Chapter 306 Pandora

At first glance at this painting, everyone was silent for a while, slightly suppressing their breathing, feeling that it was quite chewy.

It is not as outrageous as the crematorium, but it also has a hidden charm.

Perhaps it is because it is difficult to express the detailed facial expressions of characters in knife paintings.

Perhaps Detective Cat’s depiction of the characters’ facial features has not reached the level of ecstasy that she did when she drew cats.

The more likely reason is that after Amy left, Tony's expression in the photos was always the same dull and confused look.

In short.

The main body of the characters in the drawing is blurred.

After the main character in the canvas changed from Amy to Tony.

Detective Cat is contrary to her previous exquisite and beautiful portrayal of Mao Miao.

She just used the flat edge of a pear-shaped oil painting knife to dip it in paint, and simply added facial features to the characters.

Eyebrows, eyes, ears, nose, mouth.

Painters simply sweep across the canvas and paint randomly.

The only reason for their existence is to make the painting not look like a strange faceless man.

If you just take Tony's image off the canvas.

Then this portrait is completely inferior to the agility of Amy in the previous dozen paintings.

It is also not on the same level as the gentle and affectionate eyes of the young lady in the cover painting of Little Prince created by Detective Cat.

This is a very perfunctory and dull person.

But the background atmosphere of the entire painting is not perfunctory or dull at all.

The highlight is that the background in the actual photo is just pure white mountains. Detective Cat’s pen depicts something gorgeous and magnificent, like a night banquet in the palace of Frederick the Great.

The snow-capped mountains are as beautiful as the fairy palace in fairy tales.

The patterns of white falling snow condensed in the air and the different leaves of beech, linden and Norway maple, which are evergreen in central and southern Europe at the foot of the Alps, are all delicately painted with an oil painting knife.

Tony’s side face was facing the sun.

Under the painting angle chosen by Detective Cat, the sky and mountains become flat, and the sunlight hits the leaves from different angles, creating a flickering spectacle.

"Awesome."

The exquisite ability to depict the environment with the oil painting knife that she showed scratched the itch in the heart of landscape painting master Boggs.

It was so satisfying to watch the old man climax again and again.

He sighed in admiration.

Based on the fineness of the knife, polishing and polishing, it is also a good idea to specialize in natural scenery painting

“Fairy tale-like scenes, dreamlike, light and shadow Swaying. She gave the same color different meanings." Jane Arnold nodded slightly.

He believes that what is really interesting in the drawing is the treatment of light.

Snowy imageA mirror that focuses on the setting sun in the sky. The red sun reflects on the ground, giving it a unique texture of powder puff.

Take a closer look.

Detective Cat still uses a lot of cadmium orange as the theme color on the canvas.

Same color.

Different brightness under different light show completely different effects.

The blazing flames in the crematorium were obviously high enough to annihilate everything, but they only made the audience feel cold to the bone.

In this painting now, there is a pale, flowing pink-orange light on the snow.

Detective Cat clearly depicts snow, but it still allows the audience to feel a warm atmosphere emanating from the screen.

Cadmium orange continued to gather and condense on the snow, and finally condensed at Tony's feet.

Where there should have been a dark shadow, a burning and agile cat phantom formed.

At first glance, the audience will think that it is not a shadow, but a cat crawling at his feet.

"I probably understand what she is thinking. Interesting and rare treatments are too rare."

Professor Boggs frowned slightly.

Oil painting themes.

As long as there are characters in the paintings, the focus is always on the people, and it can only be the characters.

Excellent portraits should actively guide the audience's visual focus to always stay on the face of the portrait and even the pupils of the portrait.

Everyone else is just clutter.

If the environment is too complex and the characters are too thin, the look and feel of the painting will make the audience feel that the priority is uncertain and the guest is overtaking the center.

The subject of Professor Boggs’ Amy is always a cat.

As a result, Tony only appears partially in all his works.

The purpose of the pair of eyes exposed under the hairline and the arm pushing the ball is to prevent the character from fighting with Mao Mi and compete for the audience's attention.

