Reflections on the secrets of painting 10 _ reflection _ reflection on famous works

The Secret of Painting is a hardcover book written by [France] marc anthony Matthew and published by Beijing United Publishing Company and Houlang Publishing Company. This book is priced at 60.00 yuan, with 48 pages in total. The article gives some readers' thoughts after reading, hoping to help everyone.

Reflections on the Secret of Painting (1): The coolest selfie, photo shoot and friends?

At first, I felt a little magical realism-if there is a square inch painting that can be extended indefinitely, then the scientific research value of this painting must be far greater than the artistic value.

Just kidding, go back to the setting of the work itself. This painting, full of surrealist concepts, has become the greatest wealth and secret left by the protagonist's friends. By infinitely magnifying this painting, he got inspiration and a work named "Sound and Wealth", and before he died, he realized the hidden secret in the painting-this is a hidden "self-portrait", and the color is always waiting to be filled.

I think this is the coolest photo.

This painting is also a self-portrait, a photo, a secret between friends who span time and soul.

Touching, but inevitable, another thought-

This painting almost influenced the protagonist's life. In a way, is it a nightmare?

If you have such a friend, he dies and the rest of your life will be shrouded in his legacy-is this what you want?

Of course, there are too many surreal elements in this work, so there is no need to stick to taking the plot in the book as reality. After all, there is no doubt that at the last moment, when the black and white drawings are suddenly full of colors and those long-lost faces appear, all readers will be amazed at art.

Reflections on the Secret of Painting (2): Where is your painting?

What is this book about?

Emil lost his best friend Edward, and after the initial loss, endless pain began to drown Emil. Edward's housekeeper brought a message that Emil needed to choose a relic as a gift. Emil chose a painting, and slowly, he found something strange in it, so he began his own journey of decryption. Emil found that the details of the painting could be enlarged constantly, which seemed to exhaust all the possibilities in the world. He has been copying the original painting, which made him famous. With the passage of time, Emile began to get old, forgot his friend's appearance, and the decryption of the painting was not completed. Finally, one day, he found new instructions in this painting, so he went back to his friend's room and solved the last secret. With a smile, Emile ended his life in his best friend's old home.

About failure

There is a clear boundary between human death and whether death means loss is not so easy to define. Edward died a long time ago, but his paintings still keep in touch with Emil and accompany him through a long time. Although Emil could hardly remember his friends' faces in the end, strangely, their understanding and feelings deepened because of this painting. Did Emile lose Edward? No, a few years after Edward's death, Emile still explored the world with Edward and explored the secrets of life and friendship. Emil did not fall into the whirlpool of losing friends, but cleared the clues given by friends bit by bit, and completed the redemption of his soul in decryption, and lived a long life safely.

Similarly, the death of relatives and lovers does not mean that we have completely lost them. The scenery we have experienced together and the views of both sides on the world have long been in our hearts. We understand each other, understand each other, love and respect each other, and will continue to explore the world with the support of love.

About friendship

It may be superficial to say that eating and drinking Lazarus is all for friendship. Although it is difficult for everyone to get in touch with and understand another soul, the happiness of friendship lies in mutual understanding and unconditional support. One soul is lonely, but two similar souls can overcome loneliness. As long as they meet, even if one party dies, this support will still exist in other ways. In this book, Edward's paintings are a continuation of Edward's spirit. Without this painting, how lonely and miserable would Emile be in this world? Of course, this painting full of secrets has extreme and amazing symbolic significance. In our life, more words and actions of friends accompany us.

About life

Ordinary life, ordinary life, is that you passively bear everything you encounter and tell yourself that you are content. And a truly happy life may be a positive exploration. The people around you and the world are the objects of your exploration. On the way, you will lose some comrades-in-arms and get their trophies. Energy conservation, all feelings will exist in this world in another way after physical destruction. Sometimes, it is a child; Sometimes, it is an album; Sometimes, it's memory. Who can believe that a painting can accompany a person through a long and happy life? But after reading this book, you will be moved. Yes, but everyone's "painting" is different. I hope to find my own painting.

Reflection on the Secret of Painting (3): The closest thing to us is the farthest thing from us.

"Tell the secret and the dove will fly; Tell a secret and calla lilies will blossom. " This is a poem that surprisingly came to mind after reading The Secret of Painting.

To some extent, this cartoon has this strange nature. It is easy for you to sigh the friendship of the protagonist, think of life and death and fate, and think of the relationship between art and life.

