Professor Yuda swiped the screen of his phone in surprise.

It was a group of easel paintings taken from different angles, the painting had just been completed, and Yuda Riya could even read the freshness of the paint that had not yet solidified under the lens.

The way it is drawn is quite ancient.

It's as if it came out of the frozen history displayed in an art museum.

Vigorous and far-reaching.

"Hmm...... New style painting. I believe what you say, this really shouldn't be Katsuko-sama's work. ”

Yuda Riki also glanced at the painting on the screen, and then glanced at Uncle Sakai next to him.

"It's nothing else, it's just that it's so rare, borrowing from the form of gongbi and heavy color, and using the interaction of environmental colors to create rich tonal gradations, so that the pigment maintains a relative authenticity."

"Without a deep understanding and enthusiasm for Dongxia art, it is probably extremely difficult to choose such a challenging painting method that combines Chinese and Western heavy colors and line drawings. I have the impression that Gui Qianjin is still more inclined to the direction of traditional oil painting. ”

This guy is so eye-catching?

Even Sakai was shocked.

Even if he is an expert in curatorial direction, he conceives what the other side should say.

Unexpectedly, this Yutian senior, as a strong man who came over, just said a few words to explain Gu Weijing's painting method cleanly.

That's too professional, isn't it?

When Sakai Issei first saw Gu Weijing's works, his first reaction was not to think of Lang Shining.

Many professional terms were later checked on the Internet, and he probably knew them.

Kazunari Sakai has always felt that he has a lot of knowledge.

Could it be that he is invisible...... Not only did it raise the average weight of Tama's tenured professors, but it also lowered the average level of education?

The fat uncle touched his belly and became seriously worried, whether he should consider making up for the class or something.

"Haha, Sakai-san, it's not that I'm so good. You may not know it, but it was even one of my main business at one point. ”

Riki Yuda also looked at Professor Sakai and said happily. "Coincidentally, isn't it?"

"Your university ......"

"I'm not afraid of other people's jokes, my Ph.D. studied Japanese painting in Vienna. Listening to this major, you also know that at the beginning, I went to the school with a high ranking and a good graduation mixed diploma. ”

Yutian Riya said frankly: "But, I later got the teaching position of Tama, and when I wanted to evaluate the associate professor, I had to make some serious efforts to do some research, and the topic of the research direction was the Qing Dynasty court painter in Eastern Xia." ”

The art of Dongxia has long had a specific group of people and markets overseas, and its vitality has never been cut off.

Especially when Riki Yuda was in school, there was a certain amount of research on oriental art in the academic world.

Journals are eager to receive similar submissions.

Huang Binhong, a famous scholar, is a special expert from overseas to focus on research, and regularly holds discussions in places like New York.

Even such boundless macro topics as "Mountains of Chinese Painting" and "Water of Chinese Painting" may not be clear in a three-million-word essay.

Nowadays, graduate students in the Department of Art History are engaged in such a broad selection of topics, and there is a high probability that they will be directly photographed back by their supervisors.

Even if you are selected, it will be a five-to-ten-year unit, and you need to do a large number of volumes of literature to produce a mature and excellent paper.

In the seventies and eighties of the last century, well-known scholars were able to publish a journal of the magnitude of Asian Art overseas with a few thousand words of review.

The topic of his topic that year was to study "The Exploration and Change of the Painting Methods of Qing Dynasty Court Painters".

As the most famous painter of the Qing Dynasty, he is also a representative figure of the West's eastward expansion.

Lang Shining's painting method is definitely the top priority of research.

"Amazing, I can get the guidance of Yutian's seniors, this kid has earned it."

The sedan chair was carried by everyone.

The atmosphere has been set up here, and Uncle Sakai doesn't mind sending a thumbs up with a smile.

"Speaking of awesome, it's not that I'm awesome, it's that this painting is awesome. I just said that Impressionism combined with Yamato-e, you can listen to it as a joke. ”

"Isn't this design, this idea, more elaborate than my words?"

"Be opportunistic, don't get me wrong, it's not criticism. It's also opportunistic, this speculation is good, it's even better, and it's a skill to be able to draw like this. ”

Yutian Li also slid the screen, and slurped twice, "I'm still a person who has done special research, and my ideas are still limited." Lang Shining, New Style Painting ...... You say, is he going to be a kid at the Singapore Art Exhibition? This heart is going directly to the best newcomer of the year. ”

The curator turned his head to look at Uncle Sakai.

