Even if some of these works contain utterly unachievable and wildly imaginative fictional architectural designs, collectors often think that as long as they employ a sea of construction teams for a millennium, then those fantasy kingdoms on earth, like a celestial kingdom, would truly appear before our eyes.
Lady Carol's painting style leans towards the former, while the entire structure of the building leans towards the realism of the latter.
Her brushwork structure is extremely precise and rigorous, like an architect well-versed in civil engineering.
In the composition of "Old Church on a Stormy Day," the distant thunderclouds are unstable, and the candlelight in the foreground is fleeting and elusive, except for the architectural main body of the church, which is stable and solid.
Over the past two months, through continuous copying, the help of Calligraphy and Painting Identification Skill, and discussions on writing a paper with Koizumi Katsuko, Gu Weijing gradually felt—
