The famous British TV series Sherlock.
Juan Fu relied on a star that was in the wrong position on the background of the oil painting and should not exist to determine that a famous painting by the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer, which was auctioned for 30 million pounds, was a forgery by later generations. .
Many viewers of the TV series on idb commented on the film, and they all lamented that Western oil painters were really terrible at recreating reality. An ancient painting from four hundred years ago, even the background of the scroll in the sky. Each star is not randomly clicked, which gives the protagonist Juan Fu room to play.
With this obsessive-compulsive accuracy in capturing the stars, the painter can change his career to become an astronomical observer and draw star maps.
Nothing is unique.
Almost at the same time as Johannes Vermeer, somewhat similar stories were left in the Eastern Xia on the other side of the ocean in the 16th century.
The first famous calligrapher and painter in the late Ming Dynasty.
In Xu Wenchang's sketch of Xuanzai Lei, it was mentioned that in the former Song Dynasty, Su Dongpo and his friends were appreciating paintings. When they saw a pastoral landscape painting that their friends took out, their expressions changed several times. He nodded first and then shook his head. , sighing.
The friend was puzzled and asked Su Shi why he was like this.
Student Su replied that the painting skill is not bad, but there is one shortcoming.
There are two rice plants in the painting. One rice plant has round and moist ears, which is the shape of tribute rice from Xinghua River in Qingyuan Prefecture, while the other rice plant has long ears, which is clearly unique to Bashu Meizhou. meters, one is to the south and the other is to the north.
"They are opposites in the south, living next to each other."
Isn't that strange?
Cao Xuan took Gu Weijing's painting and followed his gaze Looking at it, I unconsciously thought of this story I had read.
The old man let out a breath.
His eyes were fixed on the photo in his hand, and his skinny fingers were caressing the flowers and leaves one by one, as if he wanted to touch the moistness of the young man's pen tip.
"Spring silkworms spin silk, spring clouds float in the sky, spring water melts ice, trickling down. It is intended to convey the spirit, which is the way of a painter." Cao Xuan said softly to himself.
Old Yang next to him curled his lips.
Listen.
He really thought it through. Even Mr. Cao would be surprised in front of this picture.
Spring silkworms spin silk, spring clouds float in the sky, and spring water melts ice.
He didn’t quite understand what kind of state this was describing.
But in all these years, Lao Yang has never seen any young "children" under the age of 40 that Mr. Cao is willing to say such a high evaluation of "coinciding with the way of a painter" .
Not once.
This painting shocked me. It’s not that he, Old Yang, was ignorant, but even Mr. Cao was moved.
Just take a look at this painting.
The main thing is that one look at it will make no one say a word, and the next look will make other people’s jaws drop.
The assistant is just an outsider after all.
He will not know that although Lao Yang hasJing tried his best to overestimate Gu Weijing.
In fact, I still underestimated the weight of the old man’s words.
If Professor Lin Tao, who has been my teacher for the longest time, was by my side at this moment, I would definitely be shocked, eyes wide open, and I would be scratching my beard at a loss.
Liu Ziming probably wanted to take out a collection of ancient paintings from the Ming and Qing Dynasties in exchange for the old man to put this comment on him.
Tang Ning
She was already pinching her fingers frantically and biting her teeth in jealousy.
This is no longer the reason why the old man admires Gu Weijing or evaluates the quality of his paintings.
We are all well-known artists who have been famous for a long time.
It doesn’t matter if I use any other words.
Even though Cao Xuan praised Gu Weijing as a flower, he always looked up to the sky and laughed with great joy when looking at the painting. I don’t know how complicated the emotions in their hearts are, but the city on the surface must be full of them.
But what Mr. Cao just said has a completely different meaning.
A secret that only Mr. Cao’s disciples know. The spring silkworms spin silk, the spring clouds float in the sky, the spring water melts into the ice, and the trickling streams are intended to convey the spirit.
These seemingly meaningful twenty words were the last twenty words Cao Xuan’s teacher, their ancestor, wrote for Cao Xuan before Su Hang died of illness.
It is both a gift and an expectation. From then on, the yin and yang are separated.
To an ordinary Chinese painting painter, this sentence might sound like just a compliment, but to a few of Mr. Cao’s apprentices, it might mean more than anything in the world.
"Look at this wisteria flower, it's a bit like what the teacher said about Su Shi looking at wheat ears." Cao Xuan nodded.
The famous painting master during the Guangxu period had two loves in his life.
One loves to watch plays and the other loves to read. He collects various rare editions of Song and Ming editions.
This Xu Wei's sketch article is the teacher's favorite one found among the pile of old papers.
Literature writers in the late Qing Dynasty appreciated commentaries and liked to delve into the structure and usage of words.
