"You mean the Lion City Art Exhibition, right?"
Curator Tonks smiled and saw Gu Weijing's intention.
"Yes, I am indeed somewhat interested in the Lion City Art Exhibition. If it's not convenient for you to tell me, forget it." Gu Weijing was a little embarrassed to go through the back door.
"There's nothing inconvenient to say...um, Mr. Sloth?"
"I have temporarily stopped recording."
Anna heard Xian Ge's message and said, "The conversation is only between the three of us in this chat room. If you find it inconvenient, I can leave."
"It's not necessary."
Curator Tonks didn't really care about secrecy.
It's just that some of the conversations were the result of discussions at internal meetings of the organizing committee.
Moreover, art style is a bit sensitive. In principle, curators like them should treat all art styles equally.
Therefore, the topic of aesthetic style preferences can only be discussed in private and is not suitable for broadcast to the public in advance.
To put it bluntly, this is really not a big secret.
It is not difficult for art dealers from major international galleries and industry leaders to find out the preferences of the organizing committee.
Insider information has always been a part of the art market.
It's just that for Internet illustrators like Detective Cat who have no connections, they are trapped on an island of information.
Skilled painters are admired everywhere.
Whether it was his ability to appreciate art or his ability to draw sketches, Curator Tonks admired each other very much.
It’s not like the curator has a personal grudge against Detective Cat.
He doesn't mind giving the other person a few pointers.
If there is one more outstanding painting in the art exhibition he curates, Director Tonks will be proud of himself as a curator.
"Today's art style embraces all rivers and flowers bloom. In principle, the organizing committee welcomes submissions of all painting styles. However... this is a public exhibition after all. From the perspective of exhibition effect, we hope to have something that can impress the general audience. For works to appear in exhibitions, they must at least have something to say.”
Director Tonks blinked, "You know what I mean, right?"
These words were high-sounding, but Gu Weijing still understood the underlying meaning.
The translation of what Mr. Curator means is - if you are not famous, we will just paint traditional paintings steadily.
Try not to always think of something new and different, like conceptual art or postmodernism.
This is also easy to understand,
What stands out about postmodern art is that one cannot understand it.
The artist Newman can sell a piece of blank paper for millions of dollars, and Duchamp's entire urinal can be collected by a bunch of museums.
The premise is that the person is a well-known artist.
If Gu Weijing did this, he would definitely be called out as a madman.
"Secondly, I think the appeal of a picture is more important than simple painting techniques. Even if a piece of painting is not that good, if it has enough appeal, I am willing to select it for my exhibition. And any work Paintings that can make people feel shocked are the treasures of the exhibition. It is the curator's luck to receive such works."
This is talking about emotions.
Gu Weijing remembered that when he was browsing the electronic painting collection of previous works at the Singapore Art Biennale, he had seen an oil painting "The Fisherman" by a Venezuelan painter whose brushwork was only at the level of a student.
By reaching the emotional level of "feeling something in the heart", it was successfully shortlisted for the main exhibition of the master group of the exhibition.
And a painting that can shock people...
The first thing Gu Weijing thought of was Mr. Cao's "Picture of Worshiping the Buddha and Protecting the Dharma."
If you want to shock the audience, it should at least be rated as "hard work" or above on the emotion meter.
Even the painting "Old Church in a Thunderstorm" received only "feelings from the heart".
“The next step is innovation.”
Curator Tonks smiled.
"Innovation is a common topic. Any art exhibition likes innovative works. Innovation is the driving force for the advancement of art. This is a good plus point."
"But... didn't you say you don't like the style of postmodernism?"
"Ms. Detective Cat, I never said I didn't like postmodernism."
Mr. Curator corrected it immediately.
You must not have the intention to harm others, and you must have the intention to guard against others. No matter what you think in your heart, Director Tonks will not leave any bias against a certain artistic style in situations that may be recorded.
"Oh, sorry, that's not what I meant."
"It's okay. But not only a certain trendy artistic style can be considered innovative. If you can go beyond the clichés and give the judges of the organizing committee a refreshing feeling, it will also be a good highlight."
Curator Tonks thought for a moment: "If you still don't understand, let me give you an example."
