Essay on Eyes for Discovering Details
Sun Xinyi, Class 604, No. 1 Experimental Primary School, Tanghai County, Hebei Province
There was a famous calligrapher and painter in the Song Dynasty , called Mi Fu. Mi Fu began to learn calligraphy when he was seven or eight years old. When Bu was in his early teens, he could write on inscriptions and copy paintings and calligraphy. He liked to collect paintings and calligraphy, but he had a problem, never returning the paintings he borrowed from his friends.
When Mi Fu was an official somewhere, a businessman hawked the "Pictures of Herding Cows" by the painter Dai Song. Mi Fu saw him and hurriedly invited him into the Yamen. He told the painting seller that he would take it home and study it. It turned out that he wanted to copy the painting in one night.
In the end, Mi Fu became selfish and gave his imitation painting to the businessman. On the ith day, the businessman suddenly came to ask for his real painting. He said: "There is a shadow of a shepherd boy in the cow's eyes in my painting, but there is no shadow in the painting you gave me." Mi Fu quickly saluted and returned the original copy to him. . It was the details, the small details, that made Mi Fu stumble. Why is there no shadow of the shepherd boy in Mi Fu's imitation paintings, but there is in the original painting?
This is because - marvelous details, a masterpiece over a long period of time. It is difficult for any master to figure out all the details in a short time.
How did you get this detail that "there is a shadow of a shepherd boy in the cow's eyes"? Relying on the company of cattle, relying on long-term observation, and relying on the use of talent, even if Mi Fu can become a master overnight, it will be difficult to "bypass" this small detail!
Only by feeling with your heart and observing carefully can you draw excellent works with moving details. Eyes that discover details must be calm and devoted, and your heart must breathe together with the things you describe.
It’s still a story about drawing a cow. The painter painted the bullfight's tail to be raised, but this detail is false, because during bullfighting, the power of the bullfight is concentrated on the horns, and the bull's tail cannot be raised.
The eyes that discover details are sparkling and they have been invested for a long time. This needs to come from real life. In a life of flesh and blood, not in impetuosity, and not in imagination; at that time, the wonderful details can be slowly discovered.