At first glance at this painting, everyone did not speak for a while, gently suppressed their breathing, and felt quite chewy.

is not as outrageous as "The Crematorium", but there is also a hidden style.

Perhaps it is due to the difficulty of drawing knife drawings to express the delicate facial expressions of the characters.

Maybe it's the detective cat's portrayal of the character's facial features that hasn't reached the point where she's so engrossed when she draws cats.

The more likely reason is that after Amy left, Tony's expression in the photo was always the same godless and dazed.

In a word.

The subject of the figure on the drawing is blurred.

The main character in the canvas is changed from Amy to Tony.

The detective cat is the opposite of her previous delicate and beautiful portrayal of the cat.

She just used a pear-shaped oil painting knife with paint on the flat edges and simply dotted the facial features of the figures.

Eyebrows, eyes, ears, nose, mouth.

The painter simply swept over the canvas and painted it casually.

The only reason they exist is to make the painting look like it's not a strange Faceling.

If you just take Tony's image off the canvas.

Then this portrait is not at all as agile as Amy in the previous dozen paintings.

It is not on the same level as the tenderness and affection in the eyes of the little Zhengtai in the cover painting of "The Little Prince" created by the detective cat.

This is a very perfunctory and dull person.

But the background atmosphere of the whole painting is not at all perfunctory and rigid.

The highlight is the background - the background in the real photo is only the pure white mountains, and under the pen of the detective cat, the temperament depicted is gorgeous and magnificent, such as Frederick the Great's palace banquet.

The snow-capped mountains are as beautiful as fairy tales.

The patterns of the white snow in the air and the different leaves of the beech, linden and Norway maple trees in the four seasons of the Alps in the south-central Europe, are painted with oil painting knives.

Tony's side face is facing the sun.

The sky and mountains are flattened from the angle chosen by the detective cat, and the sunlight hits the leaves from different angles, creating a shimmering spectacle.

"That's great."

The delicate depiction of the environment by the oil painting knife she showed scratched the itch in the heart of the landscape master Boggs.

I can see the old man's orgasms repeatedly, and it's not cool.

His mouth was full of admiration.

This is based on the delicacy of the knife, polished and polished, and it is also a good seedling to develop specifically for natural scenery painting!

"Fairytale scenes, dreamlike, light and shadow swaying. She gives different meanings to the same color. Jane Arnold bowed slightly.

He believes that what is really interesting in the sketch is the treatment of light.

The snow is like a mirror focusing on the sky and the sunset, and the red sun reflects the ground with a unique texture of puff.

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Detective Cat still uses a lot of cadmium orange as the main color on the canvas.

Same color.

Different brightness in different lighting completely different effects.

The blazing flames in "The Crematorium" are obviously high enough to annihilate everything, but they only make the audience feel cold to the bone marrow.

Now in this painting, there is a faint, flowing pink-orange light on the snow.

The detective cat clearly paints the snow, which can still make the audience feel a warm atmosphere overflowing from the screen.

Cadmium orange condensed on the snow, and finally condensed at Tony's feet.

What should have been a pitch-black shadow formed a flaming and agile cat phantom.

At first glance, the viewer will think that it is not a shadow, but a cat crawling at his feet.

"I can probably understand what she thinks, interesting...... Rare treatment...... It's so rare. ”

Professor Boggs frowned slightly.

Oil painting theme.

But in any painting where a figure appears, the focus is always on people, and it can only be people.

An excellent portrait should take the initiative to guide the audience's visual focus to always stay on the face of the portrait and even the pupil of the portrait.

The others are all clutter.

If the environment is too complex and the characters are too thin, the look and feel of the painting will make the viewer feel uncertain and dominant.

In Professor Boggs's "Amy", the subject of the painting is always a cat.

So much so that in all his works, Tony only appears in part of his body.

A pair of eyes showing below the hairline, an arm pushing the ball...... The purpose of this is to prevent the characters from fighting with the cats and competing for the attention of the audience.

however

The subject of this painting is obviously Tony, but the focus of the painting is on the environment around the figure, which does not conform to the textbook philosophy of art.

