Arthur notified Ren He of the time for the interview. It seems that he finally convinced the professor. In fact, there are not many students in a university who can afford to donate so much money. Those who are short of money in college, any university
As long as there is ambition, it will be short of money.
Spending money on building research laboratories and academic research is a huge bottomless pit.
Only with academic status can you speak forcefully and have a greater sense of presence in the world. Otherwise, when it comes to achievements, they are all about Harvard, Yale, and Stanford. The good students have been picked away, and they can only be powerless from the remaining students.
Choose here.
The next afternoon, Ren He arrived at Columbia University on time. Arthur took him to the building of the Academy of Fine Arts. They didn't stop until they reached the innermost office. Ren He saw the word "Dean" written on the door.
The word room.
Arthur knocked on the door and walked in. Ren He followed and looked at the messy office in front of him. There were traces of oil paints everywhere, the room was also filled with a strong smell of paint, and there were scattered canvases on the floor...
Is this an office or a studio? In Ren He's impression, it's normal for some artists to not edit their pages, but he still feels a little uncomfortable in such a messy place.
He picked up a few pieces of clothing scattered on the ground and hung them on the easel. He also randomly arranged the canvases scattered on the ground. Only then did an old man with messy hair come out of the back room.
The old man just saw that his office seemed to be tidy, but instead of saying thank you to Ren He, he got angry: "You paid 1.2 million US dollars to learn painting, not to clean me!"
The old man walked over and threw the clothes on the easel to the ground again: "How can you hang dirty clothes on the easel?!"
Ren He suddenly realized that the word "dirty" was emphasized heavily in what the other party said. He looked at the easel again and saw that it was not clean...
But he suddenly felt that this old man was quite interesting. If he was still a child, he might think that the old man was so awesome. But he is not a child whose real age is only 16. Ren He has now learned to respect art.
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Before coming here, he also searched the Columbia University School of Fine Arts on the Internet. The ranking was not very high, but there was a highly respected old painter. An oil painting he gave to his ex-wife was auctioned for 12.96 million US dollars.
He is one of the top ten "most expensive living painters" and is also the dean and doctoral supervisor of Columbia University's School of Fine Arts.
Ren He admires such people very much, so he doesn't take anything he says seriously.
There is also a very interesting phenomenon in the art world. It is always until the painters die that their paintings become valuable...
It was not easy for the works of this old artist named Richard to fetch sky-high prices when he was still alive.
Of course, there are several such artists in China. In 2015, Chinese painter Cui Ruzhuo's "Snowy Jiangnan" by Chinese painter Cui Ruzhuo was sold for HK$236 million, setting a new auction record for the artist.
Richard pulled out a piece of drawing paper and a pencil from a pile of messy items behind him and handed them to Ren He: "Draw, let me see why you want to learn to draw."
Arthur frowned. The old dean didn't want to use words to provoke Ren He away, right? But if he really wanted to provoke him away, he couldn't do anything about it. The verbal agreement they reached before was that as long as Ren He could draw a little bit,
If he has good painting skills, Richard will keep him, otherwise he will go to another academy.
Arthur thought that this would be fine. If Ren He couldn't pass by himself, he might as well let him quit and go to other colleges, such as economics? finance? The teachers there were not picky...
Ren He took a pencil and drawing paper and sat down in front of the easel without inking and began to write. The old dean raised his eyebrows when he saw that he was not sloppy at all. Before, he thought that Ren He might be a rich rich man.
He came here to play randomly, and now it looks like he has some foundation, but everything is uncertain, and we will have to wait until he finishes painting to find out.
As a result, seeing Ren He scribbling on the drawing paper very professionally with a paintbrush, the old dean thought that Ren He looked a little like that at first, but after painting for a long time, he still didn’t know what he wanted to paint!
Now it can only be seen that Ren He's basic skills are very solid. Among the most important foundations in sketching, line is the most important thing. The simpler it is, the more basic it is. Common mistakes that students often make are too messy, top-heavy, and too heavy.
It's rigid, it's painted too heavily, and it's all invisible here in Ren He.
Even the old dean felt that this was the only way he could draw lines.
However, although the basic skills are so good, there is no structure at all. The whole painting is still messy and annoying, as if there is something that is being held in the heart and is not happy. It is disgusting.
Is this a provocation? The old dean looked on so calmly. Could it be that he despised the young man at first, so the other boy deliberately disgusted him?
There is no need. Painting is for yourself. It is another window to the human soul and one of the ways to express emotions. It is not worth the gain to give up one's artistic accomplishment just to anger others. Some artists have a genius temperament.
It's very big, but the old dean doesn't agree with Ren He's approach because he is destroying a painting!
However, slowly, before Arthur could see anything, the old dean saw some clues...
When Ren He started to process the lines again, he suddenly discovered that the messy scene in the painting looked a bit like... his own office?
It's not like he's never seen this kind of gradually becoming clearer painting method, but it's the first time he's seen someone with such a sloppy layout and being able to pick out the objects one by one. This really shows his skill!
Moreover, the dirty clothes in this painting are still on the ground. It can be said that Ren He is relying on his powerful memory to recreate the first sight he saw when he first came in. It is exactly the same!
Even if many students have very good skills, they still need to have reference objects in front of them when drawing sketches. For example, some models stand still for a whole day, which is very hard.
But Ren He doesn't seem to need any reference materials. He can remember everything just by relying on his memory...
The old dean also discovered this, but from this point of view, Ren He is a rare talented painter!
It's just that this painting is not just a simple reproduction of that scene. Arthur can't understand it, but old Dean Richard knows clearly that the young man in front of him has been using the most complicated lines for so long.
, actually just for one thing, to make this painting disgusting!
In fact, vision can completely convey an uncomfortable feeling. A simple example is trypophobia.
As for this painting, the old dean could recognize it as his own office at a glance. He had stayed in the office calmly for six or seven years. He had never felt that this room was messy before. It was very comfortable!
As a result, after looking at this painting now, he himself can't stand this messy scene...
Damn it, he couldn't even tell whether this skill was a natural talent or a complete bad taste. The old dean couldn't wait to clean up his office right now!
Ren He was delighted. This is a master-level painting skill. It can make people happy, but it can also convey emotions to make people feel sick. This is a master-level painting skill! It can be considered a small joke with this old man.
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The old dean was silent for two seconds: "Get out!"
What do you mean by going out? Arthur wondered if he would have to rearrange the academy for Ren He, but he heard the old dean say: "Starting tomorrow, you can paint with me, and you don't have to attend other people's classes.
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Although this painting is so disgusting in his heart now, the old dean actually knows very well what kind of level it requires to achieve this. This is a genius!
