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Sure enough, as Song Shihe said, he returned to school after a few days of rest.The class was the same as before, and there was no big change, but Ji Yusheng felt that he inadvertently made eye contact with Song Shihe a lot more, and the number of minutes his heart beat faster in class also increased.Maybe this is just the excitement of not seeing Song Shihe in class for a long time, Ji Yusheng thought so.

"After introducing the period of *Graeco-Romantraditions with *Verisimilitude at its core, we will step into the pursuit of realistic art."

"Remember the story I told you about Zeuxis and Parrhasios? That story largely reflects the artist's pursuit of *Mimesis and illusionism in that period. But in the pursuit of perfection in paintings, some artists began to question the emptiness of these paintings. A painting with skin but no soul."

"So realistic paintings gradually emerged, and the representative work is this seemingly ordinary painting-the oil painting "A Burialat Ornans" created by Gustave Courbet from 1849 to 50"

"What do you think of this painting?"

A painting with a darker tone appeared on the screen. In the painting, a group of people surrounded a pit that looked like a sunken pit, but the pit had reached the border of the painting before it was fully displayed, which attracted people to Think about what is surrounded by that group of people, maybe the dead people, maybe all the viewers.

"Professor Song." A classmate was about to answer, so Song Shihe nodded at him, signaling him to continue talking.

"It's very mediocre, there is no hero, the lines of the painting are not meticulous, and there is no element of verisimilitude. I don't think there is anything worth appreciating in this painting." The boy sitting in the third row said loudly with a hint of disdain.Some of the students next to him also nodded in agreement.

Song Shihe nodded and said

"This was indeed the thinking of most people at the time, including many famous contemporary painters."

"Does anyone have a different opinion?"

Ji Yusheng raised his hand, Song Shihe nodded with a smile, and made a mouth shape "Shengsheng" that only Ji Yusheng had discovered. Ji Yusheng's heart trembled slightly, he took a deep breath, and opened his mouth to answer.

"I think maybe the appreciation of this painting lies in the thought and soul of his writer through this painting, rather than the superficial skin."

Song Shihe looked at him approvingly, beckoning him to continue talking.

"Although this painting appears to be an ordinary funeral, it does not have a specific hero to praise, but has many subjectelements, such as priests, family members, and even a Dalmatians. There is even a non-dimensional figure at the front of the painting. Dong, some people may be disappointed in this painting because there is no beautiful and praiseworthy hero as the central figure, or because the painter does not show superb painting skills, but the central idea of ​​this painting is ordinary people, presenting ordinary scenes, This is the everyday life in the painter's heart, what he wants to paint, he just followed his heart, justassimpleasthat."

"Papa——" Song Shihe applauded for his answer, and the sunlight shone through his fingertips, as if every clapping carried the rhythm of light and shadow.

"Well said, that's really what *Modernity is all about. With the Enlightenment, painters began to put more of their own thoughts into their work, rather than just focusing on showing off their mastery. This painting is actually a resistance to tradition , to discover new art with higher central value.”

"Perhaps you now feel that compared to Rococo paintings, it may be difficult for you to appreciate this kind of painting, but I want you to meet the soul of this painting, and you will find its charm."

"Pursuing innovation in a stubborn era may suffer a lot of abuse, but those who stop because of these may only decline in the evening and sunset."

"So if there is a light in art that is not bravely pursued because of secular constraints, try to capture it."

A ray of sunlight entered the lecture hall and landed in front of Song Shihe's feet, like a branch of a rose. Song Shihe reached out and grabbed it. The sunlight lingered on his fingertips, and Ji Yusheng felt as if he had grasped a dream.

After the class was over, members of the Poetry Society waited at the door, and rushed in as soon as they heard that the class was over. The chairman of the Poetry Society asked Song Shihe expectantly. Song Shihe smiled and nodded without thinking, and then the chairman said stand up to the podium and say

"Students, please don't leave."

"We are members of the Poetry Society. Because the school is honored to invite Teacher Song and Cheng to come to our school to teach, our Poetry Society intends to take advantage of this to hold a new poetry creation competition. There are no restrictions on the subject matter and format of the submitted works. All All students are welcome to participate! The works will be judged by Mr. Song, Mr. Cheng and professors from the Department of Literature, and there will be personal comments from Mr. Song and Mr. Cheng!"

Writing new poems?Can I still receive comments from Mr. Song... I remember that the last time I tried to write poetry was a few years ago.Because my husband will write a poem for him almost every month. Although my husband said that there are no rules of essays, every poem amazed him, so he also tried to write a poem for him. Poetry was used as a gift from my husband, but after racking his brains to create nondescript works, he gave up.When he thought of the first time he wrote a poem to his husband, he first read a lot of classics, and then he wrote the last sentence bluntly "from the other half of the planet" in order to compose it, and his forehead began to sweat.

It's better not to be ashamed that he doesn't have this kind of talent, so he finally gave up the idea of ​​participating in the competition.

Note:

Verisimilitude's pursuit of real three-dimensional sense can be understood as beingreal/true

The meaning of Mimesis, illusionism is more complicated, but in simple terms, the meaning is the same as above. Pursue the sense of reality, and pursue the feeling that the painting looks real.

Graeco-Romantraditions Roman art pursues verisimilitude, so this word generally refers to a period of paintings in which painters pursue the ultimate real three-dimensional sense

Modernity breaks the tradition of Graeco-Roman, pursues innovation, and pays more attention to presenting the heart