Chapter 95 Notes of the painter Guo Geng

Notes of the painter Guo Geng The painter Paul Gougeng, when he left France for the second time and went to the South Pacific, he decided to Hiti Island and Macassas lived there for a long time and never returned to Europe.Guo Geng is a painter with a brain, Disgusted with the erosive life and art of Europeans, he preferred to abandon his well-paid shares in Paris. He lives as a ticket broker, and lives alone on a small island in the Pacific Ocean, living his "barbarian" life.but But even on these small islands in the Pacific Ocean, the boots of the European white colonists have long since been kicked

The gate of the heaven in the South China Sea makes Guo Geng still unable to escape their obstruction, which sometimes makes him very angry. Guo Geng has always had the habit of jotting down his thoughts on various things.in love, Morality, the face of colonial rulers and priests, criticism of other painters and his own works Comment, he wrote down his notes casually.These notes were originally written with no intention of publishing them. It is not intended to be read by anyone, so it is written very casually and very clearly. When he came to live in the South Pacific for the first time, he once wrote "Noah Noah", which is also a chronicle.

It records personal thoughts on life and art, and many sketches and watercolor illustrations are attached.but These notes written in his later years are closer to himself than "Noah Noah".These notes, It was compiled and published after Guo Geng's death, some of which have the date of writing, and some do not.is a difficult book The good book I got, can help us understand the painter's works and life better, I often read Feel free to browse at hand.Please see some of his views on art. "Young apprentices paint with models, which is fine. But when they paint When it is time, it is best to draw the curtain and hide it.I thought it was better to paint from memory, because then,

Your work will be entirely your own.Your feeling, your wisdom, will be in the artistic hobby Victory in the eye of the beholder.When you need to count the hair on a donkey, you want to know how much hair it has How many roots are there on one ear, and what is the position of each root, you only need to find out in person Donkey stable to see. "Who told you that you should look for contrast in tone? "What you are looking for is harmony, not contrast; harmony, not mutual leaning." rolled something.Only the ignorant eye gives each object a defined invariance. color.Note this stumbling blunder, only painters who draw signals need to imitate

the work of others. "Don't embellish your work too much. The freshness of an impression cannot stand so slow There is no end to the search for one of the endless details.In this way, you will make zest solution Get cold and turn boiling blood into stone.Even if it becomes a ruby, it should be far away far away. " Guogeng's notes are sometimes quite bold in terms of life.he had printed the merchant The spring paintings sold to European tourists are placed on the shelf in my room, which makes people who see it very embarrassed. The missionaries on the island used this matter to exhort everyone in their sermons.Guo Geng wrote in his diary

DAO: The best way to drive out respectable people is to nail some of these Kind of spring painting.