The glow of the fireplace reflected the faces of the master and apprentice.

Cao Xuan's eyebrows were lowered, as if he was asleep.

Tang Ning stared at the wall and lowered the scroll, and as the heaven and earth pole slid open, a sea of purple flowers rolled out from the center of the painting, mixed with the wet cold wind blowing by the window and the smell of beech wood forced out by the fireplace, emitting the sound of beeps and heat.

In the living room, it was like the turn of spring and summer, and it rained lightly.

The rain of flowers fell into Tang Ning's heart, but smashed up stormy waves that were completely inconsistent with those fluttering fine flowers and leaves.

She first took a few steps closer, then slowly retreated, her face full of bewilderment, her fingers pinched and loosened, loosened and pinched.

Half an hour later.

Cao Lao was still sitting on the sofa, his eyes slightly closed, and he didn't turn his head to look at his female disciple's ever-changing and wonderful expression, but just asked softly.

"What do you think?"

After Tang Ning took a few deep breaths, the surprise when he first saw this "extraordinary" painting slowly dissipated, and the master of Chinese painting, who had threatened to Gu Weijing in an interview, said softly in an almost emotionless tone that the other party might not be able to catch up with the level of his painting in another twenty years.

"The composition of the branches and leaves is not natural enough, and the painted branches are like picturesque bamboos. The nib is disorderly, the shade is not appropriate, and the next grade is only. The leaves are also not well drawn, when each leaf falls down, it should be done that one leaf is like a feather, two leaves are like swallowtails, three leaves are like goldfish turning over, and four leaves are like wild geese. ”

"His painting looks like a mass of weeds, with mottled veins."

Downing set his eyes on the flowers and leaves again.

"This flower is barely passing, but the color tone is not very accurate, and the base tone of cinnabar should be supplemented with a dark color of reddish or yellowish, showing the difference between virtual and real effects and primary and secondary. His stroke is considered to be mediocre, but when he changes to the reverse peak of the pen, there are too many burrs, and the pen control ability is not strong enough, and it is immediately difficult to see the ......"

Her tone was unhurried, pointing out the problems on this "Wisteria Flower Picture" one after another.

Lao Yang pricked up his ears and listened carefully, thinking strangely.

A good painting, in the eyes of Ms. Tangning, is so full of mistakes and omissions that it can't be seen?

Even Lao Yang felt that she was deliberately making things difficult and belittling Gu Weijing.

Cao Xuan was not angry, and smiled.

"Hmm, so what?"

This time Tang Ning was silent for a long time and sighed.

She said a verdict that was completely different from the evaluation just now: "It's really not cheesy." ”

"Did you draw it?"

"Three months, give me three months."

Downing looked deeply at the scroll hanging on the wall for a moment, "I should be able to draw better." Far better than that. ”

It's a pity that except for the three people in the living room, no one in the world can hear Tang Ning's words.

Otherwise.

The sensational news value of this simple question and answer alone is worthy of the gossip tabloids of the art media, and it has made the headlines of most art magazines.

The most unattainable thing among the literati, and the most looked forward to by all young painters day and night, is not to let the master or noble person say "I am not as good as you"?

Light this sentence.

It's worth a thousand gold, and it's worth a thousand gold in a physical sense.

Closer.

Qi Baishi's pre-eminence in the Western art market, Picasso's famous phrase "Why do Asian painters come to visit me?" Let's go see Qi Baishi, his things are something I can't draw. "Century hard wide has played a very big role.

Go farther.

In the book, the big and small kings of the four sages, Wang Xizhi and Wang Xianzhi's father and son, in the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties for hundreds of years, were actually the sons of Wang Xianzhi who had a higher artistic evaluation than their father Wang Xizhi.

Until a calligraphy lover in the Tang Dynasty, he was shocked when he saw Wang Xizhi's calligraphy, and felt that his words were ashamed of himself in front of him, and he couldn't raise his head at all.

This guy set up a shop at the door of his house to collect the authentic works of Wang Xizhi in the world.

Since then, Wang Xizhi's fame has completely surpassed Wang Xianzhi's, and he has established the name of the first book saint in the ages.

This calligraphy lover is known as Tang Taizong.

It is Li Er, Li Shimin, a classmate.

"It takes three months to draw a better picture" sounds tough, but it can be expressed in a different way, which means that now she picks up the pen and is not sure that she can draw the same work.

With Downing's character and status, saying such a thing is actually an admission of defeat.

