Almighty painter

Chapter 798 Kara Elena Code

The old church was just a church.

Sculpture is just sculpture.

The statue of the Virgin Mary is just a statue of the Virgin Mary.

All of Anna's loss came from this. It sounds a bit strange, but when Miss Elena came here, she was expecting something in her heart. She was expecting the warmth contained in that tear - an emotional experience that exists in reality and transcends reality.

This is a church, and the woman's expectations have nothing to do with religion.

Anna had never been much of a believer.

The only reason she went to the Menech Monastery to seek enlightenment was simply because that was her family's custom.

She would meditate on Athena on her lion chariot rather than on the Savior on the cross.

That is a cultural historical tradition and an artistic aesthetic tradition, not a religious tradition.

Therefore.

What Miss Elena wants to gain is also an artistic emotional experience.

She herself would not expect that at this moment, a holy light would appear in the sky to illuminate the British church and the sculptures in front of her would glow for a moment, or that, like in Dan Brown's famous novel, she would trace the code on Leonardo da Vinci's paintings and finally find the historical treasure buried deep in the dust.

"Old Cathedral in a Thunderstorm" is like Monet's numerous church paintings.

They are all architectural paintings and landscape paintings, not religious paintings.

Miss Elena from one hundred and fifty years ago would never have come here in pursuit of those things.

Grandma Kara has always been a very rebellious woman.

Even though she was not like Miss Elena, she hated the many constraints and outdated rules in the church school since childhood.

But a little dirty speculation.

This is a Protestant church built by the British.

The Irene family rose to prominence hundreds of years ago by fighting the British-backed Protestants in the Thirty Years' War, winning the title and fiefdom. At the end of the 19th century, the power class surrounding the royal family in the entire Austro-Hungarian Empire all regarded their Catholic identity as one of the sources of legitimacy for their rule.

The young lady from the Elena family wanted to be a painter, and the young lady from the Elena family suddenly "changed her family's fate".

Hard to say.

In those old times, which one of them would make the old count want to catch his daughter and lock her in the cellar in a rage?

Anna really came here to look for treasure.

"The Old Church in a Thunderstorm" is really a treasure map with a code written on it.

Does it hide golden gold?
Of course not, it's better than that.

The glittering gold meant nothing to Anna.

There is hidden the world as seen by Grandma Kara, her infinitely extending dream of colors, and her entire life.

This is the experience and treasure that Anna really wants.

Therefore, it is easy to understand Anna's feelings at this moment——

The performance you have been looking forward to for a long time, in the end, seems just mediocre. The infinite splendor that you have processed in your mind, representing your yearning and expectation for beauty, in the end, you find that it is just an ordinary and common old scene.

Perhaps everyone will have an irresistible sense of emptiness and loss in their hearts, right?
This is the kind of confusion that women face.

Since arriving in Singapore, all encounters have brought strong emotional ups and downs. The article in Asian Art surprised Anna, and the words of Katsuko Sakai in Mr. Sloth's art salon moved her. Last night, Anna was talking in the cafe, and the person opposite her was so angry that she almost let August bite him.

But this also means unprecedented strong expectations.

Oh.

By the way, the painting "Good Luck Orphanage in the Sunshine" that made Miss Elena leave the curator Tonks and stand in the side hall of the exhibition for a long time, if I am not mistaken, the artist should have taken the picture here.

About one hundred and fifty years.

Two generations of Miss Elena.

Works that moved Anna from two generations ago.

The old and dilapidated church on the other side of the sea is the intersection where all miracles converge and the source of all beauty.

As a result, she had a sacred belief in beauty and a sacred optimism about art. Anna believed that she would definitely see some incredible, sacred and magnificent scene here.

As for the final destination of the trip to Yangon, a place called Good Luck Orphanage, the woman knew clearly that it was an old, dilapidated and old chapel. In the past week, Anna had seen real photos of this church.

Unremarkable.

It doesn't matter.

Photos are just photos. How can a moment of light and shadow capture the burning artistic soul in Grandma Kara’s eyes?

When the woman walked into the old church, the wheelchair rustled over the weeds growing on the land, and placed a bunch of rose leaves and the prepared prayers on the spot where Kara had once faced. Was it this old building that would slowly and shyly show her its vibrant beauty?

Just like in the symphony "Thus Spoke Zarathustra" by Austrian national treasure artist Strauss, after several turbulent and repetitive bars, the music is pushed to its ultimate climax amid the sound of wind instruments.

Anna was looking forward to it very much.

Anna was also looking forward to it.

Then, the woman was disappointed. This place was so small, so dirty, so old and so dilapidated, just like the photos in the introduction of the orphanage.

Compared with the "Old Church on a Thunderstorm" in Cara's work, there is no beauty here at all.

Compared with so-and-so's tender description yesterday, there is no beauty here at all.

