When Gu Weijing found the reading room No. b16 in the inner part of the library,
Sakai Katsuko was already waiting there.
"Shengzi, I knew you would come to Dulwich, but I didn't expect that even Mrs. Sakai would come."
Gu Weijing put his schoolbag and coat on the cabinet and placed them on the cabinet. Sit down at the study table.
"Yes."
Sakai Katsuko just made a faint snort in response.
"Don't worry, I'm alone in Myanmar. She stayed in the hotel's long-term rental room all day and felt bored, so she happened to come over to teach the children."
She spoke as she spoke Didn't look up.
Sakai Katsuko twirled a signature pen on her fingertips and looked down at the notebook in her hand. Her short black hair fell just below her earlobes.
The double study room is praised as the holy place for love on campus and it is well-deserved.
Because he was so close, Gu Weijing could even smell the faint fragrance of fresh apricots on the other person's hair.
He sat slightly taller than Katsuko Sakai.
So as long as you turn your head slightly, you can see the attractive and slim curves between the other person's ice cream-white neck and collar.
To be fair,
Sakai Katsuko is the most feminine young lady Gu Weijing has ever seen in his life.
Mona is more like a friend, while Kou Kou is a bit elusive. Only Katsuko Sakai seems to have the gentle temperament of an oriental girl born with her.
The innocence of not messing with the world gives Katsuko a pure temptation.
He fell into a brief silence.
Gu Weijing may not have any other thoughts. He just rarely lives in such a small private space on campus with girls of the same age.
Even Mona in the past thought that being blatantly alone with Gu Weijing at a couple's dating resort with unspoken rules on campus was a bit too close to their relationship.
The two-person group work is often completed at the home of both parties, or in the shade of the playground tree.
This was the first time he faced this situation, which made him feel a little uncomfortable and nervous.
"No, this is the outline I wrote. Come and take a look."
Sakai Katsuko didn't realize that the companion next to her was a little attracted by the "feminine power" she unintentionally exuded. Calmed down.
She handed the light blue notebook she was reading to Gu Weijing.
“I sorted out and compared the handling styles of dark-toned paints by several early Impressionist masters such as Monet, Alfred Sisley, Manet and Renoir, and what I summarized in my notes is Contents."
Sakai Katsuko took out a large, heavy-looking brown document box from under the table and pushed it in front of Gu Weijing.
“This is a thesis material recommended by my father and several old professors at Tama Art Academy who are very knowledgeable about Impressionism. He suggested that if we are willing to strive for excellence, we should use this paper.Read all these papers. I made two copies of all the information and this is for you. In the past few days, I have roughly read all the literature on the plane. The content that I think is the key point is simply highlighted. ”
Gu Weijing knew that Sakai Katsuko was doing these things these days.
The reason why she returned to Yangon to transfer a few days after school started was because Sakai Katsuko had been Zi flew to several art museums in Japan and France to visit the original works of several famous Impressionist masters.
Gu Weijing opened the folder and just wrote the essay. Selecting literature is a science.
Impressionism, as the founding school of modern art, is a prominent study in art style, and there are a lot of mixed materials.
There are not only some low-value junk papers. Reading it is a waste of time and may lead you astray, and if you accidentally quote it, it may even be a stain on the entire article.
Those top art publications are only of relatively higher quality, and there are some. Hydrology.
As for those inferior liberal arts journals, they may really be looking for food in the garbage.
Many art majors spend their time on these useless.
Professor Sakai is extremely attentive to this paper and has carefully selected and prepared valuable literature materials that can be cited.
This is obviously a treatment only given to a biological daughter.
The reading room became quiet, only the rustling of pages was left.
Gu entered into a working state of discussing the paper. After reading the book, he felt a little more relaxed.
He looked through the dense text in the notebook, but his face was a bit shocked.
You can always encounter it in life. To those outstanding people who are desperate.
They are taller than you, better off than you, more talented than you, and even work harder than you. There is simply no way for others to survive.
p>Katsuko Sakai is a typical example.
To put it bluntly,
Gu Weijing originally thought that Uncle Sakai helped write this paper. Shengzi put up his name, and he just followed suit.
I didn’t expect Miss Shengzi to work so hard.
Gu Weijing just glanced at the documents and knew that this was definitely not the case. She simply read it through her mouth.
All her papers were marked with colored markers, and every word was marked in English.
The blue notebook used very elegant and accurate language to summarize the painting styles of different artists.
"How is it?"
Sakai Katsuko asked softly. >
"Very good"
Gu Weijing also entered a state of concentration, "But there is a little problem. I see that you mentioned that the painting style of the old church is similar to that of Van Gogh, who also likes to paint night scenes. , using long distorted lines and broken color points to construct an illusory night sky, full of restless curves and restless hallucinations. "
"What's wrong?"
Sakai Katsuko tilted her head and asked.
