Gu Weijing also smiled embarrassedly.

The pattern is smaller.

It's really not on the table.

Not only is it not as good as Cao Xuan's family and national feelings when he was a child, but it is also reflected in the soil by Mr. Cao's mind and bearing.

"Please don't laugh at him, guys."

I think that's a good answer, and it's really good. There is no need to laugh at all. ”

The old man said seriously on the stage, "Let the family live a good life, so that the expectations of the people you like will not be disappointed, isn't this a respectable dream and a goal to promote people's progress?" ”

"I even think it's a very brave answer."

"Compared to the time when I was in front of the bed, I wanted to show that the teacher felt that I was worthy of entrusting myself, and the answer I made was probably more honest and braver."

"So that day, after I hung up. I think back to our conversation, and it determines the content of today's talk - how should we really become a great artist? And how do we live the life we want? ”

Cao Xuan smiled, as if he could see through the deepest straightforward longing in the hearts of every guest present.

"I'm speaking to him, and I'm speaking to everyone in front of the live camera."

"Even among the guests present, most of them have already become famous and become great painters in the eyes of the world, but my life experience may still bring you some new experiences."

The audience was silent.

The guests couldn't help but have their eyes blazing.

Every artist who can reach Cao Xuan's position is full of legendary stories in his career.

These life experiences are the most valuable assets of their careers.

I can listen to Cao Xuan teach everyone how to become a great painter.

It's like listening to Warren Buffett's investment guide.

In 2022, Warren Buffett's $19 million charity dinner also strictly stipulated in the contract that he could not ask about topics related to stock market investment.

Probably there are really only old immortals of this age.

I am willing to teach my professional experience and the essence of the old cat on the tree to everyone in the world without asking for anything in return.

"What is art? This sentence is asked rotten today. I'll give you an answer of my own. I can't answer what art is, but I should know the inside story of some artists. ”

"The so-called achievements of an artist are nothing but the reward of fate after choosing to live tenaciously and keep learning."

Cao Lao pondered for a moment.

"That's bullish, go straight to the source."

The little old man nodded proudly, and shook his head regretfully.

"Contrary to the Miss Elena just now, I have always regretted it, because I did not make it up, and certainly not Zweig, who is a first-rate biographer and playwright, but in terms of artistic attainment, he should not be as good as mine."

The old man teased.

The whole audience was filled with a brisk atmosphere, and Anna also gently pursed the corners of her mouth.

These words were uttered by Ilya Efimovich Repin. My teacher once had a one-sided relationship with Repin. ”

There was a Dutch satirical joke in the nineties that the last person to see Van Gogh had just passed away last Wednesday.

On the one hand, this is because of the influence of the celebrity effect after Van Gogh became famous.

The neighborhood neighborhood corner, the bakery owner next door, even if it was a babbling baby at the time, everyone wanted to have something to do with the great painter.

So a chicken drowned in the Pacific Ocean, and after two mouthfuls of seawater, everyone said that they had drunk the chicken soup.

For a long time, until it was almost the 21st century, there would be centenarians and old ladies on TV, declaring their relationship with Van Gogh when they were children.

On the other hand, it is also explained from the side.

Sometimes, the history of fine arts is very long.

Sometimes, the history of human art is also very short.

Van Gogh, Repin...... These are all converted to the Xianfeng era of the Eastern Xia and Qing dynasties, or the contemporaries of Leo Tolstoy during the imperial Russian period.

Gu Weijing included the hearts of 99% of the guests present.

It's all cold names from art textbooks and materials to be memorized on art history exams.

There is no essential difference between Repin, Van Gogh or Leonardo da Vinci and Wang Xizhi, even for post-00s art students of Gu Weijing's age.

Even Picasso is a rather distant name.

People may subconsciously think that Picasso has been dead for hundreds of years.

But in fact, for a centenarian like Cao Xuan, it is just a difference of one or two generations.

In their memory, these names are even alive, with warmth and real existence, people who will laugh and scold.

So in the old gentleman's narration.

The entire history of modern art, which has been full of ups and downs of mankind, has been condensed into three words.

The heaviness of the times is coming.

"My teacher, together with Xu Beihong, Lin Fengmian and other gentlemen, tried to introduce the Western-style realist line structure into traditional Chinese painting, and raised funds to open modern art education colleges in Suzhou and Beiping. To this end, he made a special trip to visit Repin in the 1920s. I had the impression that Repin in the teacher's narrative was an old painter with a thick beard, deep eyes, and thick and powerful knuckles. ”

"But that's not what my teacher told me."

Cao Xuan's eyes had the childlike innocence of a child.

"I'm ashamed to say that I only found out when I learned to play games."

Gao Guxuan rubbed his ears vigorously, as if he felt that he was having auditory hallucinations.

The old gentleman on the stage just now...... Are you really talking about computer games?

