Chapter 98: All kinds of strange new articles, please collect them.
"Yes, that's enough."
Don’t worry about how others did it, because the results are already before us.
In less than a year, Yong'an College has indeed created (reproduced) a masterpiece of traditional Chinese painting that makes the "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" more concrete.
The old man and anchor Weimi watched the entire film together in the screening room.
Although most of the plot of the film is about the efforts of papermaking craftsmen from Yongan College in "drawing paper", it indirectly depicts the process of papermaking.
But the more this happened, the more netizens who understand painting began to become curious about the painting process of Yong'an College.
Netizens who have some knowledge of Chinese painting may be more concerned about the time and popularity cost that may be wasted in the "painting" process if a "mistake" is made.
But for other people who are having fun, what they are more concerned about right now is how the Chinese painting teachers and students of Yongan College paint on such a large piece of paper.
Is it like what netizens imagined, that they were painting with a mop on a more than ten-meter-long drawing paper, or is it really just a large group of people lying on the drawing paper and painting with primitive methods?
Putting aside the praise for the difficulty of painting, the fact that dozens or even hundreds of people took off their shoes and lay on the drawing paper to draw is really curious.
And if that were true, if someone accidentally used too much force and wrinkled or tore the drawing paper, the psychological pressure behind it would be far more than what an ordinary student could bear.
This kind of mental torture really far exceeded their imagination.
Many netizens hope that Yongan College can make public the entire process of students' painting as soon as possible.
They didn't believe that Yong'an College would not prepare appropriate surveillance records for such a major event.
But what they don't know is that the teachers and students of Yongan College really used what they called "traditional methods" to complete this painting of a thousand miles of rivers and mountains, stroke by stroke.
When the teachers and students of the Chinese painting department first proposed to use extra-large drawing paper to replicate the painting, Jia Wenyan's first reaction was to refuse.
In her eyes, this kind of painting, which is so large that it almost covers the entire wall of the corridor, is beyond the feasible range of ordinary people.
This size of work may be fine if it is a simple original painting, but once it involves comparison with a reproduction work, it will bring invisible pressure to the artist.
Teachers and students may want to create a miracle, and they may feel that this is a very challenging and romantic test.
But the reality is far more cruel than these artists imagined.
Not to mention whether the students in the school can reproduce the style and charm of "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains", just the difference in painting brought about by proportional enlargement is not an easy task.
People may be able to draw a circle with their hands easily, but if the circle is large enough, it will easily deviate from the normal shape, or even become distorted.
When the news of the reproduction of "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" comes out, netizens will compare it online and soon find the "problem" in some part.
By then, even if these students performed well, they would still suffer some unnecessary consequences because of the regret that they failed to make the painting reach its "peak".
For this reason, Jia Wenyan did not actually want to pass this plan at first.
She knew that compared to other majors, after completing the draft of the illustrations for the embroidered version of Journey to the West, teachers and students of the Chinese painting major would hardly have the opportunity to engage in work related to the construction of Yong'an Paradise like students of other majors.
But everything has to be done in moderation. A hasty leap forward may not necessarily bring good results.
If the teachers and students of the Chinese Painting Department have any ideas, Jia Wenyan can open up a few walls and allow the teachers and students to create freely using Chinese painting techniques.
But she thinks this approach would be better than replicating it.
But as soon as she put forward this idea, it was opposed by all the teachers of the Chinese painting department.
Of course they know that creation is the best embodiment of art.
But the reality is that for most painters, it is really difficult for their works to gain widespread recognition from the public in a short period of time.
Art is a cultural industry that takes time to develop. Handicrafts may attract people's attention with their exquisite shapes, but in the field of painting, there are only a few masterpieces that can capture all the attention at the first time.
Most of the works are basically in a state of being forgotten after being seen.
Especially in the current situation, the reason why students majoring in Chinese painting came up with this idea is that they hope to use this challenge to prove the contributions of their major in the construction of Yong'an Paradise.
What's more, there are so many good things in the Yong'an Museum and Yong'an Paradise. Compared with paintings, which are subject to different opinions, other handicrafts are obviously more advantageous.
For teachers and students majoring in Chinese painting, at this time, only works that are large enough and eye-catching enough are the most suitable for their needs.
As for why they did not choose "original" as Jia Wenyan suggested, it was due to the teachers' understanding of their students.