"Van Gogh is a post-impressionist painter, and post-impressionism pays more attention to the artist's understanding of painting. Subject's subjective feelings. Van Gogh's painting style was caused by his fatalistic tragic life and crazy spirit. But the mood and style of this painting are not similar. "
"Emotional style"
Sakai Katsuko frowned slightly.
"The painting styles of the two are similar, but the emotions contained It is different from Van Gogh's works, which are nocturnal and psychedelic. And the thunderstorm in the old church was grand and lively. ”
“Katsuko, recall your intuitive feelings about the works of these two painters. Do you really think they have the same emotions?”
Sakai Katsuko Gin She bit her lower lip lightly and fell into thinking.
It was different.
She was a girl who was very sensitive to the abstract concept of "beauty", and she quickly had an intuition in her heart. The answer.
But why?
Sakai Katsuko clearly analyzed the paint and composition of the two in detail. Both are dark night skies, broken long and short lines and The brushwork style composed of a large number of color points.
Similar formulas and similar brushwork should produce similar results.
Why do the emotions of the two paintings sometimes differ? < /p>
She has never quite understood this.
Just like Sakai Katsuko has always been very confused. When she copied the old church, the paint formula was more precise than Gu Weijing. The brush was more detailed and restored, but in the end it was difficult to replicate the feeling of the thunderstorm painted by Gu Weijing.
“Can you teach me how you appreciate this painting?”
Sakai Katsuko looked at Gu Weijing with bright black eyes, full of longing.
It was only then that Gu Weijing noticed that Miss Katsuko's pupils were not pure black, they should be. It’s due to mixed blood, like a little bit of ultramarine blue mixed into the dark paint, which gives it a lavender-like color when viewed up close.
“It’s hard to tell clearly. ”
Gu Weijing looked away and thought deeply.
“If we talk about it in detail academically, the reason why the two painters’ works give people a different perception should be It is the sharpness of the paint and the combination of color points. The small differences add up to create macro differences. However, I actually feel that it is better to use a perceptual understanding. ”
“Perceptual understanding. "
Sakai Katsuko repeated Gu Weijing's words word for word, with a tone like a confused cat.
"I don't quite understand. ”
“Empathy is the basis of emotion, this is my sentiment. "
Gu Weijing said softly, "If a painter wants to reveal his own emotions in his works, the basis for being able to do this is empathy. ”
“Empathize with the work and the subject matterEmpathy, empathy with the world. "
"Historically, Mr. Van Gogh's mental state was up and down. When he painted the famous starry sky, he was staying at the Saint-Remy Mental Sanatorium for treatment. Van Gogh once left a famous saying: For the sake of art, I risk my life; because of it, half of my sanity collapsed. "
Gu Weijing said, "It is for this reason that even the calm night sky, in Mr. Van Gogh's understanding of the spiritual world, is turbulent, rolling, turbulent and restless. ”
“But this old church is different. I believe that the painter Carroll will not be tortured by life like Van Gogh. The world this painter understands is tender. Thunderstorm days also become gentle because of her empathy. The warm candlelight gives people The power to dispel uneasiness"
Gu Weijing recalled the feeling when he was painting.
Sakai Katsuko listened quietly.
In Gu Weijing While she was surprised by Sakai Katsuko's seriousness and hard work, Sakai Katsuko was also amazed by Gu Weijing's understanding of emotions.
This kind of perceptual knowledge full of spiritual intuition made her even feel ashamed. .
"And I have a better proof of this. "
Gu Weijing took out his IAD from his schoolbag on the cabinet, unfolded the tablet and placed it on the table.
"I found the place where this church originally stayed. Church archives under. ”
In the 19th century, the religious paper products issued by the Holy See to missionaries, whether Bibles or registers, were all made of high-quality plant fibers mixed with plant fibers by the old paper mills in Florence, Italy. Printed on thick paper, the quality is very good.
When the missionaries were evacuated due to the war, these documents were all wrapped in moisture-proof oil paper and stored in sturdy iron boxes. They were well preserved and the handwriting was still there. Clear.
But after all, they are hundreds of years old. In order to prevent damage caused by repeated reading, Gu Weijing used all these printed products from the janitor Alai to process his calligraphy and painting works. The scanner produced an electronic version of DF.
He lit up the IAD screen and called up the file. "
Sakai Katsuko's eyes suddenly lit up. "Is there any news about Ms. Carroll? "
"In total, I found three different clues in the files. "
Gu Weijing found the page he had marked.
"The first Carol who appeared was an old lady from Yangon. After she was baptized in the church, she was named His foreign Christian name is Carroll. ”
“A local grandmother. "
Sakai Katsuko sniffed, "I think the probability of it being her is low. "
"I think so too, and the records show that she was 59 years old when she was baptized, so it shouldn't be her. ”
“The second Carol was the wife of a British businessman. I only lived in 186This name was found in the sermon list records from July 2005 to September last year. There is no more information. I personally feel that it is unlikely that it is this lady. In 1865, although Impressionist pioneers such as Monet, Degas and Renoir had formed their own art style, it was still too early for them to spread to Myanmar. "
Gu Weijing shrugged. "What really surprised me was the third clue. I saw this description in a missionary's diary among the church archives. "
As he spoke, he called up the corresponding page.
