The cultural environment is different.

Western artists and artists influenced by the Han cultural circle pursue different states of mind.

Of course, there are also Western artists such as Van Gogh and Gauguin, who burned their lives and fought fiercely against the world.

But in recent decades.

Like John Lennon, he transcends the concept of art beyond the real society, and pursues a more compassionate and peaceful, universal concept of love and peace.

Anger and sadness – in the minds of these artists, it is a negative emotion.

Chinese painting looks like a leisurely landscape with a far-reaching artistic conception, but Gu Weijing feels that the state of mind pursued by the painter, whether it is a person or a painting, is actually more intense.

Cao Lao said that painters should cultivate three points of energy in their hearts.

It is the righteousness that sees the injustice of the world and wants to draw a sword to help.

It is the anger of seeing the family and country shattered and the people displaced.

It is the title of the gold list, the joy of the flowers and candles in the cave room, or the bleak atmosphere of seeing the withered old trees and the thin horses of the west wind......

The anger burning in the chest is exactly the kind of qi that needs to be nourished.

Gu Weijing was very angry when he saw that Brother Hao was doing a lot of evil, but he was infinitely beautiful. I saw European tourists with beautiful rented local girls being carried across the embankment of the Yangon River on a sliding pole. They are just a lazy little dick and a lewd bad old man in their own country, and they are very angry that they come here to be masters just by relying on the exchange rate difference and social welfare.

Even if he was blackmailed by the local patrol this morning, he was very angry.

Gu Weijing is an angry person from the bottom of his heart, not a peaceful and quiet person.

The surging grievances that were biting at his own in his chest were what Gu Weijing really wanted to express.

This kind of restless flame is the source of his empathy with the world.

Grandfather Gu Tongxiang's idol is a painter named Zheng Sixiao.

After the fall of the Southern Song Dynasty, the representative of the remnant painting school, Xiao in his name, was a homophonic variant of the "Zhao" of the Zhao and Song dynasties in ancient times.

This guy's life simply illustrates what TMD is the opposite of "tranquility and peace".

Old man Zheng was the most famous flower painter in the history of Eastern Xia, especially good at painting plum blossoms.

This guy is so good that the rootless Momei in his pen compares his life to the life of wandering after the collapse of their country and family.

After the fall of Suzhou, he cried and laughed every day, crazy, it is said that he often cried blood when painting, and the plum blossoms in his pen were like dried bloodstains.

Even there are many quirks in life, every time you sit down, you must face south, in order to show that you don't look at your homeland, the old man is even sick and dying, and he has to personally instruct to set up a tablet, which reads "The Great Song Dynasty is disloyal and unfilial Zheng Sixiao" These nine words, and then he died.

Childhood.

When Gu Weijing listened to his grandfather tell this story about Old Man Zheng, there would always be a crazy old man like You Heng in the old version of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms TV series broadcast on TV.

The caftan was attached to his thin bone frame, and every time he came to a place, he first stared at the sun with his head held high and his hands behind his back, figuring out where the south was like a human compass, and then patted his ass and sat down, coughing up blood while drawing.

At that time, Gu Weijing, who was obsessed with watching cartoons, was in his heart.

The plum blossoms in the old man Zheng Sixiao's pen are never drawn with a brush, but are very cartoonish, just like Guanyin Bodhisattva dipping the talisman water in the jade bottle to the willow branches full of vitality in the world.

The painter's blood spurted onto the paper, and dots of ink and plum grew from it.

At that time, Gu Weijing didn't understand that the story in his grandfather's mouth was probably a condensation of the "style and integrity" that generations of Dongxia literati had been striving for.

But he thinks that the old man Zheng in the story is very cool, very fan, or ......

It's artistic.

A bloody cough and ink-colored plum blossoms growing on the white paper are Gu Weijing's first professional impressions of the artist industry in his life.

Even today.

Gu Weijing also felt that this crying Zheng Sixiao was more stylish and more performance art than the "special quirks of artists" praised by countless media in the lives of painting masters such as Picasso, Picasso, and Andy Warhol, who collected mad demons.

It's not good to be completely artistic!