Be proud of the strange and difficult.
Although Tang poetry and Song poetry were originally used by dignitaries and literati to express their feelings, they are usually read in a catchy way, and there are also Mr. Bai Letian and Du Fu, so that old women can understand them and children can sing them. Such a simple and touching writing style.
This was not the case in the Qing Dynasty.
You have to read a lot of notes to understand almost every chapter. The more odd words, strange words, and unpopular allusions, the better.
Poems and articles that were aesthetically pleasing to the scholar-bureaucrat class have become separated from the common people and have become a game where a few people in a small circle ask questions and solve puzzles with each other.
Objectively, this resulted in the dissemination vitality of articles in the Qing Dynasty not being very strong, but it was also a popular social fashion at that time.
Cao Xuan used to be confused.
Why does my teacher like this seemingly boring essay so much?
He was even ordered to learn to recite, every monthOn the first and fifteenth day of the lunar month, I had to copy it several times.
The old man’s fingertips were so calloused
When I was a child, I was much more familiar with this short article of about 300 words than Cai Gentan and Zengguang Xianwen.
He thinks this makes no sense.
Xu Wei’s articles are often shocking, but they are not unpopular.
This is not knowledge that can be brought out to show off at parties, and the writing is not gorgeous and interesting enough, nor is it strange enough or strange enough, or even the story itself.
Since it was written by Xu Wei, its authenticity is highly questionable.
Xu Wenchang has the spirit of a madman in the Wei and Jin Dynasties.
Painters are the product of the times and individuals. Xu Wei, a layman from Qingteng, is one of the few unparalleled geniuses who can be famous even in today's modern society.
Many of his actions and quotes are very "performance art", and he is the kind of artist-like character that is modeled on the stereotype that the media loves and is most obsessed with.
To put it simply
Xu Wei is a bit crazy.
He is different from Li Bai's madness. Li Bai's boldness carries the aroma of wine, while Xu Wei's wild and unrestrained style carries the bitterness of life, a hero who has lost his way, and a sadness and confusion that has no way to support him.
Mr. Xu Wei accidentally killed his wife, hanged himself nine times, and stabbed the kidney sac with an awl. Mr. Xu Wei used his whole life to interpret what it means to use life to make art. He also likes to frequently make shocking remarks such as "calligraphy has been dead for a long time", which may sound a bit headline-grabbing to ordinary people at first, but may sound shocking later.
When Cao Xuan was a child, he lived in a cultural environment and social level where famous Confucians and masters gathered.
It is completely different from a local dog like Gu Weijing, who knows only a little about Eastern Xia cultural allusions and believes whatever is written in Shishuoxinyu.
Cao Xuan had long known that the world said that layman Qingteng had a peculiar quirk and loved to compile the writings of his predecessors.
Most of the various stories he wrote, such as Yan Zhenqing talking about calligraphy and Zhang Xu's wild cursive writings, were all made up by him under the guise of ancient quotations.
This is quite similar to how modern people post on Weibo and always say "Lu Xun said baba".
One time when the Spring Festival was approaching, everyone of his age went to the temple fair to watch social operas. Cao Xuan sat alone under the cold candlelight at dusk, looking at what he was copying and the calligraphy written in his pen, and listening to the continuous sound outside. The sound of firecrackers was unbearable.
He turned around and specially found rice from the south of the Yangtze River, and spent money to send a telegram asking fellow villagers to find a way to send through the post office the unthreshed rice ears from Sichuan that were left over from last autumn's harvest, and show them to the teacher.
Cao Xuan said that now that we are in the Republic of China, the newspapers are focusing on Mr. De and Mr. Sai. He very scientifically pointed out to the teacher that there is not much difference in the varieties of rice in the two places, and the growth is more affected by light and precipitation.
Even though Su Dongpo loved cooking, he was born in Shuzhong and became an official in the south.
Want to rely on paintingIt is probably extremely difficult to tell the difference between the two types of rice using the artist's writing skills. This article is nothing more than a fabricated legend.
If he wanted to practice calligraphy, he could go and make a post.
If you insist on saying that this article contains some great truth, then you still need to ask the teacher for advice.
After reading it so many times, Cao Xuan didn’t see much benefit in opening the book.
The teacher is listening to the class attentively.
The other party just glanced at his closed disciple from the stage in the courtyard, tapped Cao Xuan on the back of the head with his fan, and said two words casually.
"Be particular about it."
Just wave your hand and tell your beloved disciple to go away and don't disturb him while he listens to the show.
This is the traditional master-disciple relationship in the Eastern Xia feudal era.
The master leads you in. Cultivation is personal.
The master will only remind you at key points. The most critical layer of window paper must be understood and pierced by yourself.
