"What? Look at it the other way around?"
After hearing Su Lin's revelation, Liu Yizhi, who was the first to react, suddenly realized. Then he looked astonished and shouted: "Great! Great! Su Lin, these two paintings of yours are really amazing." It’s great!”
"Is it the other way around?"
Qin Yanran did not have the skills of her grandmother Tang Huiqin and Liu Yizhi. She tried hard to twist her head to look at the two paintings, but it was very difficult.
"Yanran, you little fool, why are you turning your head so hard? Can't you just turn the painting over?"
Su Lin smiled, then turned over the drawing board and rice paper. At this moment, the mystery of the mysterious and incomprehensible painting was unveiled. One is an oil painting and the other is an ink painting. The two paintings are surprisingly similar. They both depict half of a woman's face.
The woman in the oil painting has a strong sense of hierarchy. From a distance, she looks like an old woman. From a closer look, she looks like a young woman who still retains her charm. Looking even closer, she looks like a young girl in her prime. The layered texture of oil painting is vividly reflected in this painting. According to the different angles of the observer, three different morphological characteristics can be reflected.
This is just like Leonardo da Vinci's world-famous masterpiece "Mona Lisa's Smile". No matter which angle you look at this painting from, you will find that the eyes of the girl Mona Lisa in the painting are straight. Looking at you slyly. This oil painting by Su Lin also has a similar effect. When the observer observes this painting from different places, it will show three different pictures: an old woman, a young woman and a girl.
Obviously. Liu Yizhi discovered something at the first sight. He stepped back a little, feeling very happy. Then he stepped back a few steps, clapped his hands and shouted "Hello" loudly. He was so excited that it was difficult to add anything to it.
When Qin Yanran saw Uncle Liu Yizhi's crazy state, she also imitated his behavior and took a few steps back to take a look. Sure enough. Up close, she looks like a girl. A little further away is a young woman, and a little further away is an old woman. It’s really amazing.
"Su Lin, you are so amazing! How...how did you do this?"
Excited Qin Yanran took Su Lin's hand. shouted.
"It's actually nothing. It's just about the degree of reflection of light on oil paints." Su Lin smiled. This is indeed not a difficult task for him, because he didn't put in any effort to learn at all, he only needed to use the best beauty cultivation system to exchange for this wonderful skill. Master all the techniques in oil painting.
Su Lin didn't take it seriously, but oil painters Tang Huiqin and Liu Yizhi gave thumbs up, especially Tang Huiqin, who was full of praise for Su Lin: "Su Lin, I really don't know who you learned this from. Even I can't do it to this extent. Using oil paint to reflect light is simple to say, but if you want to do it so perfectly, it will show three different painting forms from near and far angles. You can describe it as ingenious. This oil painting is no exaggeration.”
Tang Lao Tang Huiqin gave Su Lin's painting a high evaluation, and then smiled as if he was about to take an exam for his disciple Liu Yizhi. He pointed at another ink painting by Su Lin and asked Liu Yizhi: "Yizhi, can you do it?" What do you think of this ink painting by Su Lin? Tell us what you think."
"Teacher, you haven't tested me like this for a long time. Although I am not as proficient in ink painting as oil painting, and I have hardly been exposed to ink painting in these years in Europe. However, I can still see this ink painting by Su Lin. It's a clue." Liu Yizhi smiled and asked the collector Yuan Hai beside him to give him a hand. The two of them each held one side of the rice paper, then they stood up and faced the incandescent lamp in the living room to everyone. Said: "As expected, I noticed that when Su Lin was painting the ink painting just now, the layers of ink should also show an effect similar to the three layers of the oil painting just now when the light source sees through it. This is the same thing with the same purpose. You see , the more you see the light source, the brighter and more organized this ink painting looks through it, and the woman with half of her face in the picture looks younger... "
After Liu Yizhi's explanation, Fang Liping, Qin Yanran, and Yuan Hai, who was holding Su Lin's painting with him, also suddenly realized. It is normal for oil paintings to reflect different levels of layers. It can be said to be a manifestation of the form of oil painting. However, even ink paintings can use different distances of light sources to make the paintings show different shapes. This is really ingenious. How wonderful.
"Great praise! It's just... I, Yuan Hai, have seen so many works by Chinese and foreign artists. I have even seen Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa Smile" in the Louvre Museum up close, but I have never seen anything like this. Amazing work, Su Lin, you... really opened my eyes, Yuan Hai! It opened my eyes!"
