Chapter 72 Upgrade of Chinese Painting

Author: Apricot and Pear

Chapter 72 Upgrade of Chinese Painting

Winter turns to spring, and time enters early February.

As the last lingering smell of the year in the air gradually dissipated, Gu Weijing stood in the studio room, looking towards the open Yangon River in the distance.

The view here is very good. In the rainy season when there are no clouds, you can see the primitive jungle outside the city in the distance and the smoke gradually rising from the jungle.

Apart from the inconvenient traffic and mud-covered roads, Yangon is a beautiful place.

There are few cities like it, so beautiful and so decayed, and the contradiction between them makes people feel emotional.

The prosperity of the past is like a fantasy dream of foreign masters in the colonial era in those old photos. When you wake up from the dream, only a desolation is left.

The pen tip in front of Gu Weijing used the side edge to gently pull out a strip of clear ink on the rice paper as the finishing touch to the Yangon ink landscape painting on the desk.

[Chinese Painting Techniques: Professional Level 1 (201/5000)]

[Mood: Simple work]

New prompts are uploaded to the task panel.

Gu Weijing put down his pen and saw that the ink in front of him was still wet. He picked up his mobile phone and took a photo. He found Professor Lin Tao among his WeChat friends and sent it.

"This is the "Yangon Landscape" I just improvised. Isn't it a bit introductory?"

Gu Weijing was typing on his mobile phone.

He was extremely busy during this holiday.

Every working day he goes to the Shwedagon Pagoda to participate in the mural restoration project. After returning home in the evening, he has to complete the acceptance of manuscripts on Fiverr. On weekends, he also visits the orphanage.

However, the harvest is also very satisfying.

Relying on Mr. Cao's occasional guidance, his understanding of color in "Mojie Notes", and his hesitant decision to add some free experience points to Chinese painting techniques.

The three complement each other, and his Chinese painting techniques naturally became the second one to break through the semi-professional bottleneck and reach the level of a professional painter after his sketching techniques.

The reason why he sent the message to Lin Tao.

It's because whether this professor will be his master or senior brother, he is now Gu Weijing's leader.

Although Mr. Cao admires Gu Weijing.

But naturally a world-class artist doesn’t have time to spend all day on a beginner like himself.

Gu Weijing added the WeChat accounts of Professor Lin Tao and Mr. Cao’s assistant Lao Yang. If he has any questions about painting, he can communicate with Professor Lin Tao at any time.

This "Landscape of Yangon" is his first complete ink painting after he broke through to the first level of his career in Chinese painting.

He wanted to ask Professor Lin Tao to help him look at his paintings.

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Rich area of ​​Yangon,

Aman Group International Hotel.

Professor Lin Tao, who had just attended the celebration cocktail party, returned to the room and leaned on the bed somewhat sleepily.

The first phase of the Shwedagon Pagoda mural restoration project is nearly completed during this Spring Festival holiday.

Real professionals in the field of cultural relic restoration and related work such as the completion of the protection of historical monuments will continue until two years later.

However, for these painters and artists who are responsible for painting, they have done almost everything they can do, and they cannot stay in Yangon forever.

Great painters like Professor Lin Tao have their own work arrangements.

Ordinary faculty members of major art academies also need to return to school after the semester starts. Being able to stay here in Yangon for a month during the Spring Festival is already a break from their busy schedule.

Many of us want to take a good rest during the last week of free time.

For example, go to tourist attractions or enjoy the services of a hotel.

Of course Professor Lin Tao is not short of money, but this kind of free five-star executive suite treatment is not always available.

Especially when traveling for business.

Dongxia University has a lot of funding, but the housing standard for full professor level plus food subsidy is only a few hundred yuan. If you want to stay in an Aman or a Hilton for daily business trips, forget about it.

Only for this kind of international cooperation project will Yangon’s local tourism department make great efforts to entertain artists like them.

He picked up the landline and called the concierge at the hotel front desk.