Artists will more or less have their own little thoughts and controversies in their creations, which is often a taboo in collaborative tasks.
In addition, some students’ ideas may not be suitable for the attention of most people, so compared with originality, the best solution is to choose an existing picture and enlarge it.
This is the story behind the "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" set around the walls of the first floor of the Yong'an Museum.
Teachers and students majoring in Chinese painting each received a portion, and after repeated practice, they completed their own creations on the drawing paper.
In the beginning, Jia Wenyan had actually been mentally prepared that there would be a gap between the actual object and the original picture.
She also thought that if there really was a gap, she would directly announce to the public that this painting was made with reference to "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" rather than being a replica.
She does not want the teachers and students of Yongan College to have to rework this work over and over again due to the limitations of "the challenge itself".
However, what no one expected was that this only chance actually created the first miracle since the establishment of Yong'an College.
That day, when the teachers and students of the Chinese painting major of Yong'an College were working together to scan the entire painting into the phone through a machine.
Almost everyone was holding their breath, waiting for the comparison results between the replica and the original.
Then, not long after, the staff of Yong'an College reported the similarity of more than 86% in front of all the teachers and students of the Chinese painting major.
The teachers and students at the scene were instantly in an uproar.
Don't underestimate this 86% similarity. You should know that the Chinese painting major has enlarged the original painting ten times with his bare hands.
The freehand reproduction at a ten-fold scale would itself have a huge error, especially the natural landscapes such as mountains and waves, the curvature of which was difficult for the teachers and students of Yongan College to fully control.
On this basis, the 86 percent similarity has already proved the success of this work in terms of magnifying and replicating the angle.
For this purpose, Jia Wenyan specially gave a big red envelope to the teachers and students of the Chinese painting major.
The huge Jiang Qianli River and Mountain Painting is in the form of an outer wall, tightly surrounding the "Exhibition Area No. 1" on the north side of the first floor of the museum.
After this shock, what appeared next was the most eye-catching "Original Embroidered Version of Journey to the West" of the Yongan Group in recent times.
As a work embroidered from the first generation of printed templates of Journey to the West, this embroidery book not only retains the original author's handwriting in the form of embroidery, but also has complete embroidery illustrations supplemented by Yong'an College.
The textual expression of the famous work, coupled with the illustration design that is completely based on the original style, this embroidered version of Journey to the West can be said to satisfy the imagination of most people about the master version of the book.
Together with A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains, it shapes the public's first impression of Yong'an College's Chinese painting major.
With these two masterpieces as a foundation, when they saw other paintings in the exhibition hall, most people gradually put away their original idea of just taking a quick look at the original works.
They were also very curious about what kind of work could be qualified for public exhibition in the museum under the high technical standards of Yong'an College.
This is the result that the Chinese painting major wanted to see most when it first proposed this plan.
They want to use "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" and the "Embroidered Book of Journey to the West" co-produced with the embroidery major to prove the value and strength of their own profession.
However, this soon gave rise to another problem, which was the high degree of involution within Yongan College.
The original intention of the Chinese painting major was to prove the significance of its existence as much as possible when most other majors were already invested in Yongan Amusement Park itself.
But now that they have put these two works on the table, other majors have also realized another problem.
That's what they were missing in the craft exhibits.
Over the past year, whether they were majoring in ceramics, forging, carpentry or other craft professions, most of them focused their energy on the interior decoration of Yong'an Paradise.
The decoration team is able to complete the construction with quality and quantity, but for Yongan Paradise, many of the highly restored decorations inside are simply beyond the business scope of ordinary construction and home improvement teams.
In order to achieve this, the craftsmen students of Yongan College had to start spending as much of their time as possible on the construction of Yongan Paradise.
They have made great contributions to the construction of Yong'an Paradise. However, it is precisely because of this choice that there is a huge gap in the exhibited works of other majors in Yong'an College.
It is true that Yongan Amusement Park is a good publicity platform, but according to the logic of tourists and the general public, no matter how good a theme park is, it is still an amusement project. Only those that are truly selected for exhibition in museums are the embodiment of true craftsmanship and value.
Therefore, ever since the Chinese painting major was inadvertently "forced" to overtake, all majors in Yong'an College have begun to submit all kinds of "weird" plans.
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