"If you want to go further, you have to work hard from both, retreat and pragmatism. The combination of virtual and real can be both rigid and soft. ”

On the video call, Professor Lin Tao touched his beard and shook a finger to point like this.

Art is a very personal subject.

theoretically

The difficulties that plague each individual painter are different.

The bottlenecks that limit a painter from moving to the next level will also vary from person to person.

What suits one painter to break through may not be the same as another. The advice given by outsiders is tantamount to carving a boat for a sword.

At this time, the advantage of having a bigwig-level division commander around him who can ask for advice at any time has begun to manifest itself significantly.

Lin Tao himself has gone through this stage.

Most of his brothers and sisters, as well as the students in the studio who were carefully selected from the pride of CAFA, have also gone through this stage.

Although he can't directly help Gu Weijing to break through the "karmic obstacles" in just a few words, he can give very feasible suggestions based on half a century of painting experience and from a high-level perspective.

[Retreat] and [Pragmatism].

It seems to be a vain head and a brainless rhetoric.

But don't underestimate the value of this sentence, how many teachers in the Dongxia Painting Association who walked alone outside and started with tens of thousands of yuan for a painting, carrying thousands of yuan and a tael of Zhengshan Xiaozhong during the Chinese New Year, with boxes of Feitian Moutai in the trunk, came to the door honestly and politely asked Professor Lin for advice as a disciple.

The picture is to open the mouth of Professor Lin for himself or his juniors, so he will give two points.

Chinese painting, calligraphy, preaching and teaching have always been true to a word, and ten thousand scriptures have been falsely transmitted.

Charlatans can give you a dazed head but no nutrition.

A master like Lin Tao hit the nail on the head with a few words, and the price was better than gold.

Gu Weijing, a junior student, even if he is a genius, is just a small sapling at this age. It is far from the time when I want to think about how to start a sect and become a forest of my own.

Small saplings do not grow much, most likely because the roots are not deep enough.

The little painter can't break through the bottleneck, most likely because his own accumulation is not enough.

The so-called pragmatism of art practitioners is nothing more than reading, and the so-called pragmatism is nothing more than painting.

How to read, how to draw.

Among them, there is a big emphasis.

Professor Lin Tao did not pick any teaching materials to teach the details of painting, and it was enough to teach art techniques by himself.

In his heart.

What Gu Weijing lacks most is not painting experience, but orthodox Chinese literacy.

Although this child's ancestor was a court painter.

However, the family migrated to Southeast Asia for too long, and the living environment lacked the cultural environment of a great literati family like Cao Lao or Tang Ning's sister.

Gu Weijing followed his grandfather to learn painting since he was a child, and he learned more about "art" than "Tao".

Compared with Western aesthetics, the most important feature of Oriental art is that the painting is not only the pattern, but also the painter's own style and spirit.

Therefore, he deliberately selected Mr. Yang Renkai's "National Treasure Floating and Sinking Record" and Mr. Li Lincan, the former vice president of the National Palace Museum in Taipei, Dongxia Treasure Island, "Heavenly Rain".

Both of these are relatively unpopular painting books.

The former summarizes a large number of allusions to the national treasures of Dongxia and the stories of the protection of these wandering cultural relics during the Anti-Japanese War.

The latter systematically sorts out the artistic context of Chinese history, from painting and calligraphy to pottery, architecture, sculpture, and the concept of life and death.

Professor Lin Tao asked Gu Weijing to read these two books every day.

You can read books without trying to understand them, but you have to read them over and over again. It is not limited to the words of a certain chapter, but focuses on the overall atmosphere of the book.

Gradually, when reading, the meaning and divine form of this pen and ink text between the lines are all integrated into my heart.

When Mr. Cao Xuan taught Lin Tao and his brothers and sisters to paint, he repeatedly emphasized that only when an oriental painter understands the responsibility of artistic inheritance, understands the feelings and elegance contained in each famous painting of his predecessors, and is rooted in 5,000 years of cultural accumulation——

In order to be able to achieve a stroke of God, it will not be destroyed.

In the process of reading, you also have to draw.

The old gentleman asked Gu Weijing to continue to copy Tang Ning's little sister's "Hundred Flowers", but he didn't have to copy the whole painting.

The rest of the flowers are omitted, only wisteria flowers are painted.

The most noble in the traditional oriental culture is the peony flower that "blooms richly", followed by the wisteria flower known as "purple gas from the east".

