Chapter 269 Statue of Bodhisattva with Thousand Heads and Thousand Eyes
The person who came was a young man. He looked to be a few years older than Jiang Yan, but he seemed to be very weak. He could only sit in a wooden wheelchair and push the heavy wooden wheel with both hands to move forward.
Zhou Xiaoshi also looks sickly, but Zhou Xiaoshi has extremely strong cultivation and his fighting skills will make anyone who despises him pay a heavy price.
This man's frailty was more like a candle in the wind, but he became the focus of everyone's attention as soon as he appeared.
Jiang Yan couldn't feel any spiritual power from this man, he was just an ordinary person, but when he saw that Peng Li, who had always been domineering and extremely arrogant, had restrained his temper, he could guess that this man's identity was unusual.
"Chen Cao'an, I have taken the liberty to come here, sorry to disturb you."
"You're welcome, please take a seat."
Chen Cao'an pushed the wooden tire and screeched to find an inconspicuous corner, trying to make everyone ignore his existence.
Not long after Fu Yueming arrived in Daxuan City, he didn't know who Chen Cao'an was, and he didn't send any messages. The people he invited were all wealthy businessmen or officials from aristocratic families.
Chen Cao'an's arrival was just the beginning. Next, more and more people came to Xiaoxiang Pavilion in groups of twos and threes, their identities became more and more mysterious, and many of them were not among his invitations.
Among these people were courtiers, aristocratic families, and some special merchants.
Surprising things happened one after another in the Xiaoxiang Pavilion. Yan Youqin also arrived, smiling and nodding towards Jiang Gu without saying a word.
Of course, the most common ones are those who look like rich ladies from Daxuan City.
When the lady came to the Xiaoxiang Pavilion, her reaction was as Fu Yueming expected. When she saw Jiang Chan's clothes, she noticed that the clothes were completely in line with their fantasy of a scribe. She was elegant and suave, but her squinting eyes made her lose all interest.
"I thought he was the handsome man from Qingdu," a young girl said in a rather disappointed tone.
The most famous scholar in the Qing capital was a man of unrivaled elegance, especially good looks. He was the dream lover of all the women in Daxuan City.
"Look at him, he's not all bad. Look at his pretty feet..."
Jiang Yan: "???"
Fu Yueming saw that people were almost here, so he started to get down to business. This was also the highest-level appreciation party he had ever participated in.
"If you can come to Xiaoxiang Pavilion, Painter Jiang has specially prepared some paintings."
"The first one in the Eight Prefectures, I think it won't disappoint anyone," one person said.
Some of them expressed disdain and even just came to see the joke.
"That's not necessarily the case. There are many people present who have sharp eyesight. There must be several Qianyuan Mirror people. Let them appreciate the paintings of a Xuanling Realm painter..."
Jiang Yan ignored what they said. It is true that the higher the artist's cultivation, the higher the grade of the painting, but those who truly know how to appreciate paintings will never start from the grade alone.
Appreciating paintings this time is slightly different from other places. Normally, the painter's cultivation level must be higher than that of all appreciators, at least it should be at the same level, but now Jiang Yan's cultivation level seems to be the lowest among the people present, even among the female relatives.
Someone stronger than him.
"The first painting, the statue of Bodhisattva with Thousand Arms and Thousand Eyes"
Jiang Yan took out the painting from the bookcase, and the spiritual power in his palm wrapped around the scroll and slowly rose to reveal the object on the painting.
Those who were originally prepared to watch the joke had their smiles frozen on their faces, and the flowers were painted on them, making it dizzying.
The body of the Bodhisattva on the scroll is pure white and has eleven sides. The nine sides are the quiet side, the lower three sides, the middle three sides and the upper three sides, and each side has a different color.
Above it is an angry face with three eyes and brown color; there is also a Buddha face on the top.
In this painting, the Bodhisattva has a total of eleven faces representing all Buddhas, the thousand hands represent the thousand wheel kings, and the thousand eyes represent the thousand Buddhas of the virtuous kalpa.
He also covered his left chest with animal skins, wore a silk skirt, tied a treasure belt around his waist, and wore eight kinds of clothing.
As soon as the scroll came out, the entire audience fell into silence. Everyone was shocked by the wonder of this Buddha statue.
Many painters experience strange phenomena when doing figure paintings, and many painters even lose their lives because of this. Therefore, figure painting has become a taboo method in painting.
The people of Xumi Prefecture have a deep attachment to Buddha statues, but few painters can produce exquisite figure paintings. Some even claim that real figure paintings and figure paintings were derived from the second generation Xiaoyao Gong of Wen Prefecture. Immortal and Buddhist paintings have completely disappeared.
Figure paintings are extremely rare, and paintings of immortals and Buddhas are even more precious. However, there are also many people who really know how to appreciate paintings and are proficient in painting techniques.
"Among the contemporary painters, the great painter Lu Daoxuan, Wei Changli and the great court painter of the Qing Dynasty are the most important. All three of them are good at close-body painting techniques.
The gods of Lu and Wei can't see the future, so-called meticulous handwriting.
The beauty of this painting is that the stacking of thousands of hands and eyes is a taboo for painters, but this painting uses only one or two brushes, and the image has been completed.
In the stippling, there are often gaps. Although the brushstrokes are not thorough, the intention is thorough.
Only by looking at this painting can we know that the painting has two bodies, sparse and dense, and only then can we discuss the painting."
The speaker has an important position in the painting circles of Daxuan City because he is the direct disciple of the great court painter, Lu Tanwei.
Lu Tanwei even stood up and came closer to the painting. He was also proficient in close-body painting techniques. His compositions gave people a feeling of fullness and weight, but they were dense but not suffocating. There was sparseness within denseness. He was famous for his fine and dense line drawings. It is best to have an ethereal quality in the painting, which is exactly what he is good at in the paintings of spring silkworms spinning silk.
Secret painting has been the most mainstream painting technique in the Wen Dynasty for two thousand years. Although some people have made breakthroughs, it is still rooted in secret painting.
However, Jiang Yan's paintings completely broke through the dense body painting. He used sparse strokes, using less to overcome more, and did not take complexity as the rule. He used concise brushwork to express the objects, and the pointillism was casual but still without losing its spirit.
"Painter Lu, a painting from the Mysterious Spirit Realm, is it really that good?"
There are those who are good at connoisseurship, and there are those who are completely different. When these laymen see a Qianyuanjing person praising Xuanling Realm paintings so much, they just think that this is Lu Tanwei trying to make Jiang Yan famous. After all, the two of them came from the same place. Wenfu sect.
"You don't have to believe my character, but you can't insult my painting skills. Jiang Chan's paintings have subverted the two thousand years of tradition of the Wen Dynasty. He is worthy of being a disciple of Uncle Lu."
Even with Lu Tanwei, many people still questioned it, but one person stood up and wanted to buy the painting directly.
"Master Jiang, a poor monk from Dajue Temple, is given 50,000 gold, can I part ways with you?"
Jiang Yan's jaw almost dropped. One move was for 50,000 gold? Is this a poor monk?
His goal was to raise 100,000 gold. Unexpectedly, someone offered 50,000 gold for just the first painting, which instantly caused an uproar and discussion among the people.
"Monk, you know the goods, but I'm afraid I won't be able to get what you want. I'm also willing to pay 50,000 gold. I'm very interested in many of the painting techniques and want to buy them and study them carefully," Lu Tanwei said.
"Although they are both worth 50,000 gold, Master Lu is our Master of Wenfu, so of course I should give it to Master Lu first."
Of course Jiang Yan knew who was one of his own and who was an outsider.