Since the Republic of China,

The Great School of Painting in the Eastern Xia Dynasty was constantly influenced by the world art trends, and there were very few who knew nothing about oil painting.

Contrary

The spirit of art is open,

Resting on one's laurels can only be abandoned by the times.

Many famous painters, such as Huang Jiannan and Wu Guanzhong, famous artists who won the silver medal of the Louvre Museum in France and whose works were collected by the Louvre. These old gentlemen, who have repeatedly sold more than 100 million yuan in auctions, all belong to the good types of Chinese paintings and oil paintings, which can be painted and painted.

Cao Lao himself did not often paint oil paintings.

But that doesn't mean he doesn't understand oil painting.

Cao Lao's early disciples, including the eldest brother who died young, Professor Lin Tao himself, and the third junior sister Zhou Ming are all artists who have made great achievements in oil painting.

However, the two apprentices who were accepted in the end seemed to have a lot of energy in their hearts, wanting to take over the teacher's status in the Chinese painting world, and they devoted less effort to oil painting.

The first moment Professor Lin Tao saw this painting, he was amazed by the unique texture and line shape of Gu Weijing's oil painting.

The level is very good.

Not inferior to some of the higher students in his studio.

Placed on the CAFA campus, which is known as the cradle of Asian artists, it may not be shocking, but it can definitely be said to be a good seedling for future outstanding artists.

What amazed him even more was the rapid progress of Gu Weijing during this time.

Gu Weijing's line ability, Lin Tao from not long ago, in the pen sketch about the Shwedagon Pagoda, a glimpse of eight or nine.

It's already good,

Now, compared with a few months ago, it is a new atmosphere that is not the same.

"There's hard work, and there's talent."

Professor Lin Tao nodded.

The practice of gongbi painting itself is an all-round improvement of a painter's line modeling skills, and has the effect of touching and bypassing sketching and oil painting modeling.

However, the contact bypass also varies from person to person.

Not everyone can "get through" so quickly.

This progress made Professor Lin a little envious.

It's just the overall feeling of the painting, how ...... It's so weird.

"Oh, what should I be, it turned out to be a fine brush oil painting, quite ambitious."

Lin Tao took out the old painting glasses from the glasses case and put them on, and after pondering the painting for a moment, he felt the sense of fragmentation exuded by the painting as a whole.

"The idea is good, but it's a pity ......"

Gu Weijing's thoughts and intentions on this painting are almost immediately apparent in front of an experienced artist like Professor Lin.

Professor Lin Tao is no stranger to fusion painting.

The road of painting, which is a mixture of Eastern and Western art trends, is a steep road to the sky.

The road has indeed reached the sky.

In the past 200 years, all those who have gone down this path have been world-class artists who can make a bloody storm at auction with any painting.

Needless to say, the famous Impressionism and the origins of Oriental painting.

It is the lifelong dream of any artist to establish a sect.

The painters who can successfully integrate the experience of Chinese painting into the oil painting techniques, whether it is Zao Wou-Ki or Wu Guanzhong, the painting style is almost self-contained.

There is already a prototype of the founding sect.

What's more.

It ignores differences in artistic aesthetics.

Foreigners don't appreciate Chinese painting, and the Asian market is also relatively indifferent to the Afrofuturist style.

But the fusion of painting, regardless of east, west, north and south, China, France, Germany and Japan.

In almost any art market, all have been a huge success.

It's like two sides of the same coin.

While the potential of this painting method is limitless, it is also precipitous.

It's a really hard road.

The intermingling of different artistic styles is the most testing field of painting skills.

Fusion painting pursues the effect of 1+1 greater than 2.

The painting method of gongbi oil painting does not mean that you draw a bunch of grapes with a gongbi painting, and then use the oil painting to draw a static sketch of a group of apples, which can be called fusion painting when put together.

This can only be regarded as a strange thing that Orientals can't understand and Westerners can't understand.

"It's too late, it's too early."

Lin Tao looked at this "Good Luck Orphanage in the Sun" and shook his head regretfully.

At Gu Weijing's current age, like many people with a good professional art education, his painting style has been set.

The cutting, pointing, jointing, and dyeing of gongbi painting. The techniques of oil painting, such as thin rubbing, over-dyeing, stamping, and pointillism, have all formed a habit like muscle memory.

This is by no means a bad thing.

It's just that fusion painting pursues breaking boundaries and jumping out of tradition.

When the painter's textbook-style muscle memory of the techniques he has learned is fused with each other, it is easy for people to fall into the limitations of their past thinking and cause obstacles.

