56. Chapter 56 The Golden Dawn
Chapter 56 The Golden Dawn
–Middle.
Just by listening to the comments on the first painting, Janice immediately understood Ivars’ aesthetic tendencies.
Middlebrow was not a derogatory term. It was the way of beauty that she herself practiced.
The way of beauty would affect herself on a material level, so that her own image and temperament would gradually converge with her ideal of “supreme beauty”. Yanis was not too tall among the humans, nor too short among the elves; her stature also blurred the male and female features, and her face and temperament were neither mature nor young.
Because the “middle of the road aesthetic” is the most popular aesthetic.
This is Janice’s personal understanding of the “Way of Beauty”. It is also the reason why she walks on the path of balance.
Unlike those professional critics of Iris who are harsh in their words and have a sharp eye – they can always find some points that even Janice herself can’t think of, some details that she herself doesn’t care about, immersing herself in the emptiness and saying something to herself.
A creator turns inspiration into a work, and there’s bound to be attrition involved.
After all, the viewer could not really enter the world of the painting, could not really put himself in the shoes of the artist’s thoughts and feelings when he created the work.
They can only appreciate the work with their own knowledge and understanding.
True “beauty” has commonality and can move people of different races, genders, origins, ages and cultures. But when it comes to the “reason for feeling beauty”, the answer will be different for each person.
It is not so much that they feel the beauty in the artwork, but rather that they see their own reflection in the artwork.
Their own life, their own fantasies, their own fears, their own dreams.
Therefore, the answers given by the viewers of the paintings are more or less inclined.
Janice likes to ask other people what they think of her paintings. Because she herself is the creator, she knows what the standard answer is as a “benchmark”.
By asking, she could find out if the other person had real talent, and how much skill and talent they had. She could also analyze her own personality, experience and even her own waywardness from the evaluations spewed out by the other person who had racked his or her brain.
It was as if she was seeing the results of one condensed life export after another from these comments. It was a psychological test of sorts, and she delighted in it.
–But the answer given by Ivars surprised her a little.
His comments were not tainted with much that was personal to him.
Objective and fair enough, but at the same time not lacking in sentimentality. He was outspoken about the shortcomings caused by her immature skills, and would also appropriately praise the compliments that she had carefully laid out, but which went unnoticed.
It’s like a summarized answer from another self …… a more mature self from the future.
There is no doubt that Ivars is his “soulmate”.
“…… Are you interested in taking the path of the Way of Beauty?”
Yanis couldn’t help but ask, “I think you might be able to become the human who has traveled the furthest on the Path of Beauty.”
“Huh?”
Isabelle, who was at the side, was startled for a moment and looked at her teacher in surprise.
She had never seen her teacher give such a high evaluation to someone!
The teacher’s evaluation of herself could even be considered low!
Janice’s original words at the time were, “With your talent, it’s impossible for any pitchfork of the Beauty Pathway to arrive at the limit, even as a ‘chanter’. Your choice of ‘All Talent’ is a wise one. If you were to pursue the pinnacle of singing skill, you would only go mad before you arrived.”
But for some reason, seeing her teacher approve of Aywas so much, she couldn’t afford to be half jealous in her heart.
There was only a kind of delight, with a subtle sense of pride.
It was as if the friend she had found with great difficulty and brought home was given high praise by her parents.
–And the boy was raised in my arms!
Isabel whispered in her mind.
She didn’t dare to say it out loud, because she was afraid of being scolded – of course she knew that Ivars had been raised by Professor Moriarty, and she also knew that she had only played the role of Ivars’ mother once in a dream. But she couldn’t quite get out of the movie, and she still couldn’t forget the memories of the dream.
So, this is just what she said to herself.
It was not so much to deceive herself as it was to keep from forgetting.
On the other hand, Janice’s mood was subtle.
She had taken Isabel as her disciple, partly because she felt the “beauty” in Isabel and thought she was cute enough, and partly because she was close friends with Queen Sofia.
The first time they met was sixty years ago, when Queen Sofia had just succeeded to the throne.
She was still a lively teenager, younger than Isabel is today.
However, her personality was completely different or even the opposite of Isabel’s – Sophia was full of vigor when she was young, extremely outgoing and approachable. She would often sneak out of the palace after dressing up and putting on makeup to go to the theater to watch a play; or she would enter the school in schoolgirl’s clothes and ask the other students for their comments on various political decrees as a schoolgirl.
It was the first time Janice came to Avalon to open a painting exhibition. At her own exhibition, she met the young Queen Sophia. And marveled at the beauty and vitality of this lovely young woman, she wanted to paint a picture of her on the spot.
They painted and chatted at the same time. As a result, just as Janice was halfway through her painting, the queen’s own guards rushed over.
It was then that Janice realized that this girl, who looked younger than herself, was the new queen of the country.
Sophia was extremely cheerful and not bound by tradition.
She disdained many of the rules and made numerous reforms, firmly abolishing many traditions that now seemed outdated – such as torture that was harsher than the death penalty, the custom that women could not become knights, the old law that knights’ families could only be imprisoned and not executed. …… also opened up the teaching and learning of some of the “forbidden arts” for the prosperity of the kingdom. The development of Avalon’s alchemy, art, preservation, medicine, and the professions of interpreters and detectives of the Wisdom Path all began with Queen Sophia.
