After grandpa put down the phone, Gu Weijing returned to his bedroom.
Gu's calligraphy and painting shop is the ancestral property of the Gu family, and it certainly has an extraordinary significance to Gu Weijing.
But he has more things to care about now.
Gu Weijing turned on the computer and entered the entry "Singapore Art Biennale's award-winning works over the years".
The computer automatically jumps to the homepage of the Lion City Art Exhibition.
The top is an introduction to the art exhibition.
The Lion City Art Biennale is a cutting-edge art exhibition that has emerged in Asia in recent years, and its history is not too long.
It was first held after the millennium.
In the last period of Mr. Lee's administration, the founding father of Singapore, who had a life of ups and downs, set his sights on high-tech industry and tourism culture.
Historically, the Lion City was just an ordinary port city. During the wave of voyages to Southeast Asia in the 19th century, it became a transit place for boatmen, laborers, and maritime gold diggers, and was closely related to many historical cities in East Asia. In comparison, there is no obvious advantage.
Singapore needs to create a tourism business card of its own.
So the Lion City Art Biennale, Asia International Arts Festival, Art Expo, F1 Singapore Grand Prix and other large-scale international events are held here one after another.
Now is the seventh Art Biennale. It was originally supposed to be held two years ago, but due to the impact of the epidemic, it has been postponed to late this year.
Each year, a committee of curators selects a specific theme for the Biennale, and all works must be developed around this theme.
This year’s Singapore Art Biennale has a total of six curators, one local Singaporean art connoisseur and five art critics from five continents.
Perhaps because the epidemic has made Singapore deserted, the theme selected by the curators this time is "hteandbte", which translates as human noise.
For art exhibitions, this can be said to be a theme where a hundred flowers bloom.
As long as you have inspiration, you can basically draw whatever you want.
This is a good thing for all painters who want to participate in exhibitions.
Gu Weijing remembers that a few years ago, the theme of a famous European art annual exhibition was "female artists", which caused some controversy.
From the industry as a whole, there is nothing wrong with this.
Although it is not the same as it was hundreds of years ago or even decades ago, women were only regarded as secondary roles as mannequins, vases, and tools to inspire male painters to create art.
But it is true that in the oil painting industry, to this day, female painters still have far less opportunities than male painters.
So some art critics have even suggested that everyone use gender-neutral names to submit submissions in art exhibitions or art competitions.
Gu Weijing does not feel like many people that this theme is overkill.
But objectively speaking, art exhibitions with this theme, even if they do not restrict the submission of male painters, are indeed quite unfriendly to male painters.
After all, even if the curators and the jury do not understand what political correctness is, if too many male painters are selected to participate in the exhibition, it will be like the greatest literary and artistic work ever produced on African soil. Written by a Danish white aristocratic lady, the title of the book is also called Out of Africa, which is too darkly humorous.
Fortunately, there is no bias in this theme, and everyone is on the same starting line.
Free submissions for the Biennale are collected from all over the world.
Gu Weijing had applied for the registration form two weeks ago.
He moved the mouse to the column of works exhibited in previous years, and randomly selected a work from the electronic album of previous exhibitions in 2012 with the theme of life.
He activated the identification technique.
Oil Painting Whale Song on the Sea
Sketch Techniques v4 Professional Level 1 26785000
Oil Painting Techniques v3 Semi-Professional 9641000
Emotionally careless
Oil painting of a person carrying a pole
Sketch technique v4 professional first level 5125000
Oil painting technique v4 professional first level 11305000
Emotional insouciance
"This painting of a man carrying a pole won the third prize in the student group."
The first thing Gu Weijing clicked on was the electronic picture album of the student amateur group. After randomly throwing in two skills, He had a rough judgment on the level of these amateur groups.
He found that in the process of appraising oil paintings, unlike Chinese paintings, the technical level and experience value of sketching would also pop up.
This was not beyond Gu Weijing’s expectation.