Pushing too inconsequential details is one of the common mistakes made by students who are new to portraiture in the Academy of Fine Arts.

Professor Boggs has seen so many.

The reason why he muttered to himself in his mouth was because the detective cat in front of him had a painting idea that defied common sense, and the performance effect was not bad.

More accurate description.

In terms of the expressiveness of this drawing.

It's not so much that it's simple and clueless, and the atmosphere of the characters and scenery is fragmented...... The handling of the detective cat is very oriental.

It's also very old-fashioned.

This involves the division of the concept of oil painting in the history of Western art.

In the history of art, when people talk about Dutch painters and art styles, they will mention the "two vans." ”

The most famous painter born in Dutch history is undoubtedly Van Gogh, but in terms of his profound influence on the development of fine arts, perhaps his countryman Van Wade 500 years ago would be even better.

Wade was the first person in the history of Western painting to add rich facial expressions to the figures in oil paintings, and is known as a master of emotional expression.

Because of social ideas, religious traditions, painting genres, and some miscellaneous reasons.

Before Wade appeared, whether it was Kangping or Jan Eyck, who was known as the inventor of oil painting in the academic world.

They are all highly skilled and talented.

But if you look at the paintings of the late Middle Ages, there is one thing in common: the dying Jesus, the loving Virgin Mary, and the cunning Judas...... Each of these figures is expressionless on the canvas.

This is similar to the "solemn appearance" of oriental figure painting.

All the characters are happy or sad.

In the late Middle Ages, around 1400, all painters replaced expression with changes in ambient light and shadow, color expression, facial shadows, gaze eyes, and body movements.

Rather than simply crying and laughing on the facial features.

This treatment of religious art was common in the early days of the world.

This is a philosophical treatment of mystification.

Different gods or Buddhas sit on the lotus platform with solemn expressions and calm faces, and in the space around them, there are various scenes of dragons and elephants fighting each other, hell fires, and the Pure Land of Bliss.

With a calm expression, it reflects thousands of worlds.

therefore

In fact, there are even some radical opinions.

The artistic conception of the works of the Western school is not as good as that of the Eastern school, which is related to the fact that Wade began to focus on the depiction of facial expressions, so he "took a shortcut".

The work of the detective cat in front of me is very much in the style of the first generation of oil painters in the Middle Ages.

Tony's physical body is standing hollow in the snow, but the essence of his soul blends into the surrounding environment.

The soul is above the shadow of the cat at his feet.

In the past few centuries, it has been rare for the Western oil painting world to adopt such a "quaint" painting method.

After all, it is difficult to grasp the fine line between the emotional expression of the characters and the subtle boundary between the emotional expression of the characters and the "Self-Portrait" of Miss Mona, which was criticized by Mrs. Sakai.

Normally, playing this set of "soul essence outside the character" art effect is not as good as honestly depicting the character's facial features.

Yet here and now.

With Tony, a dull autistic person, it is unexpectedly suitable.

"This painting is full of Zen flavor! In Buddhism, shadow is the cause and effect of the reflection. Could it be that the detective cat also specialized in Buddhist murals in the East? ”

Professor Boggs' eyes lit up.

The American lay thought he had found a fellow Taoist who also loved meditation.

As a matter of fact.

The old professor was a bit over-interpreting and over-thinking about this matter.

When Gu Weijing created this set of paintings, he was indeed influenced by the Buddhist art of Cao Lao's "Ritual Buddha Protector Map" to a certain extent.

But more advice was given by Miss Elena.

The drawings do not depict a Buddhist view of the cycle of cause and effect.

It is still too complicated for a 40-year-old autistic person with intellectual disability to understand the concept of reincarnation.

Miss Elena wants the detective cat to portray a simple intergenerational outlook on life.

To put it in simpler terms.

From the very beginning of the conception, the sketch of the detective cat is not like Professor Boggs's "Amy", which implies a complex Zen machine of religious teaching.

It is just a set of family parent-child paintings used to teach a bereaved big child how to come out bravely.

