Reborn as a great painter, with a system, you can be willful

Villa studio.

Jiang Zhe took a brush made of cow ear hair and decisively left a few spots of terracotta on the canvas.

He stood up, took a few steps back, and observed the scene.

The work depicts a morning market scene. In the early morning light, the market is crowded with city residents coming and going.

He used his most expert realistic modeling method to shape the people and objects in the backlight with mottled light. The whole picture is mainly in gray tones, and the fruits and vegetables on the stalls, the colors of the people's clothes, the roofs of the two-story buildings on the street, and the messy wires add a sense of dynamism to the picture.

The white space along the edges of people and objects or the dotted skylight appropriately show the visual light sensation caused by backlighting.

Jiang Zhe was quite satisfied with the effect of the painting, so he changed a brush and continued to create.

In his subsequent depictions, he used some transparent and semi-transparent colors for rendering, which was a reference to the expression methods that watercolor media are good at.

Because a previous watercolor painting was systematically evaluated as a masterpiece of the time, he began to try to imitate the advantages of water-based materials in oil painting.

The transparency of watercolor can reflect the characteristics of light shining on objects, while the stacking of oil paints can well express rich texture.

He tried to show the different properties of painting materials in one painting, and through the creative use of oil painting media, he outlined a morning market scene with a bustling crowd, bright light, and a vibrant and orderly picture.

Jiang Zhe finished painting the desired effect in one breath, put down his brush, and took a short break.

Looking at the time, it is almost noon. I have been painting for several hours without realizing it.

He used the system to evaluate the works he had just completed.

The evaluation given by the system is excellent.

Jiang Zhe sighed. It seemed that he had to keep trying. It was not easy to create a masterpiece of legendary quality.

There was a knock on the studio door. "Xiaozhe, are you still painting?" came the mother's voice from outside.

Jiang Zhe opened the door of the studio. "Mom, I'm done painting, come in and talk."

Xu Li smelled the odor coming from the studio and frowned, "Keep it ventilated. The smell of oil paint is too strong."

"Open the window and ventilate immediately." Jiang Zhe agreed.

Xu Li instructed: "It will be lunchtime soon. Today is New Year's Eve, so take a rest in the afternoon."

Just as she was about to turn around and leave, she heard Jiang Zhe say, "Mom, can you help me take a look at this painting?"

This morning market footage is the scene that Jiang Zhe observed when he accompanied his mother to buy vegetables.

Xu Li said: "I don't understand, just look for yourself."

Jiang Zhe invited his mother into the studio.

Xu Li walked to the easel, took a look, and recognized it immediately: "Is this the market where we went to buy vegetables?"

"Yes, do you think my painting is good?"

"Very good. These streets and characters are very lifelike."

Jiang Zhe was somewhat disappointed to hear this evaluation. Using the word "like" to evaluate it meant that the aesthetic sense had not reached a certain level.

Xu Li went on to say: "The colors in this painting are very beautiful. You can tell that it is morning, and the colors in these areas are also beautiful."

She only drew a few blocks of color on the picture.

This comment made Jiang Zhe feel better.

In the afternoon, Jiang Zhe helped his parents prepare the New Year’s Eve dinner.

After the New Year’s Eve dinner began, Jiang Zhe received many calls from friends wishing him a happy new year.

He accompanied his parents to watch the Spring Festival Gala before returning to his study.

Send out the New Year greetings that you haven’t had time to send out first.

After 12 o'clock midnight, I finally heard the system prompt sound.

Click on the system and see new prompt information appear on the page.

Congratulations! Through your unremitting efforts in the past year, you have continuously improved your artistic skills and won more honors.

The system comprehensively evaluates your learning process and achievements in the past year. If you are rated as an excellent student in the year, you can get the following rewards:
Reward funds: 200 million yuan.

One chance to win a random prize draw.

Jiang Zhe clicked on the first reward.

Because this is a summary reward and cannot be accumulated and used.

He chose to sell paintings as a way to cash out his reward, and then clicked on the lottery page.

What appears on the page is a roulette draw.

This draw is a random one, and there is no way to judge the level of skill based on the appearance of the gift box.

Click start, the pointer passes through one gift box after another, and finally points to a gift box with pattern decoration.

The gift box exploded and the lucky draw wheel disappeared.

