Miss Mona didn't want to meet any of her classmates at this time.
She is the president of the Women's Student Union, a popular figure on campus, and an excellent little queen. At this moment, the fragile look filled with tears was nothing like his former self.
If there was anyone she didn't want to meet.
Then it is Gu Weijing.
The moment she saw the other person, Mona even felt a little confused.
She always had a psychological advantage when getting along with Gu Weijing, feeling that she should be the strong, elegant and noble one.
With a hint of arrogance.
But now that my eyes are red and I have cried just now, I am obviously insulated from the words elegance and pride.
Adolescent love is like a peacock with its wings spread. Whether Mona realizes this or not, subconsciously she does not want to show her small side to the other person.
"Yes, I did try to please Professor Cruz, and it was not very successful. But so what?"
Mona wrinkled her upturned nose, forced down the panic in her heart, and prepared to use sharp words to drive away this untimely guy.
"I at least tried hard. No matter the result is good or bad, I don't regret it. What about you? How many days have you not been to the studio! If Gu Weijing had the courage to do the same thing, I would think more highly of you.伱.”
"If you're here to mock me and want to go through the back door, that's up to you. If you're here to comfort me, you can get out of here. I still don't like your pity."
she scoffed.
"That's not the case. Miss Mona, we are good friends."
Gu Weijing bent over and shook his head.
He looked at the stubborn Indian girl and said warmly: "I saw the message you sent me over the weekend. I know you are worried about me. It's just that I was busy painting outside that day..."
"Worried about you? Who should worry about you? I'm not your mother."
Mona pursed her lips.
When it comes to this matter.
The anger in her heart came up again.
That day, I hesitated for a long time before I kindly sent a message to Gu Weijing.
As a result, she held her phone and waited for half an hour, and all she got was the word "busy".
What a big rack!
Love comes or not.
It’s as if I’m rushing to beg the other person.
"When I got home, I wanted to contact you again, but you seemed to have deleted me directly."
Gu Weijing said softly.
"Oh, I do whatever I like, it's none of your business."
Mona said expressionlessly.
I deleted you just to say "I'm unhappy".
I didn’t block you. If you really cared about me, wouldn’t you try to add me back?
She sneered inwardly.
Gu Weijing shook his head and stopped talking.
Mona saw Gu Weijing take out a piece of white sketch paper sandwiched in a notebook from the small bag behind him, and handed it to Mona.
"I don't know why I've made you angry recently, but Miss Mona, this is a little gift from me. I think this should make you happier than Jerry's roses."
Gu Weijing said with a smile.
Mona's expression was startled.
On the sketch paper in the boy's hand is a sketch of a girl with long hair shawl.
This was completely different from Gu Weijing's usual sketching style she had seen before.
Not only are the painting methods different,
And the brushwork is extremely exquisite.
In the painting, the girl's face is slightly tilted.
The clean and bright pen curves were pulled out into a ponytail behind her head. She was wearing a dress with belts that fluttered in the wind. There was a bunch of gold rings on her bare arms, and the smile on her face was bright and confident.
"This is my portrait."
Looking at the pretty girl who stood out on the page, Mona's original anger towards Gu Weijing was mostly dissipated in an instant.
She was in an art class,
Given Mona's popularity in school, there are many male classmates who include a sketch of her in their love letters as a way of confessing their love.
Logically speaking,
Mona could not be moved by such a tacky little trick as a portrait.
But this painting by Gu Weijing gave Mona a completely different feeling than those works.
The exquisite brushwork is one thing.
What's more important is the emotion contained in the picture.
The very simple lines of pen and ink clearly highlight the girl's smart and confident temperament, making the painting no longer pale and seeming to be alive.
Mona fell in love with the painting instantly.
She understood that this sketch was definitely a very, very careful work.
It may even take a long time, countless exercises and scraps to complete such a painting.
pity……
He should put this thought into his college application portfolio!
