"This is the reincarnation in my heart"
Professor Boggs said this in a rather weird Mandarin accent.
Looking at the way he put the cat on his shoulder and posed with his hands clasped together, he had nothing in common with those Eastern Xia aunts and uncles who cross their arms all day long to string Buddhist beads and burn incense in ancient temples. different.
"I am an outsider"
Seeing everyone's strange looks, Professor Boggs straightened his chest.
This tenured professor at the Academy of Fine Arts turned out to be a foreign Buddhist enthusiast.
Not surprising either.
The Western art circle has always been a gathering place for various religious beliefs.
Among artists, there are as many groups of Zen, spirituality, and yoga enthusiasts as there are vegetarians.
The elders of the Elena family used to donate charity money to Melk Abbey all year round, which is just a small microcosm of the interdependent relationship between art and religion.
There are people who believe in Shintoism, Zoroastrianism, Hinduism, Mormonism, Zen, Shingon and other weird and small sects.
Buddhism is one of the most mainstream religions in the world.
There are many more foreign believers in the literary and artistic circles than ordinary people imagine.
A large number of celebrities such as Arthur C. Clarke, Jackson Pollock, John Cage, etc. have all created literary and artistic works influenced by Zen Buddhism.
Everyone was intrigued by Professor Boggs's words. They stretched their necks and observed carefully, wanting to see what extraordinary thing Professor Boggs had drawn.
It can actually be related to the name "reincarnation" that sounds very unclear.
On the seventh easel.
The theme is still a painting based on the life scenes of Tony and Amy the Cat.
The sunset falls from the horizon.
Tony and the cat were sitting side by side on the swing.
Their shadows are dragged very long, all the way to the edge of the picture, where the horizon ends.
The painting technique of using an oil painting knife to mix colors mastered by Professor Boggs is really suitable for expressing this misty light and shadow effect.
The setting sun is mixed into a chaotic mist at the junction of day and dusk, with light and darkness blending into each other.
The sunlight was refracted into gray, and there was a little bit of frosty white in the gray.
It is like a place in the underworld that does not exist in the human world.
"That's it"
After watching quietly for a few seconds, the assistant raised his head in confusion.
He actually felt a little uncontrollable disappointment.
It’s not that this painting is not good enough.
The knife painting in front of me still maintains Professor Boggs's consistently high standards. Taken alone, it is an excellent oil painting.
But what Professor Boggs just said is unequivocal, and it is Zen Buddhism.He is also a layman, and he is also at the pinnacle of art philosophy.
The expectations in the assistant's heart have been reached to an extremely high level.
Even though the painting in front of me is very beautiful, compared with the previous works, there is nothing particularly surprising about it
The so-called tallness mentioned by Professor Boggs "Reincarnation" on.
He didn’t see the reason at all.
“How is Zen here?”
It is a common practice to name works of art at art exhibitions by giving them a fake and deceptive name.
Especially those expensive avant-garde works of art.
The name occupies a large part of the selling point.
Just the nonsense names such as Hot Butt, 01010, Coke and Blood, and Milton are incomprehensible to normal people. Critics would like to write countless voluminous papers when interpreting them. .
If the same is true for Professor Boggs
It is understandable that the assistant understands, but regret is inevitable.
"The painting is very good and skillful," Professor Boggs held his head high.
He had an expression on his face that said, "You guys can see the birth of such a cool work with your own eyes. It's really a huge profit." He was waiting for everyone's praise and flattery.
"The line touched by the knife is quite delicious."
The assistant said nothing when he saw Jian Arnold.
Seeing that these paintings really attracted him, he kindly made a perfunctory remark.
"It just tastes good"
Professor Boggs was not happy yet.
The old man looked at the assistant through his nostrils with disdain.
After seeing such a great work, I had such a reaction. I couldn’t even flatter you, it was really dull and muddy and couldn’t float on the wall.
If this kid were a student of the Brooklyn Academy of Fine Arts, with such art appreciation ability, he would not be able to get a diploma.
"I have never seen such a scene in relevant materials. It must be a fabrication by you, Professor Boggs. And"
Ms. Anya murmured.
