"I myself support this kind of exchange in principle, I have always supported this kind of exchange, Professor Lin is not wrong, Huaguo's oil painting, whether it is talent or market, the process of integrating into the world will not be reversed, there is only fast and slow, in this case, embracing this process is a good choice. I believe that after all the changes in Europe, everyone should be more aware of our values, and that there is no choice between closing off and refusing to communicate. Dean Henry made his attitude clear.

Combined with the work of Tunit, and the views of the majority.

This exhibition, if there is no accident, can be facilitated.

Unexpectedly, about the question of Badanwang, one of them mentioned it, and then was scolded back, this person was not someone else, to the surprise of Lin Haven, it was Mr. Bruno - it looked much more pleasing to the eye than just now.

"Oil painting is oil painting, don't get those things into them. Bruno looked disgusted: "They made Chinese films miserable, every time they come to Cannes, they are all in the same tone, I don't understand what they are thinking." Now that they want to use oil paintings as a cover, do they think that Europeans are fools? I completely disagree with the setting of standards and restrictions on exhibitors, both supporters and opponents. ”

As Bruno spoke, his face changed from pleasing to pleasing to pleasing to the eye.

"If it's a Chinese film, it's fine, but if it's more exaggerated, it's easy to cause controversy - controversy outside of art, and it doesn't rule out that some people want to use this kind of controversy to get ahead, so I think to avoid this, the basic principles should be followed. Europe and China have been dealing with each other for so many years, and I believe you should all know this. ”

It's still a question of whether or not to ask for money.

Whether it is doing business with China or cultural exchanges, it is always different from in Europe.

This question is really clear to everyone, there is no controversy, and Lin Haven is also happy and relaxed in the accident.

Perhaps the most intense of the discussions was the style of the paintings.

Lin Haven's abhorrence of extreme abstraction and pop style is well known, and since he is one of the main organizers of the exhibition, it is impossible to say that he has done nothing on this point, but it is not surprising that even these people here are supporters of modernism, and there will be fierce controversy.

Unlike the scolding of Bruno just now, Lin Haven was exceptionally gentle at the moment.

It's so gentle that it's uncomfortable.

Chang Shuo understands very well that Lin Haiwen's second move is used here-he is going to work.

"Picasso's later works, as well as Dalí's, I don't appreciate them, but I don't find them worthless – how much they are worth is another question. But Thompley's "Blackboard", Pollock's "Number Five", Lehman's "Untitled" and so on, these famous works, these works that are galloping around the auction floor, I really think they are no different from garbage - I need to emphasize that I am talking about paintings, not painters, I believe that Pollock will be an unusual person full of ideas, but this does not change his paintings, it is a craft that does not have the connotation of painting, it is a very expensive craft, nothing more. ”

After making the basic foreshadowing, Lin Haven suddenly blinked and continued in a lower tone:

"And you all know that, as we often talk about the Western world and modernism, the fact that abstraction, although it was born in Europe, really developed and dominated the art of oil painting, and even the current situation of the madness, is not in Europe – but in the United States, the land of turtles. ”

A lot of people laughed.

This is an open secret that everyone will not proclaim very well: Lao Mei is a turtle.

Europe sees it this way, in fact, many Chinese people also see it this way, without their own civilization, 300 years of history, culture is called pluralism at best, and it is a hodgepodge at worst. Moreover, three meals a day are hamburgers, and people who eat them for a month are not turtles?

It's just that Lao Mei is too strong now, Europeans still have to rely on others to protect them, and Huaguo is also a little afraid of others, which makes people feel that Lao Mei is very high-end - in fact, it is a big nouveau riche, especially in the eyes of artists.

"Lao Mei does not have its own artistic heritage, not like Europe, nor like China, such as China, in our art market, Chinese painting, calligraphy, and gongbi have always occupied a dominant position, which is based on our own cultural inheritance. Naturally, they want to develop art, but following the steps of European immigrants, they are always picking up people's teeth and wisdom, and they can't show Lao Mei's own ability, so they chose abstraction, Kandinsky didn't catch up with the United States, but Mondrian went, and there were Pollock and others there, and they were ecstatic, wow, everyone was crazy, it's great.

And then what happened, everybody knows, Abstract Expressionism was born, and the center of Western art shifted from Paris to New York, and then the voices of Europe faded away, and when we talk about Western contemporary art, who can think of these schools and isms that originated in Europe?

Lin Haiwen's combination of vertical and horizontal techniques was straightforward and concise, which surprised Chang Shuo.

There is no trick to attack the heart, it is very clear, it depends on whether you Europeans can endure it, if you can, you will be a villain in vain, if not, then obediently enter my shell.

However, seeing the expressions of these people, Lin Haven understood that he had not taken the wrong path, if it was twenty years ago, when the former Soviet Union had just collapsed, the Europeans did not have the courage, they could secretly scold Lao Mei as a turtle, but they would not deviate from the Western world in action. Even before the financial crisis, the choice of Europeans was not necessarily yes.

But now it's really different, the United States is still so powerful, but the world is becoming more multipolar, and it is no secret that Europeans want to regain their right to speak on the world stage, and on many issues, they are trying to lead the world, at least influence the world.

How great is the attraction of the Second Renaissance?

Yes, the Second Renaissance, although Lin Haven did not mention this term, but all the European painters present coincidentally thought of this, the resurgence of classicism, figurative painting, and saying no to ghost painting - this is the Second Renaissance.

Renaissance, what a word that haunts Europeans.

“...... But we still need to work with Americans, don't we?" "Marco, a professor at Gao Mei and a neoclassical painter who is a fellow traveler to Chang Shuo, has already crossed the question of whether or not to kill abstractionism and jumped straight to how to do it.

Lin Haven glanced at them and smiled slightly: "In our country, there is a word called: united front. ”

The third move: the united front.

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