Soul Painter

The copy of Degas's "Dancing Classroom" is the first time that Gao Fan completely copied another master's painting after he possessed master-level skills.

To be honest, there is nothing technically gained.

It only increases relevant knowledge and appreciation.

When Degas created this work, he had already turned from classicism to realism. He abandoned the solemn and solemn portrayal of classicism, and turned to an "anti-poetic" way to describe life.

In "Dancing Classroom", a harsh old man confronts a group of young and lovely girls, one against a group, one ugly against a group of beautiful ones. It is a perfect combination of dullness, elegance and ugliness. The beautified gestures are depicted, but they are wonderful like a dream.

In the process of copying "Dance Classroom", Gao Fan noticed Degas's second master technique, which he called "contrast".

This painting is full of contrasts, not only the contrasts in the characters, but also the contrasts in the composition. This painting is drawn with the fast line matching method, using the lines on the floor as the basic perspective positioning, and the perspective-based rendering. The pictures are getting closer and closer, which is the real sense of space formed by 'contrast'.

With the superposition of the two techniques of "contrast" and "life", Degas created his own world in the painting.

Govan tried to learn Degas' technique.

But always take pictures of cats and tigers.

Don't be awkward.

Three days later, when he inspected the works of several people, Gao Fan found that he and Anna were really copying, while Lu Guoying drew his own style.

The "Dance Classroom" painted by Lu Guoying, from the characters to the layout, reveals the shadow of the "roundness" technique everywhere. Lawrence wanted to see the works created using "roundness". He saw that it was obviously the same composition and characters as Degas However, under Lu Guoying's pen, all the characters are arranged in a patchwork order, which makes the whole picture present a sense of balance as if placed on two ends of a scale and held equally.

"You changed the position of this, this, and this character, so that the ratio of the characters on the inside and outside of the screen becomes balanced, but the number of characters is still wrong...Ah! You also changed the layout of the classroom, and this mirror was magnified by you Yes, it makes up for the insufficient number of characters in the inner picture!"

Lawrence touched the painting bit by bit to ponder, and finally understood why both Gao Fan and Anna said that when Lu Guoying stepped into the threshold of a master, it was just a 'circle' at that time, and when this technique was painted on a picture It is so conspicuous in the middle, it is a unique temperament, and it is the temperament that makes Lu Guoying's creations unique.

Lu Guoying ignored Lawrence's exclamation.

Just pointing to this work, he said: "This is a newly discovered skill of my old man, but at my age, I may not be able to use it to the extreme, so I will show it to you now, and you all have your own. The creative habit may not be able to appreciate this smooth and stable new classical painting method, but it can always be used as a reference.”

And finished copying Degas.

Lu Guoying left New York.

At the level of Lu Guoying, copying other people's works is no longer useful as a reference, but will interfere with one's own creative style and habits. The same is true for Gao Fan, but Gao Fan is younger and encounters ordinary painters like "lost skills" Only when you don't encounter situations will you become interested in Degas.

But for Lu Guoying, he no longer has the energy to learn a new perspective and a new painting method. For him, "Yuanrong" is enough. What he wants to do now is to draw in this new classic Continue to walk on the road of doctrine until the end of his life, and see where he can go.

The so-called "preaching" refers to Lu Guoying's current thinking and practice.

However, Bidgar's "Dance Classroom" and Lu Guoying's "Dance Classroom" can better understand the use of "Yuanrong" in paintings. Anna has been thinking about Lu Guoying's works for a night, and she can already resemble them. How to draw works with 'roundness' skills.

What about Gao Fan?

The works he handed over are still ordinary.

"No skills." Looking at Gao Fan's works, Anna frowned and asked, "Gao, what about your skills?"

"It's already very good." Wu Haoxue, who was left in New York by Lu Guoying, complained for his teacher at the moment, "The composition is right, the characters are okay, and the color is even better than Degas's. It's... well, it's just missing A little breath."

Wu's studious vision is also good. After all, there is a master's soul in his body. When he talked about the idea, Gao Fan, who couldn't use the second-stage skills, showed a kind of "craftsmanship" throughout the works he created.

It is said to be "craftsmanship", which means that this work is very good, you can't tell what is wrong with it, it is even perfect, and its only shortcoming may be that it is too mediocre.

Gao Fan was not annoyed by such an evaluation.

Indeed, he looked at his skills, color, structure, and line. The basic values ​​are 95, 94, and 98 respectively, but after the addition of mysticism, anatomy, and psychology, the estimated values ​​should be 221, 215, and 214 .

The reason why it is called an estimate is because values ​​over 100 are no longer displayed by the system, but are added to the 'distortion' at a ratio of 1:30.

Gao Fan's ordinary skills are so high, it may be rare in ancient and modern times. The works he created without special skills should be perfect, but Anna is familiar with him, and even knows all his skills, so she can tell at a glance that Gao Fan It seems to be just perfunctory, without any skills.

"Temperament..." Gao Fan pondered, he had a vague idea, so he asked Wu Haoxue: "Your paintings don't have 'temperament', why do you have no temperament?"

Wu Haoxue was taken aback by the question, and was a little aggrieved. He wanted to answer because I am young? But this is obviously not the correct answer, the correct answer has been said many times by Lu Guoying.

"My basic skills are not enough, I still need to practice." Wu Haoxue said.

"I'm different from you, because I'm so good." Gao Fan sighed, "I'm so jealous~"

Do you want this Versailles... Wu Haoxue looked at Gao Fan depressed.

In fact, Gao Fan didn't tell the truth, he knew very well where his problem was, it was his talent.

That's right, Gao Fan's talent is not enough. He is not as good as Anna who has a dual perspective of mathematics and art, Wu who is studious with two souls, and Lu Guoying who is immersed in painting for a long time.

Wu is eager to learn because of his lack of basic skills, and Gao Fan is because of his lack of qualifications.

That's why Anna came from behind and surpassed Gao Fan in the 'world' skills.

Although I don't have enough qualifications, my basic stats are high... Gao Fan thought, theoretically, it wouldn't be difficult to master one or two master skills, right?

The skills given by the system are 'sealed', and he will learn new skills.

"Let's learn from the old man's 'Yuan Rong'~"

"No no... I am also very interested in Degas's 'life' and 'contrast'..."

"Van Gogh's 'enthusiasm' also wants to learn..."

"Just learn it all!"