He and It

After listening to his words, Zeus took the lead in expressing his position: I think I want to vote for humans. Although Apollo is my son, I cannot view their achievements in a biased manner. Obviously, even the violent demon god You can’t win my favor, but this young man’s painting is also an amazing achievement!”

Behind the Father of the Gods, except for Hera who abstained, Artemis who gave her vote to her brother, and Poseidon who was extremely disgusted with Echidna, the remaining gods all voted for Xie Ning gave him an overwhelming victory.

Apollo was speechless. He drank the wine in his glass and remained silent.

Xie Ning didn't feel much joy after winning the first game. His body and spirit were still tense, waiting for the next question.

Well, Zeus touched his chin, his divine eyes wandered around below, and he suddenly thought, I came up with an idea! The theme of the first game is grand imagery. In this question, Let's just pick something small. For example...

The God King stretched out his hand, put his index finger and thumb together, and pinched a round purple grape.

Grapes, Zeus said, I want you to create your own creations with the theme of 'grapes'.

After the first competition, on the way back, Aphrodite said in surprise: To be fair, I thought you would be very angry, Doros. After all, Apollo used perfunctory art to defraud you of the work you took so much pains to draw. Paintings.”

Even if I know that he will perfunctory me, I can't fool him back in the same way. Xie Ning said tiredly, Because he is the god of art, the genius among geniuses. Facing him, I have no qualifications to fool him. So, I'm going to You will basically lose the game.

The little Cupid flew around them and said with a smile: Your ability has made all the gods in the Pantheon stunned. They stood there in amazement. You can't belittle yourself and belittle yourself casually, Dolos!

Xie Ning shook her head and whispered: No, I'm serious. I will definitely lose in the next game. Just like he cheated me with his ultimate move in the first game, Apollo will definitely not prevaricate in the next game. He’s getting serious.”

Looking at the little cupid, he held on to the door frame tiredly and said, So, thank you for helping me before. I think... I need to have a good sleep for a while.

Chapter 166 The Snake of the Pharisees (32)

Grape.

Xie Ning bit her pen and racked her brains to think.

Before this, he never knew that the taste of starlight was cold and hard, like a piece of ice that would not melt, or a piece of slightly soft jade.

Grapes, how can I draw this?

Countless chaotic images flashed through his mind in an instant, from Xu Wei's Occasionally Dip Grapes in Ink to the red vineyards painted by Van Gogh in Arles; Qi Baishi's grapes are infested with lively and noisy bees and dragonflies. Erdan's grapes are so quiet that they are otherworldly, and the raised canvas seems to be dripping with frost and light.

Colors, lines, shades, light and shade... Xie Ning has painted a lot of grapes. The most common fruit model for still life exercises is apples. But how could he compete with a god?

He thought again of the painting painted by Apollo. Although the picture was empty and the content was barren, the natural and magical technique was something he had never seen in his life. Even if he wanted to imitate it, he didn't know how to reproduce it.

He drew a stroke gently, with the pen tip dipped in rich purple, and circled half of the solidified circle.

Compared with painters who have been famous for a long time, Xie Ning's advantage is that he has not yet developed his own style. No matter which famous artist he studies, he can rely on him. The disadvantage is also here - after celebrating his birthday this year, he just He is a twenty-two-year-old student who has never even climbed to the top of humankind. How can he compete with the best among gods?

Relax, he said to himself, you have no hope of winning this round, why not draw something less hard?

Xie Ning's hand trembled unconsciously, and the wet tip of the pen slightly left the paper, hovering at a distant height.

...No, he retorted to himself at the same time, he couldn't bow his head, how could one resign himself to fate and walk into that dark night? To create loosely in a duel is to indirectly acknowledge your opponent's power and submit to his dominance.

I was still so young and so vigorous... Even though I knew I had many shortcomings, I never acknowledged the strength of others. This is my weakness, and it is also my delusion that I will never admit defeat or give up. Without it, what else can hold my back?

Xie Ning pursed her lips tremblingly, made a heavy stroke, made a large and heavy fork on the paper, and then threw away the piece of waste paper.

He wrote the draft in a hurry. Because grapes are both too concrete and too abstract a subject, Xie Ning tried his best to choose expressions that enrich the plot. He had already drawn a lot of figurative things in the first session, so in the second session he decided to draw something down-to-earth, tacky.

Xie Ning painted a wine manor. With a memory that was strengthened a hundred times, he clearly reproduced the trellised grape vines, the brown-red land, and the hard workers rolling up their sleeves to pick grapes. Inspired by Chardin's mellow style, the grape bunches that turn from green to red are so full that they are about to burst, hanging on the branches like bunches of unbearable dreams.

Compared with the first one, which was about not eating, drinking, or sleeping, the second one contained many portraits, with completely different expressions and postures. Xie Ning stopped painting and spent more time, polishing it for four months, and felt that there was no Nothing could be improved, so I took this painting and came to the Pantheon again.

The gods came after hearing the news. Because Apollo lost to Echidena's lover in the first contest, the news had long been spread by the gods in the sky and the world. They soon gathered in the Pantheon and discussed it with great interest. The second round of competition.

Apollo will definitely never lose again, they said, but the skills that the boy possesses after tens of millions of years are really amazing!

Zeus sat on the throne, with the tall and majestic Queen Hera beside him. Themis, the goddess of justice, flew high above their heads and descended gracefully to the center of the temple.

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