Sketch itself is known as the foundation of all modern Western art schools. No matter what style of oil painting or watercolor you are, it is all based on lines and colors.
As long as it has anything to do with lines, sketching is absolutely indispensable as the basis.
Any great oil painter, anyone, has worked hard on sketching.
Even if it is a Fauvist painter.
As you can tell from the name of this genre, the painting methods of Fauvist painters are wild enough.
They do not like rigid lines and are keen on using bright and strong colors. They often use paints squeezed directly from paint tubes and use straightforward and rough brushwork to create strong picture effects.
But the founder of the company, Matisse, was very good at sketching.
A special sketch exhibition was also held.
As for oil painting, you don’t even have the basics of sketching. Whatever you draw is deformed. People think the girl is a monkey and the apple is a watermelon. What kind of creativity are you talking about?
Should It's because they are electronic albums rather than real works. The ideas and lines and colors of these people's paintings are far from his direct contact with the Kingfisher and Bamboo.The actual picture is clear.
But it’s enough to just take a look.
To be fair, from a student's perspective, these people draw very well.
They are barely a few years older than Gu Weijing, but their proficiency in various techniques has reached the same level as Gu Weijing, who has obtained a panel.
Even in certain competitions, He is even stronger.
Mr. Cao is right. Having a first-level professional skill is almost the threshold for participating in calligraphy and painting exhibitions.
If both sketching and oil painting reach the level of a professional painter, then you should be able to stand on tiptoe and achieve a level worthy of winning awards.
Gu Weijing has given up the idea of continuing to use appraisal techniques on the paintings of the amateur group.
Because although the level of these people's paintings is indeed good, they are not so high that he can't see it. I understand, but it has not yet reached the level of excellence that would have an impact on him.
It's not worth continuing to spend the appraisal spell.
He switched to the master group's picture album in the filter column above, which was also his goal for this competition.
The style of the electronic album on the entire page suddenly becomes completely different.
First of all, in the 2012 Singapore International Art Biennale, the selected works of the master group were only three-quarters of those of the student group, but the number of pages in the album was more than three times that of the student group.
Each album in the master group has a dedicated artist introduction and review, and each painting is a dedicated homepage.
Any one of these works can be called excellent, with rigorous brushwork and exquisite painting techniques.
The title of the work is Flying Birds, Sea Water and Red Sun
Sketch Techniques V5 Professional Level 2
Watercolor Painting Techniques V5 Professional Level 2
A work with simple emotions
Remarks: Techniques that are one level higher than the host's highest skill cannot accurately display the experience bar and will cause mental fatigue. Please use the identification technique with caution
Gu Weijing only uses the identification technique. When I look at a random watercolor painting, I feel a certain amount of mental depression due to the huge separation of colors.
This is a side effect of forcibly analyzing works of a higher level than one's own.
Fortunately, this uncomfortable feeling is only fleeting.
"Two professions at the second level." Gu Weijing smacked his lips.
Painting appreciation is a very subjective matter.
Even if this kind of art exhibition has professional committees and art connoisseurs to judge, it is inevitable that excellent works will be buried or mediocre works will appear. Things like being lucky enough to be shortlisted happen.
But generally speaking, painters who can participate in the master group are at least on the same level.
This gouache painting is not good enough to win an award. If you want to participate in the master group exhibition, it should be at least of a similar level.
"It is not an easy task to be promoted to the second level of two professions."
Gu Weijing felt the pressure.
He nowThere are already two professional first-level skills, and it seems that they are not far from the second-level professional skills.
But the account cannot be calculated like this.
Each skill upgrade required 5,000 experience points, and the two skills were worth 10,000, which was equivalent to him needing to spend at least 100,000 US dollars to buy tickets to the art exhibition.
Moreover, in art exhibitions, especially overseas art exhibitions, the requirements for Chinese paintings that want to be exhibited are much higher.
It may take a third-level professional, or even higher, to impress those overseas judges with the impact of Chinese painting alone.