The education that is chewed up and fed into through cramming is far less profound than the enlightenment that comes from studying. What the teacher says is just the truth in the ears. What you want to understand is the knowledge that is firmly in your mind.
Many years later, Cao Xuan traveled around and saw many paintings and met many many people.
One day when I was returning home from Paris by ship at dusk, I was standing on the side of the ship eating a sweet-scented osmanthus rice cake facing the rolling waves. Occasionally the sun broke through the sea of clouds.
It seems that the light of Buddha shines on the sea.
At that moment, he happened to look down and saw the wrapping paper of the rice cake.
During the Taisho era in Japan, businessmen came up with the idea of using Japanese ukiyo-e to decorate and package Japanese lacquerware, tea, and screens, which not only looked good but also promoted Japanese culture.
For a time, Ukiyokai art became popular in Europe and the United States.
During the Japanese invasion of China, in order to boycott Japanese goods, and to clear up the origins and change the prejudice of many Westerners that Japanese culture is a representative of Asian culture, national patriotic entrepreneurs also began to use subtle Chinese paintings are used as trademarks and outer packaging of products.
Most of the items displayed and sold on the ship were themed "water", including the portion of Yao Shengji's sweet-scented osmanthus rice cake he was eating.
Engraved on the wrapping paper is Yuan Mei's silk-layered Bo Yinghai map. It is said that Yuan Mei's brushwork is majestic and majestic, and also has the characteristics of delicate and elegant brushwork of court painters. Due to the technological problems of industrial printing at that time, only 20-30% of the complicated pen and ink lines on the oil paper package were deleted, and the rest were dark and greasy together.
What I’m talking about is a painting, basically just a rough outline.
But Cao Xuan was very familiar with Yuan Mei. His teacher even knew Yuan Zuzhi, the editor-in-chief of Xinbao and Yuan Mei’s grandson. He had seen the original painting of the Sea of Waves and was very familiar with it. .
Yuan Mei’s paintings are good, but this painting is a bit weird. The rhythm of the waves drawn is disordered, and the lines areThe lengths of the strips are intertwined, and it is clear that the "chun method" of using a flexible center line, which is used to draw mountains in traditional Chinese painting landscapes, has been used to paint water.
It’s just a mistake, not to mention that many of the lines are flickering in light and dark, clear and chaotic, and it doesn’t match the technique of the entire painting.
However.
The momentum of the whole painting is even more majestic and puzzling.
And now, the tide rises and falls, the sun and the moon shine together.
The sea between heaven and earth is like an ink painting scroll leaning toward the world. The waves are like mountains and the scene of uncertain mountain light comes into view. It is really like the scene in the silk painting.
Cao Xuan threw the finished rice cake paper into the sea.
At that moment, he suddenly understood that when the teacher hit him on the head with the word "fan", the word "fastidious" was in his mouth.
How to solve it.
The technique is not important, the important thing is to make the painting "alive".
Rice can represent many things, it can be the rice itself, it can also be the audience's emotions when reading the painting, and the artistic conception contained in the painter's pen and ink.
In the article, Su Shi was looking at a painting. One rice was in the south of the sky, and the other was in the north. Two kinds of rice that should not appear together came together in one picture, so Su Shi felt that the painting was incoherent.
Not particular.
Yuan Mei painted with great effort and captured the scenery of the sea.
It doesn’t matter whether he uses the mountain method to paint water or the water method to paint mountains. It doesn’t matter whether the wavy lines respect the rules and regulations.
All momentum and all brushwork are coherent, so the brushwork and ink are connected together like a vertical and horizontal loom by a consistent spirit, complementing each other on the scroll.
This is the point.
The audience seemed to hear the sound of the tide.
It is completely irrelevant whether Xu Wei made up this story or not. Even if it was really made up, it still incorporates Qingteng Jushi’s summary of the entire essence of Eastern art. It is so profound that it can be It's so vast that even if you spend a lifetime studying it, you won't be able to touch the boundaries of this knowledge.
But to condense it down, it means paying attention to these two words.
When Cao Xuan understood this truth on the ship, he seemed to feel the tapping feeling of the sandalwood fan bone on the back of his head. He subconsciously turned his head and was shocked to realize that the teacher had been dead for many years.
Another sixty years later.
When Cao Xuan picked up Gu Weijing's paintings, the brush and ink techniques had both bright spots and shortcomings. For a young man, they deserve encouragement.
Only the flower tree itself made him feel very interesting.
“The flowers and trees are copied very well, the selections are very strong, and the paintings are very vivid.”
Cao Xuan nodded slowly and actually said three characters in a row. . Please remember to collect it, the latest and fastest website is free to read without anti-theft