Dahl looked at Xiao Peng, and suddenly felt that something was wrong, as if Xiao Peng was not just an ordinary jockey as everyone imagined, who would wear such a watch?

But he had to show himself in front of Yali, he couldn't let a commoner show off in front of this group of nobles, he had to pull him to what he was good at.

Thinking of this, Dahl asked: "Looking at this watch, I know that Mr. Xiao's artistic taste is different, I don't know what genre of painting Mr. Xiao likes, realism, Dadaism, cubism, or 。。。。。。 ”

Xiao Peng didn't want to say in Chinese directly: "Draw a bird!"

After listening to Xiao Peng's answer, many people at the scene changed their faces greatly.

Dahl sneered: "Mr. Xiao, don't hide it from you, many of us here know Chinese and know what you mean by this." I don't know why you're so vulgar to face my question!"

Xiao Peng looked innocent: "Why am I vulgar?"

A girl in the crowd said: "We have dealt with Chinese people, and we know that in Chinese, 'bird' refers to that part of the man!

Uh, how do you deal with the Chinese people to know what 'bird' means?

Xiao Peng laughed, including those who didn't understand Xiao Peng's Chinese meaning at first, and after hearing the girl's explanation, they all looked at Xiao Peng with an angry face.

Xiao Peng smiled and said: "I don't know who you learned Chinese from, but there is one thing I want to tell you, what I said about 'painting a bird' is our Chinese painter Luo Zhongli, oh, he painted a "Scar" collected by Bill Gates. He has been obsessed with painting birds for 20 years, and has published a collection of paintings called "Painting a Bird", and all the paintings are titled "Birds", and he has also held exhibitions in countries such as Eagle Country, Gaul, Germania, and Stars and Stripes, and his "Birds" have been collected by many art museums around the world!

In other words, Luo Zhongli is really an indescribable painter, especially his painting "Bird", I don't know how many people complain that 'my nieces in kindergarten are better than him'.

Xiao Peng also felt this way when he saw the photos of his paintings, wasn't that a primary school student graffiti? But when Xiao Peng really saw the original painting, Xiao Peng was dumbfounded. First of all, it must be admitted that transcribing a palm-sized sketch onto a wall-sized canvas is indeed a technical job, or using an eyebrow pencil to draw, but also using grid coordinate paper, every texture stroke on the sketch is meticulously depicted, a painting is a year, this Nima is a painting or a meticulous manual work!

Many people think that he can do something like this very well as a primary school student, but they don't understand how he can easily spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on a painting. Xiao Peng felt that he was expressing another meaning.

As Mo Yan said when he won the Nobel Prize: 'The greatest use of literature is that it is useless', and the same is true of art. 'Value' is a very subjective thing, if you are not rare, then it is not valuable, if someone likes it, he is valuable. Just like Duchamp's 'urinal' and Andy Warhol's prints, no matter how awesome they are now, they were questioned at the time, and so are works of art.

It can even be said that it is 'worthless', just as the ancestor said, it is called 'antiques in prosperous times, gold in troubled times', and the value of these works of art can only be reflected in peaceful times.

Luo Zhongli's paintings may be an expression of this meaning: the absurdity of taking things that are not worth taking seriously in the first place. There is no point in doing that, and there is no point in what you draw. But that doesn't mean it's worthless. Why draw something that can be expressed in words?

Sophia checked her mobile phone for a while, and really found out Luo Zhongli, the painter, and several people looked at the paintings on the mobile phone screen, and they were a little speechless.

Xiao Peng smiled: "Actually, I personally really collect some paintings. "He is talking about the paintings in the various rooms on the 'Huaxia', which are not in his collection, but put in by Prince Waleed when he was decorating the ship, Xiao Peng doesn't know anything about oil paintings, and he doesn't know who painted them, but it is certainly not a bargain as Prince Waleed's collection.

"Whether it's Cubism or Fauvism, whether it's Impressionism or Modernism, whether it's Dadaism or Expressionism, I have a collection of paintings from all schools, but why do I have to say which school I like? Xiao Peng said lightly.

He said that Bertledge was the king of fake paintings, and Padgio had said that he could help him paint, but Xiao Peng had not forgotten this.

After hearing Xiao Peng's words, the crowd exclaimed again: "Bertletch, are you talking about the Germanic master of counterfeiting?"

Xiao Peng nodded.

Someone asked curiously, "How much does it cost him to help you draw a picture?"

