Soul Painter

The copying of Degas's "Dance Classroom" is the first time that Gao Fan has completely copied another master's painting after possessing master-level skills.

Honestly, there's not much to gain from skill.

Only increased relevant knowledge and appreciation.

When Degas created this work, he had already turned from classicism to realism. He abandoned the solemn and solemn depiction 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 to a group, one ugly to a group of beautiful, it is the perfect combination of dullness, elegance and ugliness, Degas put the girls in the simplest, most private, without any Beautified gestures are depicted, but make them wonderfully dreamlike.

In the process of copying "The Dance Classroom", Goffin became aware of Degas' second master technique, which he called "contrast".

This painting is full of contrasts, in addition to the contrasts on the characters, there are also contrasts in the composition. This painting is drawn with the fast line background method. The lines on the floor are used as the basic perspective positioning, and the perspective-based let The picture is getting closer and closer, which is a real sense of space formed by 'contrast'.

Under the superposition of two techniques of 'contrast' and 'life', Degas created his own world within the painting.

Govin tries to learn Degas' tricks.

But always draw a tiger like a cat.

Don't be squeamish.

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

Lu Guoying's "Dancing Classroom", from the characters to the layout, shows the shadow of the "Yuanrong" technique everywhere. Lawrence wanted to see the works created using the "Yuanrong". He saw that it was obviously the same composition and characters as Degas. However, in Lu Guoying's painting, all the figures are arranged in a random order, which makes the picture as a whole present a sense of balance as if placed on both ends of a scale and the two ends are held horizontally.

"You changed the position of this, this, and this character, so that the proportions of the characters on the inside and outside of the screen are balanced, but the number of characters is still wrong... Ah! You also changed the layout of the classroom, and this mirror was enlarged by you , it complements the lack of characters in the inner picture!"

Lawrence touched the painting and pondered it bit by bit, 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', and when this technique is painted in a picture It is a unique temperament that makes Lu Guoying's creations unique.

Lu Guoying ignored Lawrence's exclamation.

I just pointed to this work and said: "This is a new technique discovered by my old man, but at my age, I may not be able to make the best of it, so I'll show it to you now, you all have your own The creative habits may not necessarily despise this kind of stable new painting method of classicism, but it can always be used as a reference.”

And copy finished Degas.

Lu Guoying left New York.

At the level of Lu Guoying, copying other people's works will no longer serve as a reference, but will interfere with his own creative style and habits. The same is true for Gao Fan, but Gao Fan is younger, and he encounters ordinary painters like 'lost skills'. The situation that will not be encountered will only lead to interest in Degas.

But for Lu Guoying, he has no energy anymore. To learn a new perspective and new painting method, 'Yuan Rong' is enough for him. Continue on the path of ism until the end of his life and see where he can go.

The so-called 'preaching' is what Lu Guoying is thinking and doing now.

But Bidegar's "Dance Classroom" and Lv Guoying's "Dance Classroom" can better understand the use of 'Yuanrong' in the paintings. Anna has been trying to figure out the works left by Lv Guoying for a night, and she has been able to simulate it. In this way, you can draw works with the 'rounding' technique.

What about Govan?

The works he handed over are still ordinary.

"No skills." Anna looked at Gao Fan's work and asked with a frown, "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 correct, the characters are fine, and the colors are even better than Degas's, just... um, just one less. A little bit of air."

Wu's vision is also good. After all, he has the soul of a master in his body. When he came to the point, Gao Fan, who could not use the second stage skills, created works that showed a kind of "craftsmanship".

It is said that it is "craftsmanship", that is, this work is very good, you can't tell what is wrong with it, it is even perfect, maybe its only disadvantage is that it is too mediocre.

Gao Fan is not annoyed by this evaluation.

Indeed, he looked at his skill value, color, structure and line, the basic values ​​were 95, 94, 98, but after the addition of occult, anatomy and psychology, the estimated value should be 221, 215 and 214 .

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

Gao Fan's ordinary skills are probably rare in ancient and modern times. His works without special skills should also be perfect, but Anna is familiar with him, and even knows all his skills, so he can see at a glance that Gao Fan It seems to be just perfunctory, without any skill.

"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 felt a little aggrieved. He wanted to answer because I was young? But this is obviously not the correct answer. The correct answer has been said many times by Lu Guoying.

"I don't have enough basic skills, so I have to practice." Wu Haoxue said.

"I'm not the same as you, because I'm too good." Gao Fan sighed, "I'm jealous of God~"

Want to be like Versailles... Wu Haoxue stared at Gao Fan so depressed.

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

That's right, Gao Fan's talent is not enough. He can't compare to Anna who has a dual perspective of mathematics and art, Wu who has two souls to learn, and Lu Guoying who is immersed in painting a Jiazi.

Wu is fond of learning because he lacks basic skills, and Gao Fan lacks qualifications.

That's why Anna came to the fore and chased Gao Fan with his 'world' skills.

Although the qualifications are not enough, my basic data is high... Gao Fan is thinking, in theory, it is not difficult to master one or two master skills, right?

When the skills given by the system are 'sealed', he learns new skills.

"Let's learn from the old man's 'Yuanrong'~"

"No no... I'm also very interested in Degas' 'Life' and 'Contrast'..."

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

"Just learn it all!"