Or is it some kind of advanced art study, which is regarded by the old gentleman as a game in his leisure time?

It was not only Gao Guxuan who was shocked, but also many people in the field.

Even Gu Weijing was shocked.

Video games have never been an unfamiliar territory for the contemporary art industry as a whole.

Opposite.

The two industries are much more closely connected than most people think.

The game company has solved the employment problem of art students in large numbers.

Even ordinary art students in the four major art academies such as the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, the goal of becoming a painter is too far away, and it is easy to starve to death.

Traditional layout design, construction and other employment opportunities are limited.

Game companies are a very good career for art students these days.

Miss Sandnu had given them a step-by-step career plan.

After careful analysis, Mona felt that the Internet industry was the easiest to make money among several relatively realistic life choices.

I think they should study animation design together in college.

After graduation, I hope that Gu Weijing will go to the game company for an interview, if he can get an offer from a big company like Ubisoft, EA, and Penguin.

Whether it's going the concept art or the concept artist route.

Steadfast work for five to ten years.

In important branches in Dongxia, the United States, or Singapore, you can be a project manager in the art department, a small team leader, and these game companies with generous money can get an annual salary of more than 100,000 US dollars.

The days will be relatively decent and prosperous, barely half a gold collar.

However.

This is the annual meeting of European art, the vane of the development of the whole Western art!

In the hearts of these exhibitors who are above the top.

Who doesn't have an indescribable sense of self-superiority?

The sky is the boss, and he is the second.

Even the manga artist is considered to be "fooling children", and the illustrator is a "taxi driver who drives for others", and the game is not at all on the table.

Suddenly Cao Xuan, the old grandmaster, said it.

There is an indescribable sense of disobedience and dislocation.

Repin said that art comes from continuous learning, and we have an old saying in Dongxia, live to be old, and learn to be old. Those who can't keep up with the times will be abandoned by the times. This is true of people, and so is the style of art. I hate to be the kind of person who reads the world and the people are not old. The old painter who spends his days in a rocking chair boasting to young people about his golden age and prosperous years. I'm old, but I'm not old enough to learn new things, and I have to rely on memories to survive. ”

Cao Xuan didn't think he could play games at his age, what shouldn't he be.

"When I was 15 years old, I learned to go to the theater. He learned to drive at the age of 21 and swim at the age of 32...... At the age of 74, he learned to knit sweaters, and at the age of 79, he began to try skiing. At the age of 81, I began to study Greek in order to read primitive art documents, which of course was not very successful, and I was too old to learn a new language. Until I came to this art conference, I had just participated in the shooting of the first campus micro-film in my life. ”

"Only by truly understanding the voice of the times and understanding people's lives can we draw works that reflect the pulse of the times. I ask my disciples to carry a notebook with them to record the knowledge that may be used in painting, and all aspects of life that can be captured by themselves. And I always have to learn new things myself. ”

"Playing games is something I learned five years ago. I never limit myself, and I think that playing Go, chess, or bridge is a pastime that suits my identity. ”

It was different from the consternation of the people in the venue.

The response in the online comment area was very enthusiastic, and people thought that this old man was really cute.

It's too down-to-earth.

"Wow, Mr. Cao Xuan is so fashionable! That's so much fun, isn't it? ”

"Cao Lao fights the alliance, doesn't he? What rank, I can take the old man to fly. I'm satisfied if I can add a friend! ”

“+1”

"At the old man's age, he can't play such an intense game. It's great to be able to play mahjong, flip poker, and watch it online. My grandfather was obsessed with playing. ”

……

"FIVE YEARS AGO, I ONCE CAUGHT A STUDENT SECRETLY PLAYING A GAME ON AN IPAD IN CLASS. I gave him a chance to submit an explanation explaining this behavior in the next class, otherwise he would be deducted from the class. The kid wrote a paper that was sprinkled with a thousand words. ”

Cao Xuan raised his eyebrows.

"It's a pity. I don't think he succeeded in convincing me. ”

The old man showed the face of the harsh head teacher who caught you playing games in class, "So I can only give him a C for his class performance." I'm a pretty strict teacher. ”

Bursts of laughter.

"But I still remember from his thesis the 'ninth art' he depicted, and I also know the game he is playing on the tablet to 'learn the cultural and artistic contexts of various countries' - a strategy game called 'Civilization'."

"It's a historically oriented development game. Each player can play as a national leader, Qin Shi Huang, Peter the Great, Saladin, Roosevelt and other celebrities, from the Stone Age, all the way to the universe, competing to become the leader of the world. In the meantime, you can summon artists like Leonardo da Vinci, Mozart, or Repin to help you develop your civilization and get a higher score. ”

Cao Lao really likes that game, so he studied it intensively.