Artists are people who have mastered some profound creative skills, which enable some people to inject their wisdom into fields completely different from the real world. Therefore, the communication between these people goes beyond the scope of people's daily communication, thus gaining a brand-new singing experience. Whether out of curiosity or other reasons at first, their strong creative desire and unique imagination prompted them to create a dazzling fantasy world. It takes time for us ordinary people to accumulate some qualifications, and then we have to give 10 thousand interpretations to guess the creator's mind. Even artists, it is difficult for them to quickly understand the creator's intention, because this riddle has no directional guidance. Just like in The Secret of Painting, this riddle needs a friend who is also an artist to guess for almost a lifetime.

Everything is out of shape under the traction of ruthless time. Anyone can only try a way close to the truth for a period of time. But there will be all kinds of temptations on the way to interfere, so explorers often regard these as symbols leading to their destinations, but they don't know that this is a world with too much capacity, and they will gain something when they walk around, so if they don't have extremely sensitive consciousness, it will be difficult to find their own direction mistakes and finally find themselves in a dead end. This is like a game in the field of mathematics. Because it is extremely profound and impossible to have a higher vision, the process of proving some famous theorems is often full of drama. Looking back after the proof, I found that it was a detour, but before the proof, I could only test it like this. Some mathematicians may spend decades taking such risks.

This price is not small, so when the man in The Secret of Painting decided to split up every part of his friend's legacy in order to decrypt it, I read a true friendship, an effort willing to pay the most precious time.

To some extent, thinking about works of art is a logical gymnastics for self-entertainment. But the research of the same order of magnitude can really return to the real world from the art field. No matter how bizarre the new world is, it comes from the human brain and follows some basic principles that are often ignored but actually extremely important. So it is possible to find that subtle creative inspiration, that kind of power that seems to come from darkness, has also become a * * * thing in the world in mutual appreciation. After all, "understanding" itself is a miracle. In "The Secret of Painting", although the painter's initial direction was wrong, those exquisite and meticulous works did reflect the side that his friends usually find hard.

On the way to the finish line, few people go straight to the goal by luck. There are always various tips in the artist's world, which are different from the customs clearance guide in the ordinary sense. They are just a self-contained group of words. People have to understand them many times before they can form a unified conclusion, but that conclusion sometimes does not converge to something specific. Especially when the prompt appears in the form of language, polysemy will inevitably lead to differences and we can only continue to guess. A lot of time is spent on changing and adapting to the classification and understanding of observed things, and once a brand-new deconstruction method comes, it needs to be completely overthrown. There are dangerous roads everywhere before the answer appears, because whether you are close to the truth or not, the arrow of time will not turn back. In any case, luck alone is not enough, but in the end, it will take a little luck to solve those secrets, which is a mysterious thing that collapses somewhere in another world (as mentioned in the poem at the beginning of the article).

The ending of this book is very surprising. Once we know the answer, we will be a little annoyed when we look back at the scene when the mysterious painting first appeared. People who are nearsighted seem to see the secret clues in the painting at once. However, no one can see the obvious until he knows the final mystery. Because this is the most attractive part of the riddle, fuzzy directivity means many possibilities, and once the answer is known, all the possibilities converge into something with only a certain meaning.

What is closest to us is farthest from us. Decrypting a work of art is more like inferring the details of a higher-dimensional world from a projection, and it is not so easy to fully understand it visually.

Reflections on the secret of painting (4): the secret of nonverbal communication: your dearest person will always be with you.

