Since the Republic of China,
The major painting schools of the Eastern Xia Dynasty were constantly influenced by the world's art trends, and there were very few who knew nothing about oil painting.
On the contrary,
The artistic spirit is open,
Standing still can only be abandoned by the times.
There are many famous painters, such as the famous artists Huang Jiannan and Wu Guanzhong who have won the Silver Medal of the Louvre in France and whose works are collected by the Louvre. These old gentlemen, whose auction sales have exceeded 100 million each time, all belong to the type of Chinese painting and oil painting that can be painted and painted well.
Mr. Cao himself does not often paint oil paintings.
But that doesn't mean he doesn't understand oil painting.
Mr. Cao's early disciples, including his senior brother who died young, Professor Lin Tao himself, and his third junior sister Zhou Ming, were all accomplished artists in oil painting.
On the other hand, the last two apprentices seemed to have a strong desire to succeed their teacher in the Chinese painting world, so they put less effort into oil painting.
The first moment Professor Lin Tao saw this painting, he was surprised by the unique oil painting texture and line shape displayed by Gu Weijing.
The level is very good.
Not inferior to some of the more advanced students in his studio.
On the campus of CAFA, which is known as the cradle of Asian artists, it may not be shocking, but it can definitely be said to be a good seed for outstanding artists in the future.
What surprised him even more was Gu Weijing's rapid progress during this period.
Gu Weijing's line ability was closely related to Lin Tao's recent pen sketch of the Shwedagon Pagoda.
It was good originally,
Now compared to a few months ago, there is a new situation that is completely different.
“There’s hard work and there’s talent.”
Professor Lin Tao nodded.
Practicing gongbi painting itself is an all-round improvement of a painter's line modeling skills, and has an analogous effect on sketching and oil painting modeling.
However, inferences vary from person to person.
Not everyone can "get through" so quickly.
This level of progress makes Professor Lin a little envious.
It’s just that the overall feeling of this painting is... so weird.
"Oh, what did I think it was? It turns out it's a meticulous oil painting. It's quite ambitious."
Lin Tao took out the old painting glasses from the spectacle case and put them on. After pondering the painting for a moment, he felt the sense of fragmentation exuded by the painting as a whole.
"The idea is good, but it's a pity..."
The thoughts and intentions that Gu Weijing poured into this painting are almost obvious to an experienced artist like Professor Lin at a glance.
Professor Lin Tao is no stranger to fusion painting.
The road to painting, which blends Eastern and Western art trends, is a steep road to the top.
This road is indeed to the sky.
In the past two hundred years, all those who have followed this path are world-class artists who can cause a bloody storm in the auction house with any painting.
Needless to say, the origin of the famous Impressionism and Oriental painting.
It is the lifelong dream of any artist to establish a sect.
The painters in Dongxia who were able to successfully integrate the experience of Chinese painting into oil painting techniques, whether it was Zhao Wuji or Wu Guanzhong, their painting styles were almost self-contained.
The embryonic form of establishing a sect has already begun.
What's more valuable is.
It can ignore differences in artistic aesthetics.
Foreigners cannot appreciate Chinese paintings, and the Asian market is also relatively indifferent to Afrofuturism.
But the fusion of painting methods, regardless of east, west, north, south, China, France, Germany and Japan.
All have achieved great success in almost any art market.
Like two sides of a coin.
While this painting method has unlimited potential, it is also dangerous at every step.
This road is really difficult to walk.
The bridging of different artistic styles is the most testing area for painting skills.
Fusion painting pursues the effect of 1+1 being greater than 2.
The painting method of fine brushwork oil painting does not mean that you use fine brushwork to draw a bunch of grapes, and then use oil painting to draw a static sketch of a group of apples. When they are put together, it can be called a fusion painting.
This can only be regarded as a strange thing that Easterners cannot understand and Westerners cannot understand.
"It's too late, it's too early."
Lin Tao looked at the painting "Good Luck Orphanage Under the Sun" and shook his head with regret.
At Gu Weijing's current age, like many people who have received good professional art education, his painting style has been finalized.
The ointment, dot, connection and dyeing of meticulous painting. The techniques of oil painting such as thin rubbing, over-dyeing, stamping, and stippling have all become habits like muscle memory.
This is by no means a bad thing.
It’s just that fusion painting pursues breaking boundaries and jumping out of tradition.
Painters have a textbook muscle memory of the techniques they have learned. When the two painting methods are integrated with each other, it is easy for people to fall into the limitations of past thinking, causing obstacles.