"I asked my assistant to download the game on my computer. There are currently a total of 226 hours of total playtime. For an elderly person with mild cataracts, this is already a lot of play. The game itself is a lot of fun. That famous quote of Repin is the tone when I recruit Mr. Repin when I play this game. More critically, I found that—"

"The process of playing this game is like the process of becoming a great artist step by step."

Cao Xuan's voice paused.

"There will be times when you'll succeed, there will be times when your empire will be ruined by war, and the key greats you want to recruit will be snatched up by your opponents, and other times, it's just bad luck, floods, droughts, sandstorms, bushfires, or simply volcanic eruptions, sea levels rise, and you've lost the game."

Netizens are even happier with the discussion.

"Look at the old gentleman, play a game, you can still play out the perception of life, I have to say, I was born to eat this bowl of rice."

"Civilization is a game until dawn! Looks like I'm not the only one who stays up late playing games? ”

"In the future, my mother can't blame me for playing games anymore, I learned from Mr. Cao. Mr. Cao said that the process of playing games is the process of becoming a great artist. Perhaps, I will be like an initiation, without a teacher, and become a great painter worth hundreds of millions! ”

"Do you want to learn art, I'm embarrassed to break you."

Gao Guxuan scratched his nose and twisted his head again.

"Hey, have you ever played this Civilization?"

"No, I hardly play games. My son is addicted. But since Mr. Cao said that he can understand the artist's life insights, I may come to play next. ”

CDX's gallery master interface.

"Me too. I can probably guess what Cao Lao is talking about. Hehe, the production company of "Civilization" has made a lot of money now. At Mr. Cao's level, if he endorses luxury goods, how can he get tens of millions of dollars, right? ”

"At least that's the number. Takashi Murakami's joint income from a trendy brand starts at 20 million, and Cao Xuan will not be lower than this price. Ms. Lisson bowed slightly.

——

"I've played a total of sixteen games of standard difficulty, losing eleven, winning two for diplomatic victories and three for cultural victories."

Cao Lao smiled and said, "It's a pity. Although the game offers the option of cultural victory. But in his bones, he still uses his own influence to eliminate the influence of other countries, you fight for me, eat you, subvert you, and strengthen my aggressive set. Instead of allowing me to be good, so are you. ”

"But I still love it. If one day, the leaders of the whole world gather together and speak with paintbrushes instead of guns, it will of course be a great progress in world civilization. ”

"In the Civilization game, the country-specific buildings of Eastern Xia are called canals. Every time I play a game, I think about the most famous king in the history of Eastern Xia who was famous for building canals, called Emperor Yang of Sui. ”

"Emperor Yang of Sui was a famous unscrupulous tyrant in the history of Eastern Xia. But if you measure him as an artist, Emperor Yang of Sui is actually an emperor with a high artistic accomplishment. When my husband commented on the calligraphy and painting attainments of the kings of the past dynasties, Cao Cao should be the first in poetry, and Emperor Yang of Sui could be in the top three. On the hand-to-hand calligraphy inscriptions, Song Huizong is the first, and Emperor Yang of Sui can still be ranked in the top five. It's the kind of artistic all-rounder who has high attainments in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, music, rhythm and color......"

Everyone listened quietly to Cao Lao's narration.

The story of Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty is well known to everyone in Eastern Xia.

In Europe and the United States, it is still quite exotic and curious.

There is no shortage of foreign sinologists, and some of them are obsessed with studying the history of Eastern Xia to a very high level.

However, there is still a lack of sufficient understanding of Oriental art.

Generally speaking, even if mainstream universities in Europe and the United States specialize in the study of Dongxia history, it usually takes 24 to 36 class hours, at most 72 class hours, a textbook of about 200,000 words, from the Three Emperors and Five Emperors to the success of the Olympic bid.

Go through it hastily.

Foreigners may be more concerned about Wu Zetian's harem secrets.

The Sui Dynasty, a dynasty of more than 30 years, although it is also a unified dynasty, often passes by.

Little is known about the artistic style of the Sui Dynasty.

In Li Yanshou's "Northern History", it is said that although his works of art are not many, they are enough for the above six generations, and they are enough to enlighten the Tang Dynasty and see the condensation, which is enough to be a model for all generations. When Wei Zheng was compiling the "History of Sui", he sighed with emotion, "The lord of the fallen country has many talents, and the examination of Liang, Chen and Sui is not false." This is to destroy a nation. It's all due to Yang Guang's personal artistic attainments. ”

Cao Lao said slowly: "It seems to be a bit of a shirk of responsibility." Think about it, Yang Guang, Li Yu, Zhao Ji, including Louis XVI. ”

"It seems that we can really hear the echo of this sentence again and again in history, like a huge curse, lingering and inextricable."

"When I was teaching, my disciple Zhou Ming once asked me why in feudal history, a real great artist often could not become a successful king. Even, in the entire history of art, a true artist often can't have a successful and happy life? ”

Countless people were silent.

