Starting from where we can't see,
End with what we can see.
Pencil, eraser. Piece together dreams out of crumbs.
The paint-dipped painting tool outlines the picture in the heart with a brush stroke.
Engraving knife, felt cloth. Every knife mark is a story.
Where the pen is written, it is full of the author's focus on art.
A pair of hands that meet the mud, persistently being a craftsman.
Hands filled with lead and paint, the ravines are precipitated with years of art.
In those years, art students suffered 7 kinds of suffering
At first, I picked up a paintbrush and touched the art, and the young little hand grabbed the pen and scribbled on the white paper, outlining the beauty seen by the innocent eyes and depicting everything in the imaginary world.
Gradually, from ignorance to ignorance, and even the essence of Western oil painting and Eastern ink painting, I was sincerely attracted in the darkness.
As they grew older, with a passion for painting, they began to really come into contact with fine art: from small plaster still lifes to long-term still life combinations, from small color manuscripts to large works, from copying to sketching...
Since then, they have officially joined the large group of art students, become the main force among art students, and embarked on a difficult road to pursue their dreams. Today, Guan Weijun will take you one by one to trace and detail dozens of the most memorable, those years of art students have suffered.
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[ What was it like to be an art student?]
NO. 1
When painting becomes inertia mechanical movement
From dawn to sunset, from night to night
At six or seven o'clock in the morning, I came to the studio, set up the easel, sharpened the pen, and put on stickers, and began the day's practice. In the face of white paper, repeat the mechanical method again and again: construct the character type, pull the relationship between black and white and gray, separate the front side, emphasize the junction line... Looking up at the model or model, burying your head in the painting, these two actions are constantly repeated, monotonous and boring.
At noon, he circled around the teacher, rested for a while, and then went into battle. It lasted until 12pm or even later. At the end of the day, a face full of charcoal and pencil ash, and the snow-white drawing paper has been covered with traces of rubbing and painting.
NO. 2
If you are afraid of getting dirty, please do not study fine arts
While culture students flip through books in clean classrooms, they sit in dirty studios. For art students, lead-covered palms and paint-stained clothes are familiar and commonplace.
It seems that every piece of clothing has left traces of gouache paint, it seems that there is always dirty dust in the finger seams, and it seems that the shoes have always been dirty and cannot always be brushed clean.
They said that since they learned to rub their fingers to paint, their hands are particularly dirty after each painting, but the picture is kept particularly clean.
NO. 3
There is a feeling that the painting can't be lifted up to the arm
In those years, there was a queue to wash the palette
For art students, dust and paint are only superficial troubles, while their bodies have to endure a lot of unknown pain.
The most painful part of the days of painting color is washing the palette. Every time after painting, everyone has to queue up in the narrow toilet sink to clean, the winter water is very harsh, at first I still feel the bone-chilling cold water that hurts my fingertips, but after a while the temperature of the hand will be lower than the water temperature, in addition to numbness, I can't feel the cold.
Painting sits until the waist hurts
Drawing is not much better, and each painting has to be painted in thousands of strokes. Every winter, the hand will be frozen and cannot be straightened, and before you start drawing, you must rub it hard, and rub your hand red and hot to hold the pen. If you see a trace of blood on the drawing paper, it must be a cracked hand.
In the days before the art exam, almost every day was one or two o'clock in the morning before going to bed, every day there were fourteen or five hours of painting, sitting waist pain, painting for a long time even the arm could not be lifted.
[ Take a look at the daily life of art students ]
No. 4
Pancake fruit is a home-cooked meal, and every art student is a VIP
At that time before the art exam, it was not unusual to eat only one meal a day. In the morning, I got up and nibbled on two bites of bread and went to the studio, at noon I ate two mouthfuls of the rest of the morning and continued to paint, and in the evening, I went to the studio door to buy pancake fruit.
Until the end of the art examination, every day to talk with the aunt who sells pancake fruit, if the pancake fruit shop also has a membership system, then it may be that the art students are the supreme VIP.
No. 5
Marley's pigment is more expensive, and usually only its white color is used
Studying art is a lot of money, and learning art is no exception.
In addition to the huge cost of attending classes, they also spend a large amount of money every month to buy painting materials. All kinds of pens, paints, drawing paper, I want to buy better materials not to compare, but to use them to create better works.
Someone once said that the Marley card is more expensive, and usually only uses its white. On the eve of the big exam, they will not hesitate to buy all the things they need or even not necessarily use, just for peace of mind.
If a marker pen costs 15 yuan, how many pancake fruits can you eat for 200 pieces?
From mid-January to March every year, art candidates travel around the world to take the school exam, and in order to increase their confidence, applying for more than a dozen colleges and universities is a common thing for many people. Each school has to pay at least 150 yuan in registration fees, plus transportation, accommodation, meals and other expenses, this number is already very impressive.
[ That year, the days of running away from home ]
No. 6
Those bumpy days
The experience of traveling around participating in a single move must be lingering in the mind of every art student.
Immediately after the end of the unified examination, he began to travel from place to place. When riding a plane or bumpy train, go early to familiarize yourself with the route and confirm the test room, in case you go to the wrong place on the day of the test. The place where they live may be a lot of art students who come to the exam, and everyone occasionally gets together to exchange experiences and occasionally talk about the world.
Whether there is a figure of your god in the army of art examinations on the back of the drawing board
On the day of the exam, before dawn, we took a car in the dark together, and when we arrived at the exam room, we just got into the morning, bought breakfast nearby, and lined up at the door with a large army of heavily armed candidates waiting for the exam to start.
After the noon exam, I will eat casually at the side of the school, and when I am finished, I will find a place to lie on my stomach and squint for a while, waiting for the afternoon exam. In the afternoon, when the color test was held, everyone took turns carrying buckets of water to fetch water and passing on to each other to help.
Not only strangers in the same exam room on the day of the exam, but also the companions around them in that unforgettable day, who were both rivals and brothers.
NO. 7
Zero base equals more pressure
Among the art candidates, in addition to many art students who have been exposed to painting since childhood, there are also many people who have met art and fallen in love with art halfway. For them, becoming an art student is even more difficult.
At the end of the day, seeing that the students with the foundation have been recognized and praised by the teacher, and then looking down at their own works, what they finally have to wait for is the teacher's sharp and harsh comments. At this time, you can only silently bury your head and sharpen the pen, silently hold back the tears that are about to win back, and then raise your head again, think again and again, and modify it over and over again.
As the saying goes, the master leads the door, and the practice is in the individual. Many people think that the cultural level of art students is low, but only by using their brains diligently can they understand the truth of many paintings. Sometimes even tangled with a piece of color, a kind of processing, you can meditate until late at night.
Source: Nanjing University of the Arts
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