Gu Weijing's sense of dissonance when painting originated from this.
This is the result of conflicting thinking and old habits.
In theory, learning fusion painting should be like Zhang Sanfeng teaching Zhang Wuji Tai Chi, forgetting the old rules of painting, and under the guidance of the master, to achieve victory without any moves.
For example, Mr. Zhu Naizheng, the vice president of Central Academy of Fine Arts, only takes the essence of oil painting, abandons the painting method of oil painting, and prefers to use Chinese-style brushes for oil painting.
In theory, this kind of drawing method is easier for children to master as it is like a blank sheet of paper.
It's too early to say,
This is because whether it is Chinese painting or oil painting, Gu Weijing is still far from reaching the point where he has mastered everything and can handle it with ease.
Masters who can truly master the Tao through painting,
Nature can also transcend the obstacles of old habits.
However, this is more difficult.
Lin Tao has never tried this style of fusion painting.
It’s not that he can’t draw.
However, given Lin Tao's status, he naturally cannot hold himself to ordinary standards.
Among the artists in the Eastern Xia painting circle, there are probably three artists who are the best at integrating traditional Eastern elements into Western oil paintings.
Based on Professor Lin Tao’s judgment of himself.
In terms of his grasp of oriental aesthetic images, he is not as good as Zao Wou-ki, in terms of the combination of ink structure and Western colors, he is not as good as Wu Guanzhong, in terms of the neatness of lines and the transformation of oil painting brushes, he is not as good as Zhu Naizheng, a great painter with decades of calligraphy skills.
After all, he is Cao Lao's oldest living disciple.
I can't do my best, I can't draw my own characteristics,
There is a suspicion of imitating others.
The higher the status, the greater the pressure.
"After all, I am a child. I don't know how high the sky is and how high it is."
Lin Tao was a little funny.
In his opinion, this painting was too ambitious.
Just like a child trying to swing two pairs of heavy hammers, the staggering look makes people want to smile.
The two different artistic styles of Chinese painting and oil painting completely mess up the whole picture.
However, the layout of the picture and the use of the brush itself are well-proportioned and surprising.
At least, Lin Tao believes that Yue Gu Weijing's overall painting skills have made great progress this time.
This news should be shared with the teacher.
He thought for a while, and instead of sending it privately to Mr. Cao, he forwarded the photo to the teacher group.
"What do you think of this painting by a young man who wants to participate in an art exhibition?"
Lin Tao typed.
"The style is very fragmented, but the flaws are not hidden. The brushstrokes are handled well, the character lines are drawn very accurately, and the small details are also good. If the artist is still a student, he has a bright future."
Third Junior Sister Zhou Ming was the first to reply.
"This style of painting belongs to a young man. Is it the early work of Cui Xiaoming, the son of Cui Xuanyou of Xiangjiang Gallery?" Zhou Ming asked.
"Is he that young painter who had a solo exhibition at the age of twenty? I saw his paintings a few years ago. The level of brushwork alone is not much better than this painting, but the overall feeling is much more harmonious. Xiao Cui's current painting The painting can be sold for thirty thousand dollars."
Lin Tao shook his head.
Fusion of painting styles is too difficult.
Among all the new generation painters of the current younger generation, some are somewhat famous. The only young man Lin Tao can think of who is trying to take this path is Cui Xiaoming.
If you want to accurately summarize this young painter, then it would probably be the "Sakai Katsuko who is ten years older" version.
Cui Xiaoming is very similar to Sakai Katsuko in many aspects.
His father "Da Cui" is Cui Xuanyou, a German-Chinese artist, and his mother is a German realistic oil painter.
This created an innate condition for him that surpassed most ordinary painting students.
It is said that when he was a child and could not speak, he would take a brush dipped in oil paint and splash ink on the drawing board.
Similar to mother tongue education.
Children with spiritual energy are deliberately exposed to this kind of fusion culture environment by their parents, and are deliberately trained in the direction of fusion painting during their growth stage, making it easier to integrate the two painting methods without sticking to boundaries.
It would be nice to say that his parents' ideas on art education were shrewd or sharp.
The effect is significant.
Nowadays, Cui Xiaoming’s own painting skills may not be too outstanding among professional painters.
But relying on this fusion painting, the price of some of his fine paintings has now reached the order of 30,000 US dollars.
This amount is already very high.
The painter itself is a very steep pyramid. Painters who make big money can earn money faster than robbing banks, but in the eyes of ordinary painters, one or two thousand dollars is considered a big deal.
Many people have no idea about the professional income of a painter.
