Soul Painter

　　 National Museum of Art.

　　 One-hundred-year art achievement exhibition.

This exhibition is sponsored by the Ministry of Culture. The exhibition has gathered a large number of works of Chinese oil painting masters. The students of Tianmei have long looked at them like hungry vultures. The exhibition opened on the first day, and they rushed in with their drawing boards. In the art gallery, I began to copy my favorite works.

　　 Wu Guanzhong, Quan Shanshi, Zhu Naizheng, Chen Danqing...

　　Before every masterpiece of the famous master, there are students searching according to the picture, trying to find out the biggest secrets between the colors and the lines.

　　 Although these works have been described in various albums of deep meaning that the artist himself may not understand, as long as you really face these works, you will find that albums and paintings are basically two things.

　　 Gao Fan stood in front of an oil painting that the painter was ‘anonymous’, and could no longer move.

　　 Anonymous means that the artist is unknown.

　　 In a more detailed description, it reads ‘from an old house in this city, it should have been made around 1920. The painting style has a clear cubist style, and a large number of lines and color blocks depict a terrible **** scene. ’

　　 Because of this description, this painting was named "Hell's Gate".

　　 The painting is forty centimeters high and 37 centimeters high. It is roughly a square. This is a ‘small painting’, but when Gao Fan looked at the album before, he thought it should be very large.

　　 This illusion means that this unknown painter has mastered ‘space’.

　　 The profound meanings of line, space, light, and color are hidden among the thousands of things. When they fall into the paint of the painter, they can be integrated into one, which is already a masterpiece.

　　 Gao Fan put down the drawing board and began to copy the painting.

　　 Copying this kind of thing in the exhibition hall, the only thing needed is courage, because there will be countless people pointing to your paintings, and soon an old man and a girl stood behind Gao Fan.

　　 The old man wore a satin Chinese suit, and the girl a jeans T-shirt. One looked pretentious, the other was youthful and beautiful.

"Little pheasant, you must first learn the appreciation of painting. Just look at the pair in front of you. The name is ridiculous. Picasso was painting Cubism in 1920. That's right, but the painting outlines the character's meticulous style. It's obvious. It's a fake by posterity, and there are fools copying here, isn't it ridiculous?"

　　 The old man's words were obviously satirizing Gao Fan.

　　 Gao Fan tilted the drawing board slightly, turned his back to the old man, and started to draw with a pencil on his own.

　　 "Why is it fake to have Gongbi style?" The girl asked curiously.

"Cubism only took shape in France around 1910. Our 1920 was the Beiyang period. There is no record to prove that there were masters who could learn Chinese and Western cultures. This painting is mostly cubism, but small parts are integrated into meticulous style. Feng, if it were really the work of that time, it would not have been unknown in history."

　　 The old man’s remarks quickly attracted a group of audiences, and everyone was counting on this old man who obviously possessed extremely high artistic knowledge to speak more.

　　 But seeing the crowds, the old man was reluctant to speak. He stood behind Gao Fan, staring at Gao Fan's outline, squeezing paint, coloring, backgrounding, coloring...

An oil painting requires long or short time to paint, like Leonardo’s "anatomical" style of painting. Someone who writes a thesis for painting a tree, Van Gogh creates passionately, paints two hundred in a hundred days. There are also multiple ones.

　　The copying is of course faster, especially the copying of Cubism, anyway, it is the line structure and color blocks, just paint on top.

　　 While watching Gao Fan's fast painting, the old man frowned tightly together, and was about to talk, but was pulled away by the girl next to him.

　　 Gao Fan used his light to catch a glimpse of the two behind the hindrance and finally left, did not care, and continued to paint.

About an hour later, the outline of the painting in front of Gao Fan has been seen, and there are a few people around him, but for onlookers, look at the painting Gao Fan is making, and then look at the "Gate of Hell" copied by him. , All showed a confused look.

　　 because the painting is completely different.

The painting "Gates of Hell" is a scene similar to an abyss. Under the dark red sky, there is a smooth ocher-blue cliff. There are dozens of smaller humans climbing on the smooth cliff, but it is obvious There is nowhere to focus, I am looking up for help, and further down, it is a darker abyss...

The visual impact of this painting is very strong. Standing in front of this painting, the viewer will soon feel a terrifying and barren emotional wave. The more you try to distinguish the desperation faced by those people on the abyss cliff, the more You will feel chills in your back. More than one person, after a few minutes of careful observation, trembles with their shoulders and says, "It's a bit scary."

　　 can convey emotions and make viewers feel empathy. This is the standard of a masterpiece of art, so the old man said that such a painter cannot be unknown.

On the other hand, Gao Fan painted a human face made up of color blocks. This face is calling desperately, and his neck is twisted to an exaggerated degree. The despair and panic in his eyes are the same as the mood conveyed by the gates of hell... But it's different.

　　 "Uh...a bit disgusting."

　　 There was a middle-aged woman who watched "Gate of Hell" for a few minutes, and after watching Gao Fan's copy for a few minutes, she shuddered and made such a criticism.

　　 But Gao Fan was satisfied to see that in front of him, there was only a number he could see, jumping from ‘78/100’ to ‘79/100’.

　　 Gao Fan watched this number three months ago.

　　 This semester had just started, and once had a high fever. After the high fever, a number appeared in front of him. At that time, the number was ‘0/100’.

　　 After repeatedly judging that he was not mentally troubled with the help of medical methods and psychological tests, Gao Fan discovered that he could increase this number by lowering the rationality of the people around him.

　　 The so-called rational value is Sanity, and Gao Fan simply refers to it as the SAN value.

Gao Fan obtained the first SAN value through a static sketch called "Boiled Banana" (Don't Search)~www.novelmt.com~ Then he harvested it through "Double Disk Fluke" (Don't Search) The second batch of SAN value.

　　 "Colorful Munbird's Nestling Beak" (please cherish your sanity) let his SAN value exceed 40.

　　 Before his fourth piece of "Blasting Cockroach" was born, he was almost wiped out by his classmates in the same studio.

　　 For this reason, Gao Fan had to give up this shortcut and began to obtain the SAN value through relatively normal works.

For example, the "Gate of Hell" in front of him, when Gao Fan saw it from the gallery's catalogue, he was keenly aware that it has the potential to make people lose the SAN value. This is a...well, crazy work. , The despair that is rendered is everywhere.

　　 But it is not the SAN value that Gao Fan personally lowered. It will not be collected, so he stands here holding the drawing board at the moment, believing that when his copying plan is completed, it will be the season for him to harvest.

　　 "It's not like."

　　 "Not at all."

　　 "I don't know what I am painting at all."

　　……

　　 The comments of the onlookers could not disturb Gao Fan's heart, but soon a sense of oppression reappeared behind him. Gao Fan turned his head and saw the old man with his eyebrows and his beautiful granddaughter again.

　　 "This face you painted is so...desperate." The girl glanced at Gao Fan's nearly finished work, and felt that this despair had ‘polluted’ her happy mood.

　　SAN+1, 80/100.

　　 Gao Fan looked at the old man again, expecting the old man to contribute another SAN value to him.

　　 But the old man looked at Gao Fan’s work, then at the "Gate of Hell," and suddenly said, "You copied a person on the cliff in this painting?"

　　 "Old man, your eyesight is really good." Gao Fan admired.