On the screen is an impressionist oil painting.
Compared with the common mainstream painting methods in modern and contemporary art exhibitions, painting methods such as Impressionism are somewhat ancient.
Tonks didn’t see much.
In the past ten years, various modern art schools have flourished in the art market.
There are many new creative methods with potential, and the old painting methods are still strong. Everyone is fighting fiercely. It is not clear which painting method or art group will be unified. The trend of the country.
Before 2010 to the 1990s, the most famous and popular art genre was definitely yba. That is, the young Britishartists (Young British Artists) movement led by Hirst. These small groups of British painters once became a symbol of the world's avant-garde art.
From the 1990s to the 1960s, the most popular thing in the art world was Pop Art.
Excluding Chinese paintings, six or seven of the ten most valuable living artists still have a background in pop art.
Pop Art goes further back and belongs to the era of Picasso alone. He alone represents a school of painting. Although there were people like Duchamp at the same time as Picasso who can also be called the founders of modern art. one of the characters. But in general, during the forty years between the end of World War I and the end of World War II, Picasso still single-handedly redefined the pattern of the art world. At its peak, Picasso alone could own six or seven of the ten most expensive works in the world.
And Picasso went further——
The last aftermath of the long nineteenth century represents the sunset of the Belle Epoque in old Europe, the last two decades of the nineteenth century and the Second World War. In the first two decades of the tenth century, that was the era when Impressionism was invincible in the art world and dominated the world.
In other words.
For the new generation of art practitioners, Impressionism became popular and became a popular painting method that can be seen everywhere in salon exhibitions. It is already a matter of their grandfather's generation.
Fortunately.
The truly beautiful and timeless things can always withstand the test of time.
A classic art exhibition is like this, and so is a classic art painting method.
Impressionism is old today, but it does not appear ancient.
Although more than a hundred years have passed since 1910, when judges would automatically award the prize to a fashionable Impressionist work as soon as it appeared.
Nowadays, audiences have far more opportunities to see Impressionist paintings in museums and auctions than at biennales.
But in Tonks' mind, it can still be regarded as one of the most influential painting methods in the world, with its own very stable audience and collectors.
Tonks majored in curatorial studies at the University of Fine Arts, not the painting department.
HimselfIn my spare time, I also tried to paint one or two landscape paintings, but they were all works that could not reach the level of elegance.
If those paintings appeared in his biennale here, from the perspective of a senior curator, Tonks would have to spray them alive with saliva until they faded and melted into a piece of shame on the floor. A group will do... to be precise, it is more likely that you are too lazy to spray and just throw it in the trash can.
But as long as Tonks had time to pick up the pen, there would be no exception.
The paintings are all Impressionism.
Impressionism is the most distinctive painting method in the world.
It has a natural attractive beauty, whether ordinary viewers, professional judges or art curators, they can be captured by it equally, just like the earth is attracted to the moon.
In Tonks's view, in the Western painting system, there is rarely a painting method that can balance the two elements of "technique" and "concept" just like Impressionism. .
Classical painting emphasizes techniques.
Their "eye-pleasing" properties are strong.
Classical painting pays attention to lines, colors and structures. Pay attention to light and shadow, space, value, the precision of brushstrokes and the connection of excessive colors...
Every classicist painter is a round artist with scissors in hand.
The canvas is their orchard.
Their lifelong mission is to use their skills to make this garden more beautiful.
Everyone is competing to see who can arrange flowers at a higher level, and who can prune their branches to be more three-dimensional and layered.
It will continue like this.
Classical paintings inevitably became playthings serving the upper class aristocrats.
There is no need to be shy. There is certainly no shortage of respectable figures among oil painters who have sympathy and compassion and are willing to stand in the perspective of the people at the bottom and speak out for the society and the working people.
But in fact, the entire classical oil painting system in the feudal era, including dance, opera... has a strong aristocratic background.
“Patron-artist”, “customer-seller”, this kind of supply and demand relationship like Party A’s father and Party B’s son has almost destined the ecological environment of classical art.