Compared with Miss Anna's inner expectations, there is no beauty here at all.

The turbulent brushstrokes like flames turned into gray walls. There were no candles emitting rainbow-colored luster. The only old-fashioned stained glass window that remained had a big hole in it. Children's muddy handprints, some crude graffiti and even obscene symbols could be seen everywhere on the walls...

This old church seemed to have recently undergone a renovation. The smell was not bad, and the environment was not particularly depressing, but the exposed pipes laid outside were like a large iron cage without any aesthetic appeal, wrapping the entire old British building.

Anna was a little angry.

She knew it was wrong to be angry, but she was still very angry for no reason. Grandma Kara wanted to escape from the cage all her life, but even the beautiful scenes in her paintings were now wrapped in an iron cage!

Miss Elena could easily find 10,000 more beautiful and stylish buildings in the world. When she took her dog out for a walk, she could also find 1,000 places with more beautiful spirit and more poetic and picturesque scenery than this one.

and so--

There is only one answer.

This so-called Lucky Orphanage is, in reality, a place without any aesthetic appeal.

Anna didn't know whether the building was implicitly unwilling to open up its beauty to her, or whether the elements of "beauty" it once contained had long been worn away by the passage of time.

She came too late.

When she came here, the young and bright girl had turned into an old lady with missing teeth, falling hair and no sense of beauty.

Anyway, Anna tried very hard to look at the building in front of her.

She could tell that the old church described by Carroll was the orphanage in front of her. The sloping roof matched the sloping roof, the arc-shaped door matched the arc-shaped door, and she could even tell which glass was flickering with candlelight when Kara stood here.

No matter what she did, she couldn't really reconcile her great-grandmother's oil painting with the real scene before her.

A work of art and a one-to-one reproduction of a painting are placed together, but there is a thin layer of gauze between them, so the two cannot be truly combined into one.

The sacred beauty cannot blend with the vulgar ugliness before our eyes.

A flawless crystal quickly falls into uncontrollable mediocrity amid the trivialities of life.

This kind of collapse and fall is just like when Miss Elena walked into the school's summer camp classroom with the expectation of finding some warmth, but in the end she only saw the collapse and fall during a "feeding chicken" game on the screen.

"Maybe he sees something different here."

Anna remembered the young man's face.

"I really am not a person with a talent for color." The woman in the wheelchair thought to herself with self-mockery, "If he knew Kara's complete story, maybe he could write a better prayer than me."

……

Anna stayed in the orphanage for a long time until the scheduled private plane departure time was almost approaching.

When the woman arrived here, the guard team distributed the supplies they had bought temporarily to the children in the orphanage on the other side, and also cleared some quiet time for Miss Elena to think.

Anna walked around the not-so-spacious yard of the Good Luck Orphanage many times.

She also stood up without the wheelchair and walked slowly on the land, hoping to get a similar viewing angle as Grandma Kara did back then.

The woman never got what she wanted.

She faced the old church in front of her, as if the magic queen in a fairy tale was holding a mirror that could discern beauty, and asked persistently, "Magic mirror, magic mirror, who is the most beautiful person in the world?"

If Anna really held a mirror, perhaps the figure in the mirror would be extremely beautiful.

But she used her eyes to question the old church in front of her again and again, but the lifeless building would not speak out its own beauty. She gained nothing except making Miss Anna lose interest.

"After I go back, should I find an opportunity to talk to that guy again?"

Anna hesitated.

Her attitude towards him yesterday was indeed a little bit bad. She could find a way to talk to Gu Weijing about Carol's paintings again.

Let’s talk about Brother Hao, Mr. G.

Let's also talk about this old church.

This time.

Miss Elena wants to ask the other party about "beauty".

Anna was ready to ask Gu Weijing about her artistic questions, but Miss Elena was too unsure whether the young artist could give her the answer she wanted.

The woman had no doubt that Gu Weijing was capable of giving her a suitable answer.

Yesterday's conversation between the two ended with the other party saying that Elena's family should go to hell, and Anna responded with the sarcasm that "a poor little painter should stop pretending to be rich", and they attacked each other and parted unhappily.

Otherwise.

Whether the conversation is pleasant or not is one thing.

I heard the name Gu Weijing from Miss Elena and saw his work for the first time at Cao Xuan's.

Gu Weijing's paintings have never disappointed Anna.

Whether it is "Wisteria Flower Picture" or "Good Luck Orphanage in the Sunshine", all of them are better than Anna's expectations, and they are so good that they don't seem like works of artists of this age.

The techniques used in the work are not surprising to Anna.

But the feeling of "beauty" contained in the work left a deep impression on women.

Anna believes in Gu Weijing's sensitivity to and judgment of beauty.

Anyone who can create extraordinary works like Grandma Kara in such an ordinary and mediocre scene should have a profound personal understanding of "beauty".

just.