There are a large number of ready-made photo albums in the ranch. It is more convenient for her to browse through Amy's photos than it is for Gu Weijing, and even the effort of scanning them into electronic versions is saved.
Her impression.
After reaching the age of normal people going to middle school, Tony never sat on more than the small swing in the pasture with Amy.
What the art of painting records is not rigid fragments.
It is a frozen film for all audiences, another unfolding dimension of the world.
The best works of art pursued by great painters contain a complete world view and philosophy in just one painting.
If she guessed correctly.
Professor Boggs’ creative idea should be that the first six works are based on the real-life stories of Amy and Tony’s time together.
The sad plot of Amy’s death is skipped in the middle.
The last six paintings should all be fictional imaginary scenes.
Half reality, half fantasy, the older children are put into the fairy tale space built by the professor to make up for Tony's pain.
What a wonderful idea
Especially, when the pattern on the seventh frame appeared in Anya's eyes, an indescribable feeling immediately surged in her heart. Enlightenment.
This feeling is so strong.
Anya vaguely felt that this painting was definitely not as simple as it first seemed.
Professor Boggs seems to have placed an extremely exquisite design in the picture. Hidden beneath those lines and colors is an extremely sophisticated and gorgeous mystery.
As long as you can find that thread, you will suddenly become enlightened. .
"What exactly is the contrast of light and shadow in composition design?" The female artist tapped the floor with her toes, feeling itchy in her heart.
She glanced at the first six opened drawings.
Watching them together, Ms. Anya’s sixth sense of art becomes even stronger.
“No, it’s not technique, it’s not composition.”
“It’s something more original, more similar to the philosophy of art. It doesn’t require knowledge of painting, just appreciate the artwork. The instinct and intuition should be"
"The grayness of hair"
Jian Arnold said calmly.
The master illustrator looked at the picture frame in front of him in admiration and clapped his hands gently, "It is an extremely clever metaphor. The light and shadow design of the work is truly a work of art, just like a poem written with an oil painting knife." The profound poetry comes out and makes people intoxicated.”
That’s it.
The assistant scratched her head in confusion, but the female artist slowly exhaled.
“I roughly know what the contents of the remaining five drawings are. So simple yet so profound, this design is really great”
Be inspired by the illustration master, Ms. Anya I also discovered the secret of this set of paintings.
The gallery founder, who still retains his charm, clasped his hands tightly like a little girl who was delighted to see a magician conjuring bright flowers from an ordinary top hat.
Her face showed excitement and joy.
Ridiculous.
Anya has always been very fond of talking to collectors who come to the gallery, saying that the essence of modern art lies in the exploration and innovation of painting forms.
Compare it with the profound philosophical connotation contained in this set of drawings by Professor Boggs.
The creative form of painting with Tony that she carefully designed has become very superficial and inferior, just like the erotic juggling of gypsy prostitutes on the streets of old European towns and the world of difference between the prima ballet of the opera house. The difference.
“Oh, so that’s what it is.”
A few seconds later, even Dr. Jin Anqing let out a soft exclamation and raised his eyebrows at Professor Boggs. Thumbs upadmire.
"What's going on?"
The assistant was immediately dumbfounded.
He scratched his head and looked around, with a shocked expression on his face as to why you don’t understand anything at all.
"You don't like pets? You have never observed a cat up close."
Ms. Anya tilted her head towards the assistant.
"This"
"You have never loved a pet, so you don't understand."
The female artist concluded calmly.
The essence of Professor Boggs’ painting philosophy is contained in the squinting grayscale of these paintings.
Many people who know cats are surprised to find that their kittens change color as they keep them.
The good little white cat turned into a little briquette in a blink of an eye, as if it had been replaced by a thief.
In fact, all cats in the world only come in two colors: black and red.
As for why most ordinary people see cats in orange, blue-grey, cream, and chocolate colors.
Black and red very positive cats are rare.
This is due to the influence of modified genes that dilute pigments in different cats.
The color of many newborn kittens and young cats is as pure white as snow, just like the kitten next to Professor Boggs.
