Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 1640, the collision of east and west paintings
Next to a wharf on the Huangpu River, Da Vinci brought his own painting tools to the riverside, intending to record everything here in Songhu through painting, so that he can also take it out after returning to Europe, so that People are more convinced.

Leonardo da Vinci is good at painting portraits, not very good at architectural painting, but his painting achievements are extremely high, and it is still possible to draw architectural landscapes casually.

Like painting in Europe, his assistant prepared everything silently. Da Vinci chose sketching, because using sketches to draw buildings and the like is the most concise and efficient way, and oil painting is not suitable for drawing buildings and the like. of.

I saw Da Vinci concentrating on painting, and with the rotation of the brush, everything on the other side of the Huangpu River was gradually outlined.

The busy Huangpu River wharf, the cement road extending to the end of the field of vision, tall buildings, and human figures, everything is extremely clear and layered, clearly showing the prosperity and hustle and bustle of Songhu here.

"Good painting, good painting!"

When Leonardo da Vinci put the last strokes on the painting, a large crowd of onlookers suddenly gathered nearby, and some people couldn't help but marvel.

"Mr.'s painting technique should come from European sketches, right?"

Wen Zhengming looked at Da Vinci in front of him, and he knew that he was a European. Then he looked at his paintings. The sketching technique is a little more in the new learning of the Ming Dynasty, and he pays attention to restoring things to the brush above.

The reason why there are sketching and drawing courses in the new study is actually to meet the production needs, such as mechanical design, bridge construction, creative design, etc., sketching is extremely useful.

However, the mainstream of the Ming Dynasty painting circle has always been landscape painting, which pays attention to expressing emotion through painting, expressing emotions through painting, emphasizing artistic conception rather than form.

Therefore, sketching only existed in the Xinxue school and related fields in the Ming Dynasty, and it was never in the elegant hall.

Wen Zhengming is a well-known painter, calligrapher, writer and collector in this matter, and he has also heard about sketches. This time, he and a few friends came to Songhu to play, and accidentally saw Da Vinci drawing with sketches here. , but also to stop and watch.

Take a closer look at the painting in front of you, and then look at Songhu in front of you, you can find almost all the details on it, which made him unable to resist making friends.

"You also know sketching?"

Da Vinci looked at Wen Zhengming in front of him, and then at the Ming people around him, each of them looked at himself, at his own painting.

"I have heard a little that sketching originated in Europe. The style of painting is to paint things on the scroll without any differences. It is more popular in our Ming Dynasty's new learning."

Wen Zhengming replied with a smile, and then formally introduced himself: "Zhengming below, this is Cai Yu, Tang Zhen, Chen Chun, Zhu Yunming, very glad to meet you sir!"

Following Wen Zhengming's introduction, Cai Yu, Tang Zhen, Chen Chun, and Zhu Yunming also put away their fans and bowed slightly to Da Vinci.

The European old man in front of him, at least speaking, still has a deep level and attainments in painting. The painting in front of him is almost a perfect imprint of Songhutan here.

"My name is Da Vinci and I am from Florence, Italy."

Da Vinci is also used to the Ming people's way of making friends. The few people in front of him can be seen as scholars from the Ming Dynasty.

"Sir, I don't know if I can give up my love and give this painting to me?"

Wen Zhengming likes to paint, like calligraphy, and also likes to collect. He likes to collect all kinds of cultural calligraphy and paintings. Although the painting in front of him is completely different from the traditional landscape paintings of the Ming Dynasty, although I don't know how to draw this sketch.

However, based on Wen Zhengming's own painting experience and level, the level of this painting is extremely high. Even in sketches, it is definitely at the level of a master.

For a while, I also wanted to collect this painting.

"I'm going to take this painting back to Europe. It will be used to show Europeans what I have seen and heard in Daming, and let them see the city of Daming."

Da Vinci shook his head slightly and said that he planned to take this painting back to Europe.

"So that's why I was being rude."

"That's not as good as this. I will draw a picture for my husband, and my husband will draw another one. We will exchange with each other. How about calling a friend at that time?"

When Wen Zhengming heard it, he immediately felt very regretful, thought about it and asked again.

"Are you a painter too?"

Da Vinci looked at Wen Zhengming again, but he didn't expect that the other party was also a painter.

"Know a little bit, know a little~"

Wen Zhengming said modestly.

"That depends on how good your painting is. My paintings are not easily exchanged with others."

When Da Vinci heard it, he didn't realize that Wen Zhengming meant modesty, so he said after thinking about it.

As a master painter, he naturally has his own pride. There are still many people who ask him for paintings, but he doesn't just paint for people casually.

Especially in his later years, after da Vinci immersed himself in studying natural scientists, he seldom painted.