Although Old Man Zheng has never gained a moment of tranquility in his life, he has never obtained tranquility.

His state of mind was as messy and broken every day as if there were eighteen gongs striking together.

In the story told by that grandfather, Master Huamei hated the world so much, and loved it so much.

But Gu Weijing's heart felt that such traditional painters of Dongxia were more vivid, intimate and real than the spiritual masters who sat calmly and compassionately on the lotus platform.

It's not that Gu Weijing has much courage and wants to become Zheng Sixiao.

This kind of struggling and tangled life is a bit too much performance art.

No one wants to live this kind of self-tortured life unless they are masochists.

Gu Weijing just didn't want to lose such a fiery anger and unwilling ability.

He didn't want to wear it out.

Gu Weijing is even a little afraid that he has really become the kind of person who treats everything with a smile, carefree, and preaches to the world - forgiveness, love and peace.

Although this is the secret of today's art exhibitions and the standard routine of political correctness.

But Gu Weijing still didn't like it.

Get that kind of life, and embark on that kind of artistic path...... The old Zen master who seems to have attained the Tao and ascended every day, and his heart is full of love for peace, or is he taking care of himself?

It is the Bodhisattva who has no joy or sorrow, the Buddha.

Only not a living person.

Katsuko Sakai said that when a person is quiet enough, he can see his true heart, and when his state of mind is as clear and calm as the surface of a lake, he can clearly reflect the most suitable career for himself.

Gu Weijing breathed quietly, and he looked at the reflection on the lake-

He saw a burning fire.

"Katsuko...... What should I do if I feel that my chest is forever filled with irreparable anger and restlessness, and that I will never be able to become a peaceful painter. Perhaps I will never rise in the east, with peace of mind, peace and joy. ”

Gu Weijing murmured in a very light and very light voice.

Miss Sakai tells him that meditation is a process of knowing yourself.

As desires and confusions alternate in the mind, answering these questions completes enlightenment and mind cultivation.

He felt the desire and confusion in Katsuko's mouth.

But I seem to be stumped by the first question.

Probably in essence, he is not a park lake in the middle of the park, where there are always various rapids and whirlpools echoing.

Sakai Katsuko felt Gu Weijing's well-proportioned breathing, and there was a momentary pause.

The girl smiled.

"I thought, then don't wear it off."

"I make you imagine that you are a lake, not that you become forever unwaveless. Tranquility and peace are just the path chosen by many artistic predecessors, it does not mean that it is the only correct solution, and I also hope that my Gu Jun has his own character. ”

Gu Weijing felt Miss Sakai's voice in his ears, as if it was coming from a long distance.

"You are a lake, deep or shallow, green or blue, turbid or clear, none of this matters. The important thing is to be strong enough to bear all this, to feel the anger flowing in your heart, to feel the ripples and waves coming and going like a quick flash, like spring, summer and autumn, rain, sunshine, wind and snow. ”

No matter how the tide rises and falls, there is still enough calm in my heart to observe these emotions and pick up the brush to speak, instead of being controlled by emotions like Gu Jun just now. You should be able to recall the difference between these two emotions. ”

"My mother said that the person who can really reach the peak of art is always the master of emotions, not the slaves of emotions. She said that strong artists, it's not that they can't be affected by emotions, they're—"

Katsuko Sakai smiled at the corners of her mouth.

"Even if your heart is in turmoil, you can still bloom with a lotus."

Mrs. Sakai explained these teachings to her daughter one by one, and at a very young age, she was required to write them down.

Even if Katsuko is a delicate girl, with her eighteen-year-old life experience, she may not have a deep understanding of these theories.

She just remembered.

When you first hear a lot of truth, it's just a truth.

Only after I have really experienced one item after another, cried, and laughed, can I really understand.

That being said.

However, when art students really encounter things like Gu Weijing.

Is there an elder who has taken precautions to teach him these summarized truths that do not change?

It is often a world of difference between the difficulty of polishing the soul.

There are a variety of excellent painting teaching materials in the world.

The YouTube tube is also full of master classes such as "Yayoi Kusama Teaches You Pop Art", "Thirty-six Online Lectures of the Oil Painting Department of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts", and "Appreciation of Qi Baishi's Art Style".