However, it is not easy to improve your painting skills.
But painting has never been just a rigid job that simply tests technique.
There are also emotions.
Gu Weijing found a particularly interesting painting among the shortlisted works of this year’s master group.
It is a gloomy oil painting.
The name of this oil painting is Fisherman. It uses the pointillism technique, using small color dots arranged close to each other for coloring.
Stippling is a relatively complex oil painting technique.
What it requires is that the color points on the entire painting are closely arranged, but there must be no overlap, which is similar to the principle of light color mixing on a display screen.
The author of this painting obviously did not do a good job at this point.
With Gu Weijing's current vision, he could easily see that the other party had a lot of colored dots stained and dirty together without activating his skills.
This painter's painting skills are average in the amateur group, and can only be called terrible in the master group.
What really attracted Gu Weijing’s attention was that even in an electronic album, this painting obviously had a unique vitality compared to other works.
Gu Weijing launched the calligraphy and painting appraisal technique.
Twisted sea water, boiling waves, fishermen fighting with the sea
The sound of wind, rain, sea water, and fisherman’s moans mixed into a sound in Gu Weijing’s ears A fleeting sigh.
Oil Painting Fisherman
Sketch Technique v3 Semi-Professional 8131000
Oil Painting Technique v4 Professional Level 1 12205000
Emotional Feelings
"No wonder it gives people different feelings. The emotion of this painting actually reaches the heart."
This is the first time that Gu Weijing has seen a painting with an emotional evaluation above that of a simple work. work.
Having an emotional panel, he knows how difficult it is to maintain a concentrated emotion throughout the entire process of painting a painting, let alone a higher level of evaluation of feelings.
Painter Tomás Santisima Venezuela, researcher at the National Museum of Fine Arts of Venezuela
2012 "If Life" Singapore International Art Biennale, shortlisted works in the master group
Gu Weijing saw a short article at the link below, which seemed to be from that yearThe rating given to this painting by the curatorial committee.
The artist's line expression is not precise enough, and his oil painting techniques are still immature. But the painter showed the spirit of fighting against the sea and the vitality of the fisherman's tenacious struggle. The artist depicts the spirit of a tough guy fighting the ocean from the perspective of a bystander, and the entire painting gives the judges a unique perspective on the ocean.
Therefore, we are specially selected to be shortlisted for the master group exhibition.
"Either it is the painting skills, or it is the emotion that makes people shine. The two must be at least equal."
Gu Weijing nodded.
Painting skills can be improved by experience, but emotions can only be improved by life experience. Having good emotional expression has always been the only way for a great painter.
Emotions are even more important than simple techniques. The third step of the career mission on his system panel is also related to emotions.
A first glimpse into the career path of a series of tasks and the final task
The current task is to complete a work of any theme with a length of more than 8 inches, and reach an emotional rating of feeling and above.
The ultimate reward of the chain mission is a random legendary skill
"Legendary skill"
When Gu Weijing just saw the description of this skill, if he said If you are not moved, then it must be fake.
Although I don’t know the specific content of the reward, the words “legendary level” alone illustrate the preciousness of this skill.
Menzel's painting skills, which made him prosperous in the illustration world, were only perfect. It was hard for him to imagine what kind of skills would be called a legend by the system.
But as the final reward of this chain of tasks, the difficulty of completing it is much higher than the first two.
The first two items are tangible requirements, whether it is to improve your skills to reach the first level of your profession or to meet the number of orders received on fiverr.
The 8-inch page is not very big, but it cannot be finished in a few minutes. How to maintain a warm emotion for a long time? Gu Weijing just found some in the orphanage. doorway.
"It would be nice if the system could give me a few more tasks."
Thinking of this,
He reopened the panel and looked at the bottom of the calligraphy and painting appraisal technique A row of skill details.
