Chapter 103 Soulmate

"You are referring to the Lion City Art Exhibition?"

Director Tonks smiled and saw Gu Weijing's intention.

"Yes, I am indeed somewhat interested in the Lion City Art Exhibition. If it's not convenient for you to tell me, forget it." Gu Weijing was a little embarrassed to go through the back door.

"There is nothing inconvenient to say, Mr. Sloth"

"I have temporarily stopped recording."

Anna heard the song and understood the meaning of the conversation. It's just between the three of us in this chat room. If you find it inconvenient, I can leave."

"That's not necessary."

Director Tonks. I don't really care about confidentiality.

It’s just that some of the conversations were the result of discussions at internal meetings of the organizing committee.

And artistic style is a bit sensitive. In principle, curators like them should treat all artistic styles equally.

Therefore, the topic of aesthetic style preference can only be discussed in private and is not suitable for broadcast to the public in advance.

To put it bluntly, this is really not an important secret.

It is not difficult for art dealers from major international galleries and industry leaders to find out the preferences of the organizing committee.

Insider information has always been a part of the art market.

It’s just that for Internet illustrators like Detective Cat who have no connections, they are trapped on an island of information.

Capable painters are admired everywhere.

Whether it is his ability to appreciate art or his ability to draw sketches, Curator Tonks admires each other very much.

It’s not like the curator has a personal grudge against Detective Cat.

He doesn’t mind giving a few pointers to the other person.

If there is one more excellent painting in the art exhibition he curates, Director Tonks will be proud of himself as a curator.

“Today’s art style embraces all rivers and flowers bloom. In principle, the organizing committee welcomes submissions of all painting styles. However, this is a public exhibition after all. From the perspective of exhibition effect, we hope to have Some works that can impress ordinary audiences must at least have something to say."

Director Tonks blinked, "You know what I mean."

The translation of Mr. Curator’s meaning is that if you are not famous, we will just paint traditional paintings in a down-to-earth manner.

Try not to be unconventional and use conceptual art or postmodernism.

This is also easy to understand.

What stands out about postmodern art is that one cannot understand it.

The artist Newman can sell a piece of blank paper for millions of dollars, and Duchamp's entire urinal can be collected by a bunch of museums.

This premise is that the person is a well-known artist.

If Gu Weijing did this, guaranteed to be blasted as a lunatic.

“Secondly, I think the appeal of the picture is more important than the simple painting technique. Even if the painting skills are not that good, if it has enough appeal, I am willing to select it for my collection. exhibition. Any painting that can shock people is the treasure of the exhibition. It is the curator’s luck to receive such a work.”

This is what I mean. Emotional.

Gu Weijing remembered that when he was browsing the electronic painting collection of previous works at the Singapore Art Biennale, he had seen an oil painting of a fisherman by a Venezuelan painter whose brushwork was only at the level of a student.

By reaching the emotional level of feeling, it was successfully shortlisted for the main exhibition of the master group of the exhibition.

And a painting that can shock people

The first thing Gu Weijing thought of was Mr. Cao’s picture of worshiping Buddha and protecting Dharma.

If you want to shock the audience, it should at least be rated as painstaking or above on the emotional scale.

Even the painting of the old church in a thunderstorm received only a feeling.

"The next step is innovation."

Director Tonks smiled.

"Innovation is a common topic. Any art exhibition likes innovative works. Innovation is the driving force for the advancement of art. This is a good plus point."

"Ms. Detective Cat, I never said I didn't like postmodernism."

Curator Sir corrected immediately.

You must not have the intention to harm others, and you must have the intention to guard against others. No matter what you think in your heart, Director Tonks will not leave any prejudice against a certain artistic style in situations where it may be recorded. The handle of words.

"Oh, I'm sorry, that's not what I meant."

"It's okay. But not only a certain trendy art style is innovative, if you can go beyond the clichés, It gave the judges of the organizing committee a refreshing feeling and was also a highlight."

Director Tonks thought for a while, "If you still don't understand, let me give you an example."

