Chapter 105 Picture-in-Picture (Middle) Song Jun saw that the old man was angry, and hurriedly said: "Grandpa Fang, don't be angry, don't be angry, why are you more angry than my grandfather, listen to my explanation." ”

"Explain, what's the explanation? Your grandfather won't let you take this painting to me to frame it, it should be your kid's own idea, right? I said that you kid is not short of these money, there is no need to fool people with what I framed. ”

The old man's anger has not diminished at all, you know, framing and calligraphy and painting, have always complemented each other, usually said "three points of painting and seven points of mounting", a calligraphy and painting, if after the contemporary framing master, after taking out, it can really fool a lot of people who have just entered the collection.

Mr. Fu Baoshi, a famous painter in modern times, once said in the article "The Difficulty of Mounting" published in the People's Daily on January 3, 1957: "As a work of art, in addition to the artistic level of the picture determines the painter, framing is the most important level", which shows the importance of calligraphy and painting mounting in the entire art of painting and calligraphy.

It's just that before the liberation, the status of the framing masters was relatively low, which also led to the lack of talents in the framing industry, and the framing skills that had been passed down for more than 1,500 years were almost lost.

And the old man Fang, in the entire domestic painting and calligraphy framing industry, belong to the Taishan Beidou-style characters, there are countless apprentices and grandchildren, it is to be framed by his own hands of the calligraphy and paintings, are expensive genuine works, even if this Tang Bohu's "Li Duanduantu" is a fake, if it is framed by the old man himself, then after taking it out, maybe it can be sold as a genuine hand.

"Grandpa Fang, this painting is my little brother's, he just wants to reframe it, hang it in his own home, absolutely no resale meaning under your old signboard, you see, the shaft rod of this painting is very poor, it is no longer suitable for hanging in the hall, I don't think this is a trivial matter, it is just a matter of effort for you, if you are not happy, we will not frame it." ”

Song Jun was very unhappy after eating, and he was already secretly regretting it, he knew that he would find a framing master at random, so why bother to provoke this old man.

"What you said is true?" Old Man Fang's face was slightly pale, and he looked at Song Jun and asked.

"Grandpa Fang, how dare I lie to you, you have a phone call, the old man in my family will not break my legs. ”

After hearing Song Jun's words, Old Man Fang looked at Zhuang Rui with his eyes, he had lived for such a long time and read countless people, so he could naturally see that Zhuang Rui was not the kind of person who cheated and cheated, and the anger in his heart slowly subsided.

"Young man, the price of my framed paintings and calligraphy is very high, the painting you bought, the brushwork is poor, and the artistic conception is completely empty, it is better to go to the bookstore to buy a print and hang it at home, if you want me to frame it, but you can't draw it." ”

The meaning of Old Man Fang's words is already shirking, such a fake work can no longer be fake, if it is framed by his hand, it will be passed out, but it will make people laugh.

"Grandpa Fang, I also know that this painting is fake, but since I bought it, I can't burn it as waste paper, I just want to replace these two axles, and I can hang them. ”

Zhuang Rui pretended to be very casual, pointing to the painting spread on the table and said, in fact, he was already very anxious, originally according to his guess, the old man promised to frame, naturally in the process, you can find the painting in the painting.

But what Zhuang Rui didn't expect was that after the old man took a look at the authenticity of the painting, he was not willing to make a move at all, and he didn't even take a second look at the painting.

"Oh?"

Old Man Fang replied noncommittally, but his eyes followed Zhuang Rui's fingers and looked at the shaft rod of the painting, and then his mouth commented, "This heavenly pole and the shaft head are made of wood, but the materials are too poor, look at the time of this painting, it should be imitated in the Republic of China, it has only been a few decades and is about to decay, I really don't understand, such a painting will also be framed, hey?!!!"

As the old man Fang spoke, his eyes, which were originally half-squinted, suddenly widened, and a suspicious cry came out of his mouth, and he walked to the table in one step, his movements were so agile that he didn't look like an old man in his eighties at all.

"This ...... This is our Wu costume handiwork, it's actually an antique costume pool, who has nothing to do with it, to frame this broken painting?"

As he spoke, Old Man Fang put on a pair of reading glasses, and began to carefully look at the frame of the painting, his mouth was still muttering, and he heard Zhuang Rui on the side a little inexplicable.