It is enough to make an acquaintance like Lao Yang drop his jaw in shock.

Lao Yang stared at Gu Weijing's "Wisteria Flower Picture" on the wall, rolled his eyes with a grunt, and his mind became active.

He had only known before that the painting was good, very good.

Nonsense.

It is strange that Cao Lao can evaluate the works of the word "exquisite" so satisfied, not good enough!

But no matter how good it is, Lao Yang still doesn't have an accurate reference in his heart.

Whether it's the kind of good that his old Yang can't draw, or the kind that Tang Ning can't paint, the meaning is more than 108,000 miles.

Even Downing said that figuring out the paintings that took three months to paint completely subverted his cognition.

It's not just a cow.

It's out of the woods! Cattle are worth a thousand gold.

No.

Joke.

In recent years, the price of gold has risen sharply, and the gold price is 1,000 taels, which is more than 2 million yuan.

This is almost a year's basic salary for Lao Yang.

Two million for a Chinese painting.

It is also the top 15 top celebrity prices in the entire Dongxia Hurun Artist Rich List.

This figure must be too exaggerated for an eighteen-year-old young man.

Even Downing has been on the career path for twenty years before his worth reaches this range.

But if there is a chance now, let Lao Yang pay two million to buy this "Wisteria Flower Picture", and he can really take it home at this seemingly outrageous price.

Just based on Cao Lao's attitude and Tang Ning's words.

Lao Yang is super picky, but he is very willing to gamble, betting that this painting will definitely be more than two million in another twenty years.

Who doesn't talk about the legends of Andy Warhol for $30,000 and Picasso for 50,000 francs, for 30 years, and then for 100 million?

This moment.

Lao Yang has a kind of inspiration for no reason, maybe such an opportunity is in front of him.

——

It seems that the shock in Lao Yang's heart is not enough.

"Three months?" Cao Lao stood up from the sofa on crutches, looked at the "Wisteria Flower Picture" on the scroll for a while, and then looked at Tang Ning.

"Xiao Ning, ask yourself, is three months enough?"

Tang Ning's brows furrowed, and he hesitated for a few seconds, "Five months, at most half a year." ”

"Half a year must be possible?"

Cao Lao asked meaningfully, "If I say that I can't paint it in half a year, the next time you have a solo exhibition, you will hold it with Gu Weijing, are you willing to do it?" ”

Tang Ning stopped talking this time.

The levels are different.

Tang Ning was very reluctant to say this, but in this painting, Gu Weijing and her paintings show a completely different level of appreciation in the eyes of the audience.

Each has its own strengths and weaknesses.

At the technical level, Gu Weijing is still not worth mentioning.

You're welcome.

Downing could read Vogue magazine with one hand while watching a talk show on TV, and draw anything much stronger with his left hand.

Cao Lao said that Gu Weijing's big-character pen has no body, no bones, and it is an ink pig.

In fact, when he painted Chinese painting, how good was it in front of a master like Tang Ning who stood on the peak?

Tang Ning didn't like Gu Weijing.

However, her comments on "Wisteria Flowers" are really not intentionally provocative.

Well, even if it's a deliberate prick, it's not a bone in an egg.

Downing's every comment hit the nail on the head.

If Gu Weijing is here, if he has the bearing to listen to the advice of the contrary, he will definitely benefit a lot, and he will have a sense of empowerment.

However, the insignificant brushwork techniques of this whole painting are condensed together to form a unique sense of atmosphere, the essence of this divine meaning...... Tang Ning thought to herself, even if she devoted herself wholeheartedly and watched it for three days and three nights, it would be difficult to draw it.

Its divine will has already entered the house.

This is also the crux of the problem that Tang Ning felt more and more frightened the more he looked at it, and the more he looked at it, the more he felt unbelievable.

The peach blossoms are gone, and there is no heaven and earth and no world.

Downing found that the whole painting had a faint self-contained serenity, a feeling that she had pursued for many years but could not obtain, and she couldn't help but feel jealous.

In her heart, she secretly compared her former "Hundred Flowers" with Gu Weijing's "Wisteria Flowers" in front of her.

Downing has always thought.

No matter how the other party paints or copies, compared with her works, it will be Li Ghost who meets Li Kui, and the gap is so big that it will make that kid feel hopeless and self-doubt.

In the portrayal of the atmosphere of the painting, things are completely reversed.

The atmosphere is the brewing of emotions, and the will of God is the collection of painstaking efforts.

It stands to reason.

The most important thing is not to fake.

