As a collector, let's just say it, Zhang Nan rarely uses "most" to express a certain thing. But for Repin www.biquge.info Zhang Nan directly said that he was the greatest Russian realist painter at the end of the 19th century!

There are many famous Russian painters of the same period, but Zhang Nan personally believes that Repin is the most outstanding one among them!

Ilya Efimovich Repin, born in 1844 and died in 1930, was an important representative of the itinerant exhibition school.

Repin began his studies at the St. Petersburg Academy of Fine Arts in Tsarist Russia, and from 1873 to 1876 he traveled to Italy and France, where he studied classical and modern European art.

After returning to China, Repin painted diligently, creating a large number of historical paintings, genre paintings and portraits, the themes of which generally depicted the poverty and misery of the people and their desire for a better life.

Because his father was an officer in the cantonment army of Tsarist Russia, Repin was able to see the miserable living conditions of the lower serfs, peasants, and a large number of prisoners in Russia at that time.

The experiences of childhood and adolescence influenced Repin and his style of work.

His representative works include "The Slender Man on the Volga", "The Arrest of the Propagandist", "The Unexpected Return", "The Reply of the Chaporosh to the Sultan of Turkey" and "Tolstoy......

There are many possibilities in Repin's paintings, such as Xiang Weirong and Guan Xingquan, which are unknown to Orientals, but his "Slender Man on the Volga" is so famous that it appears in Chinese textbooks!

When Xiang Weirong was in the first and second grades of primary school, when China's relations with the Soviet Union were still in the honeymoon period, he knew about the painting.

Turning over the serfs and singing, the Chinese Soviet Union is the same, it is too meaningful.

As for Guan Xingquan, even if China and the Soviet Union even fought each other in the more than 20 years since the beginning of the sixties, many Chinese publications still have the figure of "The Slender Man on the Volga", and the reason can be understood by looking at what he painted: under the scorching sun and the scorching heat, on the long barren beach, a group of ragged slender men dragged the cargo ship and marched forward with heavy steps, and a low trumpet was intertwined with the sorrow of the river in the hot summer heat......

So when Zhang Nan said Repin's name just now, his brother-in-law immediately asked if it was the Repin of "The Slender Man on the Volga": the painting of a great painter, and the size of the painting is so huge, of course this painting is amazing!

Alyosha will be attached to look at paintings, he is a real Russian, his grandfather became a native of Huaxia, and he has a stronger sense of the masterpieces of Russian painters.

"Boss, what's the name of this painting?"

Facing Alyosha with a curious face, Zhang Nan grabbed his hair, "I don't know, I'm not impressed." ”

The other three immediately looked confused!

Zhang Nan saw this situation and said helplessly: "I really don't know." The name of this oil painting is either given by the painter himself, and the name has been spread very early, and this painting is obviously not among them, at least it is definitely not the kind that is very famous.

There is also the kind that was given by later people, but the name given by the painter was replaced.

For example, Rembrandt has a very famous "Night Watch", in fact, the original painting was about daytime events, but later because of the problems of later people to preserve the paintings, the color of the picture became darker, and everyone thought that the painting was about the night events, and this name was called the Night Watch.

But this Repin's painting style is right, this signature is right, and the canvas and frame are all right, but I just haven't heard of this painting before, and God knows what it's called.

I may have given it a name that we remember, but it would be better to check the information, I can't tell whether Repin's Cossacks were on the march or going to which party, and the painter's creation of such a large-format oil painting was definitely not a whim, but should have a specific historical background and reason. ”

Alyosha was still squatting, and asked again: "Could it be the Great Patriotic War, where the Germans snatched it from the Soviet Union?"

Zhang Nan shook his head and said, "I prefer to loot from other countries in Europe, even if it was originally in the German Empire.

Most of the Western world was collecting his paintings during Repin's lifetime, and he was not one of the unlucky painters who became famous after his death.

And he spent his last years in Finland, because in 1899 Repin bought a manor house as his home, which was located in a special location, in the jungle on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, 40 kilometers from St. Petersburg.

After the October Revolution, it became the territory of Finland, and although Lenin and Voroshilov had graciously invited him to return home, Repin did not go to the Soviet Union until he was old and sick, and eventually died in Finland.

However, after the Soviet-Finnish war, it became Soviet territory again.

You see, even Lenin wanted him to return to Russia, and it is not surprising that his paintings appeared anywhere in Europe at that time, who made him famous!

And if the German army snatched it from the Soviet Union during World War II, the Soviet Union would definitely make the whole world know about this painting, and it should not be the Soviet Union. ”

Zhang Nan finished speaking, and the painting was also finished, so he hurriedly wrapped it up properly.

Alyosha also gestured, Zhang Nan knew what he was thinking.

"When it's time to move the paintings, you help Thomas unload the doors on both sides of the helicopter at the resort, so that it should be able to be tucked horizontally. ”

It doesn't matter if the two ends protrude, just carry it away.

At this time, Xiang Weirong used a flashlight to shine on the few large frames closest to the rock wall, and said: "Those ones are more troublesome, I don't know if I can stuff them in if the door is removed." ”

The height of those frames looks more than two meters, and although the length is still invisible, it is estimated that three or four meters is at least!

Zhang Nan shrugged his shoulders, "Put it diagonally, if the size is still out of the standard, you can't get in, so you can only disassemble the frame and transport it, and there is no way." ”

Alyosha said: "Boss, these paintings are actually large, but they are not heavy, I think they can be lifted." ”

"That's fine, it's okay to take it apart, and I'll discuss it with Thomas in the evening to see how to get it right." ”

The four of them worked together to repackage the painting tentatively named "Cossack" and put it aside, and directly Zhang Nan also asked Guan Xingquan and Alyosha to help, and stood high and looked at the situation inside.