Younger professors would still think about going to the hotel membership gym to take a photo on the treadmill, pour some mineral water on their clothes, and post on WeChat to pretend to be a refined and respectable bourgeois life in Kochi.

When he reached Lin Tao's position, he no longer cared about these things.

He packed the ice jade bracelet that he spent 60,000 US dollars on for his wife in his suitcase, fell on the bed comfortably, and made an appointment for a Thai spa.

"Sevadika!"

After a while, a young man wearing a hotel badge and wearing traditional Thai clothes walked in pushing a trolley containing essential oils and fragrances.

Professor Lin Tao put on his bathrobe and put on his favorite opera on the airpods in his headphones. He lay on the bed and groaned as the young man kneaded his body like he was rolling dough.

"... If the king refuses to surrender, oh, oh, it will be a crime for the minister, uncle... oh, how dare you, uh, bully the master..."

The spa specialist in the Aman hotel is absolutely superb in his skills. The young man is very energetic and knows the acupuncture points accurately.

Professor Lin Tao was humming and enjoying himself.

I heard a ding-dong notification sound coming from WeChat.

He usually turned on Do Not Disturb messages for unimportant chats. When he heard the WeChat notification tone, he raised his head and took a look.

"This is the "Yangon River Landscape" I just improvised. Isn't it a bit introductory?"

He saw a new message from Gu Weijing.

getting Started?

Young man, you still can't hold your breath.

Professor Lin Tao smiled.

His current relationship with Gu Weijing is very delicate.

There is a high probability that the other party will become his apprentice, the probability of becoming his junior brother... I can't say for sure... After all, there are still some people who will be struck by lightning when they walk on the street. Professor Lin is not optimistic about it anyway.

In any case, Gu Weijing is now considered half of Cao Xuan's disciples.

Master asked Lin Tao to take some time to give some advice to this young man.

What he did was to pass on to the other party a set of Chinese painting open classes from CAFA, and he put the matter aside.

It's not that Lin Tao doesn't care about teaching.

But Chinese painting has always been difficult to learn and even harder to master.

Regardless of whether you have talent or not, if you study oil painting for a while, you will at least be familiar with the process.

Many students who have never been exposed to traditional Chinese painting have been learning for a year and a half and cannot practice the eight basic brushwork methods of pressing, sweeping, hooking, uncovering, resisting, dragging, guiding and sending.

As for the higher techniques and artistic conception of calligraphy and painting, it is completely nonsense.

Although this boy Gu's ancestors were court painters, he has been exposed to the environment of a family of calligraphers and painters since he was a child, so he does not have zero foundation.

But Lin Tao learned about his Chinese painting skills from Gu Tongxiang and had also seen his previous Chinese paintings.

He is probably a pretty good student among ordinary students, but cannot be said to be outstanding.

It is not as good as the other's outstanding sketching skills, nor can it be compared with his aura of talent for Chinese painting pigments.

Then Lin Tao has nothing to teach him now.

In the field of Chinese painting,

Is it important to have a good master?

Of course it is extremely important, much more important than a teacher of Western painting.

Chinese painting not only emphasizes technique, but also artistic conception.

Of course, Western painting also pays attention to the environment.

It can be said that the more modern the art school is, the more it pays attention to emotions compared to the realistic images and reality of basic scenes.

At this point, the concepts of modern art schools and the traditional Eastern Xia painting methods coincide.

But at least for professional painters who are relatively basic in Western painting - oil painting is still a very [practical] technique.

What's wrong with the painting - the light and dark lighting isn't adjusted properly, or the structural lines are too hasty. Even if the level is not good, it's still easy to know where the problem lies.

Basically any professor at the Academy of Fine Arts is qualified to teach students oil painting.

Regardless of whether the teaching is good or bad, even if it is a second- or third-rate art academy, it will probably not mislead students.

But Chinese painting is different,

At a certain level, having a good teacher or not makes a huge difference.
To be continued...