The page shows: You have drawn the flat decoration skill package.

Ok?
This skill... Jiang Zhe is not interested in this skill. After all, he doesn't need to use design skills to make a living now.

Forget it, since I’ve won it, I’ll just click to receive it.

The knowledge and experience in the skill package are transferred into the mind.

The receiving time was very short. After Jiang Zhe and others accepted it, they checked the skill package description.

Because I have studied graphic design, this skill package is equivalent to improving and expanding the existing knowledge.

After receiving the skill package, his understanding and mastery of graphic decoration design reached an advanced skill level.

After closing the system page, Jiang Zhe closed his eyes, checked his gains this time, and comforted himself that although they were not top-level skills, they had enriched his knowledge system.

The next morning, many relatives and friends came to the villa to wish Jiang Zhe's parents a happy new year.

Jiang Zhe hired a maid to help Jiang Yi and his wife entertain guests.

There were many guests, so Jiang Yi and his wife basically did not rest during the morning. Although they were a little tired, they were always in a good mood to reunite with relatives and friends.

In the past, it was rare for so many relatives and friends to gather together. Thanks to Jiang Zhe’s increasingly successful career, relatives have been visiting each other more frequently.

After lunch, Jiang Zhe drove to the Artists Association to attend the group party.

He kept running into people he knew on his way from the parking lot to the party.

At the New Year's party, many people stopped chatting as soon as they saw Jiang Zhe come in and walked over to greet him enthusiastically.

Jiang Zhe said Happy New Year, Happy New Year, etc. over and over again.

Many young painters or students who participated in such activities for the first time were secretly impressed when they saw some teachers who were usually arrogant and self-righteous greeted Jiang Zhe with a smile. Some old painters in their 50s and 60s treated Jiang Zhe, a young man in his 20s, as a brother, which was strange no matter how they looked at it.

Jiang Zhe stayed at the New Year's party for a very short time.

He made an excuse to leave and made an appointment with a few classmates and friends to have a small gathering at the villa.

Although the New Year's party was lively and many people praised him, it was just a courtesy.

Gathering with classmates and friends is the real way to relax and have fun.

Chen Yan, Mou Xing and Fu Min came to the villa one after another.

At this time, some of Jiang Zhe's relatives and friends had not left yet.

After a brief introduction, he led a few people to the studio and sat down.

Fu Min sat on the sofa in an unladylike manner and said, "Jiang Zhe, is your house so lively?
If we had known there would be so many guests, we would have found another place. Jiang Zhe said, "The guests won't come to disturb us. You can relax and have fun."

Chen Yan often came to the studio, so she entertained Fu Min and others like a hostess.

Today is New Year's Day and everyone is talking about some happy topics.

Jiang Zhe continued to receive calls.

Chen Yan also received a call. She said to Jiang Zhe, "Can I borrow your computer? My classmate sent me some design drawings. Can you help me take a look?"

"Okay." Jiang Zhe agreed casually, not knowing what the design was.

Chen Yan used the studio's computer to open the pictures and said to Jiang Zhe and the others, "Please take a look at these pictures.

This is a poster for our group design work. ”

Jiang Zhe and his friends came over and saw some clothing design posters.

"so beautiful."

“It has Western classical decorative patterns.”

“The style is gorgeous, with a hint of Rococo art.”

Fu Min and others didn't know who designed the picture, so they were very cautious when commenting on it.

Jiang Zhe looked at it and asked, "Chen Yan, did you design this, or did your classmate design it?"

"It was designed by a classmate in our group. She was responsible for the cover design of our group's portfolio."

Jiang Zhe frowned slightly. The graphic design skill package he had just acquired had improved his appreciation of design works. He could see the flaws in the design drawings.

He saw the problem and since it was related to Chen Yan, he didn't intend to hide it.

If it was Chen Yan's design, he would tell Chen Yan alone. Since the work was not Chen Yan's, there was no need to worry.

“Is this set of designs inspired by Mucha’s works?”

After hearing Jiang Zhe's words, several students were thoughtful.

Chen Yan didn't know much about this painter and said she didn't know.

Jiang Zhe started by searching for Mucha's works on the Internet.

I quickly found some pictures of promotional posters.

Among them, one advertisement has the best visual effect. It shows a beautiful blonde woman holding a cigarette with an intoxicated expression. The misty smoke and curly long hair complement each other.