The process of expressing the image with a brush is much simpler than depicting the four gentlemen in classic flowers such as plum, orchid, bamboo, and chrysanthemum, which carry deeper aesthetic imagery and cultural connotation.

However, it can be connected with the culture of Chinese culture.

Li Bai once used the theme of "wisteria hanging cloud trees, flowers and vines should be in spring." Dense leaves hidden singing birds, fragrant wind and beauty" poems praise the lingering beauty of wisteria.

Emperor Qianlong was even a wisteria lover, and wrote poems on wisteria themes all his life, but his level was mostly limited.

More importantly, it is.

Wisteria flowers are in bunches of branches, single flowers are like butterflies, flower stalks are like supports, and flower stalks are like orchids.

A small piece of wisteria flowers, in the process of painting vines to use the middle block, to paint the petals to use the small block, to use the smallest hook brush to fill in the veins.

There are also differences in the gestures of different flanks, centers, and backs.

It covers almost all the techniques used in flower painting.

If you practice wisteria well, you will practice more than a dozen different lines of brushes. Just like the eight methods of the word "Yong" when the calligraphy and painting lovers are on the job, the word "Yong" is written, and the horizontal and vertical skimming hooks are written at the same time.

Thinking of Professor Lin Tao's guidance on the phone, Gu Weijing in the auditorium turned over the page of the book in his hand.

Good birds, branches are also friends, and falling flowers and water are articles.

Gu Weijing happened to read the ninth chapter of "Heavenly Rain" today, a chapter about flower and bird painting and literati feelings.

He watched Mr. Li Lincan talk about the realism of the Song people, the freehand of the Tang people, how to respond to nature with a mind, and what kind of mentality the ancients used to paint the phoenix tail grass leaves in the pen, and painted the wild grass and flowers amiably and lovely, and he was a little fascinated.

Gu Weijing's fingers naturally began to sketch on the fabric armrests of the seats in the school auditorium.

[Chinese Painting Technique Experience +11!] 】

[Chinese Painting Technique Experience +15!] 】

[Chinese Painting Technique Experience +12!] 】

[Chinese Painting Technique Experience +9!] 】

……

On the virtual panel of the system, a series of prompt messages continue to appear.

The experience bar began to move towards the end of the first rank of the profession at an unpleasant but perceptible speed again.

Even though the content of the text he reads is not directly related to his painting skills, Gu Weijing can still feel a potential sublimation of change, which occurs between the invisible lines drawn by his fingers.

"It's so convenient to have a portable grandfather on the phone."

Gu Weijing can now feel the good intentions of Professor Lin Tao when he gave him the practice tasks assigned to him every day.

Borrow the meaning of other people's words to nourish the pen and ink style in your heart.

Especially when he read that Xu Wenchang, one of the three great talents of the Ming Dynasty, had a bumpy fate in his life, and he had to put his affection in the calligraphy and painting landscape.

This is a metaphor for the pearl of oneself, abandoned by the ruthless world and the dark literati bureaucracy of the late Ming Dynasty, and mixed with weeds.

The silk painting of wisteria vines in the book is extremely delicate and extremely lonely.

Although this is only an illustration from a book and not a real thing, although the mineral pigments on the original silk have faded into a cloud of dirty ink over the course of more than 300 years.

Gu Weijing still has a deeper understanding of the flower language and emotional sustenance behind the four-word image of wisteria "purple gas coming from the east".

"Throwing wild vines, throwing ...... Throwing ...... In the wild vine. ”

Gu Weijing muttered to himself this sentence that I don't know how much resentment and helplessness it contains.

His fingertips sometimes splashed ink with large strokes, sometimes with small brushstrokes, and dotted bunches of wisteria flowers on the rice paper that he thought of in his mind.

Gu Weijing's eyes narrowed slightly, and he traveled far away from the noisy and irritable campus auditorium.

He felt like he was walking in a sea of wisteria flowers, surrounded by flying petals, and his nose seemed to be able to smell the fragrance of flowers.

The shadow of the flower swayed like a purple waterfall.

Just when Gu Weijing was getting closer and closer to the essence of the wisteria painting, he noticed that someone was standing in front of him.

"No, I have a girlfriend, looking for someone else."

He popped a few words out of his mouth without looking up.

Don't blame Gu Weijing's tone for being a little rude.

He was immersed in the refreshing feeling of this rare painting experience that grew rapidly and naturally, and he really didn't want to be disturbed by some warbler Yanyan who coveted his body.