Gu Weijing's sense of disobedience when painting comes from this.

This is the result of conflicting minds and old habits.

Theoretically, learning fusion painting should be similar to Zhang Sanfeng teaching Zhang Wuji to play Tai Chi, forgetting the old rules of painting, and under the guidance of the master, to the point where there are no tricks to win.

For example, the vice president of CAFA, Mr. Zhu Naizheng, only took the essence of oil painting, abandoned the painting method of oil painting, and liked to use Chinese-style brushes to paint oil paintings.

Theoretically, this kind of drawing method is easier for children who are like a blank sheet of paper to master.

It's too early to say,

It is because whether it is Chinese painting or oil painting, Gu Weijing is still far from reaching the point of integrating and lifting weights.

Masters who can really enter the Tao with painting,

Nature can also transcend the hindrances of old habits.

However, this is even harder.

Lin Tao has never tried this style of fusion painting.

It's not that he can't draw.

It's just that with Lin Tao's status, he naturally can't demand himself by general standards.

Among the artists in the Dongxia painting circle, there are probably three artists who have integrated traditional oriental elements into Western oil paintings.

Based on Professor Lin Tao's judgment on himself.

He is not as good as Zao Wou-Ki in terms of his grasp of oriental aesthetic imagery, he is not as good as Wu Guanzhong in terms of the combination of ink structure and Western colors, and he is not as good as Zhu Naizheng, a great painter with decades of calligraphy skills, in terms of the neatness of lines and the transformation of oil painting brushes.

After all, he is the oldest living disciple of Cao Lao.

If you can't do the best, you can't draw your own characteristics,

There is a suspicion of Dong Shi Xiaofeng.

The higher the status, the greater the pressure.

"After all, it's a child, I don't know how thick the sky is."

Lin Tao was a little funny.

In his opinion, this painting is too ambitious.

It's like a child trying to swing two pairs of heavy sledgehammers, staggering, and it makes people want to smile.

The two different artistic styles of Chinese painting and oil painting collide the whole picture.

However, the layout of the picture and the use of the pen itself are staggered and surprising.

At least, Lin Tao believes that Gu Weijing's entire painting skills have improved a lot compared to this month.

This news should be shared with the teacher.

He thought about it for a while, and did not send it to Cao Lao privately, but forwarded the photo to the Shimen group.

"What do you think of a young man who wants to participate in an art exhibition?"

Lin Tao typed.

"The style is very fragmented, but the flaws are not hidden. The brushstrokes are well handled, the character lines are drawn very accurately, and the small details are good. If the person who painted the painting is still a student, the future is promising. ”

The third junior sister Zhou Ming was the first to reply.

"This style of painting is another young man, is it the early work of Cui Xiaoming, the son of Cui Xuanyou of the Hong Kong Gallery?" Zhou Ming asked.

"Is it the little painter who opened a solo exhibition at the age of 20? I saw his paintings a few years ago, and the level of brushwork alone is not much better than this one, but the overall feeling is much more harmonious. One of Cui's paintings can sell for $30,000 now. ”

Lin Tao shook his head.

The style of fusion painting is too difficult to follow.

At present, among all the new generation of painters in the younger generation, there are some famous, and the only young person Lin Tao can think of who tries to take this path is Cui Xiaoming.

If you want to accurately summarize this young painter, then it is probably the version of "Katsuko Sakai, who is ten years older".

Cui Xiaoming is very similar to Katsuko Sakai in many aspects.

His father, Da Cui, was a German-Chinese artist Cui Xuanyou, and his mother was a German realist oil painter.

This created the innate conditions for him to surpass the vast majority of ordinary painting students.

It is said that when he was a child and could not speak, he would take a brush and splash ink on the drawing board with oil paint.

This is similar to mother tongue education.

Children with aura are deliberately exposed to this fusion culture environment by their parents, and they are deliberately cultivated in the direction of fusion painting everywhere during their growth stage, so that it is easier to integrate the two painting methods into one without sticking to the boundaries.

It is better to say that his parents have shrewd and keen ideas about art education.

The effect is significant.

Nowadays, Cui Xiaoming's painting skills may not be too prominent among professional painters.

But thanks to this fusion painting, some of his fine paintings now cost $30,000.

This amount is already very high.

The painter itself is a very steep pyramid, and the painter who makes a lot of money earns faster than the bank robbery, but in the eyes of the average painter, one or two thousand dollars is considered a big deal.

Many people have no idea what a painter's career earns to earn.

