When it was the day to go to the studio, Fang Yi, of course, bought breakfast at the gate of the community early in the morning and ate while walking as usual. After eating a little half of the breakfast, he got on the bus and ran towards the teacher's studio.
As soon as he arrived at the studio, Fang Yi turned off the switch and couldn't wait to take out the paintings placed in the box in the studio. He found the one he wanted and put it on the easel to look at it carefully.
Fang Yi picked up a painting of "Absinthe", a work by the Impressionist master Degas. After looking at it for a while, Fang Yi began to carefully copy this masterpiece. It was not until noon that he put down his brush and went to the teacher.
Eat at home.
When I walked to the corridor of the teacher's house, I saw my wife, Li Minghua, talking to a worker who was delivering gas. I couldn't help but walked up and said hello: "Master!".
"Xiao Yi is here!" Li Minghua turned to say something to Fang Yi, and then continued to talk to the worker: "Help me take him upstairs, which is on the fourth floor!".
The worker who supplied the gas said: "It's really urgent today, eldest sister! This is also the last can I want to give you. It's really urgent at home!".
When Fang Yi saw that the master looked anxious, and it was just a can of gas! He walked directly to the master's wife and said, "I'll carry it!".
The master looked at Fang Yi and thanked him repeatedly: "Thank you so much!" After saying that, he got on the empty carriage and left in a hurry as if he was afraid of what Li Minghua would say.
"I used to send them upstairs, why didn't I send them today?" Li Minghua said, looking at the back of the aspirator master who disappeared in a blink of an eye.
Fang Yi picked up the gas tank and said, "Maybe it's really urgent. Seeing how anxious he looked, let's go upstairs!" After saying that, he picked up the gas tank and walked directly in front. Li Minghua had no choice but to follow Fang Yi.
Go home one after another.
At first, I felt that this small jar was a bit heavy, but after climbing two floors, Fang Yi felt that the stuff inside was a bit heavy. At the beginning of the second floor, he took a break at every corner of the corridor.
It took four times to bring the jar to the teacher's doorstep.
After entering the kitchen, I sat down on the sofa and was already out of breath.
Liu Hongshuo watched Fang Yi carry the gas tank through the door, then sat on the sofa and panted, asking the student: "Why did you bring it up today? Didn't you say that someone would bring it up?" The last sentence was to his wife.
Already.
Fang Yi explained: "The master who delivered the gas may have something urgent at home and was rushing back. I happened to bring it up downstairs!".
After hearing this, Liu Hongshuo looked at Fang Yi and said: "You look very tall, about 1.8 meters tall! You're breathing like this on the fourth floor? When I was in my twenties, I could walk a mile carrying two buckets of water.
I haven’t seen anyone as out of breath as you are in the past two miles!”.
"Drink some water!" Li Minghua poured Fang Yi a glass of warm water and handed it to Fang Yi. He immediately explained for Fang Yi and said, "What kind of life did you live in those days? Can it be compared with now? In those days, we ate white rice.
It’s all like Chinese New Year.” Li Minghua didn’t think there was any problem. Today’s children, let alone Fang Yi, are from ordinary families who cut pig grass and carried water when they were young. Times are different.
That’s it!
He took the water that his wife sent him and drank it in one go. He put the cup on the coffee table and said, "It's okay! I just need to take a few breaths." He thought that such a simple job would be really difficult to do.
It's not as easy as I thought.
"When you have nothing to do in the morning, go for a run or something to exercise your body! With a body like yours now, I wonder if you will be able to pick up a paintbrush when you get older!" Liu Hongshuo looked at Fang Yi and educated him.
Li Minghua quickly interrupted her husband and said to the nanny: "Get ready, everyone is eating!".
When Fang Yi heard this, he felt relieved. He immediately stood up and went to the kitchen to get chopsticks and diligently set the table. Liu Hongshuo hadn't finished training yet. Seeing that the students had followed his wife's words and slipped away, he couldn't help but sigh softly.
In one breath, he stood up from the sofa.
After finishing the meal at the teacher's house, Fang Yi put down the bowl and said to the teacher and his wife: "I'm going to the studio!".
"Bring the two pieces of bread prepared to Xiaoyi so that he won't be hungry in the afternoon!" the wife immediately said to the nanny.
With a smile on her face, the nanny stood up from the table and went to the kitchen. She put a few pieces of bread in a small plastic bag into the hands of Fang Yi, who was standing at the door ready to go out. Fang Yi didn't like bread with fillings.
, it’s best if it’s baked directly and is a bit firmer. Just like the one prepared by Master’s wife for Fang Yi.
Before carrying the bag of bread, Fang Yi said to the teacher, his family and the nanny: "I'm leaving!" Then he walked out the door amid the teacher's wife's slow instructions.
Liu Hongshuo looked at his wife and then lowered his head to eat his meal.
After returning to the studio, Fang Yi put down the things in his hands and continued copying. It was not until Liu Hongshuo came to the studio after taking a short nap.
Watching the students copying Degas' paintings, he stopped and looked at them carefully, and nodded involuntarily.