The most important work in this set is the "Crematorium".

It uses its flames to make Tony brave enough to face the suffering in his soul.

From this turning point, the rest of the works are just a process of constantly coming out of the face of reality.

Parents are the shadow of their children, and children are the continuation of their parents' spirit and the inheritors of the family.

My aunt had told Anna before she died.

Whenever you pronounce the name Elena, all the ancestors and family members of the past 1,000 years are crying out to be with you.

Fertility and succession are the genetic "magic" of a family, a surname, and even the human race leading to immortality.

That's it.

There is no essential difference between the Confucian worldview of the Tangut and the Catholic or Puritan worldview of the West.

Mr. Sloth treats the cat directly as a mother's figure.

Amy will never come back to life.

There will be no other cat in the world that can replace the Scottish Fold cat who has been with him since he was a child.

But.

As long as the memories of the past are still vivid in his heart, Amy will always be by your side. You are never alone.

You can still be bold and brave to love the world.

Knowing what kind of idea the work wants to convey, the rest of the plot composition design is a logical thing.

Mr. Sloth gave Gu Weijing a few creative suggestions as a reference.

The cat's shadow can be formed at Tony's feet, or Tony can be made to stand in front of the mirror, and Amy's appearance can be reflected in the mirror.

There are similar photos of the Emerald Lake, which reflect the image of a folded ear cat with rippling water waves, which is also very intuitive.

After careful consideration, Gu Wei chose the first method of painting.

Just because of the water waves and mirrors, the various spatial reflections are too complicated to realistically, and it is one of the most difficult lighting conditions to deal with in realistic oil paintings.

Or the cat shadow comes simply and directly.

After the ups and downs of the rollercoaster-like appreciation process, the audience in the living room was a little tired.

Everyone watched in silence as the last seven drawings on the screen slid by in turn.

Quietly experience the precious quiet and warm emotions revealed by the detective cat's pen.

Tony at the foot of the Alps, Tony in a coffee shop in Rome, Tony on a cruise on the Emerald Lake...... Over the years, the old gentleman has taken his son to the north and south, scattering his heart everywhere.

No matter how beautiful the scenery is, it is picturesque.

Tony is always staring into the distance with a vacant gaze, staring blankly at the edge where the horizon meets the sky.

He waited for a gentle cat with folded ears to emerge from the crowd, meowing softly at him, and licking his ears like a mother.

The cat will never come.

But as long as Tony lowers his head and gazes at his own shadow, he will find that no matter spring, summer, autumn and winter, the sky and the sea and the north.

There will always be a shadow in the shape of a cat, lying quietly at his feet.

In each drawing, Tony's appearance is very simple and crude, and in a few drawings, he has been omitted as a mass of facelings with blurred light and shadow.

Only the burning cat is more and more agile and vivid.

"It's so beautiful, it's so warm."

The sentimental Ms. Anya gently wiped the moist corners of her eyes with her fingertips and said in a nasal voice like a severe cold: "I blame the detective cat, she must be a very caring girl." ”

"I don't know what the name of this painting is? Like Professor Boggs, it's good to call it "Amy". ”

"Pandora." Dr. Kim spoke.

"Huh?"

"This set of drawings is the name given by Detective Cat's agent, and Mr. Sloth says that if this set of drawings works well, it can be called "Pandora."

Pandora.

The woman in ancient Greek mythology and legend who opened the box of all sorrows in the world.

Dr. Jin Anqing once wondered what kind of bad taste he would call a set of drawings for autistic children this name.

When I saw the last few sketches.

He gradually understood the meaning of Mr. Sloth.

Pandora's Box contains a box of all the world's aches and wounds.

In the setting of the myth, the box contains not only natural disasters such as plagues, diseases, and disasters, but also friendship, love, family affection, and many other desires that will hurt people.

Zeus, the king of the gods, believed that the true supreme suffering is precisely the transformation of life and death based on love.

Therefore, "knowing how to love" is the punishment that this monarch on the holy mountain of Olympus gives to the world.

(End of chapter)