In the past two days, the illustrations in the PEP mathematics textbook, which was very popular on the Internet, caused controversy and were searched by fire. Some netizens said that the illustrations have strange eyes and no beauty.
Not to mention seeing the picture below, I have an indescribable feeling that my eyes are carefully drawn. What's wrong with this? Am I awake or am I stupid?
At first, I wanted to laugh. Later, I thought, maybe the artist's aesthetic is too strange. Perhaps the author wants to express naive children, but only highlights stupidity, so the rendering effect of the painting is very poor. As a result, I found that both children and adults have such "sharp" eyes
One day after the netizen vomited, the designer said in an interview that this is his feeling and aesthetics. So we can only say that every artist has his own uniqueness. We can understand Van Gogh's accomplishments and Picasso's unconstrained style, but this style of painting really needs to be digested.
This reminds me of an interesting thing that the famous painter Picasso said:
I/kloc-could draw as well as Raphael when I was 0/4 years old, and then I spent my whole life learning to draw like a child.
As an artist, the stranger he paints, the more he shows his basic skills and has his own style. If the creator just lives in his own world, we may not appreciate his vision, but we may admire his innovative spirit. However, children's textbooks should have a wider audience, not a minority aesthetic, so they should conform to the public aesthetic.
According to online voting statistics, more than three-quarters of people think that illustration seriously affects students' aesthetic growth, which shows that most people can't accept this style of painting.
Besides, children are the flowers of the motherland and are accepting the age of things. Some subtle differences may change the trajectory of a child's life. At the right moment, I asked my niece in primary school what she thought of this style of painting. She said that this character's eyes are a little strange, and in her opinion, a lively, cheerful and energetic image is more suitable for reading. This image vomited by many netizens does not conform to her aesthetics, and of course it does not conform to the aesthetics of most children.
I don't know if anyone remembers an article by Mr. Lu Xun in the primary school textbook, named "Young Runtu", which contains an illustration of Runtu, which can be remembered by people who have stood for 30 years. Holding a steel fork, glaring at Yan. The picture may not be very clear, but you can clearly feel the psychological activities of Runtu at that time. This painting is simply a classic.
But we are happy that:
On May 26th, People's Education Society said that it had begun to revise the illustrations.
I hope the newly published illustrations can bring us the familiar flavor of that year, so that every child can grow up healthily and happily!