"The "Starry Night" by Peter Crowe at the New York Art Exhibition the year before last year was good. In theory, the art exhibition requires that it be a completely original painting. There are obvious shadows of Van Gogh's "Starry Night" in that painting, but he completely used The form of modern street spray painting reconstructed the work, which gave the judges a refreshing and exciting feeling, and finally won the Best Creative Award."
Curator Tonks rubbed her chin.
He doesn’t welcome novelty, which means that he doesn’t welcome you to just click a dot on the canvas and submit it to the organizing committee.
However, creative painting styles, such as combining inkjet painting with oil painting, printmaking with etching, etc., are still quite popular among modern professional art circles and ordinary audiences.
Basically, many of the most famous representative masters of modern art prefer this cross-border painting method.
Big names such as Picasso and Andy Warhol, whose auction prices are often worth hundreds of millions, like to create works that combine printing and painting.
The market response has been very good.
Gu Weijing thought for a moment.
Go beyond the usual stereotypes.
This is not easy. It is very difficult to give a refreshing impact to the well-informed judges and to make the picture beautiful enough.
"Innovation is just a bonus, don't sacrifice the basics. If you don't know what to paint, or have no foundation in other types of painting, traditional oil painting is always a good choice."
Anna added on the side.
She was a little afraid that Detective Cat would come up with some crazy drawings at this time.
When Hua Dao Hua was first invented, it might have been within this refreshing standard.
But now, industry reputation is dragging down the painting skill.
There are so few people who can draw well.
"By the way, there is one last point... This is a request from the Singapore government - they hope that the final exhibition of works will have a Singaporean style."
“What is Singapore style?”
At this time, Anna was a little confused.
Singapore is a newly emerging city-state in the past century or two, with a history of basically only one or two generations. It is difficult to say that there is any mature local art style.
“Probably it’s because the artwork can tell stories about Singapore.”
Tonks shrugged.
In fact, he didn't have a good understanding of this.
This is an official request only.
After all, this is an art exhibition in the Lion City. It is inevitable that the organizing committee will give some preference to works with more local imprints during the review process.
"If I were to say it, it would probably be a high-rise building or a financial CBD?"
Tonks shook her head.
This characteristic is too ordinary. Most internationalization will have this mark, and it is difficult to have any innovations.
At best, Singapore's representative landmark buildings should be used as the theme of the picture.
But this would seem a bit deliberate.
"Singaporean style, Singaporean style... is - fusion?"
An idea came to Gu Weijing's mind.
If the style of Moscow is heavy and quaint, the style of New York is glamorous, and the style of Tokyo is psychedelic and unpredictable.
When talking about Singapore, the first impression that comes to people's minds is integration.
Almost from the moment of its birth, this city has been the center of collision between Eastern and Western art and culture, with an innate temperament of blending.
It is conservative yet open, classical yet modern, restrained yet radical.
The bones of the East, the rhyme of the West, this is Singapore.
When it comes to art... Gu Weijing suddenly thought of a painting method - meticulous oil painting.
Combining Chinese painting and oil painting was not Gu Weijing's sudden idea.
even,
If we look at the time of invention, this may not even be called a modern painting method.
Oil painting is not a very modern thing in the Eastern Continent.
As early as the seventeenth century, when Western Jesuit priests came to the Eastern Xia court in large numbers, oil paintings had already begun to be known to the traditional scholar-official class.
The exchange of Eastern and Western cultures, at least at the top level, is not closed off.
Not only was Emperor Kangxi exposed to a complete set of Western calendar, astronomy, mathematics and other education since he was a child, many traditional Eastern court painters also had knowledge of Western art.
Likewise, many Jesuits were conquered by the beauty of Chinese paintings.
From the first contact between civilizations, the collision and fusion of art have inevitably occurred.
Chinese painting pays attention to the philosophy, emotion and humanistic value of the picture, that is, in the popular sense, the taste of pen and ink, and uses form to describe spirit.
Western oil paintings pay more attention to composition, perspective and physical structure.
The two are not incompatible.
In a broad sense, the "New Body Painting" genre created by the famous Italian Castiglione, the most well-known court painter to modern people, which combines oil painting techniques with Chinese connotations, is a representative of such fusion art.