However,

The subject of this painting is obviously Tony, but the focus of the painting is the environment around the figure, which does not conform to the textbook art philosophy.

Exerting too much force on irrelevant painting details is one of the classic mistakes often made by students who are new to portrait painting in art academies.

Professor Boggs has seen countless things.

The reason why he muttered to himself was because the detective cat in front of him had an unconventional drawing idea, and the performance effect was not bad.

A more accurate description.

As far as the expressiveness of this drawing is concerned.

Rather than say that it is complex and simple, and the atmosphere of the characters and scenery is separated, it is better to say that the treatment of Detective Cat has an oriental sentiment.

It is also very ancient.

This involves the division of ideas on characterization in oil paintings in the history of Western art.

When people in the history of art talk about Dutch painters and art styles, they will mention "two vans."”

The most famous painter born in the history of the Netherlands is undoubtedly Van Gogh, but in terms of profound influence on the development of art, perhaps Van Weder, a fellow countryman five hundred years ago, will be even better.

Wade was the first person in the history of Western painting to add rich facial expressions to the characters in oil paintings. He is known as a master of emotional expression.

Because of social concepts and religious traditions, Painting schools and some miscellaneous reasons.

Before Wade appeared, neither Kang Ping nor Yang Eike, who was known as the inventor of oil painting in academic circles, had great skills. Exquisite and talented.

However, if you look at the paintings of the late Middle Ages, there is one thing in common. Figures such as the dying Jesus, the loving Virgin Mary, and the cunning Judas are all on the canvas. The face is expressionless.

This is similar to the "precious appearance" emphasized in Eastern figure paintings.

The characters may be happy or sad.

Painters around 1400 in the late Middle Ages all used changes in ambient light and shadow, color expression, facial shadows, staring eyes and body movements to represent expressions instead of facial features. Simple crying and laughter.

This is a mystifying philosophical treatment that was common in early times around the world. p>

Different gods or Buddhas sit on the lotus platform with solemn expressions and calm faces. In the space environment around them, there are various scenes such as dragons and elephants fighting each other, the fire of hell, and the pure land of bliss.

There are even some radical views in Western painting. The artistic conception of the work is not as good as that of the Eastern painting school, which is related to the fact that Wade began to focus on the depiction of facial expressions and therefore "took shortcuts"

The work of Detective Cat in front of him is very similar to that of the first generation of oil painters in the Middle Ages. The style of creating habits.

In the drawing, Tony's physical body is standing empty in the snow, but the essence of his soul is integrated into the surrounding environment.

The soul is under his feet. above the shadow of a cat.

In the past few centuries, the Western oil painting world has rarely used such an "elegant" painting method.

After all, it incorporates the emotional expression of characters. The fine line between the details of the environment and the self-portrait of Miss Mona that was criticized by Mrs. Sakai is difficult to grasp.

Usually, it is difficult to play with the artistic effect of "the essence of the soul is outside the character". It's not as good as describing the character's facial features honestly.

However, it is unexpected to match Tony, a dull autistic person. Appropriate.

“This painting also has a Zen flavor. In Buddhism, shadow is the relationship between cause and effect. Could it be that Detective Cat has also specialized in studying Eastern Buddhist murals?"

Professor Boggs's eyes shone.

This American layman thought he had found a Taoist friend who also loved meditation.

Actually.

The old professor over-interpreted it and made the matter too complicated.

When Gu Weijing created this set of drawings, he was indeed influenced to a certain extent by the Buddhist art of Cao Lao's paintings of worshiping Buddha and protecting Dharma.

But more advice was given by Miss Elena.

What the painting depicts is not the Buddhist world view of cause and effect and reincarnation.

It is still too complicated for an autistic person who has been mentally retarded for 40 years to understand the concept of reincarnation.

Miss Irina hopes that Detective Cat will depict a simple outlook on life passed down from generation to generation.

Explain it in simpler terms.

From the beginning of the creative conception, the drawings of Detective Cat were not like Professor Boggs’ Amy, which was a religious preaching painting that contained complex Zen concepts.

It is just a set of parent-child paintings used to teach an older child who has lost a loved one how to bravely come out.

