Chapter 321 Career Path

The cultural environment is different.

The spiritual states pursued by Western artists and those influenced by the Han cultural circle are actually different.

Of course, there are also Western artists, such as Van Gogh and Gauguin, who burned their lives and fiercely fought against the world.

But in recent decades.

Like John Lennon, those who transcend the real world in their artistic conception and pursue more compassionate and peaceful concepts of universal love and peace are more mainstream.

Anger and sadness are negative emotions in the hearts of these artists.

Traditional Chinese paintings appear to be leisurely landscapes with far-reaching artistic conceptions. However, Gu Weijing feels that the state of mind pursued by painters, whether in life or painting, is actually more intense.

Lao Cao said that painters should cultivate three elements of energy in their hearts.

It is the righteousness that sees things unfair and wants to draw a sword to help.

It is the anger of seeing the country broken and the people displaced.

It is the inscription on the gold list, the joy of the wedding room, the joy of seeing the withered old trees, the desolation of the thin horse in the west wind

The anger burning in the chest is exactly these three points One kind of Qi that needs to be nourished.

Gu Weijing was very angry when he saw that Brother Hao was doing many evil things, but he was so prosperous. I saw European tourists taking a rented local beautiful girl, sitting on a sliding pole and being carried across the embankment of the Yangon River. They are just lazy little losers and wretched old men in their own country. They only rely on the exchange rate difference and social welfare, and they come here to be the boss and are very angry.

Even if he encountered blackmail from the local patrol this morning, he was still very angry.

Gu Weijing is an angry person deep down, not a peaceful person.

The surging resentment biting at him in his chest was what Gu Weijing really wanted to express.

This restless flame is the source of his empathy with the world.

Grandpa Gu Tongxiang’s idol is a painter named Zheng Sixiao.

A representative figure of the remaining painting school after the demise of the Southern Song Dynasty, the "Xiao" in his name was a variant of the same pronunciation as "Zhao" in the Zhao and Song Dynasties in ancient times.

This guy's life simply explains what TD is the antonym of "quiet and peaceful".

Old Zheng is the most famous flower painter in the history of Eastern Xia, especially good at painting plum blossoms.

This guy can compare his wandering life after the destruction of his country and family with his story of the rootless Mo Mei.

After the fall of Suzhou, he cried and laughed every day, going crazy. It is said that he often cried blood when painting, and the plum blossoms in his paintings were as deep as dried blood stains.

There are even many quirks in life. Every time you sit down, you must face the south to show that you don’t look at your homeland. The old man is even dying of illness and has to personally order a memorial tablet with the words "Zheng Sixiao was unfaithful and unfilial during the Song Dynasty", and he passed away after these nine words.

When I was a child.

When Gu Weijing listened to his grandfather telling this story about Old Man Zheng,, there will always be a crazy old man like Mi Heng in the old version of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms TV series played on TV in my mind.

The long gown clung to his skinny frame. Every time he came to a place, he would first hold his head high and stare at the sun with his hands behind his back, turning around like a human compass and figuring out where the south was. There, pat your butt and sit down again, coughing up blood while drawing.

In the mind of Gu Weijing, who was addicted to watching cartoons at that time.

The plum blossoms painted by old man Zheng Sixiao are never drawn with a brush, but are very cartoon-like, just like Guanyin Bodhisattva touching the talisman water in the jade bottle to point towards the lively willow branches in the world. .

The artist's blood spurted onto the paper, and dots of blossoming plum blossoms grew out of it.

At that time, Gu Weijing did not understand that the story told by his grandfather was probably a condensation of the "character and integrity" that generations of Eastern Xia literati have been pursuing.

But he felt that Old Man Zheng in the story was very cool, very classy, ​​or

very artistic.

A bloody cough and the ink-colored plum blossoms growing on the white paper were Gu Weijing’s first professional impression of the artist industry in his life.

Even today.

Gu Weijing also feels that the crying Zheng Sixiao is better than the promiscuous and lustful Picasso and the collection maniac Andy Warhol. These masters of painting have been praised by countless media as "the special quirks of artists" in their lives. "Be more stylish, more performance art.

It’s completely artistic, okay?

Although Old Man Zheng has never had a moment of peace in his life, he has never had peace.

