Soul Painter

The flight from China to London is about 12 hours.

Subtract another 7 hours of time difference.

Gao Fan set off early in the morning and arrived in the morning.

A pick-up interpreter and guide was waiting for him at Heros Airport in London.

It was a Chinese uncle named Xiang Hua, forty-nine years old, who had lived in London for nearly thirty years, and he was an out-and-out local snake.

After the two briefly greeted each other, Xiang Hua took Gao Fan to his extended Lincoln, and planned to take Gao Fan to the hotel to rest first.

Gao Fan asked Xiang Hua to take him directly to the British Museum.

The airport is in the same area as the British Museum, which also includes famous buildings such as Buckingham Palace, Tower of London, London Eye, Big Ben, Houses of Parliament, and Westminster Abbey.

So Gao Fan sat in the extended Lincoln, looked at the various exotic buildings passing by in front of the car window, as if breaking into the hundreds of years of history of this city at once, and introduced them to Hua one by one. , this is the London Eye, this is Big Ben, that is Harrods, and that is Chinatown.

In another forty minutes, Gao Fan was already in the art palace he had dreamed of.

Counting the basement floor, the British Museum has 7 floors in total, with more than 100 exhibition halls and more than 4 million exhibits.

Govan originally allocated a week to the British Museum.

But when he saw Tintoretto's "God of War and Venus" in Hall 6, he couldn't help but marvel at the gorgeous colors and sensory stimulation shown by Titian's disciple. This is a master with full marks, and at the same time He must have come into contact with a second-stage skill similar to 'desire'.

So Gao Fan's time was stolen.

By the time he regained consciousness, three hours had passed.

Immediately after Hall 4 is "Ambassador" by Holbein Jr., which accurately reproduces the scene of two French ambassadors to Britain at Westminster Abbey in London, including globes, daggers, skeletons, books, and various tools Objects such as musical instruments and instruments have profound meanings, and are 100% completely restored to the scene at that time, but they are not hyper-realistic camera-like reproductions.

Gao Fan was cheated here for another two hours. He was fascinated by Holbein Jr.'s creative ideas and techniques. He thought it was realism, but it was a kind of artistic processing.

Come down again.

Titian's "Bacchus and Ariadne" in hall 10, this is a robber, Gao Fan was delayed here for nearly four hours.

Titian is best at portraying God as a woman full of human desires, which allowed Gao Fan to see the use of "distortion" skills. Titian must have one or two second-level skills.

So on the first day he arrived in London, he started at the British Museum and ended at the British Museum.

Today happened to be Friday, and the closing time of the British Museum was extended to 20:00, which added two and a half hours to the time between Gao Fan and Titian.

At 20:00, Gao Fan walked out of the museum on time, and saw Xiang Hua in the parking lot, leaning against the extended Lincoln with a hot dog, waiting for him. What am I doing here?

"Mr GAO!" Xiang Hua greeted Gao Fan.

Finally, Gao Fan was called back from the art world to reality. At the same time, Gao Fan felt a bowel sound in his stomach. The sound was so loud that even Xiang Hua, who was a few steps away, could hear it.

"I thought you wouldn't be hungry." Xiang Hua smiled and handed Gao Fan a hot dog.

"Thank you~" Gao Fan said very gratefully, he stuffed the hot dog in three or two mouthfuls, and felt that it was really worth it in the world at that moment.

After getting in the car.

Xiang Hua said to Gao Fan: "Mr GAO, how did you get today?"

"It's as tall as Buckingham Palace~" Gao Fan replied with a smile.

At this moment, Lincoln turned a corner. The red postbox on the streets of London was like a marker, dividing the corner between two streets. A man in a black windbreaker was standing on the side of the postbox. With a round-brimmed hat and a cigarette in his hand, he stared intently at the car Gao Fan was riding in.

When meeting Gao Fan's gaze through the car window, the man named Danny Laufer touched the brim of his hat with one hand, as if saying hello to Gao Fan.

At this moment, the whispers of the world suddenly appeared in Gao Fan's ears.

It was like the sound of a seed breaking open:

It is the buds that grow out of the soil.

It was the baby bird that opened the egg skin.

It is the first call of a newborn baby after it appears in this world.

is alive with everything.

Interesting... Gao Fan thought, Danny Laufer was showing him the mystery.

Is it temptation?

What does he want from me?

Gao Fan didn't take Danny Laufer seriously, and it took less than half an hour to think about the mystery behind it. In fact, Gao Fan saw Danny Laufer's weirdness on the plane , but at the moment, Gao Fan’s mind is full of the British Museum, Titian, Caravaggio, Rubens, Rembrandt...

Especially Rembrandt, the master of light and shadow, he further expanded Caravaggio's chiaroscuro technique, he must have the master skill of 'light and shadow', Gao Fan will focus on seeing Rembrandt tomorrow, and he didn't bring a canvas today And paper pens and oil paints, I have to bring them tomorrow... I thought I would just take a look at them, but as a man, when he is never satisfied, he still has to do it himself.

"Uncle Xiang, I need to change my itinerary." Gao Fan said to Xiang Hua who was driving, "I will stay in London for a few more days."

"Okay, how long will you stay?" Xiang Hua asked.

The British Museum has more than 2,000 oil paintings. Remove those that are not exhibited, and then remove half of them that are not of reference value... In fact, you probably can’t get rid of them. All that can be included in the collection of the British Museum are some high-quality goods. Existing themed exhibitions will probably take... more than two hundred days~

"A year." Gao Fan said.

Um? Xiang Hua turned to look at Gao Fan in surprise.

Hey~ Gao Fan laughed. Although Ms. J.K’s arrangement is only for one month, he can pay for it at his own expense. It doesn’t matter if he doesn’t have money. He just saw a lot of homeless people on the streets of London, and they can sleep on the side of the street with their clothes wrapped ,London has a marine climate, and the winter is not too cold...Of course, the visa is a problem, but STK should be able to solve it, after all, it is a worldwide organization.

Gao Fan returned to the hotel.

Lawrence arranged for him to live in the Hilton.

After settling down, Lawrence called: "I heard that you plan to live in London for a year?"

"Yes, uncle, do you think it is possible for me to transfer to the Royal Academy of Fine Arts? Isn't the old man a professor here? There must be connections?" Gao Fan asked.

Lawrence took a few deep breaths.

He knew that it would not be a good thing to throw an artist like Gao Fan to London.

It's like throwing a mouse into the oil pot, and it won't crawl out until it's full.

"Little brother, you have to remember what you are going to do?" Lawrence said.

"Ms. JK's commission, of course I remember, I'm painting now." Gao Fan said, a canvas had already been unfolded in front of him.

"Really? What theme have you prepared?" Lawrence immediately became excited.

"A cat." Gao Fan said.

It will be on the shelves tomorrow~ There must be many students who have seen this, and it is the last day to pay attention to me. I hope that the previous chapters have brought you a little different experience. Next time when I write better, come back and see me~ Today It's still three o'clock