Who wants to take the civil service exam after being reborn?

Chapter 535 Cooking or Drawing?

This group of students from the Central Academy of Fine Arts included both boys and girls, but with Xianmei'er's looks, suppressing them would be no problem at all.

Even their tone was quite direct: "If you don't understand anything, just ask!"

This is the logic of a Sichuan girl:

You're all complaining about having problems → I'll try my best to help you solve them → If I can't solve them, don't blame me.

But Qi Kai and his group's logic:

We were just pretending to encounter a problem at Teacher Wu's urging → You little brat, you actually dare to come and give me advice → It's blatant contempt for people.

The boys abandoned their "gentlemanly manners" and actually started asking questions.

A: Hello, when painting landscapes, how do you handle the relationship between the foreground leaves and the distant mountains in terms of sharpness and blur?

Yu Xuan: Hmm... Use solid brushstrokes for the leaves in the foreground, with more detail; use softer color blocks for the mountains in the distance, with blurred edges, and use light blue and purple to express atmospheric perspective. Okay, next one.

B: When painting still life, how can I avoid "symmetrical composition" to make the picture more dynamic?

Yu Xuan: I use triangular and S-shaped compositions, or I deliberately shift the position of the main subject to leave blank space. Okay, next one.

After C looked at them, he thought to himself, "These are such basic questions. They answered them so easily. Let me show you my tricks!"
C: Hello, Heidegger proposed the "conflict between the world and the earth" in "The Origin of the Work of Art". How can we express this existential conflict in the language of painting?

Yu Xuan fell into thought.

C was somewhat smug; this was a doctoral student's question, one I'd secretly seen before.

After a while.

Yu Hsien: My teacher happened to talk about a similar topic. She said that we need to first outline the opposition between "world" (the system of meaning given by humans) and "earth" (the nature of matter), for example, by creating tension through a torn horizon, overlapping perspectives, or the accumulation of materials. Okay, next.

C: Damn it! You even know that?

D: In Fan Kuan's "Travelers Among Mountains and Streams" from the Northern Song Dynasty, how is the imposing mountain range achieved through the combination of texturing techniques and composition?

Yu Xuan: I think the mountain is depicted with dense raindrop texture strokes, which chisel out the hard texture of the northern igneous rock. Combined with the layering of burnt ink and accumulated ink, the giant peak presents a sense of weight. Then, the blurred treatment of the horizontal clouds and mist at the mountainside contrasts with the imposing physical presence of the main peak. Okay, next one.

D: At your age, how do you know what "cun" means?
……

There are simple problems, but there are also many difficult ones in obscure and hidden corners.

After a brief period of tension at the beginning, Yu Xuan got into the zone and became more and more comfortable, like an old Chinese medicine doctor seeing patients, constantly repeating "next".

Actually, even I, the cosplayer, was a little surprised. Why did their questions seem to all be in the old lady's notebook? I've seen similar things more or less before.

Therefore, answering the questions was easy for me.

It really feels like "I woke up to find that the world's IQ has dropped by 1000 times, and I've solved 1+1=2, and everyone is hailed as a math genius!"

Wu Jing'en was also dumbfounded.

This girl doesn't look like someone with such talent.

It's like our society has a stereotype of "Tsinghua and Peking University students," always thinking that they should be unkempt, only know how to study, and don't even know how to bargain when buying groceries.

However, seeing that his students were almost out of valuable questions, he was still waiting with great enthusiasm.

Wu Jing'en, disregarding his pride, wiped his shiny forehead and interrupted, saying:

"Regarding the question about dynamic elements, I think you made some mistakes in your answer, but you've already done well. Young lady, who is your teacher? Perhaps we know each other."

Wu Jing'en no longer intends to ask for contact information.

Young people who have accumulated this kind of experience are definitely not like those college students who are "free-range" in school and have received countless special treatments. So, first ask them what their background is.

However, Xianmei'er did not have the cunning of Director Chen, who was two-faced.

She pursed her lips and said without any mercy, "You are not worthy to know my teacher."

"Too arrogant!"

Wu Jing'en was taken aback at first, then flew into a rage.

Little girl, your extensive theoretical knowledge only shows that you study hard. Does that mean your drawing skills are as forceful as your tone?
He felt that at Yu Xian's age, no matter how good he was, his basic skills would still be inferior to those of his seniors.

"Qi Kai," Wu Jing'en suddenly said, "take your sketch from earlier and have someone evaluate it."

Qi Kai was his best student. In his freshman year, he was even comparable to Lin Jinglin, who was going to participate in the exchange program between the eight colleges this year.

Although I'm far behind now, I should be able to compare to this beautiful girl in front of me, unless she happens to be at the level of "exchange between eight academies".

Qi Kai had just racked his brains to find the answer to a question that Yu Xuan had answered easily, and he was feeling quite annoyed.

Upon hearing the teacher's instruction, he flicked his wrist, making a "whoosh" sound as he confidently handed over the paper.

It's like a second-grade student who can recite multiplication tables showing off in front of a first-grade student who can only do addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.

Unfortunately, this "first-grade elementary school student" has already learned equations.

"I think it's just so-so, Xiaoyu, what do you think?"

The cosplayer only glanced at it briefly before letting Wu Yu see it.

"Well……"

As a member of the cheering squad for Xianmei, Wu Yu would have clapped her hands until they were red if it weren't inconvenient to clap here when cosplaying her amazing skills.

Seeing Qi Kai's work now, even though she couldn't compare, it didn't stop Wu Yu from scoffing, "Not as good as one of your casual paintings."

"it is good!"

Wu Jing'en had been waiting for this. He found a blank canvas and gestured for Yu Xuan to sit down: "Then let's use the theme of 'Gallery' to demonstrate your casual drawing skills to everyone."

Faced with Wu Jing'en's sarcastic remarks, Xianmei hesitated for a moment.

"what happened?"

Qi Kai noticed the hesitation on the pretty girl's face and said with a smile, "Junior sister, memorizing things is useless. For us art students, in the end, we have to prove ourselves with our hands."

"Yeah, yeah, we'll have to put them to the test eventually."

"Beautiful lady, if you're scared, just hand over your QQ number, and Brother Qi won't hold it against you."

……

Amidst the less heated mockery, Wu Yu asked疑惑地问道, "Why don't you want to paint?"

“If we go there now to draw it, it will take at least forty minutes.”

Yu Xuan counted the items carefully, one by one, on her slender, white fingers: "I still need to visit the gallery later, and then take a bus back. Will I have time to buy groceries and cook?"

"what?"

Wu Jing'en was almost dumbfounded: "You're going to cook?"

"Xianmei, let's not do it today!"

Li Xianglan appeared behind him at some point; she had probably received a report from her employees that she was very satisfied with Yu Xuan's previous performance.

Let's go out to eat at a restaurant.

Li Xianglan said with a smile, "That way we won't waste any time."

"That's fine then~, but remember to order less oily dishes, the old lady has a bit of high cholesterol."

After giving his instructions, Yu Xuan sat down directly in front of the easel, picked up his brush, pondered for a moment, and then slowly began to paint.

Do you think we can win?

Li Xianglan asked Wu Yu in a relaxed and comfortable manner.

"Aunt Lan who guarantees a win."

Wu Yu covered her mouth and whispered, "Yu Xuan is an idiot. Her memory is terrible. It's good enough if she can remember those difficult words. Her strength is improvisation."

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