Take the Hurun Artist Rich List as an example, the top ten Dongxia artists on the list are all in 100 million, and there are many works that can be auctioned for more than 500 million yuan a year, and there are almost every year with a small billion.

The top few painters are embarrassed to meet people if they don't have a total net worth of more than a billion.

But at the end of the list, there are also some painters who "can only" sell for more than a million.

In some years when the art market is colder, if you add up all your works in a year, you can sell for 8 or 900,000 yuan to enter the rankings.

This is one of the largest art markets in the world, and all art and painting practitioners are counted in the top 100.

Considering that Xiao Cui is only in his twenties.

The market generally believes that as long as he walks on the road of fusion painting for a few more years, the market price will exceed that of his father Da Cui, which is just a simple matter of time.

The future is limitless.

"It's not him? Which student who doesn't know the height of the sky wants to challenge Gongbi oil painting. ”

The meaning of Zhou Ming's words was a little complete: "Should I say that he doesn't know the severity, or is his courage commendable, this road is not easy to walk." ”

"Who drew it?"

Little Junior Sister Tang Ning asked concisely.

"@唐宁. Next month, there will be a special spring auction in Xiangjiang, and we will make an appointment to get together at that time. Here, I wish Xiao Ning's special transaction volume to exceed 200 million Hong Kong dollars. ”

Seeing a very busy little sister bubbling up, Zhou Ming @ junior sister.

"Okay, I'll make an appointment then. I also wish my sister a smooth sailing for her solo exhibition in Paris at Galerie Kreuz this year. ”

The little junior sister Tang Ning once again cut the painting back to Gu Weijing's painting.

"@林涛, who drew it?"

She seemed to be particularly interested in the issue.

"An excellent student in Senior Brother Lin's studio. It is not difficult for children to take care of their minds and paint oil paintings or Chinese paintings in a down-to-earth manner, and it is not difficult for students to participate in the Beijing Art Exhibition at this level. This style is not yet in his hands now. ”

Zhou Ming speculated.

"The student group is not enough, Cao Lao's expectation for him is the Singapore Biennale, and the master group will win the award."

The group was quiet for more than ten seconds.

"@林涛, that's the ...... The Burmese kid? ”

Zhou Ming asked.

The gambling contract between Cao Lao and Gu Weijing was only circulated in a small area, but their disciples naturally knew about it.

"Yes, it's Gu Weijing's painting."

"It looks interesting, but it's just the best of the average. It's far worse than Xiao Ning's age, Xiao Ning, what do you say? ”

Ever since she got the news that Cao Lao might want to accept another apprentice, Zhou Ming has been a little curious about what her little junior sister from a Jiangnan painting and calligraphy family thinks in her heart.

Scarcity is expensive.

Cao Lao's personal disciple can almost be said to be the most famous golden signboard in the Asian painting circle.

Naturally, the smaller the number of people, the more valuable it is.

In the face of the possibility that there may be an extra junior brother at any time,

Although older apprentices like Lin Tao and Zhou Ming are a little weird in their hearts, they are not unacceptable.

The one who suffered the biggest "loss" was the little sister Tang Ning.

The meaning of a closed disciple and an ordinary disciple is always different.

Even in the modern teacher-student relationship in the West, the youngest student in the laboratory will be looked down upon.

In the more intimate teacher-disciple relationship in the Oriental, the closed disciple is often the one who is most favored by the teacher.

Cao Lao's eldest apprentice is no longer alive, and whoever is a closed disciple can almost be recognized by the outside world as Cao Lao's successor.

If it's not bad,

It is also the heir to an artistic legacy.

Whether you like it or not, objectively speculative collectors who speculate on works of art prefer to speculate on various concepts and stories.

It is a bit unrealistic that the identity of a closed disciple can double the market price of Tang Ning's little junior sister's works, and it is still very real to increase the basic price by ten to fifteen percentage points.

Hearing Elder Cao's decision, Junior Sister Tangning's mood must be more subtle and indescribable.

"It's so ambitious, I don't learn to walk, I want to run. Cao Lao's Chinese painting alone was enough for him to learn for a lifetime. ”

really

Tang Ning's tone was a little unpleasant.

"I don't think so. If you want to be a painter and don't have the courage to create a new style, you might as well become a painter. If he can only follow the same steps and learn from me Cao Xuan for the rest of his life, it will be disappointing. This kid has a lot of appetite for me. In this regard, you are not as good as him. ”

No one refutes this sentence,

Because it was Cao Xuan himself who spoke.

(End of chapter)