As soon as he came, he complained: "There are really marble statues inside, I think there are at least five or six hundred catties each, and it is a big problem to turn over those two piles of rocks." ”

You don't need to ask those big guys who weigh a few hundred pounds and look at least life-tall if they are expensive, and if the Nazis can hide them, there will be no stalls!

Good things have to find a way to get away.

Guan Xingquan said: "The specific gravity of marble is generally less than 3, so we simply calculate it 3." If it is a real person tall, the statue part alone is at least 450 catties, and a person who is not careful has six or seven hundred catties is also a certain amount. The ones I saw last time in Italy, one stronger than the other, and the muscles can be compared with Alyosha.

With the addition of the base, don't expect to be carried by manpower over those two piles of rubble, unless you smash open the lifting ......."

It is impossible for Zhang Nan to transport artworks at the cost of destruction, except for the time when he set fire to Taklamakan and generally does not do this kind of destruction!

Guan Xingquan knew this, and he just denied the possibility of manpower handling.

Things are too heavy and troublesome outside, but don't worry in the mine: those two small four-wheeled carts don't look thin, and half a ton of cargo won't collapse if they are pressed down.

"Let's wait until the rest of the stuff is moved, what if that thing is hollow?"

As soon as Zhang Nan finished speaking, the four of them laughed rarely.

"Hollow marble statue" can be regarded as Zhang Nan's idea!

Xiang Weirong looked at the time, "Let's go, let's eat." ”

Passing by the four big silver ingots outside against the rock wall, Zhang Nan kicked one of them: "Two hundred kilograms each, this one is not afraid of bumps, wrap the canvas casually, bump and bump into a small matter, and I will give 100,000 US dollars when you carry one out." ”

As he spoke, he patted Alyosha on the shoulder, with a "I am optimistic about you" expression.

Xiang Weirong leaned over and looked at the five big guys, and sighed a little: "It's really old." ”

"What's wrong, brother-in-law?"

Xiang Weirong is 36 years old this year, although he has passed the years when he was the strongest man, he is definitely not old!

Xiang Weirong smiled and said: "In 69, when the reservoir was repaired, I was only eighteen years old that year, and I went to work for two months.

There is a scale in the construction site, which is halfway from the soil to the dam, which can weigh 400 catties. At that time, the most important thing was to win the red flag, which manpower was big, if a load of soil felt that the weight was enough to weigh there, basically the burden of the strong man of each production team to win the red flag was about three hundred and seventy-eight, and whoever had the heaviest red flag was in which production team. ”

Speaking of this Wei Rong, his tone was a little aftertaste, "The whole journey is about more than 200 meters, and I took the red flag back on the first day." ”

"How much?"

"390 pounds. ”

Xiang Weirong is barefoot and 1.75 meters tall, and his weight is about 70 kilograms.

"It's not over yet, the next day I got used to the first load first, and I carried the scale on the second load. ”

Alyosha didn't understand the meaning of this sentence, Zhang Nan explained: It can weigh 400 catties, if the things on it are too heavy and beyond the weighing range, it can't be weighed, then it is called carrying!

18 years old has this strength, cow!

I haven't heard my brother-in-law say this before, and he is not a person who likes to brag and show off.

But I didn't expect my brother-in-law to smile wryly: "My dad knew about this at night, and he was knocked on the head a few times when he went back!"

"Afraid you'll get hurt?"

"Not only this, but in the future, I will have to hunch on my back, and some people will be shortened, but I was as tall as I am now, and I was definitely okay. ”

Among the four, Xiang Weirong is the shortest, but in the sixties and seventies, he is one meter and seventy-five meters tall, which is a young man!

"If two lads like me could carry this thing away casually, not now. ”

After the brother-in-law finished sighing, Alyosha said: "There is always a way for four people to go together, anyway, it's not porcelain that is not afraid of bumping." ”

The three of them were about to leave, but they didn't expect the brother-in-law to say again: "It's not enough to let my dad knock two bags that time, and it's even more unlucky on the third day!"

"What's the matter?"

"Spread the word, originally the dam was the main force of the young commandos during that time, but the stick boy of our production team blew too much cowhide in the construction site, and other villages were not convinced.

Anan, you know, isn't there a three-acre building at the back of our village? ”

"Yes, it's a pretty big village. ”

"In their village, we specially found a forty-year-old guy, and we used to call him an old cow. People have such high power, but this person is horizontally long, which is obviously a strong man bullying the young!

I don't know which guy went to find a scale again, and two 400-pound ones were put on one and carried them. ”

Zhang Nan looked confused, "Is he still human?"

"Not a cow anyway. That guy wasn't actually a farmer anymore, and it seemed like he'd been burying power poles. A thousand catties of a telephone pole, more than a dozen people carried it, he made a bet with others, let people set it up and then pin it with a green wooden pole, and walked more than 100 meters in one breath!"

"Not people! Definitely not people. "Zhang Nan would be too surprised.

Guan Xingquan asked, "What about that person now?"

"It seems to be long gone, I heard that he was sick, but I don't know the specifics, anyway, I haven't heard of him since I came back from being a soldier.

So, don't be too desperate when you're young, otherwise you'll suffer a lot when you're old. ”

Zhang Nan nodded: "Be low-key, otherwise you will die early!"