I Am a Big Player

Arthur informed Ren He of the interview time, and it seems that he finally convinced the professor. In fact, there are not many students in a university who can afford to donate so much money. Those who are short of money in college, any university As long as there is ambition, it will be short of money.

It is a huge bottomless pit to spend money on building research laboratories and academic research.

Only with an academic status can one be tough enough to speak, and have a more sense of presence in the international arena. Otherwise, when it comes to achievements, they will all be Harvard, Yale, and Stanford, and good students will be picked away. choose from.

The next afternoon, Ren He arrived at Columbia University on time, and Arthur took him to the building of the Academy of Fine Arts. They didn't stop until the two of them reached the innermost office. Ren He saw the words Dean on the door Room lettering.

Arthur knocked on the door and walked in. Ren He followed behind and looked at the messy office in front of him. There were traces of oil paint everywhere, the room was also filled with a strong smell of paint, and there were scattered canvases on the ground...

Is this an office or a studio? In Ren He's impression, it's normal for some artists not to trim the space, but it's still a little uncomfortable to be in such a messy place.

He picked up the scattered clothes on the ground and hung them on the easel, and arranged the scattered canvases. Only then did an old man with messy hair come out of the back room.

The old man just saw that his office seemed to be a little tidier, but instead of saying thank you to Ren He, he lost his temper: "You paid 1.2 million dollars to learn how to draw, not to clean up for me!" The old man walked over and threw the clothes on the easel to the ground again: "How can you hang dirty clothes on the easel?!"

Ren He suddenly realized that in what the other party said, he emphasized the word dirty. He looked at the easel again, and it couldn't be clean...

But he suddenly felt that the old man was quite interesting. If he was still a child, he might think that the old man is so awesome. But he is not a child whose real age is only 16 years old. Ren He has now learned to respect art.

Before coming here, he also searched for the Columbia University School of Fine Arts on the Internet. The ranking is not very high, but there is a highly respected old painter. He once had an oil painting for his ex-wife that was auctioned for 12.96 million US dollars. He is one of the top ten figures in the "Most Expensive Living Painter" and is also the dean and doctoral supervisor of Columbia University's School of Fine Arts.

Ren He admired such a person very much, so he wouldn't take anything the other party said casually.

There is also a very interesting phenomenon in the art world. It is always after the death of the painters that their paintings start to be valuable...

It is actually very difficult for this old artist named Richard to fetch sky-high prices for his works when he was still alive.

Of course, there are several such artists in China. In 2015, the Chinese painter Cui Ruzhuo's "Long Ru Zhuo" was sold for 236 million Hong Kong dollars, setting a new record for the artist's personal auction.

Richard took out a piece of drawing paper and a pencil from a pile of messy items behind him and handed them to Ren He: "Draw, let me see why you want to learn to draw."

Arthur frowned. Could it be that the old dean wanted to use words to drive Ren He away? But if he really wants to drive him away, he can't help it. The verbal agreement reached by the two before is that as long as Ren He can have a little painting skills, Richard will keep him, otherwise he will go to another academy.

Arthur thought that this was fine, if Ren He couldn't pass it by then, it would be better for him to retreat to other colleges, such as economics? finance? The teachers there are not picky eaters...

Ren He sat down in front of the easel with a pencil and drawing paper without ink stains and began to paint. The old dean raised his eyebrows when he saw that he was not sloppy at all. Before, he thought that Ren He might be a rich rich second He came here to play indiscriminately, but now he looks like he has a little foundation, but everything is not good, and he will not know until he finishes painting.

As a result, seeing Ren He scribbling on the drawing paper with a paintbrush very professionally, the old director thought that Ren He still looked like that at first, but after drawing for a long time, he didn't know what he was going to draw!

Now I can only see that Ren He's basic skills are very solid. Among the most important foundations in sketching, lines are the most important thing. Rigid, too heavily painted, it's all invisible to Ren He.

Even the old dean thought that his drawing lines should be like this.

But obviously the basic skills are so good, but there is no structure, the whole painting is still messy and disturbing, as if something is holding back in the heart, disgusting.

Is this provocative? The old dean just watched calmly. Could it be because he despised the young man at the beginning, so the other party deliberately disgusted him?

There is no need for this. Painting is for oneself. This is another window of the human soul and one of the ways of expressing emotions. It is not worth the loss to give up one's artistic accomplishment in order to anger others. Some artists and geniuses have temper It's very big, but the old dean doesn't agree with Ren He's approach, because he is destroying a painting!

But slowly, before Arthur could see anything, the old dean saw some clues...

When Ren He started to rework the lines, he suddenly realized that the messy scene in this painting was a bit like... his own office?

It's not that he hasn't seen this kind of gradually clear painting method, but it's the first time he's seen someone with such a sloppy layout that he can pick out the objects one by one clearly, which is very skillful!

Moreover, the dirty clothes in this painting are still on the original ground. It can be said that Ren He is using his powerful memory to reproduce the first sight he saw when he first came in, it is exactly the same!

Even though many students have good skills, they still need to have reference objects in front of them when drawing sketches. For example, some models stand for a whole day, which is very hard.

But Ren He doesn't seem to need any references, he can remember everything with just memory...

The old dean also discovered this, but from this matter, Ren He is a rare talented painter!

It's just that this painting is not just a simple reproduction of that scene, Arthur can't understand it, but the old Dean Richard is very clear, the boy in front of him has used the most complicated lines to pave the way for so long , in fact, it was just for one thing that made this painting disgusting!

In fact, vision can completely convey a feeling of discomfort that makes people feel uncomfortable. A very simple example is trypophobia.

As for this painting, the old dean could recognize at a glance that it was his office. He had stayed in the office for six or seven years in a calm manner.

As a result, after seeing this painting now, he himself can't stand the messy scene...

Nima, he can't even tell whether this kind of skill is a talent level or a downright bad taste. The old dean can't wait to clean up his office now!

Ren He is happy, this is a master-level painting technique, it can make people pleasing to the eye, but it can also convey emotions to make people feel sick, this is a master-level painting technique! It can be regarded as a small joke with this old man.

The old dean was silent for two seconds: "Get out!"

What do you mean by going out? Arthur wondered if it was time to re-arrange the academy for Ren He, but he heard the old dean answer: "From tomorrow, you will follow me to draw, and you don't have to go to other people's classes."

Although the painting is now stuck in his heart, how disgusting and disgusting it is, but what kind of level it must be in order to achieve this, the old dean is actually very clear in his heart, this is a genius!

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