"Vincent van Gogh and Leonardo da Vinci," Mu Daxian said. "There probably weren't any other historical figures with those names."
"But they... weren't even from the same era, were they?" Mao Feiyang knew nothing about history, much less European art history.
As far as general knowledge went, he only remembered that van Gogh was the one who painted Sunflowers and The Starry Night, while da Vinci seemed to be a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle.
"They lived four hundred years apart," Mu Daxian explained.
Mao Feiyang's brain struggled to keep up. "Wait, even if that's true... I looked it up online before, and construction on S City University apparently started in X999. The university has only existed for a little over twenty years. How could it have anything to do with van Gogh?"
Mu Daxian smiled. "The Art Building was only incorporated into S City University's grounds later. You've heard of universities merging with other universities for various reasons, then becoming some affiliated college of the university they merged into, haven't you?"
"Isn't that easy enough to understand?"
Mao Feiyang paused. "I guess that does happen..."
"Van Gogh... had an unrivaled mastery of color," Mu Daxian said calmly. "His understanding of 'color' surpassed that of ordinary people, and because of that, supernatural powers tormented him throughout his life..."
"It takes talent to touch supernatural powers, but at the same time, that talent is a curse."
"He spent his life in pain and torment, yet despite that, he retained a clear sense of self and a love of life..."
"The Starry Night was a work he created under pressure beyond our comprehension, depicting his impressions of supernatural powers."
"The real Starry Night is inside the Art Building's Stargazing Platform. It's ten times larger than the version known to the world, painted right