As the hair pigment appears, during the cat shedding season in spring and summer every year, the hair color becomes darker and darker, and it becomes closer and closer to the uniform color of the cat breed.
Common orange cats and native cats will have brown stripes and spots on their bodies.
Fold-eared cats of Amy's breed will retain the base color of their hair, but as they grow older, the grayscale gradually deepens, like rolling in the morning mist.
Kittens can grow into adults at 67 months. The color of their hair is a good way to determine the age of kittens and old cats.
Professor Boggs cleverly integrated the cat’s physiological characteristics into his creative ideas.
Each painting is mainly black and white.
Mao Mi has always been that cat.
The only difference is that Boggs cleverly arranged the lighting conditions at different times in each picture.
From the bright sunshine in the morning, the light falling from the crystal chandelier in the banquet hall, the warm light passing through the window in the afternoon, to the flickering streetlight in front of the psychological clinic in the deep color.
Professor Boggs used the control of a precision chemical experiment to gently press-dye the gray mixed with a very small amount of ink blue and ocher pigments into the pearl white background.
Finally, a gradually deepening gray scale is formed.
From left to right.
If you observe carefully, you will find that not only the cats, but also the color purity and contrast of the overall painting of Tony's skin color and clothing are constantly decreasing due to the lighting of the environment.
The changes in each work are not significant.
A little makes a lot.
On the first canvas on the far left, the drawing on the linen canvas still looks like a yin and yang tai chi fish with clear black and white. By the sixth work, the atmosphere has become gray and dark. Bright light and shadow.
Professor Boggs handles all the color changes in a smooth and natural way, creating shadow effects caused by changes in external lighting, and the moisturizing effect is silent.
Originally the sixth painting.
In her twilight years, Amy is already an old guy with grayish-yellow fur. Her fur is far less beautiful than when she was a child. If she were a human, she would be what is called senile baldness.
The seventh painting is here.
The cat on the swing is still a big gray cat, but the cat's hair has become whiter under the sunset.
It is not the kind of white cat hair that grows white miscellaneous hair in old age due to insufficient pigment secretion.
It is a younger, more lustrous bright color, as if time has been reversed.
“These twelve paintings alone can support the weight of a large-scale art exhibition. I am very lucky to be part of the story background of the creation of this great set of paintings. This is an honor for me as a painter. , and it is also an honor for me as a viewer. If I guess correctly, the remaining five paintings should once again be divided into chaotic gray and clear black and white, completing a yin and yang change, which is what you said. "Reincarnation"
Jian Arnold raised his eyebrows.
Professor Boggs finally nodded with satisfaction. Only when he showed his work to an audience who could appreciate the beauty of the drawing would he feel a sufficient sense of accomplishment.
He turned over the last five remaining easels, which had their backs to everyone.
The kite-flying cat and the young man, the man taking a nap in the rocking chair in the pasture and the cat lying on his lap, the middle-aged man looking at the morning sun with the cat on his head
From Sunrise to sunset, and sunset back to sunrise.
Twelve palindromic confrontation paintings.
Tony is aging day by day in Jane Arnold’s drawings, turning into a middle-aged man who is gradually growing wrinkles, while the cat’s hair on the canvas is getting brighter, whiter and whiter. Becoming more and more energetic.
In the last drawing, it looked like the snow-white kitten on Professor Boggs' shoulder.
“The first time I heard about the world view of reincarnation, I was attracted by its magnificence and charm. The old monk from Lingyin Temple told me that the so-called ultimate of reincarnation is at this moment. All people in the world are formed by the same person through countless reincarnations. People are just getting along with their past selves or their future selves."
"So loving others is love. "Myself."
"I think there is no difference between cats and people. In the Buddhist world view, cats in the world are all the same cats, constantly growing old, sick, dying, and reincarnated."
Professor Boggs dragged the kitten on his shoulder and said with the depth of a philosopher, "The thing in Tony's heart isThe shadow that never fades is Amy. As long as he can understand clearly, this kitten can also be Amy. "Please remember to bookmark, the latest and fastest website without anti-theft and free reading