"Welcome to the World Chef Competition, the second round of the group stage, where our contestants will be divided into groups for two rounds, and the winner will advance to our semi-finals......!

"Let's go. Cheers and whistles rang out, and Liu Mang pulled his collar and took the lead from behind the curtain to the stage.

"Old Liu ......" Lin Xiao glanced at Liu Mang, and stopped talking.

"Understood, I'll give it my all. Liu Mang guessed what Lin Xiao wanted to say and replied.

Walking on the stage, Mark Boris, who was dressed in a blue and white chef's suit, stood on the other side of the stage with his team, and when he saw Lin Xiao, his expression was obviously stunned, and then he shook his head slightly.

"I'll announce ......it below," the host picked up the microphone and cleared his throat: "Distinguished members of the Organizing Committee of the God of Chef Competition, in order to allow the participating culinary masters to fully exert their imagination, they have specially united the world's most famous art institutions such as the Louvre Museum in Paris, the Musée d'Orsay, the Pompidou National Center for Arts and Culture, and the Museum of Modern Art in the United States to formulate the rules and procedures of this round of the competition. ”

"What do you mean, aren't we cooking, how do we have anything to do with the museum?" Lin Xiao, who was standing next to Liu Mang, said confusedly.

"Don't worry, keep listening. ”

"I've always believed that cooking is an art on the tip of the tongue. The best food is not only a pleasure for the senses, but also for the spirit......" said a graceful old man in a tuxedo, silver-haired, handsome standing up from the judges' bench and holding up the microphone.

"So, the rules of today's competition are also related to art, use the food you make to express the emotions in your heart. ”

"This person is Renzo Piano, the designer and initiator of the Centre Pompidou?" Lin Xiao saw the old man, thought for a moment, and his face changed color.

"What, is he famous?" He Donglin asked softly.

"Of course, a UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador, the world's most renowned architect, and an extremely demanding gastronomic critic. It is claimed that he has the most picky tongue in the world! This time he came to be a judge, it was not easy!" Lin Xiao said with some concern.

None of the nine judges in this round wore masks, but from the way they dressed and the exclamations of the audience when they appeared, it is not difficult to guess that they all have a lot of backgrounds.

"Everyone, please look!" As the host's words fell, several strong men in suits and leather shoes carefully carried a metal box to the stage in the middle of the stage.

Immediately afterwards, two white-gloved staff members stepped forward, inserted two keys into the box, and then took out a gold-framed and bordered painting from the box and gently placed it on the table.

"We would like to thank the Malmotán Museum for their great support, so that you have the privilege of witnessing the original painting of Claude Monet's Sunrise Impression today. ”

After the host finished speaking, he uncovered the white cloth wrapped in the painting, and the audience immediately let out bursts of exclamations.

"The Organizing Committee of the God of Chef Contest is so generous! I can even take the original version of this painting!" Lin Xiao's eyes widened in disbelief.

"It won't be a replica. Liu Mang was also a little unconvinced.

Even laymen who don't know how to paint have heard the name Monet, and they know that "Sunrise Impression" opened up the genre of "impression painting" in the West.

Its status abroad is estimated to be similar to that of China's "Qingming Riverside Map" and "Fuji Spring Mountain Map". Now it's a bit incredible to get it on the spot.

"I don't need to introduce Mr. Claude Monet any more, I'm sure all of you here have heard of this name. The host laughed.

"And the rules of our competition today are that the contestants of the two teams will use the ingredients prepared by the organizing committee to make their own dishes after observing this famous painting. Whoever has a dish that is closer to the theme of the painting will win!"

"It's over! Lao Liu!" Lin Xiao slapped his head: "It's miserable!

After all the calculations, Lin Xiao never thought that the organizing committee would actually come up with such a rule! If it is good for Chinese painting, after all, it is of the same origin and it is easy to understand the artistic conception in the painting, but now he has taken out a painting that is difficult for even some people with considerable appraisal ability to feel, then how can he still cook according to it? Fry an egg as the sun? It will really pull the egg!

"It doesn't matter, art is connected, we are in a dilemma, and the other side is the same. Liu Mang saw Lin Xiao's concern and said with a smile.

Sure enough, after listening to the host announce the rules, Mark Boris and his assistants on the other side immediately started talking.

"Lao Liu, do you know this painting?" Lin Xiao was so worried that his eyebrows were squeezed together.

"Well, I've seen a replica once before in a western restaurant. ”

"I went to the Marmotan Gallery once, but to be honest, I couldn't understand it at all. ”

"It's normal, just like the dishes, everyone has their own taste, you can't understand it, it means that this painting doesn't match your appetite and hasn't entered your heart. ”

"No, it's really hard to understand. Lin Xiao sighed: "Let me tell you the origin of this painting, after all, I did a lot of homework when I went to see the painting." ”

"Okay. Liu Mang nodded.

"This famous painting is a sketch painted by Monet in 1872 at the port of Havre. He also painted another "Sunset" in the same place, both of which were untitled when they were sent to the first Impressionist exhibition. A journalist's satire of Monet's paintings is a denial of beauty and truth, and can only give one impression. Monet then simply changed the name of the painting - "Sunrise Impression". In 1874, when Monet and a group of young painters held an exhibition, the "Sunrise Impression" was once again slandered and ridiculed. Some critics sarcastically said: "The rough pasted wallpaper is more complete than this seascape!" Some people even used the title of this painting to satirize the young artists led by Monet as "impressionists", so "impressionism" became the name of this school. ”

"The emergence of a new thing will always be resisted by the old thing, and it is the same in China, for example, the master Huang Binhong, who invented the 'ink accumulation' technique in modern times, Ruonan once showed me the real paintings of the old gentleman, those pictures of thick ink splashing, the peaks and mountains are thick, and the plants and trees are gorgeous, which makes people breathtaking. Liu Mang also sighed.

"Don't you understand? I mean that a painting that has had a huge controversy, and it is impossible for you to figure out its artistic conception in a short time! Besides, we Chinese, the aesthetic is originally different from foreigners, and this bullshit rule is too embarrassing!"