Open Traveler: Culture Invasion Parallel Blue Star

Chapter 118 Shrimp's Lives and 90-year-old Reach the Top!
That's right, Qi Baishi's shrimp came back to life.

It is precisely because of the small size of the picture that netizens discovered the activity of Qi Baishi's shrimp belatedly.

And none of the judges present was surprised.

Especially the master of light school Merelson, the painting No.1 of this blue star alive.

"This is……"

It was only natural for Merelson to be surprised.

Because Qi Baishi has achieved one thing, compared with "87 Immortals Picture Scroll", Qi Baishi has gone one step further.

"Picture Scroll of 87 Immortals" integrates the charm into the scroll when doing plastic arts.

And what about Qi Baishi's shrimp?
It's all full of charm, without any skills! ! !

This kind of charm is a word of 'living'!

Painting portraits is actually a very scary thing.

There is a name called the uncanny valley effect.

When a human-like thing reaches a certain degree of similarity with humans, humans will feel bored, disgusted, and horrified towards him.

This sentiment may have originated tens of thousands of years ago when Homo sapiens just came out of Africa and fought with other human beings all year round to compete for the world.

This is true for people, and slightly better for things, but there are similar emotions.

If a shrimp draws a very special likeness, but it is not active.

It looked like a dead shrimp, very disgusting.

"Qi Baishi was very fond of fishing shrimps in his early years. After coming to Yanjing, because of his homesickness, he often painted paintings on themes of his hometown, and shrimps are one of them."

"When he was 40 years old, Qi Baishi copied the shrimps of Ming and Qing painters such as Li Futang, so he was familiar with painting shrimps."

"At the age of 63, Qi Baishi's shrimps were already very similar to real shrimps, but they were inactive."

"So Qi Baishi raised a few long-armed shrimps at home and observed them every day. Finally, the shrimps have been drawn into perfection, and the swimming shrimps can be expressed in simple pen and ink."

"Dixing has a famous saying that it is difficult to paint the skin of a tiger, but it is difficult to paint the bones. You know the face but you don't know the heart."

"It's easy to draw a tiger's appearance, but it's as difficult as to draw a tiger's majesty."

"It's easy to draw the appearance of a shrimp, but no one can draw the agility and vitality of a shrimp."

At this time, two staff members came to the stage carrying the table.

Lin Xuan smiled: "I also learned to draw shrimps when I was a child."

Lin Xuan's pen fell down, made a horizontal dot, and then drew a larger horizontal dot on the horizontal dot.

One by one, the shrimp's head was pointed out with a three-pointed pen, and the two shrimp's tendrils fell randomly, and the shrimp's slender legs were bent.

"The shrimp I painted can be seen as a shrimp at a glance, but compared with Qi Baishi's shrimp, it doesn't look like a shrimp."

Qi Baishi's prawns are transparent, light and slender, forming a strong contrast with Lin Xuan's prawns.

Look again, Lin Xuan's shrimp is just a blob of ink.

Qi Baishi's shrimp is a kind of invisible shrimp that swims in the water. If it is frightened, it will flick its tail and disappear in the water at any time.

Lin Xuan's prawns are like leftover prawn shells left on the table.

Lively, sensitive, alert, and vital.

Qi Baishi's still life on paper shows dynamic spirituality.

A few simple strokes, interlaced with shades of ink, show a sense of movement.

The firmness of the shrimp head and the thorough feeling of the rest of the shrimp can be seen at a glance.

A pair of thick ink eyes, a little burnt ink in the middle of the head, and two strokes of light ink on the left and right, so that the head of the shrimp can be varied.

The hard shell is transparent, from deep to shallow.

As for the waist of the shrimp, one stroke at a time, several strokes in a row, forming the rhythm of the shrimp waist from thick to thin.

Some shrimp bow their waists forward, while others wander with their waists straight.

With a few light strokes of the shrimp tail, people can feel the elasticity of the shrimp tail, and the transparency can be seen with the naked eye.

The long-armed shrimp painted by Qi Baishi has a pair of front claws, from thin to thick, to the claws, which are shaped like pliers, some are opened and some are closed.

And the whiskers of so many shrimps are intertwined together, they are all light ink lines, but they are coherent and smooth, and there is no sense of chaos when they are crowded together.

Instead, it gives people the illusion that the tentacles of the shrimp are flicking! !
Look closely, it seems that the tentacles of shrimps in the water are like this.

Shrimp in the water, in order to show the sense of perspective, Qi Baishi's lines are both virtual and solid, simple and appropriate, seem soft but firm, seem broken and connected, straight with curves, chaotic and orderly.