The most important work in this set of drawings is the crematorium.

It uses the flames to make Tony bravely face the suffering in his soul.

From this turning point, the rest of the works are just a process of facing reality and coming out strong.

Parents are the shadows of their children, and children are the spiritual continuation of their parents and the heirs of the family.

My aunt told Anna before she passed away.

Whenever you say the name Ileana, all your ancestors and family members in the past thousand years are calling to be with you.

Reproductive and continuation of the family line are the genetic "magic" that leads to immortality for a family, a surname and even the human race.

On this point.

Whether it is the Confucian worldview of Eastern Xia, the Catholic worldview of the West, or the Puritan worldview, there is no essential difference.

Mr. Sloth directly treats the cat as a mother figure.

Amy will never live again.

There will be no other cat in the world that can replace the Scottish Fold cat that he has been with since childhood in Tony's heart.

But.

As long as the past memories are still as vivid in his heart as before, Amy will always be by your side to accompany you. You are never alone.

You can still love the world boldly and bravely.

After understanding what concept the work wants to convey, the rest of the plot and composition design is a matter of course.

Mr. Sloth gave Gu Weijing several creative suggestions as a reference.

You can form the cat's shadow under Tony's feet, or you can have Tony stand in front of the mirror, and Amy's appearance will be reflected in the mirror.

There is also a similar photo taken by an emerald lake, using the rippling water waves to reflect the image of a folded-eared cat, which is also very intuitive.

Gu Weijing considered itFinally, I chose the first painting method.

Simply because of water waves, mirrors, and various spatial reflections, it is too complicated to be realistic. It is one of the most difficult lighting conditions to handle in realistic oil paintings.

The cat shadow is still simple and direct.

After experiencing the ups and downs of the roller coaster-like appreciation process, the audience in the living room was a little tired.

Everyone watched in silence as the last seven drawings slid by on the screen.

Quietly experience the precious tranquility and warm emotions revealed in Detective Cat's writing.

Tony at the foot of the Alps, Tony in the coffee shop in Rome, Tony on the Emerald Lake cruise ship. Over the years, the old gentleman took his son to travel around and relax.

No matter how beautiful the surrounding scenery is, it is picturesque.

In the sketch, Tony is always staring into the distance with empty eyes, staring blankly at the edge line where the horizon and the sky meet.

He waited persistently for a gentle fold-eared cat to emerge from the crowd, meow gently at him, and lick his ears with compassion like a mother.

This cat will never come.

But as long as Tony in the drawing lowers his head and stares at his own shadow, he will find that no matter spring, summer, autumn or winter, the world is far away.

There is always a cat-shaped shadow lying quietly at his feet.

Tony's appearance in every drawing is very simple and crude. In some drawings, he has even been omitted and turned into a faceless man with blurred light and shadow.

Only the burning cat becomes more and more alive.

"The design is so beautiful and so warm."

The sentimental Ms. Anya gently wiped the wet corners of her eyes with her fingertips and said in a nasal voice like a bad cold, "I I'm wrong about the detective cat. She must be a very caring girl."

"I don't know what the name of this painting is. It's fine if it's called Amy."< /p>

"Pandora." Dr. Jin said.

"Hmm"

"This set of drawings was named by Detective Cat's agent. Mr. Sloth said that if this set of drawings turns out well, it can be called Pandora."

Pandora.

The woman in ancient Greek mythology who opened the box of all sorrows in the world.

Dr. Jin Anqing once wondered what kind of bad taste led him to call a set of drawings for autistic children this name.

When I saw the last few drawings.

He gradually understood the meaning of Mr. Sloth.

Pandora’s box contains all the pain and trauma in the world.

In its mythological setting, the box not only contains natural disasters such as plagues, diseases, and disasters, but also includes friendship, love, family affection, and many other desires that can hurt people.

Zeus, the king of gods, believes that, the truly supreme pain is precisely the transformation of life, separation and death based on love.

So "knowing love" is the punishment given to the world by the monarch on the holy mountain of Olympus. Please remember to collect it, the latest and fastest website is free to read without anti-theft