My secret love for Bai Yueguang turned out to be my blind date

Chapter 209 The Value of Art

Art gallery, threesome.

The theme of this recording is "The Value of Art". To some extent, this is an era of utilitarianism, an era in which instrumental rationality outlaws value rationality. Art is not a necessity for many people, but art is real. Is it necessary after the food and clothing are solved?
At the moment, what attracted the three of them to stop was a painting imitating the Impressionist painter Monet's "Sunrise". The perception of visual experience is the starting point, focusing on the ever-changing appearance in the light atmosphere.

"Junior brother, look at this painting, it's really good, it's clearly the sunrise, but it's blurry, it's often like this at sunrise, there will be some things that blur your judgment, but if you stick to it, you will be able to I saw a beautiful sunrise." Xu Qingyuan gave his evaluation.

In fact, "Sunrise", as the pioneering work of Impressionism, is more worthy of discussion on the technique of this painting, but Xu Qingyuan is talking about the implication of the name of this painting.Of course Su Ye understood Xu Qingyuan's meaning. This middle-aged man who is not good at words, has some social fears, and likes to analyze others is actually very kind.He knew the situation Su Ye was facing at the moment, and he was comforting Su Ye clumsily in his own way.

But at the moment the camera is on, it is not suitable for discussion, Su Ye can only respond tactfully, "Brother, when I was a visiting scholar in the UK, I really liked western oil paintings, especially the Mona Lisa, guess what is the reason?" ?”

"Because of a painter? You like Leonardo Da Vinci. I know he is not only a painter, but also an all-rounder. He is good at architecture, mathematics, astronomy, geometry, physics, anatomy, etc. He seems to be a philosopher too."

"In fact, it is because of the characteristics of Western oil paintings. In Western oil paintings, the figures are always very large, especially after the Renaissance, when the shackles of religious thoughts were broken away. In my country, when you look at landscape paintings, painters usually draw the figures very small and hide them. Between mountains and rivers. But as my mood changes, I now prefer landscape paintings. It’s not that I don’t agree with man’s determination to conquer nature and liberalism. It’s about the nature of our country. The unity of man and nature is more in line with my mood. Eternal, what is the big deal? Brother, do you think I am right?"

Xu Qingyuan couldn't help smiling, "That's right, what you said makes sense."

Ma Xi smiled and watched the two of them playing riddles, but he didn't break it down. After the two finished talking, he introduced the topic, "In the city, art exhibitions and drama performances are very popular among young people. You will think that contemporary young people are interested in Is art in great demand?"

Hearing this, Xu Qingyuan immediately became sensitive, "Old Ma, have you noticed that when you said this sentence, you added a qualifier in front of it: city."

"I know what you mean. You want to say that in third- and fourth-tier cities or even rural areas, there is no condition to go to art exhibitions and museums anytime and anywhere. Do these people have no artistic needs? Didn't you notice that I also limited the form of art." Ma Xi raised her eyebrows and blocked Xu Qingyuan's mouth, "I originally wanted to discuss it separately, but it's okay to put them together. Music, movies, and radio are all art forms. Thanks to the technological revolution, As long as the Internet exists, most people can enjoy it, do you think young people have a great demand for art?"

Xu Qingyuan grinned. Regarding Ma Xi's defense, he said, "First of all, we need to make a simple distinction between works of art. I personally think they can be divided into entertainment and classic. Secondly, we must understand the meaning of the existence of works of art. It should be to satisfy people's spiritual needs. So, Senior Brother Ma, you don't think that only young people have spiritual needs, but middle-aged people don't?"

Ma Xi was speechless for a while, and Xu Qingyuan was undoubtedly a rascal, which expanded the level again.
"Senior brothers, whether they are in rural areas or cities, whether they are young or middle-aged, they all have spiritual needs." Su Ye came out to smooth things over.

Hearing this, both Xu Qingyuan and Ma Xi laughed, and they bickered habitually.

However, Ma Xi also took advantage of the opportunity to ask Su Ye, "Little brother, back to the question just now, do you think young people will have more demand for art works?"

"As Brother Xu said just now, in fact, everyone has spiritual needs, and these need to be obtained from works of art. The reason why Brother Ma asked this question is probably to discuss classic works of art. After all, popular works Everyone will not resist, but classic works of art have a certain cognitive threshold, and it takes time and energy to accept and gain something."

While the two nodded, Su Ye continued, "I think contemporary young people have this spiritual need, which is determined by this era. This is a very bad era, and the information generated every day may only be able to be achieved in the past few decades." The output, everyone is receiving the impact of the torrent of information. During this impact, a very strong psychological dam is needed to resist the information. This information may contain luxury cars, yachts, mansions, betrayal, and derailment Wait. Manpower is exhausted at times. When faced with this torrent of information, you will be confused, unwilling, and angry. At this time, you need to obtain energy from these classic works of art and forge your own dam. And this It’s what those popular works of art can’t give.”

Ma Xi nodded, "Junior Brother, you are right. But what needs to be paid more attention to is that many people have been hit by this torrent of information, and have forgotten to save themselves, and even voluntarily became part of the torrent."

In fact, what Ma Xi said was very euphemistic. When faced with worldly status and wealth, many people are willing to be greedy, angry and ignorant.Maybe some people can really get these by their own efforts, but more people can't get them. There is a line in the movie "Wu Shuang", which says that only one genius can be born in every 500 million people, which one can achieve worldly success? Not geniuses, but geniuses are really rare.

Xu Qingyuan, who was next to him, also echoed, "This era is too utilitarian, and many people are not peaceful. They will not choose works of art, but choose stocks."

"I admit that the two brothers are right, but you cannot deny the meaning of art just because you don't pay attention to classic art. Art may be empty in the eyes of pragmatists, but human beings need these things. Among them is the only light."

And Su Ye's eyes were also shining, "If there is no art, we will only say goodbye when we part, instead of saying that Mo Chou has no confidant in the future, and everyone in the world does not know the king. If there is no art, we will only see the moon. It’s really beautiful, but there is no such thing as a white jade plate that all children know. If there is no art, you can only say “I love you” to the person you like, and there will be no introverts who can love you. people say that the moon is so beautiful tonight”

There is another sentence, Su Ye didn't say, if there is no art, how can he get Jiang Baizhi?
(End of this chapter)