That will always be Gu Weijing’s answer, Gu Weijing’s answer, not the answer that Anna gets from her own heart.

Just like Gu Weijing was able to tell Anna how beauty is expressed and how beauty is painted.

But he couldn't tell Gu Weijing what kind of beauty was pursued by women in Anna's heart after she traveled across the ocean.

Anna hopes to make Gu Weijing her oriental art teacher.

However, there are some questions in the world that should be answered by teachers, and there are also some questions in the world that should be understood by students themselves.

"Miss, are we ready to leave now?"

Secretary Elliot asked in Anna's ear, "Shall I ask the crew to prepare for takeoff?"

Anna nodded.

She looked at the children who were peering down from the windows.

"This place is too small and too old for an orphanage. Let's connect with the local staff. Let's say that the Elena family foundation will set aside a separate budget from its expenses this year. We intend to build a larger orphanage somewhere else to take in the children and all the employees here."

The woman instructed calmly.

"As for this place, take down all the pipes and everything. Try to restore it to its original appearance. It can be considered a historical site."

It is both a commemoration of Grandma Kara and a gift to the young man.

Brother Hao used a famous painting worth 30 million euros as a note and wrote down his question about fate to Mr. G.

Anna is not that "generous".

She is used to being strong.

She wanted to express some apology in her heart, and she didn't really like to say "sorry", so she cast some magic to turn the old church in his work into its original appearance, the same as in "Good Luck Orphanage in the Sun" and the article "Asian Art".

Use this sudden yet silent change to allow the other person to experience the meaning of it for themselves.

Speculating on the countess who hosted the salon, her every smile, her thoughts while drinking a cup of coffee or reciting a poem was also an important part of the lives of those literary and artistic creators in Paris who wanted to achieve success and financial freedom at that time.

After his death, Balzac's coffin conquered mountains and cities.

And what about Balzac during his lifetime?

I'm sorry, but the great writer had a very clear goal in life since he was young. It was much easier to become financially free and reach the peak of his life by dressing himself up to look handsome and hooking up with wealthy ladies and countesses than to write books in misery in an apartment.

"Understood. I'll arrange it right away."

Elliot nodded and made note of it.

"And—wait a moment."

When they were almost at the gate of the orphanage, Anna suddenly stopped her wheelchair again.

Maybe it was because of loss, maybe it was because of confusion, maybe it was because she felt something but couldn't express it, and ultimately she missed the concept of "beauty". In the end, she could only wait shamefully to take out the answer book to cheat. Miss Elena, who was never used to failure, felt that her journey to Grandma Kara's destined place was too scattered and incomplete.

The woman turned around again.

"You remember that painting..." Anna murmured.

"The Old Church in the Thunderstorm?" Eliot answered tentatively. "I'll give you the paper."

"No, no, no, it's not Carroll's painting. I'm talking about Gu Weijing's painting." The woman turned her head. "The main characters in that painting are an old man and a little girl."

"Please invite the children and staff of the orphanage here. I want to meet them."

Anna said.
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"The glorious Earl, the great Earl, um, the Earl Irina who only cares about herself!"

——Gu Weijing——
"Can I play with your dog for a while?"

The child next to the headmistress stared at August who was patrolling the yard.

Ever since the dog came to the Good Luck Orphanage, it has been wandering around the yard with its tail sweeping in a very suspicious manner, sniffing here and rubbing there.

But for these children, they have probably never seen such a graceful big dog before.

With its soft fur, noble black pupils and lazy posture, its style is completely different from that of the fierce fat cat that was often brought to the orphanage by an older brother.

This is an idol dog!
In the eyes of little kids who are a few years old and in elementary school, a big dog that is more beautiful and elegant than ever before may be more approachable than a big sister that is more beautiful and elegant than ever before.

The older children in the yard, who already understood what beauty was, stared at Miss Elena with curious eyes.

Those who were younger mostly stared at August in the yard with curious eyes, and some even boldly made requests.

"What is he saying?"

Anna noticed the child over there, but couldn't understand what he said, so she looked at the dean who was standing awkwardly in front of her with an inquiring look.

"He wants to play with your pet for a while."

The headmistress answered immediately in English.

She turned around and grabbed the little kid beside her hard.

She had been the director of the orphanage for so many years, and had seen all kinds of people. She had a good idea of ​​what a real big shot was. The girl next to Xiao Gu looked like a lady with graceful manners, and even had a bodyguard following her.

But in terms of aura and formation.

There is a huge difference between being accompanied by just a female security guard and the woman in a wheelchair who is now surrounded by a whole convoy of vehicles as protection.

Big people are always moody.

Her voice sounded very reserved: "Miss, don't mind it, children are like that, they are ignorant, just ignore him..."

(End of this chapter)