After a closer look and then look at the whole, every shrimp is alive!

This is completely different from looking at Western paintings.

Western painting, whether it is the school of light or the school of realism, bears the brunt of the shape.

But traditional Chinese painting mostly embodies something illusory and difficult to capture.

It is the so-called love for mountains and rivers, idle clouds and wild cranes.

It may also be that the winding path leads to the secluded, and the floating clouds look at the eyes.

It may also be that at sunrise, the river flowers are more red than fire, and in spring, the river water is as green as blue.

Longguo's paintings and Longguo's poems are bound to develop.

In the poem, it will not say how I, Li Bai, made friends with Wang Lun, but it is not as good as Wang Lun giving me love.

The poem does not describe how bright Yang Yuhuan's eyes are, only Yun Xiang's clothes are beautiful.

This is an expression of artistic conception.

Qi Baishi's shrimp took a different path. He started to draw similar shapes.

In Qi Baishi's painting philosophy, there is no need to paint superfluous or meaningless things.

Therefore, Qi Baishi's painting subjects mostly choose things that are common in farmers' homes.

But after this road came to an end, Qi Baishi's paintings went farther, deeper and higher than other painters who studied artistic conception from the beginning! !
Qi Baishi's paintings have reached a new realm.

It can be similar without much waste of pen and ink.

Mimicry can be achieved without drawing redundant things.

Others fishing in the cold river and snow alone need to draw a circle of mountains to surround the blank space, and then draw a lone boat to reflect the water.

But Qi Baishi can use fish and shrimp to make water come alive.

Picasso once said that Qi Baishi is a great and miraculous painter who can make fish look like they are alive without even using color but black ink.

This kind of artistic conception is far higher than that of the Light School or Impressionism.

Impressionism also wants to express a spiritual thing, but it has not yet reached the level of artistic conception.

They want to use color to bring visual impact to achieve this effect.

Picasso in his early years never understood how Qi Baishi did all this.

The audience, too, did not understand.

Why do you let the shrimp do the painting with such a few simple strokes?

[Even if it is an oil painting, it is difficult to show the appearance of the shrimp coming back to life. The stone carving can show this state, but the stone carving can't carve the subject of the shrimp! 】

[Yes, it is often easy to shape the shape when it is large, but it is more difficult to shape it when it is small. 】

[Why is it like this, the shrimp is alive? 】

[Actually, it is not difficult to paint shrimps. You can learn by looking at this painting, and you will be able to do it quickly, but it is difficult to be the first to discover the mystery. 】

Merelson has already seen several paintings that shocked him today.

At this time, I was even more shocked: "Such a great painting will definitely inspire future generations, not only Longguo paintings, but oil paintings as well. Therefore, the modern paintings of Earth Star and Blue Star are not the same, right?"

Lin Xuan smiled and nodded: "Indeed, but it's not the time to talk about that yet."

"In the history of painting, different people have different historical missions, and what each great being does is unique."

"Qi Baishi's prawns are just here. Do you have any questions about Qi Baishi's prawns?"

Zhang Peien is very excited now, even more excited than seeing "87 Immortal Picture Scroll".

The reason why "87 Immortal Picture Scrolls" is good is that it gave a decisive guide to the works of later generations in the era when the art of painting was just developing.

But after thousands of years of honing, although there is no such guidance, the truth inside is slowly being figured out.

It's just that there is no such a painting that summarizes these things.

Qi Baishi's paintings are closer to the development of modern paintings.

The closer it is to modern times, the more novel and imitative the things reflected in it will be.

Zhang Pei'en: "I probably understand how Qi Baishi's shrimps are drawn. It's nothing more than a talented person tirelessly painting, and the meaning is self-evident."

"What I want to know is, after Qi Baishi, has the direction of painting changed substantially?"

Lin Xuan smiled, this question cannot be said.

After saying this, the program will disappear from the Internet.

What he was facing was the capital of the entire calligraphy and painting industry.

When the new Dragon Kingdom was established, Picasso was already world-famous, but there was no single figure in the painting circle of the Dragon Kingdom.

Later, Qi Baishi was selected.

However, until 2022, Qi Baishi's reputation is not as good as one-tenth of Picasso's.

However, the Western oil painting world has gone crazy.

They started frantically looking for intentions.

However, the plum, orchid, bamboo, chrysanthemum, wind, flowers, snow and moon have long been found by Chinese paintings. What can they find?

As a result, the Western oil painting world began to rely on emptiness, and abstraction came into being.