"Boys and girls in my school apologized, either went to a concert, or were given new mobile phones, or at least went to eat high-end Japanese food or French food. In the end, you just used a cheap sketch to deal with me?"
Miss Mona, who has an arrogant personality, felt warm in her heart, but her lips were still full of sarcasm.
She glared at Gu Weijing, hesitated for a moment, and then took the sketch paper from the boy's hand.
"If you want me to forgive you, well, I have three requests for you."
Mona thought for a moment and held out three fingers.
"First, give up your big-picture idea. It's good to have artistic ideas, but you should be down-to-earth."
"Second, you come to the school studio with me every day at noon, after school, and on Saturdays and Sundays to prepare materials for applying to the university. I have already checked the information. In this year's school recruitment fair, Rotterdam The extra point question given by the university is Fashion Design. In addition to the basic portfolio, to be on the safe side, we also need to prepare about ten to fifteen additional fashion-inspired art design drafts. Now is the time It’s already tight.”
"Third, Professor Cruz's office is in the north teaching building, Room 203, Building B. He is busy now, but I ask you to take time to visit this professor this afternoon. You are right about one thing, this Madam is indeed not an easy woman to get along with, but she is the wife of a great artist, and she has the right to be arrogant. In fact, your basic painting skills are better than mine. Leave a good impression on the professor. It is not difficult to become a student of Professor Cruz. Remember You must be respectful..."
Gu Weijing's mouth twitched.
He listened to Miss Mona teaching him seriously in his ear how to please Mrs. Sakai, and felt some strange indescribable feelings in his heart.
"What do you mean by that expression? I'm serious."
Mona frowned and reprimanded: "It's not good for you to be aloof at this time. It's not good for you to lose your dignity. You have to learn to be smarter. That fairy Koko is planning to show off to the beautiful new transfer student shamelessly. .”
After sneaking a casual stab at Kou Kou, Mona continued: "The art industry is all about connections. Being able to establish a relationship with such a family of art giants may save you ten years of detours. "
"Thank you, Mona."
Gu Weijing smiled.
Even though the girl's tone was a little harsher, he could still tell that it was for his own good.
"Mona, let me ask you a question, are you willing to believe me?"
He looked at his childhood sweetheart and spoke seriously.
"What do you mean?"
Mona frowned.
"I think excellent art is penetrating. Even if there is only one good enough work, it will be more moving than a hundred mediocre paintings. As for the studio, only by being close to life can you paint truly moving paintings. I found this A better place to paint than in school. If you'd like, I'd love to invite you to my new studio to paint together."
Gu Weijing explained patiently.
"You have been my best friend since childhood. I am happy to share all the good things with you. Even if you can't go to Mrs. Sakai's improvement class, it doesn't matter, if you believe me. Then I am also willing to spare the time for you. Time to design a portfolio and guide you in painting..."
"Okay, that's enough!"
Mona's expression darkened, her pretty little face as cold as ice.
"You don't know how to live or die, who do you think you are? Relying on a painting to conquer the judges, if Miss Sakai said this, I believe it. You? This is the funniest joke I have heard this year."
"Gu Weijing, I never knew you were so naive. You thought you were a great painter after getting a few good grades in school. Even your grandfather Gu Tongxiang is just a second-rate painter in an art desert!"
"Sorry... Mona, please believe me. I have my reasons, but I can't tell you right now."
Gu Weijing stared into the other person's eyes.
Mr. Cao's matter was a private agreement, and the contents of the paper written with Sakai Katsuko also needed to be kept secret for the time being.
There was another reason at work in my mind.
Since talking to Mrs. Sakai,
Gu Weijing didn't know how to deal with the relationship with Sakai Katsuko.
Especially in front of Miss Mona, whom I have a vague affection for, I am a little afraid to mention it.
Of course Miss Katsuko is very, very good.
But if he asks himself now,
Which one is more important to me, Mona or Miss Sakai, probably the deeper feelings that Mona has accumulated since they were together since childhood.