At this time, Yuan Hai had completely forgotten his previous disdain for Su Lin's paintings, and also forgot that the purpose of his visit was to get the other two paintings from Su Lin's hands. Now, his mind is filled with these two paintings by Su Lin. Apart from the fact that Su Lin is not famous at all as a painter, the artistic value of these two paintings alone will definitely cause a sensation if they are placed in the international painting world.
Collector Yuan Hai is also a person who loves paintings, although his main purpose in many cases is to sell famous paintings, buying low and selling high, trying to find ways to build momentum for famous paintings and get a good price at auction. But when he really comes across a painting he likes, like all those who love painting, he feels that no amount of money is too much to buy the painting.
Undoubtedly, Su Lin's two paintings have now been positioned at such a high level by him. He felt that among the paintings he had ever seen in his life, there was nothing more exquisite than these two paintings by Su Lin. This... this is simply not a painting that humans can create, not to mention that Su Lin is only a high school graduate of seventeen or eighteen years old! This is definitely a monster, it is so monster!
"That's it! Sulin, how did you get such a brain? Why are you able to make such exquisite paintings?"
Fang Liping understood and had a look of admiration on her face. She stared at the two paintings for a long time. Suddenly she came to her senses and asked Su Lin doubtfully, "Su Lin, you painted half a woman's face. Why do I Does it look so familiar?”
"Yes! Mom, I feel the same way. It seems... half of the women's faces in these two paintings, it seems that Su Lin is painting you?"
Qin Yanran also felt that half of the woman's face in these two paintings looked familiar, but because both paintings had half a face, she couldn't remember why they were so familiar. Now I found that my mother also had this familiar feeling. After carefully comparing the shape of her mother's face, I realized that Su Lin seemed to be painting his own mother.
"Not me? Why do I think this is Su Lin painting you? Yanran?"
Fang Liping stared at it again and again, but felt that half of the face in the painting looked like her daughter.
"Haha... Ping'er, Yanran, you two, mother and daughter, please stop fighting." Grandma Tang Huiqin smiled and told Liu Yizhi and Yuan Hai, "Yizhi, you and Yuan Hai put these two paintings of Su Lin together. Look! You may have noticed just now that Xiao Su cut the rice paper into the same length and width as the drawing board. Xiao Su, I guess what you just said is that this is one painting, two paintings, or even three paintings. Is this what it means? These two paintings are two unrelated paintings individually. They both depict half of a woman’s face, but when put together they become a unified painting. The different painting methods of China and the West are perfect. Fusion into one painting, the two different faces are the same woman. So it can also be said that you painted three paintings in one go... "
At this time, Liu Yizhi and Yuan Hai had already put the two paintings together. Sure enough, as Tang Lao Tang Huiqin said, these two paintings by Su Lin are two paintings when taken apart, they are two half-faces of women, and when put together they become a complete woman's face. Chinese and Western oil paintings and The characteristics of ink painting are perfectly blended together, which is incomparable and ingenious. With a merging line in the middle as the interval, the harmony and contrast of the two sides of the face give people a very strong sensory shock. Coupled with the three different picture textures in the front and rear distances, it really shocks people's soul to the extreme.
"This... this painting looks like me up close, looks like my mother when looking further away, and looks like grandma when looking further away... This... this is simply amazing! Su Lin, how can you draw such a magical painting? ?”
When the two paintings merged into one, Qin Yanran could completely see the entire woman's face. Just as her grandma said, three women's faces were completely displayed in one painting. The girl is herself, the young woman is her mother Fang Liping, and the old woman is her grandmother Tang Huiqin.
Three people in one painting!
Moreover, Su Lin painted the painting backwards at that time. What kind of state is this!
Liu Yizhi was shocked. When he analyzed the two paintings separately, he was already shocked by Su Lin's painting techniques. Now the two paintings are combined into one, depicting Qin Yanran's ancestors and grandson, which can no longer be described in paintings.
"Is this painting really the three of us?"
Fang Liping also took a closer look, then stood further away and looked, and it was indeed what her daughter Qin Yanran said. A painting depicts the features of his mother Tang Huiqin, himself, and his daughter Qin Yanran.
The three of them have the same appearance and have many similarities. For example, the face shape and eyes, the two most important parts of the portrait, are the same, so Su Lin was able to use this three-layer method of analyzing texture to create the portrait. The magical effect of three people in one painting. (To be continued...)
ps: Second update!