In terms of technical learning, ordinary people in the Internet era can also have access to excellent educational materials.

However, compared to most art students.

The children of great painters are more likely to become great painters, and the apprentices of painting masters are still painting masters nine times out of ten.

In addition to the intergenerational transmission of network techniques.

It is these word-of-mouth summaries that play a key role.

This is the same thing as the "mental method" of painting, so that their children and younger generations can better sharpen their mood when they are at a low mood.

Professor Sakai and his wife could not let their daughter go through emotional ups and downs for the rest of their lives.

But he had already prepared a way to let Katsuko not be knocked down as easily as Gu Weijing when she encountered the threshold of her heart.

It's like I want to burn a pot of porcelain from a kiln.

On one side is the second generation of the clay recipe, the temperature of the furnace, and the time of opening the kiln summarized by the parents and teachers with their life experience.

On the other side is the dirt bun that he is holding a broken piece of porcelain and groping hard.

The yield rate and yield rate of both sides are not inherently above the same level.

If it is said,

Mr. Sloth once opened a corner of the traditional European aristocratic family education for Gu Weijing.

So now, Miss Sakai is making up for him to be a "family education" that belongs to only great artists.

"So when I was very young, my mother made me imagine that I was Lake Biwa outside Kyoto, quiet and majestic, and the wind and clouds were changing, but the purity was still there. Neither the storm nor the dust can diminish its clarity. She made me resonate not only with the surface of the lake, but also with the whole 'body of water'. When it's stormy outside, the depths of the water are always quiet. When emotions are agitated, there is still a small world in the depths of your heart where you can pick up a paintbrush. ”

Katsuko looked at the sunlight shining through the awning.

"The body of water in the lake in your heart is made up of all the people you have loved, all the people you have hated, all the bitterness and bitterness, the seven emotions and six desires. It's a projection of your life experience, a deep enough lake to make big enough waves. ”

"Only when you have experienced enough things and have enough life insights can you paint the most profound paintings."

Gu Weijing suddenly realized.

He was fascinated by the meaning of Katsuko Sakai's subtle words.

A deep enough lake can set off a large enough wave, which is much more impressive than love and peace, no joy and no sorrow.

Is this Mrs. Sakai's life insight?

Man is a complex creature.

The old fairy-haired blonde aunt who looks high above and likes to look at people through her nostrils has such a philosophical and poetic side.

"So, you need to immerse yourself in the deepest part of your heart, and ask yourself what is your greatest desire and fear to embark on the path of being a painter?"

"Desire and fear are the yin and yang sides of a person's soul......," Katsuko Sakai exhaled, "and it is also an artist who can firmly grasp the anchor point of the brush in his hand despite the turbulence of the lake and the stormy waves." ”

"I want to paint well and become a great painter."

Gu Weijing replied almost as a conscious reflex.

He heard Katsuko Sakai sigh in his ear.

"Katsuko, I'm sorry, isn't this answer a little cheesy."

Gu Weijing's answer is really not distinctive,

If you go out on the street, you can catch an art student and ask him what his dream is.

Most people will give this answer.

Extraordinary dreams, usually among all human dreams, are the most ordinary.

Gu Weijing sometimes really felt that he was indeed a layman.

"No, I'm sighing not because your answer is cheesy, but because your answer is almost the same as the one I used to answer, which is probably why you can't calm down."

"Gu Jun, you still don't understand what you want most."

Sakai Katsuko touched Gu Weijing's forehead lovingly, as if she felt her mother's feelings when she touched the cute little girl.

"Draw well? Or do you want to be a great painter? There can only be one of the greatest desires, and this ...... These are two different things. ”

Miss Sakai stared at Gu Weijing's face: "Many people mistake them for one thing, but this is actually not the same at all. A person who paints well does not mean that he can become a real great painter. In the same way, if a person can't paint well, it doesn't mean that he can't become a great painter in the secular sense. ”

"My father had always privately believed that Andy Warhol was just a good art speculator, the best of the art speculators of all time. He was the richest painter, not the greatest. On the contrary, he has also seen too many excellent painters buried in their lives. ”

(End of chapter)