In the Republic of China and modern times, the rigorous structure of gongbi painting and the color science of oil painting were further closely integrated.
Although niche, this style of meticulous oil painting has almost never been cut off in the art market.
The reasons why gongbi oil painting is niche are different from the reasons why knife painting is niche.
Simply because this painting method is more difficult and has extremely high requirements for both Chinese painting and oil painting.
Two different techniques, two different schools, the perfect fusion is called the combination of East and West.
Failure to draw well is called adding superfluous things to a snake's tail.
If those who draw swords are evil masters who use the judge's pen in martial arts, then the painter who is good at meticulous oil painting is the master of the right path who is skilled in both swords and swords.
Almost any painter who can combine Eastern and Western art with his own understanding is a master artist without exception.
Farther away, painters such as Renoir and Van Gogh all had experience in learning Eastern art.
On the more modern side, the great Eastern Xia painters Zhao Wuji and Wu Guanzhong, who like to fully integrate their paintings into the different aesthetic styles of Chinese painting and oil painting, are legendary artists worth millions or tens of millions of dollars.
"Ms. Detective Cat...are you still there? Is there something wrong with the network?"
Anna's soft inquiry came to Gu Weijing's ear.
His long silence attracted the attention of the other two people in the online conference room.
"Oh, it's okay, I was just in a trance." He finally recovered and shook his head.
Gu Weijing had never thought about the possibility of painting meticulous oil paintings before.
This painting method is a bit difficult.
It doesn’t mean that you can draw fine brushwork or oil paintings, 1+1 can equal 2, it’s that simple.
His grandfather Gu Tongxiang could also draw fine brushwork and oil paintings, but he never dared to say that he could paint fine brushwork oil paintings.
It is very similar to the left-hand fighting technique taught by Zhou Botong to Guo Jing in "The Legend of the Condor Heroes".
If the two cannot operate as expected and the strokes are connected, they will only affect each other.
This painting method is difficult, but it is so suitable for the subject.
It not only brings a refreshing impact to the judges, but also perfectly fits the urban temperament of Singapore.
If he can really paint a good meticulous oil painting, I dare not claim the grand prize. As long as it's not too bad, small prizes at some art exhibitions should be a sure thing.
"By the way, before I end the recording, Ms. Detective Cat. Since I like Impressionism, can I ask you, who is your favorite painter?"
On the other side of the screen, Ana hesitated again and again, but couldn't help biting her lip and asked.
"Is it Degas, Monet, or Cézanne?"
The three most famous representative painters of Impressionism are these three.
Renoir is not as well-known in the public eye and the art market as these three great painters. The most important reason why Anna didn't mention this name was that she didn't want to give herself too much expectation.
The great painters in the world are like stars, and it is a wonderful coincidence that they like the same art genre as the painter you choose.
A sensible person should not expect too much.
"Actually it's Renoir. I've always liked his paintings."
Gu Weijing answered without hesitation.
"'Pancake Mill Ball' is my favorite."
Anna intertwined her two fingers vigorously, and her slender fingertips turned slightly white from the exertion: "Tell me the reason? Renoir, this is an unusual choice. In terms of popularity or market price, the other three painters are not It should be higher.”
She was getting more nervous now.
Everything seemed to be moving in the direction of an incredible fit, but she wanted to pursue perfection.
Ms. Detective Cat, why do you like Renoir?
Just a casual remark,
Still...like me, I felt the passionate emotion of that painting.
"Because this painting is warm and bright, the sun is dancing lightly like cotton wool."
Gu Weijing found that Mr. Sloth seemed a bit curious about him.
He still explained: "It has an impressionistic temperament. If you want to ask me what impressionist temperament is-"
"——The so-called Impressionism is nothing more than inner emotions and pure visual enjoyment. We do not depict gods, we just record sunshine and air. We do not follow dogma, because beautiful things will remain, and pain will eventually pass away. "
Gu Weijing switched to French and spoke in Renoir's tone in his mind, as if reciting poetry.
I'll do what I say, and I've finished writing more updates.
(End of chapter)
