Soul Painter

The painting before the eyes of Hollein and art advisors.

This is the first theme painting of the so-called 'The Strongest on the Surface' exhibition.

Content is not human.

But a cat.

It has black hair like satin.

It walks in a burning flame.

The black and red areas are distinct, which makes the cat's edge lines appear extremely sharp.

The same sharpness is reflected in the eyes of the black cat. A clever red dot is reflected in its eyes, which not only shows the audience that there are a lot of flames burning outside the picture, but also expresses the aggressiveness of the black cat. exhaustive.

While it seemed weird to use the term for a cat, several viewers described the cat as heroic, fighting, and capable of destroying all enemies.

Judging from the layout of the painting, the whole painting is full of a pleasing sense of vastness and transcendence. It seems that the painter just intercepted a corner of the world in his mind and displayed it, which shows the space of Gao Fan as a master vision.

And the color, the color, is what amazes Hollein and his art advisors even more.

Black and red are two colors that conflict with each other, but Gao Fan found a connection point that can combine them skillfully, which makes the black cat seem to be walking in the flames and blending into the flames, but its own sense of existence It has not been lowered at all, which means that besides black and red, Gao Fan has found a third color to wrap the two.

This layer of color has a transparent white gradient, which can't even be detected at first glance. You have to look carefully to see its traces. Its existence makes the whole painting look sharp and harmonious. This layer of color is so wonderful , for an art consultant who wants to touch it with his own hands, to find out whether it exists.

"a cat."

Hollein sighed.

Cats are rarely the protagonists of oil painters.

Although they appear in the brush of oil painters, they are mostly hidden in the corners, serving as insignificant decorations.

Although some painters regard cats as the protagonists, the image of cats is full of human imagination of cats, not its original posture:

Picasso used cats as protagonists, but the cat in his "Howling Cat" is cruel and violent. In the painting, the cat is eating a bird.

Swiss painter Paul Klee created "Mountain of the Sacred Cat", depicting the cat as a god, a giant cat perched on the holy mountain, superior to the small human beings below the mountain.

Leonor Finney, a geek painter in the 20th century, was full of morbid love for cats. She created a weird work, which squeezed six cats, which were about the size of humans, and five little girls together. The cramped three-layer cabinet is full of incomprehensible mysterious metaphors.

In Hollein's perception, Gao Fan's work is one of the rare works that uses an anthropomorphic posture to describe the fighting and nobility of cats.

At this time, the art consultant who reached out to touch the painting suddenly became sober and realized that it was rude. Only laymen who don't understand art would want to experience the expression in the painting through touching, after all Paintings are for viewing.

"A fascinating masterpiece, but not as 'scary' as Gao's previous works." The art consultant smiled back and said.

At this time, this man was already over sixty years old, and his other identity was an art consultant of a professor at the Alfred Academy of Art. He suddenly noticed that everyone looked at him with a little surprise.

what happen?

The art customer was also a little surprised.

"Professor Tim, your beard?" Hollein said in surprise.

My beard...Professor Tim touched his own beard. He had a long beard. Although it was already grey, it was very neat. Now that he touched it, he only touched half of it, and the remaining half was scattered like snowflakes On the marble floor of the curator's office.

"What... what's going on?" Everyone looked at Professor Tim in surprise, then at Lawrence, and then hesitantly at the "Cat".

Intellectually tell everyone that this is impossible.

But it is true that Professor Tim's beard was cut by an inexplicable force when he was admiring the painting just now.

So... it's this painting... that's impossible... how is it possible...

Lawrence also looked at this "Cat" with doubts. He knew very well that Gao Fan's previous paintings had some characteristics that surpassed human reason, but this one did not. At least when he looked at it, Lawrence did not feel it. As for being played with by a black cat all night in a nightmare, in Lawrence's opinion, it was only because the painting was too outstanding.

But now...Professor Tim's broken beard seems to indicate that the interference of reality in Gao Fan's paintings is even more terrifying?

...

"Did I push too hard?"

Govan is on the villa by the Charles River, hugging God and asking it.

Right now, Gao Fan is whispering the background sound of this world.

It is the same as what he heard when he first came into contact with the mystery, but the content is different. In Bostno, where the silver key descended, the background sound of the world is as grand as a symphony, without any noise, as if there is a solemn orchestra in the depths of the universe Team, passing the magnificent rhythmic sound to his ears.

This proves that where the silver key is, other great beings will retreat.

It also proves that Gao Fan's mystic skill value is very low, and his sanity is not high.

Indeed, after putting all 34 points of mysticism into the creation of "The Strongest on the Surface: Cats", Gao Fan felt that it was not enough, so he added up the spare SAN value and added 2 points of mysticism, a total of 36 Points of occult skills symbolize the 'Number of the Week', all of which are drawn into "Cats".

So after finishing this painting, Gao Fan's sanity value is currently 73, and his mystic skill value is 0.

This directly caused Gao Fan's various skill values ​​to drop significantly.

An overview of all skills in occultism, once the occultism is reset to zero, Gao Fan's investigation, psychology and other skills that reached more than 60 points will be reduced to 33 in an instant, and Gao Fan will return to the sense of poverty before liberation.

Moreover, the long-lost world background sound also began to interfere with Gao Fan's audio-visual.

Now, although I regret it, it is fun to paint.

Gao Fan discovered that once the mysterious value technique of a painting is put into the formula, the result obtained in that formula exceeds a certain limit, and the painting has the ability to interfere with reality.

For example, in this "Cat", any visitor who tries to touch it will be attacked by some slight "wind blades and sharp claws", but the attack is so slight that it will not hurt even a little bit of skin.

Gao Fan tried it a few times, and it was quite effective for shaving. It was so convenient that Gao Fan almost didn't want to post it to New York. Of course, he had to be careful, otherwise his hair would be cut off as well.

Because the mystery is too strong, the effect of harvesting the sanity brought by the "distortion" technique has become more subtle and persistent. This painting will not make people feel frightened at the first time, but it will make people feel unknowingly. Suddenly harvested multiple SAN values.

Through this painting, Gao Fan felt that his application or waste of mystery had reached a wonderful new stage, but the price was really high. I only hope that the Metropolitan Museum of New York can exhibit this painting as soon as possible to make up for it Gaofan's SAN value is short-lived.

Chapter 3~