Soul Painter

The seventh mask group picture, the source is a pair of ordinary parents.

When Gao Fan visited the house, he knocked on the door and heard a child's hysterical scream. After he entered the door, the gift he was holding was immediately snatched by a little boy brandishing a toy sword in his hand. Go, the parents chased the child and said in a pleading tone: "Xiaojie, Xiaojie, you can't grab it, that's someone else's thing."

The little boy screamed ‘I’m going to do it,’ and his parents stood aside at a loss, like two ministers facing a grumpy king. From their expressions, Gao Fan saw an extreme ‘sense of being needed’.

They need children and need them. This sentence is very awkward. The explanation is: their needs for children far exceed the needs of children for them. This makes them face children, like facing the God who can decide their life and death.

Gao Fan marveled at how this extremely distorted family atmosphere was formed, and completed his seventh mask painting "Desire".

The eighth set of painting "Cowardice" comes from a believer who believes in a religion that propagates the end of the day. He is almost pious. He participates in various gatherings every day and preaches to the general public. He agrees from his heart to his actions. Own beliefs.

At the same time, there is another job selling insurance.

"Selling insurance is a part-time job, and faith is my official job." He said to Gao Fan.

Gao Fan learned about his life and he had struggled before, but his salary could not keep up with house prices and his enthusiasm could not keep up with love. Gao Fan saw an urban youth whose dream was defeated by reality. The final choice was to convert his soul to God— —It’s the easiest to do this. He gave up and won.

In the ninth group painting "Eros", she is an older leftover girl who was once beautiful, and still has the tail of her youth. When chatting with Gao Fan, she looks graceful and graceful. She recalls her past and worships herself one by one. The man under the pomegranate skirt, she is committed to the pursuit of true love, but true love cannot be too poor, not too ugly, not big money, not a poor boy, and at the same time it must be a soul she admires. Although she has met a few, there is always no one. Good results.

"Do you know? I'm posting on a circle of friends now, and I don't even have a casual person~ No one believes it, but it's true." The loneliness in her smile and the wrinkles in the corners of her eyes are equally obvious.

In the tenth group painting "Indulgence," Gao Fan spent six hours with him in the Internet cafe. During these six hours, the two had no more than five sentences, but Gao Fan completed his own draft of the painting. When Gao Fan left , This junior who has lived in the Internet cafe for half a year and still wants to live there, he glanced at Gao Fan's back thoughtfully, and then started yelling at the screen: "Kill the Buddha first!"

In the eleventh group painting "Pride", Gao Fan saw the old man in the nursing home, and the years gave him a deep and contemptuous expression on his face, so that he is only standing there now, even the pet dog in the nursing home Stay away from him. When Gao Fan came, he happened to see his son scolded away by him, just because he didn't bring the cigarettes specially ordered by the old man.

"The nursing home does not let you smoke..."

"I shouldn't have given birth to you back then! Useless stuff!"

After the son left, the old man sat in the garden with loneliness, his back was slightly bent, but he straightened his body when others passed by, showing a contemptuous expression.

For the twelfth photo "Legacy", Gao Fan asked the deputy director to take him to the municipal government and complete it.

In the thirteenth photo "Foolish Meng", Gao Fan returned to prison to collect materials. An old man who tried to use poison to mute his granddaughter in exchange for a second-child indicator—the second-child policy was not yet open at that time, and this An old man serving his sentence in prison is about to expire, but he said that he did not know how to face his family after he went out.

"I'm all for the purpose of passing on the clan..." the old man said painfully.

By this time, more than three months had passed, and it was mid-November.

Gao Fan returned to China for half a year.

In addition to the auction at Xiangjiang, he traveled with Pengcheng and Tianshi to collect materials and complete his own mask group paintings.

Lu Guoying came to Gao Fan’s studio from time to time to turn around, and saw more and more finished paintings placed in Gao Fan’s painting room. In the mask paintings, the different themes displayed, those using lines The masks that are made up of shocking people, he became more and more silent, unable to comment, just instructing the noble who is obsessed with creation, take care of his body.

Gao Fan does not regret choosing "Mask" as the theme of his first group creation, but this group of paintings did have a great influence on him. During these three months, he felt that his SAN was getting a little bit quicker. Although they can make up for it, all the thematic paintings he created, those negative human lives that must be deeply understood, still made him gradually give birth to pain and despair.

After the beginning of winter, it is winter.

Gao Fan felt that Pingshi was particularly cold in this early winter.

On the winter solstice day, the rare heavy snow fell for a whole day.

Xin Wei didn't come for a few days.

When she came again, she chose a weekend with sunny weather, which was also the second day of the winter solstice, thinking that Gao Fan, the ‘caveman’, must be taken out for a walk, otherwise he would give birth to green fur.

In winter after snow, the sky is particularly clear.

After Xin Wei opened the door of Gao Fan's studio with the key, he turned to the wall facing the hallway and saw Gao Fan painting in front of the window.

The snow reflected the sunlight on Gao Fan's side face.

Gao Fan wears a thick sweater. He is thin, so he is particularly afraid of the cold. When he wears it thick, he looks like a cotton ball. From this perspective, the light and shadow make his facial contours look extraordinarily three-dimensional, and he is paying attention. To put color on the painting, Xin Wei knew that this should be the last mask theme painting created by Gao Fan.

In the studio, there are 14 other themed paintings, but they are all covered with white linen. Gao Fan doesn't like Xin Wei to see his paintings. Xin Wei doesn't know why.

Now ~www.readwn.com~ Xin Wei stands quietly behind Gao Fan.

Meow~ God crouched on the cat climbing frame beside Gao Fan and called out, as if to say hello to Xin Wei.

Obviously, this can't bother Gao Fan, who has entered the creative state.

Xin Wei saw that on Gao Fan’s canvas, he used ochre as the main tone, painted an ancient mask, and a large amount of black as rendering, piled up around the ochre mask, like clouds surrounded by heavy rain, army surrounded by flags, Xin Wei The moment she saw the canvas, she felt that a lot of gloomy emotions hit her face like a violent storm. For an instant, it almost made her breathless.

The black and ochre in the painting seemed to gush out from the canvas, turning into a violent, depressing, and unbreathable gloomy emotion, which was stuffed into the viewer’s eyes. At this moment, Xin Wei felt despair, yes. , Despair, boundless desolation and anger, grows like weeds in her chest, squeezing all the living space of hope, and even leaving no trace of light.

What surprised Xin Wei even more is that the outline of this mask is thin and deep. Isn't this... Gao Fan?

The last mask painting is a self-portrait?