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“The Starry Night by Peter Crowe at the New York Art Exhibition the year before last year was good. In theory, the art exhibition requires that it be a completely original painting. There are obvious shadows of Van Gogh’s Starry Night in that painting, but he completely used The work was reconstructed in the form of modern street spray painting, which gave the judges a refreshing and exciting feeling, and finally won the best creative award."

Curator Tonks touched his chin.

He doesn’t welcome novelty, which means he doesn’t welcome you to just click a dot on the canvas and submit it to the organizing committee.

However, creative painting styles, such as combining inkjet painting with oil painting, printmaking with etching, etc., have attracted considerable attention from modern professional art circles and ordinary audiences.

Basically, many of the most famous representative masters of modern art prefer this kind of cross-border painting.Law.

Big names such as Picasso and Andy Warhol, who often sell for hundreds of millions at auction, like to create works that combine printing and painting.

The market response has been very good.

Gu Weijing thought for a moment.

Beyond the clichés.

This is not easy. It is very difficult to give the well-informed judges a refreshing impact and to make the picture beautiful enough.

“Innovation is just a bonus, don’t sacrifice the basics. If you don’t know what to paint, or have no foundation in other types of painting, traditional oil painting is always a good choice.”

Anna added on the side.

She was a little afraid that Detective Cat would come up with some weird painting at this time.

When Hua Dao Hua was first invented, it might have been within this refreshing standard.

But now, the reputation of the industry is dragging down this painting skill.

There are too few people who can draw well.

"By the way, the last point is that this is a requirement from the Singapore government. They hope that the final exhibition of works will have a Singaporean style."

"What is Singaporean style"

Now, Anna was a little confused.

Singapore is an emerging city-state in the past century or two, with a history of basically only one or two generations. It is difficult to say that there is any mature local art style.

"Probably it's because the works of art can tell stories about Singapore."

Tonks shrugged.

Actually, he didn’t have a good understanding of this.

This is an official request only.

After all, this is an art exhibition in the Lion City. It is inevitable that the organizing committee will give some preference to works with more local imprints during the review process.

"If I had to say it, it would probably be high-rise buildings, financial CBD"

Tonks shook her head.

This characteristic is too ordinary. Most internationalization will have this mark, and it is difficult to have any innovations.

At most, Singapore’s representative landmark buildings should be used as the theme of the picture.

But this will seem a bit deliberate.

"Singapore style, Singapore style is fusion"

An idea came to Gu Weijing's mind.

If the style of Moscow is heavy and quaint, the style of New York is glamorous, and the style of Tokyo is psychedelic and unpredictable.

When it comes to Singapore, the first impression that comes to people’s minds is integration.

Almost from the moment of its birth, this city has been the center of collision between Eastern and Western art and culture, with an innate blending temperament.

It is conservative yet open, classical yet modern, restrained yet radical.

The bones of the East and the rhyme of the West, this is Singapore.

When it comes to art, Gu Weijing suddenly thinks of a painting method called meticulous oil painting..

Combining Chinese painting and oil painting is not just Gu Weijing’s sudden idea.

Even,

If you look at the time of invention, this may not be called a modern painting method.

Oil painting is not a very modern thing in the Eastern Continent.

As early as the seventeenth century, when Western Jesuit priests came to the Eastern Xia court in large numbers, oil paintings had already begun to be known to the traditional scholar-official class.

The exchange of Eastern and Western cultures, at least at the top level, is not closed off.

Not only was Emperor Kangxi exposed to a complete set of Western calendar, astronomy, mathematics and other education since he was a child, many traditional Eastern court painters also had knowledge of Western art.

Similarly, many Jesuit priests were conquered by the beauty of Chinese paintings.

Since the first contact between civilizations, the collision and integration of art have inevitably occurred.

Chinese painting pays attention to the philosophy, emotion and humanistic value of the picture, that is, in the popular sense, the taste of pen and ink, and uses form to describe spirit.

Western oil paintings pay more attention to composition, perspective and physical structure.

The two are not incompatible.

In a broad sense, the "New Body Painting" genre created by the famous Italian Castiglione, the most well-known court painter to modern people, combines oil painting techniques with Chinese connotations, is such a fusion art. representative.

