In the video,
Thomas looks at the picture frame in Anna's hand.
He crossed his arms together and said to the judge, "I assure you that this is not the effect of the arranged show. The two paintings are almost identical when I first received the drawings."
Even he, a video blogger, was a little in disbelief when he just received the art delivery.
Thomas thought something must have been wrong. An artist must have made a copy of his painting and sent it over.
He even asked his studio employees to double-check the order before confirming that the two paintings were painted by two completely different painters.
“They are all really beautiful paintings, right? They are all incredibly good.”
As a video blogger who doesn’t know much about art, Thomas watched it for the first time When it came time to draw these two colored pencil drawings, I was simply shocked by the vivid and vivid restoration of the brushwork.
"A complete mistake."
Anna ruthlessly interrupted the other party's attempt to confuse the two illustrations.
"This illustration is excellent."
She placed the first turned frame on the table and stared down at the remaining illustration.
"This painting is truly incredible."
"But the two paintings look almost identical. So what's the difference?"
Thomas touched his chin in confusion and looked to the side at the bearded man and the braided man.
They also shook their heads in confusion.
"Of course you can't understand, after all, you"
Anna hesitated, and her good upbringing prevented her from saying the mediocre comment in the second half of the sentence to her face.
In her mind, 99% of people in this world are mediocre people.
These people may have a successful life in the eyes of ordinary people, but their souls are still chaotic.
For Anna, art appreciation is the process of using one soul to understand another soul.
Mediocre people can distinguish between beauty and ugliness, good and bad, but they cannot penetrate the difference between excellence and excellence that seems infinitely close and yet infinitely far away.
The difference between ninety-eight points and one hundred points is never as simple as two points.
It is for this reason that historically wealthy businessmen in Florence had the courage to point fingers at Michelangelo's sculptures. Only then would Van Gogh disappear into the sea of people, and only then would Gauguin be regarded as a madman. Generations of geniuses are lonely, and masters are lonely. Only a few lucky people can understand them.
I am such a lucky person.
"Miss Elena, I am really confused now. Can you tell our audience the basis for your judgment? Why do you give completely different answers to two almost identical paintings? "Evaluation"
Seeing that the other party did not answer for a long time, Thomas asked further.
The girl was silent for a few seconds.
Anna has an almost yandere-like mysophobia towards art.
Able to feel the excellence of this painting, she regarded it as a special soul bond between herself and the master, and she was unwilling to easily share this bond with other ordinary people.
However, after all, I am here to be a judge.
Out of professional ethics, she bit her lip and said, "If you can't intuitively feel the excellence of this painting, the simplest way is to ask your photographer to give it to a close-up The distance lens, zoom in five times or ten times, as long as you can ensure the clarity."
The video screen switched to a magnifying lens of the illustration in Anna's hand.
Thomas’s video production team used Hollywood-level professional photography lenses. After being magnified ten times, it still feels clear and sharp, and there is almost no distortion at the edges of the picture.
“This sketch is so beautiful.”
Mrs. Sakai exclaimed. When they were in the distant view, they could only see the outline of the painting when watching the video.
Only Professor Sakai, who had the most experience in painting, could vaguely feel the difference between the two illustrations.
At this time, the picture is magnified by the lens like a magnifying glass, the brush strokes instantly become clear, and you can even see the direction of each line.
Let’s not talk about the content of the painting, but the brush used for sketching is already at the master level.
“Such a level of painting, if it weren’t for colored pencil drawing, is a painting method that was just invented in the past century or so. It even makes me feel like visiting a palace art exhibition in the 19th century, as if the past has reappeared.”
Professor Sakai is also looking at the pencil skills of this painting.
As for whether the artistic expression of painting is spiraling upward, or whether it is not what it used to be, it is a commonplace saying that benevolence has different opinions.
But when it comes to traditional painting techniques alone, compared to the masters of a century or two ago, today's painters may not dare to say that they are better than others.
For a long time before the invention of the camera, painters were considered to be people with the magic ability to preserve time.
They are like historians who have the responsibility to record history and major events. Painting is not only an artistic creation, but also a job of recording reality.
That was the golden age of realist painting.
From Frederick the Great’s court ball to Madame Pompadour’s art salon in Paris. From Napoleon's self-coronation, to Queen Victoria's ascension to the throne, to the muddy battlefields where Czarist Russia and the Ottoman Empire battled to the death.
Any historical occasion that shakes the world has the shadow of a painter holding a paintbrush.
The wealthy ladies of high society and the handsome young painter flirted with each other. The great painters wore medals given by the emperor on their chests, wore well-dressed tuxedos, and walked freely through the palace with their heads held high.
But today, this art form is on the verge of decline.
The microphone in the hands of reporters and the clicking camera in the hands of photographers have replaced the brushes in the hands of painters, and the art of painting has completely transformed into a pure aesthetic form.
Practitioners are more pursuing abstract concepts that can sell for big prices. There are many people who are good at sketching, but there are very few people who are so good at painting.
But Professor Sakai felt that the power that moved him secretly was not just good at sketching, it was as simple as that.
What exactly is it?
"Wait a minute, Katsuko, pay attention. Not only is the sketch good, but also the muscle lines."
The right side of the video In the half, a photo that Mr. Hyperion gave to seven illustrators to use as reference for illustrations was printed.
At this time, Uncle Sakai finally seemed to have discovered something terrible.
He didn't even care that this was a cafe with lots of people coming and going.
Professor Sakai knocked on the table hard and waved the coffee cup at hand, as if he was a fan who discovered a world-beating fairy ball during the World Cup.
"It's amazing how perfect and beautiful it is," he said loudly.
In the video,
Anna is also comparing the muscle lines in photos and illustrations.
“In realistic painting of figures, naturalness and accuracy are the highest praise for muscle lines. This is extremely difficult to achieve. Even a great painter can hardly fully restore a person’s most subtle muscle activities. , trying to imitate deliberately is often the opposite."
"The founder of Fauvism, Matisse, once put forward the artistic slogan that precision is not natural."
"In this regard. The best person in the field of illustration is probably Norman Rockwell, who I mentioned to you. He was a student of the anatomical painter George Berryman and inherited the advantages of the old gentleman.”
Anna. There was a trace of regret on his face. "Mr. Berryman is recognized as a top expert in anatomy painters in the world, but unfortunately, he has devoted his life to studying muscle curves and teaching painting methods, and has very few artistic works of his own." . ”
“However, I didn’t expect it at all. Even with a magnifying glass, I could hardly find any unnatural and uncoordinated muscles. This was better than the artist’s own sketching skills. It also surprised me. He actually achieved the perfect unity of nature and precision."
"So Mr. Matisse, you are wrong. Deliberate precision is not natural, but perfect precision can. To achieve harmony and unity with nature, this painting is proof. "Please remember to collect it, the latest and fastest free reading without anti-theft