Song Jun had a certain understanding of framing, and after explaining to Zhuang Rui, Zhuang Rui understood the meaning of Old Man Fang's words.

Originally, Su Yang two places framed this industry, after hundreds of years of the Ming and Qing dynasties, inherited from the past and the future, the famous pool of the whole country, collectively referred to as Wu costumes, which is divided into several categories, specially framed red and white vertical axis couplets, specially for weddings and funerals, called "red gang".

Those who specialize in mounting ordinary calligraphy and painting are called "Xingbang", and in Suzhou, Shanghai, and Yangzhou before liberation, they can be called decorative arts, and those that are specially designed for famous calligraphers and painters and collectors to frame precious calligraphy and painting are called "antique decoration pools".

Most of the artists who can do the "antique costume pool" are old artists with superb skills, even before the liberation, there are only a handful of such people, most of the old man Fang knows it, and now he suddenly sees such a fake painting of the "antique costume pool", no wonder he lost his mind.

Because the old man had already concluded in his heart that the framing of this painting must have come from the hand of a certain framing master before liberation, but why he used such a complex and costly framing technique to frame a fake painting, which made the old man Fang puzzled.

Old Man Fang took off his gloves, took out a magnifying glass, carefully looked at the painting from beginning to end, and touched the material of the painting scroll with his hand, and after more than ten minutes, he took off his eyes and sat back on the chair, but he frowned and said nothing.

The old man will really wonder in his heart, how to look at this painting, it is a fake, but the process of its framing is "antique pool", and there is a problem in this, the materials used in the general "antique pool", whether it is a sky pole, a ground pole, a wooden pole, a paper tube, a shaft head, these things, will be a good selection of materials, before the liberation, the shaft head used in the "antique pool" is even made of precious sandalwood.

There are two questions that make the old man entangled, the first is that since the most complicated framing process is used, why do you use these relatively poor materials? The reason why the old man didn't look at it carefully just now is also because the material is so poor, he didn't think that this painting uses the technique of "antique decoration pool", and the second is why he spent so much effort to frame such a fake.

No matter in which industry, the people who can do the top must be some people with extremely persistent personalities, and the old man is no exception, although he is over eighty years old, he is still frowning and thinking hard, trying to figure out what kind of mentality this framing master was in to frame this work.

"Song boy, where did you get this painting from?"

Old Man Fang spoke up and asked Song Jun, who was a little inexplicable on the side, just now Song Jun also walked to the table and looked at this painting, it is indeed a fake, it can be seen from the paper, it will not exceed the Republic of China period.

"Grandpa Fang, I said it, this painting is not mine. Song Jun replied with some tears and laughter.

"Oh, by the way, it's this young man, what do you call it, young man, can you tell me the origin of this painting?"

From the moment he entered this room, Old Man Fang didn't remember to ask Zhuang Rui's name until now, but Zhuang Rui was not angry, anyone who lived to be over eighty years old would probably not be interested in asking the names of everyone he had ever met.

Zhuang Rui introduced himself, and then told him about the black market auction, there was nothing to hide, but he deliberately emphasized that he was driven by words, and bought it on impulse, although it only cost three thousand yuan, but he also wanted to keep it for a thought, so he found Song Jun and asked for Old Man Fang.

Old Man Fang sat back in his chair, pondered for a while, then stood up and said to Song Jun: "You go and call Xiao Lu, just say that I don't have time today, let him come back another day." ”

Song Jun agreed, took out his mobile phone and dialed it, Zhuang Rui listened to it clearly, it turned out that the little Lu in the old man's mouth was actually the Lu shopkeeper who had crossed paths with him, Zhuang Rui couldn't help but laugh in his heart, I don't know what kind of expression the old Lu shopkeeper would have if he was called Xiao Lu.

"Young man, you take this painting well, come with me, and Song boy will come with you. ”

Seeing that Song Jun had finished making the call, Old Man Fang stood up and walked to a room next to the living room.

In a popular saying, this room should be the old man's studio, the room is very spacious, with windows on three sides, all of which are transparent glass, with very good light transmission and very bright.

In the middle of the room, a desk about one meter high, wooden structure, the table top is smooth and flat, Song Jun whispered to Zhuang Rui to introduce, in the jargon, this desk is a framed table, in addition to a lot of items, although not messy, giving people a sense of order.