Art, a lecture by the philosopher Heidegger on the style of Van Gogh's paintings and impressionist works, I have read it, and it is really good. After reading this book, I learned a lot from reading Professor Katsuhei Koyama's paper "A Brief Analysis of Impressionist Creative Ideas" by Professor Katsuhei Koyama of Tokyo University of the Arts. ”

Gu Weijing naturally knew this article of Heidegger, the philosopher who was a fan of Van Gogh.

He's been reading literature frantically with Katsuko Sakai for almost the past few days.

Heidegger's commentary on the post-impressionist Van Gogh's representative painting "Shoes" in The Origin of the Work of Art is naturally among the documents selected by Uncle Sakai.

"Huh? You even know Katsuhei Koyama? ”

Curator Tonks was shocked slightly.

If you say that ordinary literary and artistic youth or philosophy lovers may look at Heidegger, it is also possible to read "The Origin of the Work of Art".

Then Katsuhei Koyama belongs to the kind of hidden characters that are more famous in the professional field, but ordinary people and even ordinary non-art scholars have never heard of it.

Only people who have a deep artistic cultivation will have these articles on his reading list.

"What else have you seen?" The curator asked curiously.

"A lot, Professor Davis Warner of the Rhode Island Academy of Fine Arts's "The Still life as a personal object", "Analysis of the Origin of Impressionism and Oriental Art" published in Asian Art, Professor Hunter Lowry's ......"

Gu Weijing reported a lot of articles like the name of a dish.

It is difficult to read these papers in a week.

But Katsuko Sakai has already roughly marked the key points that they might use in the whole paper.

This greatly reduced his study pressure.

"By the way, Curator Tonks, I'd like to ask you a question."

Professional curators are on the side, the opportunity is rare, mentioning this, Gu Weijing threw out a problem in his heart when reading a paper.

In the article "Analysis of the Origin of Impressionism and Oriental Art", it is mentioned that Impressionism likes to use more scientific color principles to paint, and the development of dark pigments is more vivid through color mixing...... Isn't this the same idea as the great Dutch painter Mondrian's penchant for abrupt stops a few millimeters from the edges when dealing with dark lines, and the subtle variations on the edges where black paint and other colors overlap through very small blank transitions? ”

"Uh...... Well, this well......"

Curator Tonks was a little confused.

Gu Weijing actually overestimated Curator Tonks' knowledge reserves.

Professional curators pursue a wide range of art, and they are involved in various art genres.

However, in terms of depth, there is no comparison with scholars in a certain field of expertise.

In this "Analysis of the Origin of Impressionism and Oriental Art", Director Tonks has only heard of it.

It seems that everyone knows that Proust has a large tome of "Reminiscences of the Past", and it is already the limit of literary youth to memorize two famous sentences from it.

If you really want to read it, even university professors who specialize in French literature may not have read it in full.

The tip of Tonks' nose was sweating a little.

At this time, it is embarrassing to say that you don't know, and it is even more embarrassing to talk nonsense.

Damn it

Detective Cat Lady, it's good to recognize your own identity.

You're not an anime illustrator! Do you still have to read papers as an online illustrator now? No...... This line is so volatile now.

"I'll answer that question for Curator Tonks. You're right, through the mixing and matching of fine colors, the excessive light and dark strokes, and the white space, is a clever way to over-color, which you mentioned in the article......"

Anna softly relieved Curator Downs.

Today, the detective cat surprised her beyond Anna's imagination, and she felt her heart beat slightly faster.

Anna thought it was all incredible.

She knows the boredom of reading literature,

If it were not for the devotion and love of art in the heart, it would be a kind of torture for the vast majority of people in this impetuous society.

She sat in front of the computer and stared at the Detective Cat's head on the screen, as if she were staring at herself in the mirror.

On the other side of the screen, Gu Weijing didn't notice Curator Tonks' embarrassment.

Since we talked about the artistic style, after listening to Mr. Sloth's answer, he just asked, "You mentioned that your favorite classical school of painting is the academic school." What about modern art? For example, if you are a curator and you are selecting works for exhibition, do you have any good suggestions for the types of paintings and the direction of style? ”

This is what Gu Weijing really cares about.

Modern painting styles are in full bloom, and there are various genres, and it is difficult to say what is the mainstream.

In fact

If Gu Weijing wants to simply paint Chinese paintings, he doesn't need to consider the issue of style.

In the final analysis, the painting style of Chinese painting is two categories: gongbi and freehand, and it is basically difficult to jump out of this circle no matter how you jump.

Gu Weijing estimates according to the current progress.

His oil painting techniques and sketching techniques rely on copying "Old Church" and illustrations on the Internet, and it may not be long before he breaks through to Lv.5.

The progress of improving Chinese painting will be a little slower without the assistance of the system, but it should be possible to reach Lv.5 before you need to submit your work to the exhibition.

So he was faced with two choices,

It is difficult to say which is more powerful, a master Chinese painting painter or a master oil painting painter.

But if it is lv.5, at least for a Western-style art exhibition like Singapore, oil painting is obviously easier to shortlist from a utilitarian point of view.

That's when it's important to listen to a professional.

(End of chapter)