First, "your dearest person seems to have left you forever, but he will always be with you." On the morning of the weekend, I planned to wake myself up with a picture book, so I browsed the work "The Secret of Painting" by marc anthony Matthew, a famous French literary cartoonist. Marc-Antoine Mathieu, the author, is regarded as the most experimental concept wizard in the European cartoon circle. He combined Kafka's grotesque absurdity with david lynch's obvious surrealism. The book "The Secret of Painting" has a very strong sense of sci-fi strangeness and tells a very warm story that tests readers' logic and causes thinking. The story begins with the death of Edward, the confidant of the protagonist Emile. Just as Emile was immersed in the grief of losing his best friend, he received a mysterious gift-from his friend Edward, who had just died. Edward gave him a key and said in the letter: Fate has separated us, but I will leave you a souvenir. "Look carefully, you will find it useful to you. If you think about it carefully, this memorial hall will reveal to you that your dearest person seems to have left you forever, but he will always be with you. " Emil found a furniture storage room according to the instructions in the letter, where he saw his friend's lifelong collection. My friend said in the letter: forget about aesthetics. When you need to choose from this pair of secondhand goods, just pick one you like: your choice will also be my choice. Finally, among many art collections, Emile chose a small painting-a painting with too full composition and old style, which painted Edward's apartment. Emil took it. In order to understand his old friend Edward's love of puzzles and his memory of old friends, Emil studied the painting carefully and soon thought it had hidden significance! Subsequently, the exploration of this painting accompanied Emil's life and brought him great success. Emil studied this little painting with a huge amount of information and copied the details, thus becoming a very famous painter. This painting also provided him with a steady stream of information during his exploration until the death of Emil. Second, the secret of communication Douban said that this picture book is "a philosophical question about fate in a story full of suspense and warmth", I quite agree. It has caused many thoughts, such as the relationship between art and life, friendship and so on. What I want to discuss today is the secret of communication. A few days ago, I wrote an article called "Why did I start to record my life through words and photography?" The following message said, "Please record your life carefully, because you don't know which words or pictures will be a powerful hand to pull a person out of the trough." A few days ago, I had a long phone call with my friend watermelon, talking about their current situation, confusion and feelings. In the end, we both felt carefree and transparent. Although the East Eighth District and the West Fifth District are separated by the time difference of 12 hour, they are experiencing completely different things, but they can produce wonderful sounds and become the magic key to solve each other's confusion. The above two are life examples of cross-identity and cross-regional communication through words and language. And the way of communication is not limited to this. In The Secret of Painting, Edward conveyed a lot of information to Emil, which was enough for him to complete his lifelong career. However, only this letter was conveyed by words. Third, all behaviors have the value of communication. A book I read recently, The Art of Communication, mentioned that in addition to verbal communication, there are also non-verbal communication. In The Secret of Painting, the dead Edward communicates with the protagonist Emile in a nonverbal way. I am a fan of a killing game (also known as a multiplayer game in which you can close your eyes and judge each other's identity through chatting), and I organize offline killing games almost every week. Killing game is a game to train logical thinking. You need to use your logic to judge the identity of others and guide (or mislead) others to agree with your ideas. In this game, everyone should try to avoid bringing in "off-site information". The so-called "off-site information" refers to information other than your speech, such as posture, movement, expression, eyes and so on. -These are non-verbal communication. These casual information will often become "hidden secrets" that reveal their true identity. As "The Art of Communication" said: All behaviors have the value of communication. "Every one of us is the sender of information, which cannot be stopped. No matter what we do, this information is still being passed on. " In The Secret of Painting, every detail in the painting is information, including the placement of objects in the painting, which is communicated with the outside world. Fourth, the message you send will not disappear with the disappearance of your individual life. Another personal growth book that should be used in life, Communication Bible, mentions a book called Peoplewatching, which is a best-selling book of British zoologist and writer De * * * Undermorris. Maybe you've had this experience. When waiting for the bus in the subway, are you also observing people coming and going and guessing their personality, occupation, life and thoughts according to their clothes? Their clothes, behavior, manners, etc. They are all about conveying information to you and realizing communication, but obviously, this is not their purpose. In other words, communication can be purposeful or aimless. This is why people should pay attention to whether the skirt on the first date looks good or not, and whether the shirt on the first interview is clean or not. (The communicative Bible has various scenes that specifically introduce life, including job hunting, speaking, reading and writing reports, etc. ). It also shows that it is impossible for people not to communicate with each other. And the message you send will not disappear with the disappearance of your individual life. Although Edward has passed away, he has been accompanying his best friend Emil in another way. 5. The Internet won't forget. There is an episode in Black Mirror, an English drama with modern magic color, which tells a story that happened in an extreme social background: a serious social youth Ash died in a car accident, and a technology company contacted his lover Martha and said that he could concoct a simulated "Ash", "Ash" and the real Ash according to the information he posted on social networking sites. The real ash has gone, but people have concocted an "ash" in the same way. In the words of the book "The Art of Communication", the Internet will not forget that the information you post today will always follow you. This means that no matter how the technology develops, the secret of communication is unshakable, and it still follows the old method and will not be reduced at all because of bits or bytes. So people will get to know a person in a new way. In the past, people would get to know you by looking at your personal file, but now employers will choose to look at your social network. The pictures, words and contents you share are all spreading outward: what kind of person are you? 6. "We can pause or even try to fast forward, but we can never go backwards." Communication is irreversible. This situation can be seen everywhere in life. The so-called "eloquent" is the truth. So in "The Secret of Painting", Emile will think of Edward's hobby of guessing riddles. After many years, he still feels particularly familiar and cordial when he returns to his old friend's house. This is the message Edward gave him when he was alive.

