Cultivation items are hard to come by, and they may not appear in large auctions, nor may they be available in small auctions.

Just after a slight hesitation, Xiao Yao still decided to participate, "There is nothing to do the day after tomorrow, so let's go and take a look." ”

"This magic city is the top club in the magic capital, although you are not short of connections, but the entertainment facilities of this club are very complete, it is definitely a good choice to come and play occasionally, do you want to get a membership card too?" Zheng Xiaowu suggested.

"Then let's make one, maybe I'll use it sometime. ”

Xiao Yao has more and more properties in the magic capital, and there is also Fang Suxi's girlfriend, it is inevitable that when there are guests to entertain, the magic city should be a good choice.

With Xiao Yao's identity and Zheng Xiaowu's introducer, Xiao Yao will naturally not have any obstacles to joining the Demon City.

Zheng Xiaowu passed the news to the person in charge of the Demon City, Xiao Yao didn't even need to go to the club, and the manager of the Demon City came to apply for his membership card in person.

After all the formalities were completed, the manager of the club did not leave, but continued: "President Xiao, the auction jointly organized by the club and the auction company will officially start the day after tomorrow, I heard Mr. Zheng say that you are also ready to participate, can you be sure now? ”

"Then send me the invitation, I should be able to participate. ”

"It's great and it's an absolute pleasure to have a business leader like you at our auction. After a word of flattery, the manager of the club changed his words, "President Xiao, you are participating in our auction for the first time, and you have just become our senior member, you must support us." ”

"Since I am already a member of your club, of course I will support your work. Xiao Yao said casually.

"Thank you so much!" said the club manager with an excited face, "With your support, I will definitely have a lot of face in front of other members in the future." I heard Mr. Zheng say that you are one of the few collectors in China, I don't know if you have any collections that need to be exchanged and replaced? If so, can you support our auction this time? The collection collected in this auction is a bit small, especially the lack of heavyweight finale lots, if President Xiao can support my work, then my work will be easy. ”

"As soon as you open your mouth, it's the finale, don't you think too highly of me?" Xiao Yao didn't answer, but asked rhetorically.

"You are the president of the Easy Club, with your identity, this item sent for auction must be extraordinary, and the price must not be low, if you can't let this lot be auctioned finale, then I am ignorant. The manager of the club said thoughtfully.

"Being held so high by you, if I can't come up with something good, I really don't have a good face. Wait a minute, I'll get you something. ”

Although the manager of the club said flattering words, with Xiao Yao's identity, the thing sent for auction really can't be too bad, otherwise, it will indeed discredit his identity.

It didn't take long for Xiao Yao to take out an oil painting.

The size of this oil painting is relatively large, and it looks like it is 1.8 meters wide and 2.3 meters long.

Xiao Yao hung up the painting, and the club manager saw the content of the oil painting clearly.

The first time I saw this painting, the clubhouse manager's face showed a look of surprise!

This painting is so recognizable that it turned out to be Zhang Xiaogang's "Bloodline: Big Family".

Zhang Xiaogang is one of the representatives of modern painters, and his works are the best embodiment of the sophisticated Chinese situation contained in contemporary art.

Since the mid-90s, he has used the style of modern Chinese pop art to express the face-painted portraits of the revolutionary era, conveying the collective psychological memories and emotions of the times. This typical presentation and simulation of society, collective, family, and blood is a kind of reinterpretation, which is from the perspective of art, emotion, and life, and therefore has a strong contemporary significance.

The figures in this work are beautiful and idealized, and the protagonists are dignified and dignified to create an image that will be passed on to future generations.

Like the portrait photographs of the early studio, the blemishes on each person's face are washed and cleared so that they are perfectly pure...... These figures represent the masses of today. As a schema, these "masses" have transcended the canvas and become a symbol of the passage of time.

Zhang Xiaogang belongs to that era of dark blue and army green, and also represents the keenest eye of that era that has passed.

"Bloodline: Big Family No. 3" happens to be the best witness to history!

The bloodline series was born in Kunming in the summer of 1993, and its first exhibition was the exhibition "Chinese Art in the Nineties: Chinese Experience" at the Sichuan Art Museum in Chengdu in December of the same year.

Curated by critic Wang Lin, the exhibition features Zhang Xiaogang, Mao Xuhui, Ye Yongqing, Wang Chuan and Zhou Chunya. These artists are all members of the Southwest Art Research Association, a new wave art group. In this exhibition, Zhang Xiaogang exhibits ten works, including a "Family Portrait".

The painting depicts a family of three in a realistic way, which probably represents the artist's own family. The emaciated figure in this work already bears a resemblance to Blood: The Family, and the patches of light on the figure's face also foresee the later color-changing light lines, but the shading of the background is not as detailed as in the later works. The work, which was later titled "Bloodline: Family Portrait", was collected by the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, and it was the first time that Zhang Xiaogang's work became part of the collection of an international art institution.

Xiao Yao is a personal favorite of Zhang Xiaogang's works, and he believes that if he wants to find works that echo modern history in contemporary Chinese art, it is impossible to avoid the important position of "Blood: Big Family" in contemporary Chinese art.

In 1994, this series represented contemporary China in major international exhibitions in the West, including the São Paulo Biennale and the Venice Biennale, and the artist recorded the memories of a generation of Chinese with the trauma of the past based on photographs from the Wen period.

The series "Bloodline: Big Family" marks the artist's resolute abandonment of expressionism and consciously looking for a face representing the Chinese on the canvas, moving from the individual to the nation, from the myth of personal existence to the gaze of national history, showing the artist's introspective style of leaving the early expressionism and surrealist style, which has become the most important milestone in Zhang Xiaogang's creative career and has become a recurring motif in his future creations.