"You don't need to apologize to me. If you insist on having your own way, reality will slap you in the face. As for me...this is the answer I give you. Gu Weijing, you are really disappointing."
Mona folded the sketch at hand into a ball, threw it into the trash can on the side, stamped her feet angrily, and turned around to leave.
…
There was silence in the reading room in the afternoon.
There was only the rustle of documents being flipped quickly, the sound of typing on the keyboard and the occasional conversation.
"In Ms. Carroll's writings, the technical characteristics of Impressionism are very mature. For this point of view, we can reflect Shapiro's "Still Life Theory"..."
Gu Weijing, who was in working mode, temporarily put what happened in the morning behind him.
He flipped through the marked notes on the document and expressed his opinions softly.
On the other side, Katsuko Sakai's white fingertips danced lightly on the keyboard of a small laptop, typing the inspiration for the paper they had discussed into a complete manuscript.
"By the way, I actually have an opinion. Should I modify it here? Isn't it too arbitrary that one of our speculations about Carroll's true identity is Camille, Monet's lover and first wife? The possibility is too small.”
Gu Weijing's fingers paused slightly on an idea written by Sakai Katsuko in his notebook.
"A century and a half has passed, and the possibility of finding information about the original painter is very slim."
Sakai Katsuko explained: "My father's point of view is that it is just a guess anyway, and the more bluffing the content, the better."
When they began writing their thesis, Carroll's identity was still unclear to them.
But Uncle Sakai still suggested that they give some guesses about Carroll's true identity.
This is a little trick when writing an essay.
Liberal arts papers, especially art papers with a certain "archaeological" nature, often rely purely on guessing the owners of some unknown works.
It's like a hunter shooting a few shots at random in the empty woods. If you finally find that you hit a duck, you are naturally the best.
The value of the paper is doubled.
If he misses, there will be a few gunshots to frighten the readers, which is also good.
You can call it watery, but this is almost an unspoken rule among knowledgeable people in the industry.
There are many more outrageous clickbait situations than Uncle Sakai's suggestion to place an unknown Impressionist work on Monet's wife's head.
Classic examples include a large number of unknown Eastern Xia and Han Dynasty tombs that were argued by N professors in N different articles to be Cao Cao's tombs.
In the end, both the academic community and the media were tired of hearing the news about the discovery of Cao Cao's tomb.
But there are positive examples.
For example, the famous businessman Schliemann was a fan of ancient Greek legends. In the 19th century, he dug a lot of places in the Balkan Peninsula. Whenever he dug up something, he announced that he had found the ruins of Troy.
The academic community thinks he is talking nonsense.
In the end, one day he happened to be fooled by him, and he became famous overnight. He became a famous archaeologist like Carter who discovered Tutankhamen's tomb, Coldway who discovered the city of Babylon, and Shang Boliang who deciphered hieroglyphics. A big shot that cannot be avoided.
Among the several preliminary lists they have put forward that may be Carroll, the most important name is naturally Monet's first wife Camille.
"Although the two of them have certain similarities in their names and similar ages. Camille's hair color is clearly recorded as dark, and according to the missionary's diary, the young female painter's hair color is Rare golden red color.”
"Maybe he dyed his hair?" Sakai Katsuko said.
Since it is just a random guess.
From a rational perspective, there is a high probability that Carroll’s true identity will not be verified.
So if this painting can be placed on the head of Monet's wife, whether it is the market value of "The Old Church in a Thunderstorm" or the academic gimmick of the paper, it is much more valuable than placing it on the head of an unknown little painter.
"It will probably be about ten years before commercial hair dyes are widely promoted by L'Oreal, so the possibility of hair dyeing is not high."
Gu Weijing shook his head.
"I found it through Uncle Sakai and found it in the Paris telegraph register stored in the French Archives. At that time, in the block near the Moulin Rouge in the red light district where the Impressionists often gathered, there was a studio owned by a woman named Carla. I personally think , we can use her to replace Carmel."
(End of chapter)