Reflections on the Secret of Painting (V): Friendship and Secret in Art —— Comment on the French cartoon The Secret of Painting

The original text of this comment was published in Youth Reading of Beijing Youth Daily on March 25, 20 16. The author is here, please indicate the reprint.

Edward, a good friend of the painter Emile, died. According to a letter left by a good friend, Emil got a mysterious sketch of his friend's room before his death. He thought it was just an ordinary exercise, but gradually, he found that every corner and detail in this little painting was very subtle and unique. He knew that Edward, who likes puzzles, must have left him this painting with ulterior motives, so he began to enlarge the details in the painting with his own brush, hoping to uncover the secrets in the painting. These magnified details also brought him great prestige, and he gradually forgot that he was still looking for answers, until one day, he found himself touching the limit of the painting and drew all the contents inside. He returned to his former home from abroad and began to decipher the mystery of the painting again. Years of copying have made him know painting like the back of his hand. Under the understanding of two friends, he followed a clue to find the house where his friend lived before his death, and drew this painting according to the real layout and lighting effect of the house, and finally solved the mystery-there was a portrait of Edward hidden in the painting. Emil fell at this moment. When people found Emile's body in the room, he had a smile on his face and a picture of Edward in his hand, which read:

"You did it! Best friend Edward "

This is the story told by the famous French cartoonist marc anthony Matthew's comic novel The Secret of Painting.

In the interview after the book, the author said that the theme of this work is not art, but friendship, which is the duality of existence and death. After reading the book, I had the same experience.

What kind of people are good friends?

Only those who know you and your place in your life can be called good friends. Edward knew the painter Emile, so he only left Emile a painting, a painting that included the whole world; At the same time, he also knew that his departure would leave an irreparable void in Emile's life, so he hid a puzzle in this painting, which was enough to enrich Emile's life.

Friendship is the ultimate concern. Emil's success comes from copying his friends' gifts. He once immersed himself in copying the details in the painting. But one's pursuit of a certain art is not endless. Even such a hidden painting has been completely excavated. At this time, he returned to the original point and began to find and solve the puzzles in the painting. When the puzzle was solved, he also had an epiphany about friendship and was able to leave with a smile.

This leads to another theme of the work-duality of existence and death. Edward died, but Emile lived all his life. Their friendship continues through painting or art. Every work of Amir is not only a memorial to friends, but also an exchange with friends. Edward used the secrets in the painting to accompany his friends all his life. This companionship, like the friendship between two living people, is mutual. For Emil, Edward has always guided his artistic path; For Edward, Emile has been involved in this elaborate intellectual game.

The original French name of this graphic novel is Le Dessin, which literally means pictures. But I think it is very appropriate to further translate Han bamboo slips into The Secret of Painting. Friendship is a common emotion of human beings, but the specific friendship in life is private. There must be something between friends that only each other can understand. Edward's understanding of Emile made him choose painting to carry his last gift, and Emile's understanding of Edward finally solved the mystery of his friend. Friendship exists in the form of puzzles and is practiced in the form of decryption, all of which are hidden in paintings symbolizing art. Painting itself is beautiful, but this metaphysical beauty cannot be pursued for life. What can soothe a person's life is ultimately friendship.

As Edward said, the only purpose of art is to make life more interesting than art itself. The greatest significance of such an ingenious painting is that it contains puzzles that only two people can understand.

Profound and meaningful themes and ingenious ideas are not the only advantages of this comic novel. The author's extraordinary artistic level and image narrative ability are also well reflected in this work. Different from ordinary Japanese comics, this work only uses pure white and black in front of black and white, and does not use gray transition. Fine lines make the work full of details, while black and white blocks give the work a thick texture like printmaking. As Emile solves the mystery and finishes the painting, readers will see a color portrait with him, and the owner of the portrait is Edward. This unique color makes people feel suddenly enlightened and empathetic to Edward.

There are many interesting details in The Secret of Painting, including those on the screen. For example, there is a picture frame showing that Emile has just lost his friend and fallen into loneliness. The author puts many of Amir's self-portraits in the corner of the frame as metaphors of loneliness, which not only shows the emptiness of life after his friend's first funeral, but also emphasizes a lonely mentality. This book is divided into three chapters with interesting names, namely, Ledesin (picture), Ledesin (fate) and Ledesin (intention). This word game itself is a puzzle left by the author to the readers. Marc anthony said that these three words have two meanings: "past-present-future" and "he-I-universe". All these need to be discovered by readers in reading.

Generally speaking, The Secret of Painting is an excellent graphic novel. Although it is only forty pages, it can let readers know friendship from the perspective of novels. Houlang retains the original large format, and the printing and translation are also excellent, ensuring the reading experience. As a reader, I would like to express my heartfelt thanks.