No appointment?

Miao Angwen, who was originally standing in front of Gu Weijing and looking at him with cool slanted eyes, directly broke his defense.

What the hell is a covenant?

Since Xiao Miao hugged Brother Hao, the glittering thick legs worth more than nine figures, he can be regarded as a complete shotgun change.

There is no need to wear a uniform for campus networking parties.

Miao Angwen, who used to smash pots and sell iron, and only rented a formal dress by working and studying, has now become golden.

Wearing a Rolex Daytona watch on his wrist.

The strap is pure gold.

He was wearing Armani's dark formal suit, with a collar brace of pure gold and sleeve studs.

The jade Bodhisattva pendant with gold and jade on his arm, and even the ball leather shoes on his feet are from the old Italian handmade shoe brand Tishoni.

At the ball, he stood like an ant.

And now.

He, Miao Anwen, really trembled!

There are only wrong names, no wrong nicknames.

Brother Hao looks elegant and thin on the outside, and he is a compassionate monk who likes to burn incense and worship Buddha.

If this hero is put in the ancient feudal dynasty, he is definitely the type of horse thief leader who can eat meat in the Juyi Hall, drink wine in a big bowl, divide the gold in a big scale, and those who follow me prosper and those who oppose me die.

He is very bold and generous at the same time when he is decisive in killing his subordinates, not only to make a fortune himself, but also willing to bring his subordinates to get rich together.

Although Xiao Miao is dressed now, he looks like Guo Degang is wearing a Fan Xizhe-style nouveau riche temperament.

But on the flip side,

Artists in the eyes of real public opinion have never looked at the clothes, only who wears them.

The big artists wear vests full of holes, and the media will praise them as uninhibited.

Damian Hearst wore a large leather coat with nails on his shoulders and a thick silver chain all day long. In the spotlight, he plucked himself as if he was about to go to the street on a motorcycle in the next second to rob the outlaws of the world.

It also does not delay the value of people who were once the first in the world on the earth.

"Haha, Brother Miao, your classmate is quite interesting."

Next to him, the girl with earrings holding Miao Angwen's arm and wearing makeup looked quite charming and charming lying on his shoulder and joking.

She is a student at another local private high school.

Dulwich has co-construction agreements with several sister private schools in Hong Kong.

In addition to Dulwich College, there were also students from several other schools.

People rely on clothes, horses and saddles, and Miao Angwen's expensive skin is still very attractive to those young ladies who are fishing girls.

"Alright, you go to the side first, I have something to talk to him about."

Miao Angwen patted the face of the female companion next to him, waved his hand to signal the other party to leave, and swept his gaze to Gu Weijing, who was sitting on the chair in front of him.

What does Xiao Miao say about this peer?

Three points of jealousy, three points of ridicule, two points of fear, and one point of disdain.

The group of sketches and pencil drawings on the campus billboard, Miao Angwen saw it.

It's really okay to draw, but if you think about it seriously, you probably won't be able to draw such a work.

Unexpectedly, he even created with Mr. Cao Xuan.

No wonder Brother Hao thinks so highly of him.

But what does that mean?

If a painter wants to become famous, he has one life, two fortunes, three feng shui, four nobles and five wealth.

The painting technique is something that is very far behind. There are more people who have the ability to get ahead, and Gu Weijing's two sketches are really nothing.

$5 million in wine glasses made of bezoar stones, $10 million in NFT blockchain pixels, and $20 million in shark specimens.

The history of human artistic speculation is vast.

Measured in a hundred years and a century, each century is a big wave and sand, with eternal aesthetic value, and works of art that once cost more than gold will still be worth more than half of gold until the next century.

Most of the artworks are nothing more than a Ponzi scheme of drumming and passing flowers. After messing around with Brother Hao for a while, Miao Angwen has already seen everything.

The place in the history of art or something.

Come on

Why do you want to do so much, this kind of thing is inherently insulated from 9,999 out of 10,000 painters in the world, and only when you earn the money in your hand can you be down-to-earth and your own.

"Gu Weijing, do you think that you are very beautiful and bullish now, right?"

Miao Angwen smiled gloomily.

Gu Weijing boy, you don't know what you've given up.

Thinking of the great future in front of me, the one-year pre-contract of the Korean Academy of Fine Arts and the special access to the Venice Art Exhibition.

Miao Angwen now walks with the wind.

(End of chapter)