His state of mind was as messy and broken as if eighteen gongs were beating at the same time every day.

In the story told by the grandfather, the plum painting master hated the world so much and loved the world so much.

But Gu Weijing felt in his heart that such traditional Eastern Xia painters were more vivid, kind and real than the calm and compassionate spiritual masters sitting on the lotus platform.

It’s not that Gu Weijing has much courage and wants to be Zheng Sixiao.

This kind of struggling and entangled life is a bit too performance art.

No one wants to live a life of self-torture unless they are a masochist.

Gu Weijing just didn’t want to lose such blazing anger and unwillingness.

He didn't want to wear it off.

Gu Weijing was even a little afraid that he had really turned into the kind of person who smiled at everything, was carefree, and preached forgiveness, love and peace to the world.

Although this is the secret to winning awards in today’s art exhibitions and the standard routine of political correctness.

But Gu Weijing still didn’t like it.

To achieve such a life and embark on such an artistic path, the old Zen master who seemed to be ascending to enlightenment every day and whose heart was light and full of love and peace, still cared about himself

Only not a living person.

Katsuko Sakai said that when a person is quiet enough, he can see his true heart. When his state of mind is as clear and calm as the surface of a lake, he can clearly reflect the career path that best suits him.

Gu Weijing breathed out quietly as he looked at the reflection on the lake

He saw a burning fire.

"Shengzi, what should I do if I feel that my chest will always be filled with unquenchable anger and restlessness, and I will never be a peaceful and peaceful painter? Maybe I will never rise in the east , a feeling of peace and joy."

Gu Weijing murmured in a very light voice.

Miss Sakai told him that meditation is a process of understanding oneself.

As desires and confusions alternately emerge in the mind, answering these questions is the completion of enlightenment and mind cultivation.

He felt the desire and confusion in Shengzi's mouth.

But it seems that I was stumped by the first question.

Probably in essence, he is not the lake in the park with willows in it. There are always various rapids and whirlpools echoing in his inner lake.

Sakai Katsuko felt Gu Weijing's well-proportioned breathing pause for a moment.

The girl smiled.

"I think, then don't waste time."

"I asked you to imagine that you are a lake, but it does not mean that you will always be calm. Tranquility and peace are just a lot of things. The path chosen by the artistic predecessors does not mean that it is the only correct answer. I also hope that my Gu Jun will have his own character."

Gu Weijing felt Miss Sakai's voice in his ears. Came from far away.

“You are a lake, it can be deep or shallow, green or blue, turbid or clear, these are not important. The important thing is to be strong enough to carry it all and feel it. Anger flows in your heart, feeling the rapid flashes of ripples and waves that come and go, like the changes of spring, summer, autumn, rain, sunshine, wind and snow."

"No matter the ebb and flow. , you still have enough calmness in your heart to observe these emotions and pick up the brush to express them, instead of being controlled by emotions like Gu Jun just did. You should be able to recall the difference between these two emotions."

"My mother said that people who can truly reach the peak of art are always masters of emotions, not slaves of emotions. She said that powerful artists are not immune to the influence of emotions, they"

Sakai Katsuko pursed her lips into a smile.

"Even if your heart is in turmoil, your writing can bloom like a lotus flower."

Mrs. Sakai told her daughter one by one these truths, and she taught them to her daughter when she was very young. , and asked her to write it down.

Even if Shengzi is an exquisite girl, with her eighteen-year-old life experience, she may not have a deep understanding of these theories.

She just remembered it.

ManyWhen you first hear the truth, it is just a truth.

Only when you have experienced each item, cried and laughed, can you truly understand.

Having said that.

However, when art students really encounter problems like Gu Weijing.

Have any elders taught him these summarized principles that are worth a thousand dollars in advance?

There is often a huge difference in the difficulty of polishing the soul.

There are a dazzling array of excellent painting teaching materials in the world.

The YouTube is also full of articles such as "Yayoi Kusama teaches you pop art", "Thirty-six Online Lectures of the Oil Painting Department of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts", and "Appreciation of Qi Baishi's Art Style", all of which are famous artists. Produced master class.

In terms of technical learning, ordinary people in the Internet era can also have access to excellent educational materials.