Take the Hurun Artist Rich List as an example. The top ten Dongxia artists on the list are all priced in billions. There are many whose works can be sold for more than 500 million yuan in total in a year, and those with less than one billion almost every year. have.
The top few painters have a total personal net worth of less than one billion and are embarrassed to meet anyone.
But at the end of the list, there are also some painters who "can only" sell for over a million dollars.
In some years when the art market is relatively sluggish, if you can sell all your works in a year for 800,000 to 900,000 yuan, you will be in the rankings.
This is one of the largest art markets in the world, and all art and painting practitioners are among the top 100.
Considering that Xiao Cui is only in his twenties.
The market generally believes that as long as he continues on the road of fusion painting for a few more years, it will only be a matter of time before the market price exceeds that of his father Da Cui.
The future is limitless.
"It's not him? Another student who doesn't know the heights of the world wants to challenge meticulous oil painting."
The meaning of Zhou Ming's words was a bit unclear: "Should I say that he doesn't know the importance, or that he has courage. This road is not easy to walk."
"Who painted it?"
Junior sister Tang Ning asked briefly and concisely.
"@ Tangning. There will be a special spring auction in Hong Kong next month. Let's make an appointment to get together. I would like to wish junior sister Xiao Ning that the sales volume of the special sales exceeds 200 million Hong Kong dollars."
Seeing that the junior sister was very busy with something, Zhou Ming called the junior sister.
"Okay, we'll make an appointment then. I also wish my senior sister all the best for her Paris solo exhibition at the Creuse Gallery this year."
Junior sister Tang Ning once again changed the theme of the painting back to Gu Weijing's painting.
"@lintao, who painted it?"
She seemed particularly interested in this question.
"You are an outstanding student in Senior Brother Lin's studio. You should let your children calm down and paint oil paintings or Chinese paintings in a down-to-earth manner. It is not difficult to be a student group with this level to participate in the Beijing Art Exhibition. This style is not yet something he can master now. .”
Zhou Ming speculated.
"The student category is not enough. Mr. Cao's expectation for him is to win the Singapore Biennale and the master category."
The group was quiet for ten seconds.
"@lintao, is that...that kid from Myanmar?"
Zhou Ming asked.
The bet between Mr. Cao and Gu Weijing was only circulated within a small area, but their disciples were naturally aware of it.
"Yes, it's a painting by Gu Weijing."
"It looks interesting, but it's just outstanding among ordinary people. It's far behind Xiao Ning's age. Xiao Ning, what do you think?"
Ever since he got the news that Mr. Cao might want to take on another apprentice, Zhou Ming had been a little curious about what his junior sister, who came from a family of calligraphy and painting in the south of the Yangtze River, was thinking.
Things are rare and valuable.
A direct disciple of Mr. Cao, he can almost be said to be the most famous brand in the Asian painting circle.
Naturally, the smaller the number of people, the more valuable it is.
Faced with the possibility of having another junior brother appear at any time,
Although older disciples like Lin Tao and Zhou Ming feel a little weird, they are not unacceptable.
The one who suffered the biggest "loss" was junior sister Tang Ning.
The meanings of closed disciples and ordinary disciples are always different.
Even in the modern teacher-student relationship in the West, the youngest student in the laboratory who is an expert mentor will always be looked down upon.
In the more intimate relationship between teachers and disciples in the Eastern style, the disciple who is a close disciple is often the one who is most favored by the teacher.
Mr. Cao's eldest disciple is no longer alive, and whoever is a closed disciple can almost be recognized by the outside world as Mr. Cao's successor.
If everything goes as expected,
He is also the heir to the artistic legacy.
Whether you like it or not, objectively speculative collectors who hype works of art prefer to speculate on various concepts and stories.
It is unrealistic that the status of a closed disciple can double the market price of junior sister Tang Ning's works, but it is still very real to increase the basic price by ten to fifteen percentage points.
After hearing Mr. Cao's decision, Junior Sister Tang Ning's mood must have been a bit subtle and hard to describe.
"He is so ambitious that he wants to run before he can learn to walk. Mr. Cao's Chinese painting alone is enough for him to study for a lifetime."
really,
Tangning's tone was a little unhappy.
"I don't think so. If you want to be a painter, but don't have the courage to create a new style, it's better to be a painter. If he can only follow my footsteps and imitate me, Cao Xuan, it will be disappointing. This guy is very similar to me. Appetite. In this regard, none of you are as good as him."
No one can refute this statement;
Because it was Cao Xuan himself who spoke.
(End of chapter)