Even the art masters present felt more deeply in their hearts.

A truly great artist often fails to become a successful king.

They don't care about that.

But the second half of Old Man Cao's sentence - a real artist often can't have a successful and happy life?

If you use the expression of fighting Japanese comics.

On the top of these guys' heads, it is likely that the white "999" number has floated out, and Cao Xuan knocked out a real crit with a word.

Do you want to ask them if they succeed?

They must have been very successful.

Being able to appear on the stage at the European Art Annual Conference has proved this, and each of them is an idol that tens of millions of art students can not reach.

Do you want to ask them about happiness?

Probably, there are not many guests present who can pat their chests and say that they are very happy.

It's never like you're happier if you have $10 million than someone who has a million, or someone who doesn't even have $100,000.

It's also never, if you drive a 100-foot superyacht with a class of Victoria's Secret models, and party on the Mediterranean every day, you are happier than if you walk to the cinema hand in hand, watch a half-price movie at 11 o'clock, and scrape together a bucket of popcorn.

In the eyes of the media, artists often want to live or die, and often shoot themselves at every turn, probably an exaggerated processing of stereotypes.

But at least a third of them have been divorced several times.

OF THE REMAINING TWO-THIRDS OF THE PEOPLE, MOST OF THEM ARE THE KIND OF PEOPLE WHO HAVE MADE UP THEIR MINDS, ANYWAY, IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND TRUE LOVE, LAO ZI IS NOT MARRIED OR PLAYING, IT IS TO BE HAPPY, AND CHANGE THE ROMANTIC TYPE OF LOVER EVERY DAY.

They are the winners of the professional field and the losers of life.

"Great artists are like floating, they spend a glorious day in the sun, and then die alone at night." Cao Xuan said faintly, "What's even more regrettable is that the vast majority of people in this industry have never even seen the blazing sun." ”

"I didn't tell Zhou Ming, it seems that the answer of 'plaything is demoralized' has been agreed in history. Destroy Tugu, conquer the Turks, fight Goryeo, build canals, open imperial examinations, and go to Yangzhou three times. Emperor Yang of Sui died in his personal ambition in his life. I thought about it for a long time and gave my answer - the aesthetic curse. ”

Aesthetic curse.

Everyone is pondering this statement.

"The aesthete of every artist, this is not only manifested in artistic creation, but also often in personal life. They are always striving for perfection, and they can't accept any failures and stains like obsessive-compulsive disorder. Yang Guang has been an artist all his life, and he has created the whole country as a grand "Map of the Society of Rivers and Mountains". What should I do when a painting is being painted, and suddenly my hand shakes and a stain is placed? ”

"He just tore up the painting and stopped playing."

"It's the typical artist's thinking. Therefore, historians say that he can live in a prosperous world, and it is difficult to calm down in troubled times, so he is disheartened when there is chaos. ”

"Yang Guang's generation is absurd and unreasonable, and he rejoices in his achievements, and the people who are tortured by the people are miserable. This is certainly true. But at the same time, in the first half of his life, he was born as the most enlightened of his brothers and sisters. When he was the prince, he was a famous idle king in the world, and he had great achievements and was supported by others. Joy and rhythm, understand art. Until the defeat of the conquest of Goryeo, the people changed all of a sudden. ”

"He's like the kind of kid from someone else's family who always only scored 100 points in the test since he was a child. Suddenly, one day, while taking the test, I found that I had written a big question wrong. His reaction was not to grit his teeth and continue with the test. Instead, there was an uproar, and it collapsed directly, tore up the whole paper, didn't take the test, I stopped playing, and made a lot of noise. ”

"The entire Sui Dynasty is probably the most powerful dynasty in human history that has abruptly perished from ancient times to the present. The Guanlong nobles who started in the Sui Dynasty held the most powerful soldiers and horses in the land, and the barns were full of grain and grass. But Yang Guang has been that aesthetic obsessive-compulsive character all his life. Everything must be done to the most perfect, once you make a mistake, you will lock yourself up in the harem and ignore the government. was finally persuaded by the queen to come back, and handled the political affairs in an orderly manner, with the appearance of a heroic monarch. As a result, two days later, I found out that I had made a small mistake, so I retracted into the harem and quit. ”

Cao Xuan shook his head and said slowly.

"Historically, until the end, the Guanlong aristocratic group of their own family was really tortured and couldn't stand it. The cousin Li family raised their own troops to pacify the world, and the Sui Dynasty perished. ”

"The problem with life estheticians is that they never deal with failure."

"I always feel that life is a canvas that can be torn up and re-painted and re-spread. A game that can be reverted and restarted. ”

"Do you know why the kid who gave me a painting why I was so stunning? Do you even think it's enough to entrust you with a big responsibility? ”

(End of chapter)