"That's good~"

When Wen Zhengming heard this, he immediately became angry. The European old man in front of him actually had to look at his own painting level, which made him feel like he was underestimated.

He is a majestic Wuzhong Four Talents, a well-known great talent in the south of the Yangtze River, but now he is underestimated by others.

"Ah Fu, prepare pen, ink, paper and inkstone~"

Wen Zhengming gave an order, and the book boy who had been following Wen Zhengming hurriedly prepared, and even borrowed a table from a nearby businessman, but the people around heard that some great talents from the south of the Yangtze River came to Songhu, and they were still here with someone from Europe. Italians compared painting, and a large number of melon-eating people gathered here at the pier.

"That person is Wen Zhengming, one of the famous four great talents in Wuzhong?"

"That's right, the other few are also very famous talents, Cai Yu, Tang Zhen, Zhu Yunming, they are all well-known talents in the south of the Yangtze River."

"Isn't there another Tang Yin?"

"Tang Yin had already finished high school in the twelfth year of Hongzhi. I heard that he is now an official in Nanyun Province, and he is still the magistrate."

"This competition is about painting. As far as painting is concerned, Tang Yin is the best. Although Wen Zhengming's paintings are also very good, calligraphy is the best."

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The melon-eating crowd watching the excitement around them also continued to discuss, and at the same time, they also wanted to see what kind of paintings Wen Zhengming could draw, and he couldn't let this old European man underestimate Ming's painter.

Wen Zhengming ignored the discussions around him, held a brush in his hand, and splashed ink with eloquence. The same city map of Songhu soon appeared on the paper.

However, different from Leonardo da Vinci's sketches, this painting by Wen Zhengming is a scene of Wen Zhengming and someone overlooking the whole Songhu while drinking and reciting poems on the top floor of the Songhu Restaurant.

That is to say, the painting scenery overlooking Songhu from a high place. Such a framing is more suitable to be expressed in the situation of landscape painting, which pays more attention to the artistic conception than to the specific form.

If it is the same as Leonardo da Vinci in front of him, it is not very easy to draw the picture of the river scene in front of him.

Soon, Wen Zhengming's painting was finished, and then he began to inscribe on it.

On July [-]st of the [-]th year of Hongzhi, he left the "Overview of Songhu" at the Huangpu River Wharf in Songhu, and presented it to Mr. Leonardo da Vinci, a European Italian painter, and then stamped his own seal.

"Sir, is this painting still in your eyes?"

After finishing the painting, Wen Zhengming also showed the painting to Da Vinci and everyone present.

"Good painting~"

"Good~"

"As expected of Wen Zhengming, a great talent in Wen Zhengming, this painting is really amazing. It perfectly shows the prosperity and hustle and bustle of Songhu, but it also has a feeling of being hidden in the city."

"The subtlety of this painting lies in the fact that the prosperity and excitement of the nearby Songhu city is connected with the scenery of mountains, rivers and fields in the distance, and they are compared with each other. The contrast is huge, showing the prosperity and excitement of Songhu."

"The painting is good, the calligraphy is good, I am willing to pay [-] taels of silver to buy this painting!"

"Go, go, this painting is not for sale, it is for exchange with this old European man."

"That's right, that's right, it stinks to withdraw money, go away!"

When the people around saw it, they couldn't help making friends immediately.

Wen Zhengming's painting level is obviously beyond doubt, and he is definitely an outstanding figure in Ming Dynasty painting in this period.

Da Vinci watched Wen Zhengming's paintings carefully, nodding his head while watching.

It has to be said that the painting method of the Ming people seems to be very simple. The brush draws on the paper, and it may not take long for a painting to be completed.

But this is also true, whether the painting is good or not can be seen at a glance.

The painting in front of me is perfect both in terms of artistic conception and details. It has all the scenery around the Huangpu River in Songhu on it. Violation and rush.

If you look carefully, you can even see a large number of characters from the painting, and these characters are actually lifelike and extremely clear.

There is no doubt that this level is definitely the top painter in Ming Dynasty.

He is a European painter, and he can be seen just by looking at it.

"Not bad, not bad, really good painting."

Only then did Da Vinci carefully look at Wen Zhengming in front of him again and praised.

"Then can you make another painting, sir, and we can exchange each other?"

Wen Zhengming smiled. He was quite confident about his painting skills.

"Of course you can~"

Da Vinci nodded solemnly. The exchange of works between the painters is also a way of mutual recognition.

Immediately, it unfolded the roll of paper again, picked up its own pencil, and began to draw on the paper, but this time, it changed the direction and angle.

As a painter, you will never paint two identical paintings!
PS: The Four Great Talents in the South of the Yangtze River and Leonardo Da Vinci were contemporaries, you can't think of it, right?
(End of this chapter)