Chapter 605: She Gives Zero Points for Being Calm and Serene (Part 2)
The people in the audience breathed a sigh of relief, and then took a deep breath.
"Is this... too late?"
"Hamazaki Naohara has been writing for twelve minutes and he's not finished yet."
"Isn't appreciation just writing an essay? Whoever writes more and uses beautiful sentences will get a high score. Then Hamasaki Naohara..." Isn't he going to win?
"Pah! How can you be so pessimistic as that?"
"Sister Yue must have her reasons for doing this. Let's just watch and don't make random comments."
"It's time to reveal my creed—believe in the Moon God and you will gain eternal life!"
As the countdown to the final three minutes began, Jiang Fuyue wrote faster and faster...
Finally, the judges said: "Time is up! Please stop writing immediately!"
Jiang Fuyue and Hamasaki Naohara stopped almost at the same time.
“Who will explain first?”
Hamasaki Naohara stepped forward: "I'll do it."
As he said this, he turned the whiteboard in front of him towards the audience. Unfortunately, it was written entirely in R Mandarin, and the people in the audience couldn't understand it.
He slowly said, "My opinion is that 'Blind' is better than 'School Uniform'!"
"See, I knew Hamasaki Naohara was going to choose 'Blind'. He was the first to say it on purpose. He was afraid that Yue Jie would have the same answer as him, so he said it first to have an advantage in front of the judges."
"That's right! When it was Sister Yue's turn to explain, no matter what she said, it was like picking up what he said. Damn, so cunning!"
"We won't lose the last round, right?"
"Uh...actually, losing doesn't matter. We've already won the first three games. We're countless times stronger than Country R."
"That's true, but I still hope Sister Yue can win the Grand Slam."
"Who doesn't want that? Everyone does!"
"I hope Sister Yue can find a way this time to catch him off guard and win beautifully!"
On stage——
Naohara Hamasaki: "...If I'm not mistaken, the inspiration for 'Blind' should come from a recent marriage fraud and wife-murder case in China. The male protagonist is this devil. After nearly five years of disguise and dormancy, pretending to be polite, gentle and reliable, he finally tricked the female protagonist into marrying him."
"After marriage, the devil's hideous face was revealed. In order to inherit the huge inheritance left by the heroine's parents, he killed his wife and abandoned her body. After cleaning up the scene, he calmly went to the police station to report the crime."
"'Blind' takes reality as its keynote, depicting the blindness of love and the trap of marriage. Its intention is higher and more profound than 'School Uniform'. Whenever I see this series of paintings, besides the aesthetic appreciation, it also serves as a practical warning."
The time limit for personal presentation is five minutes.
Naohara Hamasaki took four minutes and thirty-six seconds, during which he talked eloquently and quoted from classics.
In addition to affirming the intention of the "Blind" series of paintings, he also analyzed the brushwork and color usage, which can be said to be comprehensive.
After listening to this, the judges couldn't help but nod.
What Naohara Hamasaki said is almost the same as what the experts on the jury said who supported "Blind" to win the championship.
It is not difficult to see his mastery of painting.
very good!
Next up is Jiang Fuyue's turn...
Everyone, including the judges, guessed that she would also choose "Blind Love", but the fact was just the opposite.
Jiang Fuyue believes that "School Uniform" is better than "Blind".
She even boldly and impudently graded the two groups of drawings on the whiteboard.
"School Uniform" is 100, while "Blind" is 0.
And clearly mark below the score: percentage.
There was an uproar all around——
"Am I seeing this right?"
"Sister Yue gave 'Blind' a zero? Why?"
"Can I say that my focus wasn't on the score, but on the shape of Naoyoshi Hamasaki's mouth, which was half-open in shock?"
"I guess he didn't expect Sister Yue to be so wild right from the start and gave him a big duck egg with fervent praise."
"But... why did 'Blind' get a zero score? Even if it was bad, it wouldn't get a zero score, right?"
"I don't know, I heard it from Sister Yue."
Even the judges were stunned.
How come the group of paintings they were optimistic about being shortlisted for first and second place received zero points from Jiang Fuyue?!
Hamasaki Naohara sneered and said four words in Chinese: "Grandstanding."
Jiang Fuyue didn't even give him a glance, and spoke to herself -
"What is the most basic element of a painting? Lines? Color? Concept? Brushwork?"
"Wrong! Neither. The most basic thing about a painting is that it's correct."
"What is correct? In the same painting, the flag flutters eastward, and the smoke from cooking also moves eastward. This is correct; lotus flowers in summer, plum blossoms in winter. This is also correct. A painting, no matter what form of expression or technique the artist uses, must respect the facts. Otherwise, no matter how bright the colors or how profound the intention, the painting is unsatisfactory and deserves only zero points!"
"You can see the first hand-holding painting in the series 'Blindness'. The heroine's hands are very beautiful. To show this beauty, the artist was quite realistic, even highlighting the small red mole on the heroine's wrist."
"But in the third proposal picture, the mole on the hand where the heroine holds out her hand to put on the ring is gone. This is the first mistake."
"In the third proposal picture, the heroine is wearing a skirt and the hero is wearing a shirt, but there are camellias and cyclamen blooming in the garden. This is the second mistake!"
Second update, 2,000 words.
I will update after finishing the third update.
(End of this chapter)
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