Soul Painter

powerful.

What exactly is the concept.

Is the strength of human beings only physical strength?

When Lawrence asked a question, Gao Fan fell into thinking immediately.

Gao Fan needs fighters, but whether a fighter is strong or not does not depend entirely on the body, right?

Fighting will, fighting skills, and other elements also determine whether a person is strong or not.

Fortunately, the "distortion" allows Gao Fan to see a person's soul, or in other words, this is not a real human soul, but the appearance of a human soul that Gao Fan can describe.

Lawrence said he was going to invite Dwayne Johnson.

He really invited Dwayne Johnson.

Gao Fan didn't know how he did it. In short, when this tall and strong man entered his riverside villa, his home seemed small.

Dashi Johnson's tone of voice was unexpectedly gentle, which reminded Gao Fan of an image, that is, a big golden retriever, and a sentence came to his mind inexplicably, large dogs are often not very aggressive, Because aggressive large dogs do too much damage, they are all tamed.

"Thank you very much for coming, but you are not qualified." Gao Fan said to Dashi Johnson.

"Unfortunately, if I can become a model for a great painter, then I can go down in history." Dwayne Johnson said regretfully, "If your standard is strong, dear Gao, I suggest you can Go find Tyson."

"Tyson?" Gao Fan didn't understand which Ali it was for a moment.

"Mike Tyson," Dwayne Johnson said, "he's old, but he was the strongest man ever."

"That makes sense~" Gao Fan's eyes lit up, "Since Tyson has been invited, why not invite Ali as well~"

"Have two legendary boxing champions face off in your painting? It must be very exciting." Dwayne Johnson said with a smile.

"That's right, that's right~" Gao Fan became excited when he thought about this scene.

Muhammad Ali, started his boxing career at the age of 12. In 1964, at the age of 22, he won the title of heavyweight boxing champion for the first time. Since then, professional boxing has entered the era of Ali. Since then, Ali has won the heavyweight title 22 times in a 20-year period.

Mike Tyson, who won the world's youngest heavyweight boxing champion, is considered one of the best heavyweight boxers in the world. In his heyday, he defeated famous opponents many times in devastating style, and was once one of the most menacing boxers.

The two most well-known heavyweight boxers in the world can be said to be the pinnacle of personal strength in boxing events recognized by the world.

It is the dream of many boxing enthusiasts to let two people compete in the same boxing ring, but the age difference between the two boxing champions is more than 20 years. At the peak of Tyson, Ali was nearly half a hundred years old. Let the two legendary boxing champions fight The idea of ​​winning or losing can only remain in fantasy.

But Gao Fan's brush can make fantasy come true~

Regardless of whether the two boxing champions are the most powerful or not, Gao Fan also thinks this theme is very good.

And the next question is Lawrence's.

Hearing that Gao Fan wanted to make portraits of the two boxing champions, Lawrence immediately turned into a bitter face. This is a thankless task. Works based on real people, especially well-known people, are often difficult to sell at high prices , unless it is a religious fictional character.

In Da Vinci's "Mona Lisa", there are still different opinions about who the Mona Lisa is. It is not a specific character, but a representative of an era.

The opposite example is that of Accente Rigaud, as the most famous portraitist of the 18th century, the auction price of his "Portrait of Louis XIV" is very low, although the work of Accente Rigaud, as court painter, is He painted portraits for the royal family, but compared with his magnificent and gorgeous painting skills, the value of his paintings is far underestimated.

It can only prove that the modern art market does not accept portraits of people, especially portraits of famous people. There are many reasons for this. One is that the classical painting school is no longer favored, and the other is probably the issue of portrait rights.

But Gao Fan proposed such an idea, and Lawrence had no choice but to satisfy him.

Soon, Lawrence gave Gao Fan a message.

"I'm afraid not. Ali suffers from Parkinson's disease, and he is nearly eighty years old. He can't be your model." Lawrence called Gao Fan in Phoenix.

"Tyson expressed the idea of ​​agreeing, without payment, and you can also give up the portrait rights, as long as you can paint him and Ali in the same oil painting and let them compete in the boxing ring, but he is already 60 years old Now, can you reproduce his prime in the painting?"

Tyson's idol is Ali. After Lawrence found him, he expressed Gao Fan's ideas and immediately agreed. The condition for giving up the remuneration and portrait rights is that the painting must satisfy him, otherwise he can only shovel it.

"Ali has Parkinson's disease..."

Gao Fan frowned. He watched the videos sent by Lawrence. These videos were shot with the consent of Ali's family. In the pictures, Ali shrank like a withered male beast in a blanket, and his family pushed him to bask in the sun. Sun, he couldn't find any of the glamor that he had when he was in the boxing ring. On the whole, he was already old and out of shape.

from the video.

Gao Fan couldn't use the 'distortion' technique to observe Ali.

"You wait for me." Gao Fan said to Lawrence, "Anna and I are going to Phoenix right now."

"Okay," Lawrence said.

Although he doesn't understand the use of Gao Fan's coming, can Ali, who has reached the end of his life, regain his youth?

A day later, Gao Fan and Anna arrived in Phoenix, the capital of Arizona, also known as Phoenix.

Ali has suffered from Parkinson's disease, which has plagued him for 35 years. In 2016, he was the closest to death. He was declared to be dying due to respiratory failure, but Ali persisted with his tenacious willpower. But persisting until now, is approaching the end of life.

When Gao Fan saw Ali, just like in the video, Ali was curled up in the blanket, like a withered beast. After 35 years of illness, his waking hours are very rare, and every time he wakes up is like a miracle. However, today, when Tyson and Gao Fan arrived in front of him at the same time, he was miraculously awake for a few minutes.

Tyson came to Phoenix at the invitation of Lawrence to discuss whether Gao Fan could complete this exciting painting of boxing champions fighting.

However, after seeing Ali's appearance, Tyson felt that there was little hope. He couldn't even distinguish the shadow of the king of boxing from Ali's current figure.

"I...can..." Ali made a sound, and the saliva slipped from his mouth. While he was awake, his family had already told him that a painter wanted to paint him, and it was with another Wang painted together.

Now, Ali barely uttered two words, he might be saying that he can still stand up and fight, and these two words, in his strength, seemed to be roaring, but in the ears of the people around him, it was It was a sad low whimper, human beings are fragile after all, and disease can defeat the once brave.

"You can do it." Gao Fan squatted in front of Ali. He looked at the majestic black beast in his "distorted" vision, and he repeated: "You can do it."

Note: Ali did not die in 2016 in the timeline of this book.