Nobles, churches and wealthy businessmen constitute the entire customer base of painters, so painters only serve these people.
They stayed in the "garden" of the nobles all their lives and arranged gardens for them.
To put it in more fashionable terms.
Everyone is "supported", so don't talk about personality independence.
Painters are a little better, like the actresses and ballet girls at the Paris Opera House in the 18th and 19th centuries, who basically had to work part-time as patrons’ pleasure tools.
The old society turning people into ghosts was never just an empty talk.
Even if the artist seems to have a good income, he may even live a pretty good life.
But to put it bluntly, even if it doesn’t look likeEven if they are ghosts, they are still just recreational toys for the upper class.
Old Count Irina is known as the patron, patron and protector of artists. She loves art so much that she invites painters to the manor every day to attend her salon and hold parties. The braggart said that although I am a count, everyone is my close friend and we are equal.
As a result, when I suddenly heard that my daughter was going to become a full-time painter, my first reaction was that I was so angry that I almost went to the house and asked the housekeeper and the valet to charter a train overnight and rush to Paris to take her there. Catch it back.
That’s why.
You can just have fun, but no need to talk about going to the sea.
At banquets, the nobles appreciated the amazing details of the ink in the famous paintings, and compared who had a pocket watch hanging on his collar that was more complex and more accurate, and who had a canary in a cage. The fur and color are more beautiful.
Bottoms are the same.
Modern art emphasizes "concept".
We finally broke through the outer wall of this small garden and began to have a grander and more inclusive artistic perspective. However, he began to blindly raise the aesthetic threshold, saying that he used paintings to reflect the times and create works that can arouse widespread thinking among the public. However, he began to engage in some high-concept art that ordinary people could not understand at all.
There are even some speculative painters who completely abandon the practice of techniques and try to paint concepts that weigh a thousand pounds with weightless brushstrokes.
The final creation neither touched the sky nor touched the ground, leaving only a bunch of murmuring clouds between the sky and the earth.
Clouds that are not solid enough cannot turn into thunder that shakes people's hearts.
Even if this cloud occasionally does contain lightning enough to ignite the sky, it is because the carrier is too illusory and too ethereal, stuck in the gap between concept and entity, struggling for life. Can't get out of trouble.
Impressionism is a painting method that serves as a link between classical art and modern art.
It just balances the two elements just right.
If there were a scale that could bear the weight of the entire history of Western art, then Impressionism would be the fulcrum in the center of the scale's lever.
Whenever Tonks picked up her pen and wanted to draw something for fun.
Impressionism could not only save him from the conceptual bombardment of Marc, Kandinsky, Constructivism, and other conceptual arts, but also prevent him from shrinking into painting purely for the sake of painting. within an outdated framework.
Rising from the earth to heaven.
And descended from heaven to earth.
In the struggle between modern art and classical art, Impressionism made him seem to fly out of a small orchard and pass through layers of clouds and choking smoke.
After experiencing the monotony of artificial scenery, I also experienced suspension, weightlessness, harsh roars, hysterical roars, colorful and crazy ionized luster... and experienced every nerve.After spinning around as if his cells were on fire, he suddenly looked up casually and saw a drop of dew slipping from the petals of an unknown wildflower in the distance.
Looking through the dew, I saw the sun rising from the horizon.
The sky is filled with glow.
This is Impressionism.
Tonks understood this early on.
He could not become a truly outstanding Impressionist painter in his life.
He lacks the ability to abstractly capture the sensibility of scenery and outstanding painting skills necessary for Impressionism.
Tonks could see dew passing through the sunlight, but she could not really "catch" the light at her fingertips.
So.
His creations can always only remain at the level of masturbation.
This is somewhat similar to Anna.
There is no shortage of people in the industry who choose to become curators or critics because they cannot be good painters, and vice versa.
But Tonks believed it.
The Impressionist painting method, paired with a truly spiritual painter, will always produce paintings that are as warm and lively as the sun dancing in the dew.