On December 19, 1876, with only one week left before Christmas, Father Andrew asked us to prepare the sacraments The wine used is not easy to deal with. I am going to ask at the colonial governor's palace. I heard that there are grain-fed steaks and frozen beer shipped from the sea, but they are just special supplies for high-ranking civil servants
Gu Weijing read
As soon as I left the church gate, I met an impressive young lady. She was wearing a sun hat, with sculptured facial features and golden-red hair. It was really impressive. A profound girl. A textile merchant from Plymouth who had just finished her confession approached her and invited her to drink coffee. She did not agree because she was "observing the world". An unusual answer.
On December 23, I met that girl again, and I saw her holding a drawing board. Could she be an artist or a female painter, which is as rare as a female sailor?
On December 26, I was at Christmas Eve The wrong words were pronounced at midnight mass. Father Andrew was not angry, he was just telling me that I was a servant of God. I think he had discovered something.
These days, I often think of the man with the golden color. The girl with the hair, she is so beautiful. Sometimes I start to wonder if I have chosen the wrong career.
If I had not gone to seminary, I would definitely try to pursue her.
On December 31, I knew I shouldn't do this, but I still seemed to be driven by the devil and went to several hotels in the city. I wanted to find out about that girl. Even knowing her name was a big deal for me. A kind of comfort.
Perhaps it was luck, or perhaps it was punishment. The hotel staff immediately realized who the girl I was talking about was, and he seemed to share the same problem with me.
The maître d' at the hotel told me that he heard the girl's companions call her Carol and that unfortunately she had left
"The day after Christmas a return trip had been boarded. European cruises. "The foreman said sadly
Gu Weijing looked at Sakai Katsuko with excitement in his tone, "Shengzi, I think she should be the female painter with golden-red hair in the missionary's diary. Although there are no more clues, December 1876 is a big discovery in itself"
"1876, 1876, this means"
Sakai Katsuko also has some Reading this time in disbelief, she was excitedHe even grabbed Gu Weijing's hand.
"She was earlier than Mary Stevenson Kessart." Sakai Katsuko and Gu Weijing looked at each other, almost speaking in unison and speaking in tacit agreement to the key to the problem.
Mary Stevenson Xart, she was the student, lover, and confidante of the Impressionist master Degas, and is world-famous as the first female Impressionist painter.
Miss Mary was born into a wealthy family in the United States. Her father is a famous stockbroker in the United States.
When she was 22 years old, her father issued an unbearable ultimatum to his daughter who was obsessed with art, "I would rather you die than become a painter."
This This upper-class young lady still resisted the pressure from her father and society and went to Europe alone to study painting with Degas and became the first famous female artist in modern society.
She also became one of the most important painters in America's short history.
Generally speaking, the first work of Miss Mary's Impressionist style is the little girl in the blue armchair in 1876, and the work that is truly recognized by the world as a complete master of Impressionist techniques is Leigh in 1879. Dia is in the box.
This is about three years later than the time in the missionary diary found by Gu Weijing.
Three years
This shows that their discoveries may be able to update the understanding of the entire art history.
Long before the American painter Mary, there was already a female painter who mastered the Impressionist style.
This is enough to cause a sensation in the professional art circle. How can this not be exciting?
Noon passed very quickly.
The door opened, and Gu Weijing and Sakai Katsuko walked out of the double study room together.
"You really made an amazing discovery."
Sakai Katsuko still had a sigh in her tone.
"It's us." Gu Weijing said with a smile.
"Hurry up, there are classes in the afternoon."
The door to the study room in front opened suddenly, and the two disheveled wild mandarin ducks arranged their coats randomly and rushed towards the elevator.
"Continue tomorrow."
The boy said to the girl with a smile while pressing the elevator button frantically.
"You bastard."
The girl spat secretly and twisted the boy's arm hard.
Katsuko Sakai looked at the two disheveled classmates who were "studying" with a confused expression on her face.
Gu Weijing gently pulled Sakai Katsuko's sleeve and moved slightly away from the two lovers who had just finished their intense exercise.
However, the boy still noticed the action here.
He turned around and saw Gu Weijing.
He didn't know Gu Weijing. He was one or two grades younger than Gu Weijing, and he was not a celebrity on campus.
However, when his eyes fell on Sakai beside him,When it came to Shengzi, he was still shocked by the girl's appearance.
The boy immediately turned his head again and looked at Gu Weijing from beginning to end. When Gu Weijing was getting on the elevator, he took advantage of his girlfriend not paying attention and gently patted Gu Weijing on the shoulder. .
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