"Teacher!" Fang Yi turned his head to look at the teacher and said hello.
Liu Hongshuo pointed to the woman in the center of the painting and said: "This woman is the actress Alan Andehe. At that time, this woman was considered an unlucky person. There has been controversy since the painting was completed. Everyone thought she was down and out.
Being drunk makes you feel sick!”.
"An actress?" Fang Yi was stunned when he heard this. He couldn't tell that this woman was actually an actress! If the teacher didn't tell her, Fang Yi would have thought she was collecting rags.
Liu Hongshuo smiled and said: "Degas always painted women very ugly, especially the nose! After Degas finished painting, a mannequin looked at his painting and protested to Degas why
She painted her nose so ugly! Degas was very angry and asked her to go home and look in the mirror, then pushed the woman out of his room naked, and then threw the female model's clothes out! The female model was wronged
While getting dressed, he said, Mr. Degas, you are going too far!".
Hahaha! Fang Yi couldn't help laughing when he heard this: "Degas is so interesting?".
"Interesting?" Liu Hongshuo shook his head and said: "Of course it is interesting when you listen to the master's anecdotes, but it won't be interesting when you have such friends! Degas once painted a portrait of his good friend Manet and his wife, but Manet was really
He couldn't bear the sight of his wife's nose in the painting, so he dug it out of the painting. When Degas found out about it, he immediately broke up with Manet!"
Fang Yi asked: "Degas's basic skills are not good?" Fang Yi was a little confused at this point, why this man always has trouble with women's noses!
"On the contrary! His sketching skills and modeling abilities are better than those of the students taught by Angel himself, and he also received a strict academic education! The person he admired the most was Angel. When I met Angel at that time
He was so excited that he couldn't speak. Angel encouraged him and said: The only way to paint well is to paint more. This sentence became his motto." Liu Hongshuo said: "Except for Angel, for other people of his generation,
A painter, his character is just not likable! Not only his friends, but also his best friend, the female painter Cassatt, couldn't stand him in the end. Degas had a painting called "Portrait of Mary Cassatt", but the female painter
The artist said that I would rather others not know that the character in the painting is me. He painted me so disgustingly! People at the time thought that the two might get married, but in the end it was nothing."
Damn! Fang Yi has a little admiration for this old guy Degas. He who dares to play with his girlfriend like this is the best man among men!
"In the end, even the famous Impressionist master Renoir, who had a good personality, couldn't stand him and said: All his friends left him, and I was the last one! Degas didn't mind this at all and said: Just save it.
I spend my social time painting. Degas is not liked by friends or women. He is a strange flower in the painting world. Someone once asked him why he didn't get married. His answer was even more surprising. He said that if I got married,
, every time after finishing a painting, a woman would put her arms around my neck and say in a cooing voice: Oh, my little cutie! Then wouldn’t my life be doomed?”
Fang Yi doesn't know what to say. This old guy is really the weirdest among weirdos! What else can you say? He doesn't want either of these two things: friends and women.
Liu Hongshuo continued: "Not only that! He also often criticized other Impressionist painters. Monet was teased by him more than once. He even said in front of Monet in the exhibition that the sea water in your paintings makes me
It looks so cold, let me get out of here quickly! He also told people that Monet’s paintings make people feel cold, and if they look at them for a while longer, I will quickly turn up the collar of my coat!”.
"Is he an Impressionist?" Fang Yi couldn't help but ask, you are an Impressionist painter yourself, why are you opening fire on your own people? You are a typical traitor who infiltrated the revolutionary ranks!
Liu Hongshuo looked at Fang Yi and said: "Someone has asked this question before, but Degas said that the Impressionists were poor people who couldn't afford to eat! But he could buy a ticket for the Paris Opera House for a year
! They can only go outdoors to paint impressions of landscapes, but they paint impressions of animals and people themselves! It is a satire that other Impressionists cannot afford to hire models."
"It's weird to the extreme!" Fang Yi couldn't imagine it. This is simply a model of cheating teammates. Everyone else is the same party and opposed to dissenters, but this old man is focusing all his firepower on his own people. He is really not afraid of opponents who are like gods, but he is afraid of friends who are like pigs.
If the Impressionist masters at that time knew this sentence, they would definitely be in awe of it.
Liu Hongshuo said: "There is still some small debate about whether Degas is an Impressionist! But he comes from a good background. His father is a banker. He is a typical rich boy who is spoiled by his parents! In addition to his whole-hearted
He doesn’t care about anything other than painting!” At this point, he said to Fang Yi: “Don’t imitate him!”.
Fang Yi saw the teacher looking at him intently, and said with a smile: "How is that possible! I have a very good personality!".
"People who are too talented will inevitably be arrogant! Your character is very good now, keep it up." Liu Hongshuo said: "Whether it is domestic or foreign, people with a good character are more likely to succeed! Because no one's success is achieved alone!
Including Degas himself!”.
"Copy well!" After Liu Hongshuo said that, he turned and walked towards his easel, where the painting with Fang Yi and Mu Jin as models was not yet completed.