About the author: Marc-Antoine Mathieu, a famous French cartoonist, was born in Lyon 1959. His works are fantastic in style, imaginative and experimental, and have won many international awards. Important comic works include The Secret of Painting, 3 Seconds, Dream Prisoner, God himself, Direction and so on. The comic novel "The Secret of Painting" won the "Best Works Award" at the Schell Comic Festival in Switzerland.

Reflections on the Secret of Painting (ⅵ): There is a picture in the painting, a word in it, a warm secret!

The Secret of Rydsong's Painting

Impression of closing volume:

With a pair of eyes, you don't need to explore secrets, and your eyes are confused and often unhappy; Who knows, maybe one day, with the right angle, the unknown details will unfold in turn, without reservation! It turns out that all our stories have been written on paper and cannot be changed!

This is a 44-page picture book with few words. Most pages only have black and white line drawings, but it has a very complete story, which is easy for people without comic experience to understand.

The first part of Ryder Sin (picture)

At the beginning of the story, in memory of his friend who just died, Emile randomly selected a pen-and-ink painting depicting the real scene of the apartment from his showroom after receiving the key left by Edward. And this pen-and-ink painting named Ré flection actually presents an interlocking scene under high magnification. The deeper the picture, the more subtle the details. Emil saw the endless world in the painting and couldn't help being addicted!

The second part of fate

Emil put everything down and began to restore all the details he saw under the magnifying glass to the picture of his studio as much as possible. At the same time, Emile named a detail he painted intermittently as reflection n #, and sold it easily to make a living. Gradually, Emile won an uninvited success and became famous at one fell swoop!

The best design of this part is that Emile found that a certain detail in Edward's painting looks small, but it is infinite after enlargement. It turned out to be just an entrance for the story to continue to advance layer by layer, much like a picture sequence game played in a company's training. The key is that you have to find this logic!

The third part ledesein (intention)

Finally, after many years, Emile felt that he would never see the details again, so he had to look back at the original work again and summon up courage to visit Edward's original apartment and compare the painting with the apartment. The change of light and shade echoed the clue "I ad color" he had learned before. Emil finally saw the smiling face of his old friend gradually emerge on the painting screen, and seemed to be leaving. It turns out that he has been here all the time!

The style of this picture book is a little subtle; The author is also an experimental wizard in the European animation industry and has won many awards. Hardcover large format coated paper printing also has extra points, which is really textured in your hand.

There is a picture in the picture, a story in the word, a warm secret!

Reflections on the Secret of Painting (7): What you see depends on what you see.

1. Countless coincidences make up the final ending.

2. Life can't be completed in countless copies.

Leave other people's secrets to others, and others will tell you the secrets.

The secret of painting lies not in its ultimate meaning, but in the process of your pursuit and exploration. Just like when you are pursuing a thing or an object, the moment you often get is not your happiest moment. We enjoy the process more, and the result is just an accessory.

The best gift is never the kind that money can buy. The heart is the most important thing. The deceased left his friend a job worth pursuing all his life. The living spend their whole lives trying to unlock the secrets of the deceased, which may be a true nostalgia and love for the deceased. This kind of friendship is even more valuable.

Reflections on the Secret of Painting (8): The belated arrow from the soul connects the two worlds.

When I saw The Secret of Painting, I remembered a photo exhibition I saw in Beijing Exhibition Hall a while ago. In a similar story, the photographer's close friend died, which made him immersed in sadness. He began to question the nature of life: why do we live like this? Is it true? What we value is really important? Photographers began to try a brand-new photography creation from 20 12. He put everything in the water and used it to express a fantastic mirror image. The photographer said: "Water is a magical medium, which transmits emotions between different life forms. I started shooting different people in the water environment. " This is a true story.

Reflections on the secret of painting (9): (unfinished) If I only recommend one book related to art and psychological consultation, it is the only one.

I have mentioned the Gospel of Kyle more than once. When I met Kappa's old lady Elis, I gave her a copy.

What is the function of art? What exactly does art do? Every detail of Matthew's cartoon is embodied in this way.

A good work has an important measure, whether it is still valuable after rereading. And a good reader also has an important criterion, that is, whether he can find something different after rereading.

"Art is a secret treatment"

He entered an observation angle.

In the cover life of The Secret of Painting, what we don't stare at attentively and what we don't understand can be called secrets. Secrets in our own hearts, secrets in other people's hearts. The inner struggle and pain of each of us, and this secret is our loneliness. And when we are trying to explore each other's secrets, we are getting close to each other and facing loneliness together.