Soul Painter

Another month.

Copy Degas again to complete.

It was Gao Fan's second overall copying of Degas' works, and the time was shortened by more than half, after all, practice makes perfect.

But besides practice makes perfect, it can also give birth to boredom. Gao Fan feels sick when he sees Degas now. He has mastered every detail of every Degas work like the lines of his own palm. I have a great sense of admiration for Anna, because Anna has watched him behind his back for fifteen months, and she still doesn't feel bored?

In this afternoon, after completing the second copy of 150 pieces of Degas, Gao Fan looked at the spring sunshine and green shade outside the studio window, feeling as if he had passed away. He sat on the chair and stared at it for a while, then asked Anna: "AA, aren't you bothered?"

"Not annoying." Anna replied simply and directly.

"Now I'm about to throw up when I see Degas..." Gao Fan stretched his waist, "But it's finally finished~ Sure enough, pushing the three basic items to 100 is a necessary condition for completing master-level skills~"

"What's done?" Anna didn't understand what Gao Fan was talking about. She looked at the last "Pink and Green Dancer" that Gao Fan copied.

This is the work of Degas in 1890, which is the period of his mastery of skills. In the original work of Ana Degas, we can see the traces of the fusion of the two master skills of "life" and "contrast". The overall style of the work has changed from classicism to impressionism.

In this work, we can see Degas's hesitation and genius. He painted a splendid modern image, but he was unwilling to give up the artistic style of the classical masters. Therefore, the history of world art did not experience a revolution during Degas' period. It is a process of inheritance, innovation and compatibility.

The complexity of Degas is fully reflected in his works in the last period, which made art historians very troubled. It is also the reason why he was eventually called one of the founders of Impressionism, but Neoclassicism regards him as "one of its own".

"I have completed my own master technique!" Gao Fan jumped up violently. He grabbed Anna's shoulder and said, "It is finally completed!"

"It's finished... what?" Anna frowned and stared at the "Pink and Green Dancer" copied by Gao Fan. She couldn't see any difference between this work and Gao Fan's copy before. The limit is also a little less unique than the master.

It's like 0.01 is missing behind the decimal point. With the perspective of her double genius in mathematics and painting, with her double or even triple master-level skills, and her understanding of Gao Fan, she can see it, but if you change it to any one Connoisseurs will be confused by this. If Gao Fan puts on the canvas and oil paint from the Degas period, then Anna may be the only one in the world who can tell the authenticity of this painting.

"This painting is 99.99% similar to Degas." Gao Fan said, pointing to his copy.

"Yes, I can see that it's infinitely close." Anna said, "But it's not Degas after all."

"Why should I become Degas?" Gao Fan asked Anna, "But I can freely choose between Degas and Degas."

What's the meaning? Anna didn't understand.

So Gao Fan drew another "Pink and Green Dancer", which was painted very fast, and this one was completely different, but Anna noticed that the style of Gao Fan's painting was still Degas, but it was 15 years ago Degas before "Dance Classroom", he had not embarked on the road of impressionism at that time, but was still a loyal follower of classicism.

If it was Degas in 1875, if he came to paint this "Pink and Green Dancer", which should have been born in 1890, it would be exactly the same as Gao Fan's brush at the moment, with 99.99% similarity, except for the 0.01 maybe only Anna can only see the difference.

"So..." Anna frowned, "The skills you have acquired are really just... imitating Degas?"

This technique is to completely become Degas, and even use the technique of Degas in 1875 to paint a work of his in 1890...

Anna is disappointed.

"No, this technique should be called 'Concentration', because it's not just imitating Degas, but any painter." Gao Fan said, and at the same time he looked at the third master skill on his system menu, 'Concentration, 1 /100'.

"Gao, I don't quite understand." Anna was a little confused, "You have acquired a skill, and this skill is to imitate any painter of any period to a 99.99% similarity, but... what's the point?"

"This is the limit of mortals~" Gao Fan smiled, but there was no smile on his expression.

Indeed, this is very ironic, Gao Fan finally raised his basic three skill points to three '100' without the mysterious blessing, and with the mysterious help, he has more than 200 points in the three major skills Skill value, this can be said to be the perfect attribute panel for a mortal.

But after a year and a half of copying, I didn't get Degas' skills, but got 'concentration'.

Seeing the word "concentration" and realizing the use of "concentration", Gao Fan realized that yes, this is the limit of mortals. The upper limit given to a mortal by the god of art is to imitate a genius. How ironic .

Anna suddenly understood, she looked at Gao Fan with a wonderful pity in her eyes.

"No, no, Anna, don't look at me like that~" Gao Fan waved his hand, he is now mentally stronger, because he has figured out where his talent is, and this kind of talent is not what Anna thought. That's useless.

"To make a digression, after I mastered this technique, I discovered the gap between imitation and innovation, and I also understood why you worship me." Gao Fan said to Anna.

"That's right, that's right." Anna nodded, "My talent is imitation, so I worship you as a god."

There was no excitement in Anna's tone, she was expressing a fact, not a compliment.

That's right, Anna has the unparalleled dual perspective of mathematics and painting, which allows her to quickly reach the peak in any kind of painting skills, but she is not groundbreaking, she cannot create her own skills, Gao Fan I once wanted her to be like Lu Guoying, to fly freely and create her own artistic kingdom, that was impossible, Anna would always be a follower and imitator.

So in Provence, when Anna saw the paintings created by Gao Fan with mysterious techniques, she was quickly conquered by Gao Fan and regarded Gao Fan as a god.

"But we demons can't all be imitators, can we?" Gao Fan said with a smile, "What I want to tell you is that 'concentration' can be called a controlling painting technique. When I use it, I feel I can even control the distribution of each oil paint color particle, and through the ultimate control, I can achieve the picture expression that best meets my expectations... So you may still not understand, but in summary, I can point a deer into a horse!"

Of course, Anna still didn't understand.

"What if what I imitate is not a certain master's painting, but a real person or thing?!" Gao Fan reminded Anna.

Anna's eyes lit up all of a sudden.

Next, Gao Fan began to use her as a model, using the technique of 'concentration' to create his first masterpiece.