The person and the pen are one, and the heart and painting are the same, what is needed is the emotional dispatch and the harmony of the works under the pen.

Agitation when it should be agitated, loneliness when it should be lonely.

Tang Ning doesn't fake, but with her talent, she can find some tricks.

She thinks that the best thing about "Hundred Flowers" is that dozens of flowers such as orchids, plum blossoms, Xinyi flowers, peach blossoms, pear blossoms, magnolias, hydrangeas, chrysanthemums, lotuses, wisteria, narcissus, peonies, Ganoderma lucidum, and Yueji bloom together.

Dozens of different techniques, dozens of different styles.

She has never seen all the flavors of the world, but she can take advantage of the situation.

Ancient madmen painted, painted and sang.

She holds a book of poetry in her hand, reads and draws.

When it should be bleak and cold, and lonely and lonely, Tang Ning put a copy of Gu Cheng's "History of the Southern Ming Dynasty" on his hand. When the flowers are bold and passionate, and when she is wanton and high-spirited, she silently recites "Will Enter the Wine" of "The Daughter Disperses and Returns", and the flowers fall into the water, and it is made with one stroke.

With the strength of the good wind, it sent me to the clouds.

While other painters struggle with pain and self-torment, she is like a viewer walking through the mirage-like phantoms of all beings.

Li Taibai danced with long sleeves on the moon, and she took a small cup, took three points of afterimage from the water to the moon, and poured it into the painting.

Pick one or two petals, two or three Livon, and it will be wonderful enough.

It's not your own, though.

But when you put down the pen, you cry and cry, although you are emotional to the depths, but on the tip of the nose wipe a little mustard, slightly "tune" out of the taste of three points of aftertaste, how is it not the practice of a smart person who retreats to the second?

It can make the tip of the nose sour when the viewer admires the painting, whether it smells pain or smells "mustard".

It's already better than most people who don't have a taste.

Isn't it?

The youngest gold medal winner in the history of the Magic City Biennale has proven all this.

But this "Hundred Flowers", which was the second best, collided with Gu Wei's "Wisteria Flowers".

It's like the tears shed by "mustard" meet the tears of true love.

In the blink of an eye.

The Li ghost of flowers, Li Kui.

Show one’s true colors.

Tang Ning understood that in front of this wisteria tree, the exquisitely designed flowers on his "Hundred Flowers" had all turned into fake silk flowers rolled up in plastic paper.

Now it's not Gu Weijing's self-doubt, but Tang Ning's face of this painting, and he begins to doubt life.

If it weren't for the clumsy technique, she even thought that this would be the handiwork of Mr. Cao himself.

Downing's advantage over Gu Weijing is that the praise she grew up with has made her heart stronger, and her status has long been such that she doesn't need to prove that she can become a great painter like anyone else in the world.

So.

Downing does not doubt the level of painting.

She just wondered from the bottom of her heart, how could an eighteen-year-old child have the accumulation to paint such a picture?

Even this technique made Tang Ning slightly frightened in his heart.

The skill level of the second-order level of the new profession is not worth Tang Ningzheng's eyes.

A hundred painters of this level combined, it is not worth it.

However, when was the painting drawn?

How long has it been since she saw Senior Brother Lin sharing his works in the Shimen group?

This increase in speed made Tang Ning have to feel frightened.

It is not an exaggeration to say that it is one day at all.

People say that Tang Ning is a once-in-a-century talent, but he was only like that back then.

This is completely inconsistent with the pace of progress that a young man in the middle of nowhere should have.

Now it's gritty.

It can continue to develop at this level, and in a few years, the prototype of the master will come out.

Technique can improve very quickly.

And a painter's emotional investment in her works, as far as she is concerned, it is absolutely impossible for her to rise so fast.

This kind of polishing of mood is the real bottleneck for Tang Ning, who has a smooth career path and sparks and lightning all the way.

The sense of atmosphere of the painting.

When she was twenty years old when she painted "Hundred Flowers", she couldn't draw it.

Now that she is worth tens of millions of dollars, she may not be able to draw.

has never been a top painter's perception of life, and it must be more profound than that of a 30-year-old mid-life crisis social animal.

It has to look at the circumstances of life.

Three months is just a nice way to say in Downing, and not enough emotional comprehension is not enough.

There is also no one way to improve accurately.

She may see through the true meaning of "Wisteria Flower Picture" tomorrow and draw such a picture.

It may not be possible to draw it in a year, two years, or five years.

(End of chapter)