"Looking at it this way, they are indeed somewhat similar." Fu Min and others compared the two sets of works and found the problem.

Chen Yan’s comment was, a bit similar.

Jiang Zhe said: "It's not just a little bit similar, it's an obvious reference, even plagiarism.

I suggest changing it.”

Chen Yan nodded in agreement, and then asked: "Your major is oil painting, do you also study the works of these designers?" Jiang Zhe said helplessly: "Muxia is a painter, and an experienced painter."

He asked Fu Min and the others to sit down again, and then said to Chen Yan: "Ask them, they all know."

Chen Yan thought the advertisement she just saw was very beautiful, so she asked Fu Min and others for advice.

Fu Min said: "I have actually studied Mucha's works. Let me tell you what I know, and let everyone listen, okay?

The artist's art is classified as Art Nouveau

He showed his talent very early, but the battle that made him famous was a poster?
Mucha met the most famous woman in France at the time, a drama actress, at the Renaissance Theater in Paris.

This actor is in urgent need of promotional posters.

Mucha completed the large poster in less than a week.

Posters were plastered all over the streets.”

Jiang Zhe added juice to several people's cups.

Fu Min is a very good storyteller and attracted the attention of several friends.

“His work was different from the extremely gaudy poster style of the time.

The rainbow decoration in the poster is like a halo, showing the perfect face of the actor. Following the actor's line of sight, people can see the name of the performance.

This decorative technique was very effective. The performances were always sold out and tickets were hard to come by, which made Mucha a household name.

Mucha designed a series of drama posters including La Dame aux Camélias and Hamlet. His fame grew and all kinds of advertisements came to him.

He has great abilities and can handle any product with ease, producing a large number of high-quality posters.”

Jiang Zhe watched Fu Min drink juice and take a break, so he took over the topic: "Musha is particularly good at showing the unique beauty of women and doesn't like the same old format.

For example, in the blue perfume advertisement I just saw, the woman sprayed the perfume in a very elegant and graceful manner.

Fu Min drank the juice," I continued.

He also started designing jewelry, and won a gold medal at the Paris World Expo.

In the art circles at that time, he was regarded as the leader of the Art Nouveau movement.

However, Mucha was not happy.

He feels that he is engaged in high art and others should not define his work as commercial art.

In 1904, he stopped all his commercial commissions and prepared to fulfill a grand wish to paint the history of his hometown.

"His design works are also full of love for his hometown," Mou Xing added.

"In one poster, a girl wears an embroidered hat with a solemn and resolute expression, and the three flower clusters represent the suffering faith and hope of his hometown."

Fu Min said: "Yes. In Mucha's works, the longing for his hometown is always the strongest emotion.

He met a wealthy businessman, Charles Crane, and convinced him to invest.

In 1910, Mucha officially began writing the Slavic epic.

This massive ensemble consists of 20 paintings, each of which is two stories high.

The work contains the history and legends of the development of the Slavic nation, as well as Mucha's longing and dream for his motherland.

In order to complete this series of works, he painted from 1911 to 1926, which took him about 15 years and exhausted all his efforts.

This group of works, from the origin of the Slavic nation to the development of this civilization, struggle, faith, etc. All the pain and splendor experienced by the Slavic nation were presented one by one on the canvas by Mucha. "

"I've never heard of such an amazing work." Chen Yan tried to search it online, but couldn't find it.

Jiang Zhe said: "The resources on the Internet are not complete. You can only find it from Mucha's album."

Fu Min continued: "In 1928, the tenth anniversary of Czechoslovakia's independence, Mucha recommended these 20 paintings to Prague free of charge.

However, these works were not taken seriously. The Art Nouveau movement had already passed and could no longer arouse people's interest. So Mucha's life's work was left idle in the warehouse. "

Several people talked about Mucha's experience, the ups and downs of many painters, and then talked about luck and opportunity.

The topic gradually shifted, but everyone's conversation became more and more heated.

Chen Yan has a very good personality. Although she heard criticisms from Jiang Zhe and others, she didn't take it to heart.

She participated in the conversation between Jiang Zhe and others, and gradually developed a feeling that the communication level of Jiang Zhe and others far exceeded that of their peers.

(End of this chapter)