Special Effect 2: During the process of appreciating the master's paintings through soul sensing, there is a chance that a limited mission will be triggered. Please note that appreciating works that are too high in advance of your current aesthetic attainments may cause additional mental burden to the host. Please use skills with caution
"In the process of appreciating the paintings of masters, there is a probability of triggering a limited mission"
p>Gu Weijing suddenly realized something. He seemed to be able to actively trigger tasks now.
It just depends on what kind of work is considered a masterpiece.
Gu Weijing thought for a moment and found the hundred flowers picture of Professor Lin Tao’s junior sister Tang Ning on his mobile phone
HeThe skill was activated.
This time, the mental impact was much greater than when I just appreciated the watercolor paintings.
He felt a numbness in his brain, a feeling of electric shock all over his body, his head ached and heavy, his head was dizzy, and he even had slight hallucinations. He felt like there were countless flowers blooming and withering on his body. .
Work title Hundred Flowers
Chinese Painting Techniques v7 Master Level 1
Emotional Heart Feeling
"Master Level 1, which is v6 Professional painters of level 3 and above are level 1 masters, but what is my mission?"
Gu Weijing closed his eyes and rested for a few minutes. He waited until the numbness on the top of his head subsided slightly before looking at the panel in front of him.
This painting by the painter Tang Ning itself is a work with dazzling skills. Although it is Mr. Cao’s favorite true son, the emotional value only received a feeling, rather than a higher evaluation. Not surprising.
And just as Gu Weijing speculated, this Chinese painting is the most skillful work he has ever seen so far. It has reached v7 and has still entered the category of a master.
What a pity.
No new tasks appear on the panel.
"Either it is a matter of probability, or the level of a master who has just entered the master level is not enough to trigger the task."
Gu Weijing did not give up, and turned to one side. With the skill of Master Menzel, a simple commissioned work on fiverr released the art of calligraphy and painting appraisal.
Probably because of my own work, there was no mental impact this time.
But the picture does not present a line structure decomposed in the mind like other works.
Only a dry panel emerged.
Untitled Internet Illustration
Sketch Technique v9 Master Level 3 Limited Experience
A work with simple emotions
“Not yet , is it that the content is not complex enough, or is it because the paintings with the help of Menzel’s skills have no soul of their own?”
Gu Weijing licked his lips.
He was unwilling to give up just like that, and a very bold idea appeared in his mind.
Gu Weijing still couldn't restrain his curiosity.
He not only wants to trigger the system's task now, but also because he wants to know how far the greatest painters in human history can reach in the system's evaluation.
Gu Weijing had several options in mind.
How about taking a taxi to the mural restoration site now and taking a look at the painting of worshiping the Buddha and protecting the Dharma restored by Mr. Cao.
This is the authentic work of the top painter that he can personally come into contact with now.
If it is an online electronic album, he is more inclined to his favorite Impressionist works.
Although well-known works such as the Mona Lisa or the Night Watch have become part of popular culture.
But when it comes to personal preferences, Gu Weijing prefers the Impressionist style of painting.
Chinese traditional culture influenced Japanese painting, and Japanese painting influenced Impressionism. East and West merged, and the world’s art trends mixed with each other on a small piece of oil painting paper.
Especially the representative painter Reiano of Impressionism.
This painter was trained in painting Oriental porcelain and traditional screens in his early years. His works reflect the effect of flying cotton wool similar to porcelain paintings.
Warm, warm and bright.
It satisfied his imagination of the beauty of all oil paintings.
Choose one of the two,
Gu Weijing knew that if he wanted to appreciate the works of a painter of this level, it would definitely bring a huge mental burden to himself.
I can only choose one, and even a painter may not be able to analyze it.
After much hesitation, he chose Reno’s masterpiece.
Curiosity kills the cat for no other reason. After all, Mr. Cao is a living painter, and he is likely to become Mr. Cao's disciple. He has plenty of time to listen to Mr. Cao's painting experience.
He just wanted to use the convenience of the system to experience the pinnacle of Impressionism across a hundred years.
"The Ball at the Pancake Mill, Reano."
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