Just like this picture "Girl Reading Poems to Cats".
It is not the most thoughtful and artistically creative of the works in the exhibition.
Among the remaining audition works, its techniques can only be regarded as passing, and it is certainly not among the best.
There are only a few of them. Whenever Tonks glances at the screen with the corner of his eye, if this picture is displayed on the projector, he will be willing to turn his head. Works that stay a few seconds longer.
He can always feel the continuous warmth coming from this work.
The warmth of the warm spring sun.
Not bright, not eye-catching, not dazzling.
Fresh and natural.
Of course.
The painting method of this painting is also very unique, and can even be said to be very bold.
When you watch pictures on this kind of electronic screen, you can’t see them 100% realistically.
Tonks noticed that the color contrast in this painting was very strong, with warm and cold tones frequently transitioning between the light and dark sides of the scene, and the complementary colors of red and green were also used a lot.
This kind of surface has a matte-like light-diffusing texture... and maybe a little bit of beeswax is added.
As for the excessive processing of color edges, doesn't it look like the strokes made with a brush, rather than the paint applied with fingers?
Even.
Tonks also discovered that some of the petals on the white flower tree in the work can be seen to contain the texture of an oil painting knife.
The use of an oil painting knife in painting is not a special feature.
The eraser. Everyone can use it to some extent, and it is not surprising to incorporate the texture of the oil painting knife into the work.
But this knife-wielding technique is a bit good!
ScreenThe shapes created by the drawing knives above are not that complicated in themselves.
The difficulty was that Tonks could hardly see any uncontrollable tremors or unsmooth edges caused by the blade squeezing the paint.
One or two places are nothing.
From beginning to end of the whole painting, not even a single spot was visible.
This kind of detail control is too good.
Tonks guessed.
Just by practicing this kind of oil painting knife mark processing without mistakes, I should have painted at least twenty paintings of this painting...well, twenty-five paintings.
"There are indeed many 'dark horse' works in this year's audition group, and this painting is one of them."
Tonks nodded.
If he were to judge, this painting "Girl Reading Poems to Cats" might even have the potential to win an award.
Its techniques and concepts are not the best, but its overall temperament is the best.
Not even inferior to the well-known painters contracted by well-known galleries.
The painting lives up to its name.
"The Girl Reading Poems to Cats".
At first glance, I just feel the sunshine is warm and the spring breeze is warm.
The more I see, the more I feel that the world here is full of fireworks.
Tonks pressed the remote control.
He originally wanted to submit a manuscript for this work, so he glanced at the accompanying work information sheet.
"Sakaitakakura (Sakai Katsuko), sakaitakakura, Japanese?"
"I seem to have seen this name before!"
Tonks wrinkled again Frowning, he read the name on the screen several times.
This name always gave him a sense of familiarity.
It’s not the kind of name that catches your ears, but it seems like you’ve definitely heard it somewhere.
"Hmm, weird."
Tonks hesitated for a moment, but he still took out his mobile phone and entered the name of the submitted artist on the information form into the search box.
Do not wait to press search.
The browser automatically associates a lot of related links.
Tonks clicked on one randomly.
The most relevant column on Google is Katsuko Sakai’s personal ins homepage, while the second most relevant column is the Wiki entry.
"Does she have a personal entry?"
Tonks glanced at the character relationship column on the entry and saw a fat man who made people laugh.
"Oh, oh, oh, oh, she is actually this person's daughter. She has reached the age of making her official debut."
Tonks couldn't help but pout.
He just said, where are so many dark horses jumping out?
Tonks closed the page on her mobile phone and clicked the "Publish" option.
Then he thought for a moment.
The trial was not continueddraft.
"Check up Kazunari Sakai's phone number for me. If you don't know it, ask Ota Art Gallery. There must be one there. Give it to me right away, I want to use it."
Tonks reached out, pressed the call button on the table, and said to the secretary.
She is the daughter of Kazunari Sakai.
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