"Is it a student at our school, or a disciple in your studio? The lines, structures, and shapes are so good, and they are the stars of future Asian art. ”

Yuda Riki also made a joke with a half-truth.

Although he said this to save face for Sakai Issei, the child in Professor Sakai's mouth is estimated to be twenty-four or five at most.

To be able to reach such a level of painting at this age, with such momentum between brush and ink, is still a junior of Sakai Issei.

The achievements in the future will not be low.

Curators value the artist's artistic creativity more than the painter.

What a good idea!

Lang Shining's retro painting style, Yutian Riya's past impression, has always regarded it only as a kind of academic research, a kind of "past tense" painting method that can already lie in the history of art, and the exhibits on the museum stand.

Between the levels of difficulty.

Few modern painters would devote themselves to studying it in their own artistic direction.

Or rather.

It's a very well-known, but it's dead.

To be well-known means to be valuable, to die means to be rare.

Rare things have always been precious, and I can think of submitting such a painting method to the Lion City Art Exhibition, which is suitable for the right time and place.

And people?

Professor Kazunari Sakai has now found himself, isn't this a human being?

The most powerful thing is that this is not even a work in his mind that the so-called "just goal to win" deliberately forces different painting elements together.

It's not to imitate Lang Shining for the sake of painting Lang Shining.

The painting method of the whole painting is highly mature and calm.

The rich color gradation and heavy color pigments are just right, and the two-dimensional gongbi painting system is supported by the focus perspective system of the sketch lines.

There are also the dense lines of the short, layered carved light of the seurat-like style, and the delicate textures dragged by the skin of the fingertips.

Young blood is infused with the ancient method of painting.

The new style painting has disappeared from the curator's artistic vision for many years, but suddenly, it has been revitalized again.

"Ambitious, ambitious."

Count the ages.

Yutian Li can also be sure, there is a high probability that there must be a master behind this guy to guide him...... Maybe it's this chubby-looking Kazunari Sakai.

Didn't this guy also become famous at an art event?

It should have figured out a set of mature paths.

It is likely that this child has been preparing for this year's exhibition since he was fifteen or sixteen years old, and he has been experimenting with painting methods.

Ten years of sharpening a sword, light and cold fourteen states.

"Professor Sakai, such a thoughtful guy, how terrible, it is natural that he can get to this point this year, not only the flesh on his body, but also the eyes of the heart. And modern young people, in order to be able to become famous, are really enough. ”

Yutian Li also sighed in his heart.

The more he pondered, the more he felt as if he had guessed the truth.

In this way, there is a good explanation for the fact that such a good painter has not been visible in the art world of the younger generation in Japan for a long time.

It's clear that it's secretly there to accumulate a big move!

What people want is not to be famous, and it is a blockbuster effect.

Ten years of hard work, is it worth it to change the big news in the spotlight?

It's definitely worth it.

Being a painter is the same as being an actor, working in Hengdian for ten years as a group performer, and it is not as profitable as the second female in any TV series by brushing her face.

The art industry winner takes all.

How much hardship I endured on the way to fame, how cool it is after becoming famous.

"I wonder if the painter who painted this painting will be in another twenty years, and when you are your age, if I am still working, I will have to run over and beg people to open an exhibition like I do today."

At the beginning, Riki Yuda was just talking about the scene of ushering in.

Thinking about it.

Instead, he began to take things seriously.

"Such an excellent young man, it's inconvenient before the exhibition, and after he wins the award, you want to introduce me to him?"

Yutian Li also spoke, and even stood up and bowed directly.

"Please, Mr. Sakai."

The process by which a top artist is gradually exploited by the market can not only make his gallery a lot of money.

It can also allow the curators who have worked with him for a long time to directly support it.

That's how Nanjo Shisen used to go.

"Uh, oh, oh...... Okay, okay, that's too heavy, Yuda-senpai, you don't have to be like this. ”

The thoughtful fat conspirator Kazunari Sakai is a little at a loss.

He didn't even understand why the atmosphere suddenly became so serious when he looked at the painting well.

