In fact, Wu Ziyun was right. There is indeed no one more brilliant than Hu Hai.
Half an hour is really too short, and it is completely unequal to the time it takes to create a normal oil painting.
Oil painting is different from watercolor painting in that it is usually painted layer by layer.
After painting the first layer, you have to wait until the first layer of paint is dry before you want to paint the second layer. Therefore, it may take as little as one or two months or as many as three to five years to complete an oil painting.
This painting by Hu Hai has only one layer in total, which is completely made up of paint, so it can be completed so quickly.
However, although no one painted a complete work, they all expressed something special.
Another thing that impressed Zhang Zhong deeply was Pan Jianfeng's paintings, because among all the works, Pan Jianfeng's paintings are the most complete and the largest in size.
This work is very messy, with random paint flowing everywhere on it.
If ordinary people saw this painting, they would probably question their own aesthetics. After all, they can't see anything.
Not enough Zhang Zhong, who knew a little bit about art, probably understood what Pan Jianfeng had learned in Europe and America.
Abstract Expressionism is a new artistic force developed in the United States in the middle of the last century. Abstract Expressionism, as its name suggests, is a non-realistic painting style that combines abstract forms with the emotional value orientation of expressionist painters.
Before the popularity of Abstract Expressionism, the literary competition between the two giant powers, Russia and the United States, had always been dominated by Russia's stabilization of the United States.
Compared with the United States, which was a literary and artistic desert at that time, Russia was full of talented people, including many masters in philosophy, literature, and art.
During the Cold War, cultural competition was a top priority, so the United States tried every means to set a literary and artistic benchmark here in the United States.
And this literary and artistic benchmark is abstract expressionism.
Some people may be very confused. Wasn't Abstract Expressionism very disliked by the government in China? Moreover, the main figures of the Abstract Expressionists always liked to speak ill of the American government.
Even the Abstract Expressionists of the time were leaning toward communism.
How could the United States establish such a literary and artistic school to fight against Russian culture? Isn’t this just shooting itself in the foot?
However, this is not the case. Although the U.S. government apparently dislikes Abstract Expressionism and its representative writers, there are many positive reports about them in the country, and not only in China, but also in more than 800 media outlets around the world at that time.
Reports on things related to Abstract Expressionism, including heroic deeds by Abstract Expressionist painters who angrily criticized the American government.
When people see news like this, they will probably give a thumbs up and praise the Abstract Expressionist writers for their courage to speak. At the same time, they may also praise the freedom of speech in the United States.
Look, these people are criticizing the US government, but the US government is not angry at all. If in some countries...
American freedom was spread in this way.
It can be said that the popularity of abstract expressionism has little to do with art, but has a lot to do with politics.
This incident also tells people a truth: what determines art is aesthetics, and what determines aesthetics is standards.
For people to like something and pursue it, someone needs to set a standard.
Just like the saying "The king of Chu has a slim waist, the palace concubines will starve to death." If an authority gives a standard, then everyone will follow that standard.
The aesthetics of any era has its limitations.
The United States relied on this kind of reverse public opinion and media offensive to praise Abstract Expressionism.
It’s not just Abstract Expressionism. The United States has always had unique experience in brainwashing. China suffered greatly from it in the 1980s and 1990s. To this day, many Chinese people who were deceived in the 1980s and 1990s still think that the United States is paradise.
China is a human rights hell.
Let’s go back to abstract expressionism.
Action painting is a painting style closely related to abstract expressionism.
In action painting, liquid oil paints and paints are often directly expressed on the canvas by splashing, sprinkling, dripping, and pouring.
When many people see words like splash, sprinkle, and drop, they may think of some domestic "syringe" masters.
Some calligraphy masters or traditional Chinese painting masters will put ink in a needle tube and then shoot it on the drawing paper at will, pursuing the most natural state of the ink.
Not all of these masters are charlatans, some are actually real masters, but they have found a fork in the road of artistic pursuit.
As for whether this fork in the road is good or bad, it's hard to say.
This painting by Pan Jianfeng used action painting. The paint flowed down the canvas, and it is still flowing in some places.
If Wu Ziyun can barely accept Hu Hai's style, then Pan Jianfeng's works can only make Wu Ziyun roll his eyes.
However, although Wu Ziyun was unhappy, he did not comment much and just nodded to Pan Jianfeng.
Pan Jianfeng also nodded to Wu Ziyun, then glanced at Zhang Zhong with a very strange expression, and then quickly lowered his head.
Zhang Zhong didn't understand what Pan Jianfeng meant, but he nodded towards him.
Wu Ziyun clapped his hands, walked in the middle of Fengyue Hall, and said with a smile, "Students, the time is up. You can stop. Because this is not an exam, we will not comment on your works. Next, we will
Let’s go directly to the oral stage. The seven students who just decided to oral should be ready. Who will start first?”
The students who just decided to give oral lectures looked at each other. In fact, they were not prepared at all. They all ran to pay attention to the works created on the spot.
In the end, it was Zeng Yun who took the initiative to ask for the job.
Zeng Yun stood up with a smile and said, "Teacher Wu, let me give you advice."
Wu Ziyun glanced at Zeng Yun and nodded with satisfaction.
Although Zeng Yun no longer specializes in art, he is indeed better than other students in terms of human sophistication.
"In that case, you can go ahead and say it first. Other students should also prepare carefully when Zeng Yun speaks. I hope the next person to take the stage will not ask me to name them." Wu Ziyun said.
Zeng Yun walked to the middle with a smile, without preparing a manuscript, and said directly, "Hello, classmates, I am Zeng Yun, and I will show my shame first. It has been getting colder recently, but because today is a special day,
So I can still feel very warm, which is the warmth from my alma mater. I have never felt such warmth since I left my alma mater. Looking back, I discovered that I could only feel it when I was a student."