Does Qi Baishi have any influence on painting?It should be said that Qi Baishi wiped out the Western painting circle.

Zhang Daqian visited Picasso in the Gallic country and wanted to ask Picasso to guide him in painting.

As a result, Picasso took out his imitation of Qi Baishi's painting, and told Zhang Daqian: "The first art in the world is the Dragon Kingdom, and the second is the Cherry Blossom Kingdom, and then it is our turn. You come to ask me to learn painting?"

From realism to freehand brushwork, from freehand brushwork to pure intentionality, the West has developed for 500 years.

However, Longguo started realistic writing 2000 years ago, freehand brushwork 700 years ago, and pure imagery 400 years ago.

A great artist like Picasso saw the future of genre painting at a glance.

And get stuck in it in old age.

What he has to do is to use oil paints to walk the path of pure intention.

But... this is the same path that Qi Baishi took back then.

Qi Baishi started walking at the age of 63 and reached the peak at the age of 91.

He started walking at the age of 74. It is reasonable to say that with his talent, he may reach the peak at the age of [-].

Unfortunately, he died at the age of 92.

Picasso was the founder of Cubism in the first half of his life, and was in confusion in the second half of his life.

Picasso's paintings became darker and darker, and he didn't like to use various color blocks of bright red and purple, and began to smear colors randomly.

It is completely different from the painting style in the first half of my life.

But in the second half of his life, this kind of creation fell into an endless bottleneck.

It's a pity that he discovered Long Guohua late, otherwise, with his genius level, he might have really stepped out of Western-style image painting, instead of letting future generations be blinded by abstract art.

This world does not even have Picasso, only Merelson, not even Cubism, only Impressionist (Light School) Merelson.

Merelson doesn't say a word now, wondering if he saw a cruel future like Picasso back then.

Lin Xuan: "The future of painting must have changed, but there is not much to show."

After all, Qi Baishi has already pushed it to the limit.

There have been changes, that is, other people have come to this level from other paths.

Hearing this, Zhang Peien became anxious: "Then how should we develop?"

Lin Xuan: "Then... I can't control it."

"I just show it to everyone. I don't know much about painting."

Merelson, who had been silent for a while, sat down now.

Merelson got it, but Merelson didn't quite get it.

Because Lin Xuan hasn't brought out Picasso yet.

By the time Picasso brings it out, Merelson might be on the verge of understanding and then bewildered again.

He is a super genius of this level and a faction has reached the pinnacle of painting ability. After watching Qi Baishi, he can vaguely see something.

But he didn't know how to describe it.

If you are from Longguo, you can describe this feeling.

This is called, technology is close to Tao.

Everything is Dao, but Dao is both unified and ever-changing.

No matter what kind of road comes to an end, it's like this.

Thinking about this problem clearly, Merelson may also paint Qi Baishi as crazy as Picasso.

However, Blue Star doesn't need Picasso, just let him learn Picasso.

The painting changes in this world will not be like the earth and stars.

In Earth Star, in that era, Long Kingdom had no right to speak, and its own things were learned little by little, and there was nothing to say.

The point is, when others learn it, they will in turn boast that they are better than you in public opinion.

He also hired sailors on your territory to brag about being better than you.

The Blue Star Dragon Kingdom is different, and Lin Xuan needs to cooperate with the power of "I am a time traveler" to change the art of painting in this world.

Moreover, let them admit that they learned from Longguo and change.

Admit it, it's important.

If "87 Immortal Picture Scroll" shocked all the judges present.

Then "Van Gogh's Sunflowers" made everyone sigh that the two worlds are the same.

And "Qi Baishi's Shrimp" stunned all the judges present.

Unbeknownst to the audience at this time, the world of painting has been quietly shattered and then reorganized.

Lin Xuan: "Qi Baishi's shrimp is very special."

"First, it reached the limit in form."

"And then I went to the limit intentionally."

"Then Qi Baishi slowly reduced the form and left the intention. When the simplest form left the deepest intention, he came to the end of this road and stepped onto the throne of art."

"Then, next, after seeing "Qi Baishi's Shrimp", let us look at the works of a Western painting artist who was as famous as Qi Baishi at that time."

"He, called Picasso, is considered the representative figure of abstract art."

"However, he is not an abstract painter, but a great painter who created Cubism in Impressionism."

"The particularity of his creation is also shocking in the earth and stars."

"He reached the pinnacle of Western painting art while he was alive."

"He is Picasso."

"The next painting is "The Transformation Process of a Cow"!"

(End of this chapter)