However, compared to most art students.

Children of great painters are more likely to become great painters, and nine out of ten apprentices of a master of painting will still be masters of painting.

In addition to the intergenerational inheritance of networking techniques.

What plays a key role is the summary of these ideas passed down by word of mouth.

This is something like the "mental method" of painting, which allows their children and younger generations to better hone their own moods when they are at a low mood.

It is impossible for Professor Sakai and his wife to prevent their daughter from experiencing emotional ups and downs throughout her life.

But she has already prepared a method to prevent Shengzi from being knocked down as easily as Gu Weijing when she meets the threshold of her heart.

It’s like trying to burn a furnace of porcelain from Ge Kiln.

On one side is the second-generation painter with the clay formula, furnace temperature, and kiln opening time summarized by his parents and teachers based on life experience.

On the other side is a country bumpkin who is holding the broken piece of porcelain and groping bitterly.

The yield rate and finished product rate of both parties are naturally not on the same level.

If we say,

Mr. Sloth once opened a corner of the traditional European aristocratic family education for Gu Weijing.

So now, Miss Sakai is giving him the "family education" that only great artists can have.

"So when I was very young, my mother asked me to imagine that I was Lake Biwa outside Kyoto. It is quiet, beautiful and majestic. It is ever-changing but still pure. Neither storm nor dust can diminish its brightness. She let me I resonate not only with the surface of the lake, but also with the entire water body. When it is stormy outside, the depths of the water body are always quiet. When you are emotionally agitated, there is still a small space deep in your heart that you can hold on to. Pick up the paintbrush."

Shengzi looked at the sunlight shining through the awning.

“The water body of the lake in your heart is made up of all the people you have loved, all the people you have hated, all the bitterness, bitterness, emotions and desires. It is the projection of your life experience, deep enough The lake can create big enough waves."

"Only if you have experienced enough things., only with enough insights into life can we draw the most profound paintings. ”

Gu Weijing suddenly realized it.

He was fascinated by the profound meaning contained in Sakai Katsuko’s exquisite rhetoric.

Deep enough The lake can create big enough waves, which impresses me more than love and peace, without joy or sorrow.

Is this Mrs. Sakai’s life sentiment?

Humans are really complex creatures.

The old fairy-like blond aunt who looks aloof and likes to look at people through her nostrils actually has such a philosophical and poetic side.

" Therefore, you need to immerse yourself in your heart, go into the deepest part of your soul, and ask yourself what is your greatest desire and what is your greatest fear when embarking on the path of being a painter."

"Desire and "Fear is the yin and yang of a person's soul," Sakai Katsuko exhaled, "It is also the anchor point of an artist who can firmly hold the brush in his hand despite the turbulent lake water and stormy waves." ”

“I want to paint well and become a great painter. "

Gu Weijing answered almost as a conscious conditioned reflex.

He heard Sakai Katsuko sighing lowly in his ear.

"Shengzi, I'm sorry, is this answer a bit tacky? ”

Gu Weijing’s answer is really unremarkable.

If you randomly pick up an art student on the street and ask him what his dream is.

Most people will give this answer.

The most ordinary dream among all human beings is usually the most ordinary one.

Gu Wei. Sometimes, I really feel that he is indeed a common person.

"No, I sigh not because your answer is tacky, but because your answer is almost the same as my previous answer, this may also be your reason. The reason for not calming down. "

"Gu Jun, you still don't understand what you want most. "

Sakai Katsuko touched Gu Weijing's forehead lovingly, as if she felt what her mother felt when she touched that cute little girl.

" Painting There can only be one greatest desire to paint well or to become a great painter, and these are two different things. "

Miss Sakai stared at Gu Weijing's face, "Many people mistook them for the same thing, but it is actually not the same at all. Just because a person can draw well does not mean he can become a truly great painter. In the same way, if a person is not good at painting, it does not mean that he cannot become a great painter in the secular sense. ”

“My father has always privately believed that Andy Warhol was just an excellent art speculator, the best trend-setter in the everlasting wave of art speculation. He is the richest painter, not a great creator. On the contrary, he has also seen too many outstanding painters buried throughout their lives. "Please remember to bookmark, the latest and fastest website without anti-theft and free reading