Janis spent twenty years with this enlightened and young queen before leaving her and continuing her own travels around the world.
Now she had returned to Avalon and taken Isabel on as a student simply because she saw in Isabel the shadow of her former best friend. But in truth, she does not see Isabel as a successor to her own mantle.
Art required a lot of time to accumulate. The five times life expectancy difference between humans and elves was an insurmountable gap in the field of art.
However, Ivars was different.
Janice keenly perceived a beauty in him that was similar to her own.
He was handsome and composed, which was undoubtedly a beauty belonging to men, but at the same time he had a feminine sensitivity and delicacy; his temperament was mature and he acted in a steady manner, but he had the vigor of a young man; he walked the path of devotion as a pastor, but Janice also keenly captured that he had an intangible arrogance towards the world that was superior to him.
This feeling of contradiction and equilibrium made Janice feel as if she had seen another version of herself.
Similar but different from himself-
Aiwas heard this, but couldn’t help but be dumbfounded.
Was this coincidence not.
Guess what, Sherlock just said yesterday that I am more suitable for the wisdom path. As a result, you, Master, said today that I am suitable for the Way of Beauty …… Why don t you two fight?
I don’t think so, I’m afraid Sherlock will be killed.
After Ivars politely declined, Yanis once again recommended a round of the Beauty Pathway. And after Ivars refused for the second time, she did not force it.
After all, walking on the Way requires not only corresponding talents, but also some obsessions.
If you don’t want to, you can’t force yourself.
If one is forced to walk on a path that one does not recognize or like, one will one day stray from the path. Then everything would be in vain.
Janice just felt sorry.
Aiwas clearly had the talent for the path of beauty, but had no desire to pursue it. If he had been able to enter the Way of Beauty path, he would definitely have a much brighter future than the Way of Devotion path. There was a high probability that he could arrive at the fifth energy level just like her, close to the mortal limit.
And considering the short lifespan of humans, his talents might be even better than her own.
Thinking about this, she made a decision.
“Since you like my painting so much,” Janice said softly, “then I’ll give you The Golden Dawn.”
Upon hearing this, Aywas’s eyes widened suddenly and he felt his scalp tingle.
Even Princess Isabel couldn’t help but suck in a breath of cold air, not daring to say a word.
Ivars knew how much Yanis liked this painting – among those three paintings, “Visiting the Temple of Akropolis” was Yanis’ first magic painting, which was her inspiration to herself who was determined to walk on the path of transcendence, and also hid her teenage ambition of “comparing herself to Apostle Hippocrates”; while “The Crystal Sea” was her teenage ambition of “comparing herself to Apostle Hippocrates”; and “The Crystal Sea” was her teenage ambition of “comparing herself to Apostle Hippocrates”. The Crystal Sea is her vision of the end of the world, a gift to her best friend Sophia, who was unable to leave the Glass Island and never had the chance to see how beautiful the scene was. …… is the conclusion of her journey around the world, and the culmination of her friendship.
And Golden Dawn is the pinnacle of her pure skill.
It is the painting she painted when she saw people worshiping the sun in the Horus Empire, through the shock of watching the sunrise spectacle. It was the best painting she could do without involving the power of the Way.
From this painting onward, her paintings have a mysterious power to change reality. This is the last painting that can flow and be viewed by all mortals, and it is also the most highly rated of all of Janice’s paintings.
It is undoubtedly an heirloom quality work. Its value is incalculable.
–What kind of person gives something like this away on their first meeting with someone?
“Of course, it can’t be considered completely gratuitous ……”
It was only when Janice’s next words came out that Aiwas finally sighed in relief.
It was okay, it was good to have a request. I’m afraid of not having a request – favor debts are the hardest to pay back, especially this kind of troublesome favor where it’s hard to say exactly how much it’s worth.
But when he heard Janice’s request, Ayworth’s expression became more subtle.
“You’re a genius, Aiwas. I believe that you will be able to develop well on the path of devotion …… Even if you have only just stepped into Transcendence now, the promotion speed must be very fast.
“As you can see, my student Isabel is a somewhat soft girl. I’m not very comfortable with her advancement ceremony.
“When you are performing the second advancement ceremony, or the third advancement ceremony, if you have already caught up with Isabel …… can you wait for her a little bit and advance with her? Of course, the full moon ceremony will do ……”
This request is almost tantamount to no request at all.
Bringing a friend in the full moon ceremony and blocking an enemy in the new moon ceremony was basically considered a convention in the transcendental world.
It could only be described as going along for the ride.
Having friends with the same progress and other paths would have a pretty good advantage on the path of Transcendence……. Although Yanis said that she only had to help Isabel once, as long as her advancement speed wasn’t too much slower than Ivars, this was basically a parent stepping in to personally make an appointment with a regular team.
After all, together match into this, the probability of winning is already greater than single row, there is a person who can be absolutely trusted, the advantage is very big. Therefore, Ivars had no reason to refuse.
Just put on Ai Hua Si, there is slightly a not too small problem.
“…… Do I have to find an opportunity to find Her Highness to show her cards first?” He thought in the bottom of his heart.
If I enter this house and find out that I’m her “Mr. Fox”…… will it not have a good effect on the little girl’s psyche?
Aiwas fell into deep thought.
(End of chapter)