In order to cooperate with the other party, he had to stagger up from his seat, hold up his sore belly with sore muscles doing abdominal curls, and grin in return.

"Can I ask, according to a curatorial expert like you, if this child wants to continue to develop in the direction of this painting method, where should the next artistic path be?"

"Professor Sakai, do you really want my opinion?"

"Where, I specially invited you to come over, of course, I want to hear your advice."

"That's ......"

Riya Yuda looked Sakai in the eye for a moment, and then returned his gaze to the screen of his phone.

This.

The curator was silent for a long time.

"Well, his painting method has reached this point, and he is quite mature, and he himself is the master of the painting method in his hand. There aren't many places where outsiders can point out, I'm just giving some suggestions that you can listen to. ”

"Let's not talk about the technique, with Professor Sakai next to me, there are more places to point out than me, and it's not interesting to get an axe in the class. Just when I looked at this painting, I thought about something. ”

"Oh?"

"I don't know Professor Sakai, have you ever read "Dream of Red Mansions"?"

"Dream of Red Mansions."

Uncle Sakai twisted his neck for some reason, "I read some chapters when I was in high school. When I was in college, in the overview class of oriental art, "Dream of the Red Chamber" was recommended by the professor as a must-read book, and I also read the translation version of Ito Sohei in a superficial way. Not too impressive. ”

Among the four great novels, "Dream of the Red Chamber" is almost the most extremely regarded reading in Japan.

"Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is almost a household name.

Not to mention the total sales of tens of millions of copies of the "Three Kingdoms" series of games, the old TV series was printed in Japan, and even the emperor was shocked by the empty alleys.

In fact, even the new version of the Three Kingdoms TV series, which has been complained about the most on the Internet, has a pretty good evaluation among young people in Japan.

Even the praise rate of the online discussion group surpassed that of NHK's big-money drama "Taira Kiyomori" in the same year.

Water Margin and Journey to the West also have their own fans in popular culture.

Dream of Red Mansions was very coldly received, probably to ordinary Japanese, at a level that they had barely heard of the name.

However, in the field of professional art and culture, "Dream of Red Mansions" is still irreplaceable as the first of the four famous novels.

There are still many professional red scholars in Japan, and the number of people who read them widely among art students and literary youths was even selected as one of the most important official textbooks for learning Chinese as early as the Meiji era.

Yutian Li also smiled: "At the end of the last century, I was a visiting scholar in the capital of Eastern Xia. Talk to everyone all day long about art and culture. A professor from Dongxia mentioned that the core of Japanese art can be summed up in a book "The Tale of the Heike Family", where the bell rings at Gion Seisha, telling the impermanence of the world; The flowers of the Borneo double tree are discolored, and the prosperous ones are declining like vicissitudes. The so-called mourning of things is like this. ”

I nodded and said that it made sense, and there was a sense of beauty that the white land was really clean. I heard that Mr. Feng Zikai once said that "The Tale of Genji" is Japan's "Dream of Red Mansions", and I have always thought that it is too simple to regard Dream of Red Mansions as a love story of infatuated men and women. On the contrary, the glory and wealth are just like the dream of a spring night, and "The Tale of the Heike Family" is a little more similar. When I was in school, the Red House was my favorite. ”

"There is only one thing, Cao Xueqin's poems can't hide the limitations of the hard craftsmanship of Qing poems after all, and they are a little worse than the momentum of Li Du in the real Tang Dynasty."

"The other party told me that it was wrong, and the poems in the Red Chamber happened to be wonderful."

Yutian Li also recalled for a moment, "He told me that an art critic in Dongxia once said that Cao Xueqin's poems are the aquatic plants in 'Dream of Red Mansions'—"

"Put it in the water, pretty, wring out the water, and all that's left is the dry blades of grass."

"I kind of understand what you're talking about. Still, let's be clear. Sakai Kazunari's eyes were a little abrupt.

"The painting you asked me to see is like Cao Xueqin's poem."

"Whether it is oil painting, drawing or gongbi painting techniques, when taken out alone, it cannot be said to be ordinary, but it may not be outstanding among the entire group of painters. Its greatest advantage is that it blends with each other in the right place, like aquatic plants meet a river, and the whole painting suddenly comes to life. ”

"It's the chemistry of fine arts. If you want to make a breakthrough – the focus should also fall here. ”

(End of chapter)