In the Republic of China and modern times, the rigorous structure of gongbi painting and the color science of oil painting were further closely integrated.

Although niche, this style of meticulous oil painting has almost never been cut off in the art market.

The reasons why gongbi oil painting is niche are different from the reasons why knife painting is niche.

Purely because this painting method is more difficult and has extremely high requirements for both Chinese painting and oil painting.

Two different techniques, two different schools, the fusion is called the combination of East and West.

Failing to draw well is called adding more to a snake than it is to a dog.

If those who draw swords are evil masters who use judge pens in martial arts, then the painters who are good at meticulous oil painting are the masters of the right path who are skilled in swords and swords.

Almost any painter who can combine Eastern and Western art with his own understanding is a master artist without exception.

More distantly, painters such as Renoir and Van Gogh all had experience in learning Eastern art.

Modern, the great Eastern Xia painters Zhao Wuji and Wu Guanzhong, who like to fully integrate their paintings into the different aesthetic styles of Chinese painting and oil painting, are both legendary artists worth millions or tens of millions of dollars. .

"Ms. Detective Cat, are you still here? Is there something wrong with the network?"

Anna's soft inquiry came to Gu Weijing's ear.

His long silence attracted the attention of the other two people in the online conference room.

"Oh, it's okay, I was just in a trance." He finally recovered and shook his head..

Gu Weijing had never thought about the possibility of painting meticulous oil paintings before.

This painting method is a bit difficult.

It doesn’t mean that you can draw meticulous paintings or oil paintings, 11 can equal 2, it’s that simple.

His grandfather Gu Tongxiang can also draw fine brushwork and oil paintings, but he never dared to say that he can paint fine brushwork oil paintings.

It is very similar to the left-hand fighting technique taught by Zhou Botong to Guo Jing in The Legend of the Condor Heroes.

If the two cannot operate as expected and the strokes are connected, they will only affect each other.

This painting method is difficult, but it is really suitable for this theme.

It not only brings a refreshing impact to the judges, but also perfectly fits the urban temperament of Singapore.

If he can really paint a good meticulous oil painting, I dare not say the grand prize. As long as it's not too bad, small prizes at some art exhibitions should be a sure thing.

"By the way, before I end the recording, Ms. Detective Cat. Since I like Impressionism, can I ask you who is your favorite painter?"

Another part of the screen On the side, Ana hesitated again and again, but couldn't help biting her lip and asked.

"Is it Degas, Monet, or Cézanne"

The three most famous representative painters of Impressionism are these three.

Renoir is not as well-known in the eyes of the public and the art market as these three great painters. The most important reason why Anna didn't mention this name was that she didn't want to give herself too much expectation.

The great painters in the world are like stars, and it is a wonderful coincidence that they like the same art genre as the painter you choose.

Sane people should not expect too much.

"Actually, it's Renoir. I've always liked his paintings."

Gu Weijing answered without hesitation.

"The dance at Pancake Mill is my favorite."

Anna intertwined her two fingers vigorously, and her slender fingertips turned slightly white from the exertion. "Tell I think Renoir, this is an unusual choice. In terms of popularity or market price, the other three painters should be higher."

She became more nervous now.

Everything seems to be developing in the direction of an incredible fit, but she wants to pursue perfection.

Ms. Detective Cat, why do you like Renoir?

It was just a casual comment,

I still felt the warm emotion of that painting just like me. .

"Because this painting is warm and bright, the sun is dancing lightly like cotton wool."

Gu Weijing found that Mr. Sloth seemed to be a bit curious about him.

He still explained, "It has a very Impressionist temperament. If you want to ask me what Impressionism is"

"The so-called Impressionism is nothing more than inner emotions and purity. For visual enjoyment, we don’t depict gods, we just record the sunshine and air. We don’t follow dogma because the beauty will remain and the pain will pass. "

Gu Weijing switched to French and said it in Renoir's tone in his mind, as if he was reciting a poem. Please remember to collect it, the latest and fastest website to read for free without anti-theft