Xiao Peng looked sluggish: "Just have a lively meal together." Oh, we Chinese people are not as elegant as you, talking about money hurts feelings, and we are generally in wine. Besides, isn't it just a fake painting? What's the value of a fake? Only those wronged bosses will buy fake paintings at sky-high prices, right?"

Many people at the scene had embarrassment on their faces, Xiao Peng didn't even have to think about it, there must be a victim. Bertreich has been a professional counterfeiter for thirty years, and has painted countless fake paintings, and most of the people who bought these fake paintings were these nobles。。。。。。

Of course, Xiao Peng's statement that fake paintings are not worth anything is definitely a misunderstanding.

In 1968, the University of Michigan held a Shi Tao exhibition, one of the experts who studied Shi Tao invited Zhang Daqian to see the exhibition, Zhang Daqian walked to a painting and said: "I painted this painting", and then walked to another painting and said: "I painted this picture." ”

In his lifetime, he painted nearly a thousand fake paintings, all of which made it difficult to distinguish between real and fake. At that time, six or seven out of ten famous paintings on the market were imitated by him, and his friend Wang Jiqian once asked him why he wanted to sell fake paintings, and his answer was very individual: "Anyway, these rich people don't understand, and it is a waste to sell them real paintings, and it is not worth it------!"

Of course, Zhang Daqian will not fake after he becomes famous. What is the value of Zhang Daqian's paintings? Now a pair of "Peach Fountains" has sold for 270 million Hong Kong dollars, which can be called the most expensive painter in China, but no one can deny that he is famous for painting fake paintings!

And Bett Leitch is similar, incognito and fake for 30 years, became famous overnight after being caught, and now publishes books to participate in TV shows. People now have hundreds of thousands of euros for a real painting, who still paints a fake painting?

Xiao Peng's words directly told everyone that he could let Bertledge help him paint, and he could paint whoever he wanted, this is not something that can be done with money, but Xiao Peng can do things that these nobles can't do. Isn't this a slap in the face? You have status? High status is useful!

The scene was silent for a while, and someone next to him said, "Mr. Xiao, I heard。。。。。。 ”

Xiao Peng directly waved his hand and interrupted him: "Don't tell me about old-fashioned topics such as Chinese people eating dog meat and not believing in religion, at least thousands of people have asked me this way along the way, which makes me have to doubt the IQ of Europeans." Haven't many of you here been in contact with the Huaxia people? I guess you're not as ignorant as they are. ”

After listening to Xiao Peng's words, several people at the scene showed embarrassed expressions on their faces.

Dahl laughed after hearing this: "Mr. Xiao, I apologize for the unhappiness caused to you by our European civilians, after all, we can't demand too much from civilians. I've been to China, and you're an amazing country, it's growing fast, everything is thriving. It is indeed very different from our usual impression of Huaxia. ”

Xiao Peng looked at Dahl with a smile, he knew that what Dahl was going to say next must not be good.

Sure enough, Dahl continued: "You are good at everything, but there is one thing that I can't accept very much. ”

Xiao Peng was puzzled and asked, "I don't know what you can't understand?"

Dahl said: "You Huaxia is now a developed country, and you also attach importance to education and science, but why do you Chinese people still believe in witchcraft?"

"Witchcraft?" Xiao Peng was confused: "There are only a very small number of ethnic minorities in our Chinese countries, and their national traditions believe in witchcraft, so it seems that you believe in witchcraft more here in Europe, right?"

Xiao Peng thought that Dahl was talking about the witchcraft beliefs of the Chinese ethnic minorities, such as Miao Wu, or the Northeast Shaman Jumping God and the like.

And on the European side, since the Middle Ages, witchcraft has been very marketable, think about it, whether it is "Snow White" or "Sleeping Beauty", almost every European fairy tale will have an evil witch to connect the whole story, I have to admit that after more than ten centuries of vicissitudes, witchcraft is still very popular in Europe.

Almost every big city has a gypsy witch with a crystal ball tarot card fortune telling, and there is a good market. Romania has even made shamanship a legal profession, requiring shamans to 'be licensed' and provide receipts to customers, and if the prophecy fails, witches can face fines and even jail time!

Since 2005, more and more TV stations have begun to broadcast some "mysterious" TV programs, such as the polar bear program "Psychic Battle" is currently popular in China, in fact, that program has been one of the ace programs of T-N-T TV since 2007. Now all over Europe, there are at least a million 'mystics', well, what we call mediums, wizards, psychics and so on. Every year, the whole of Europe, this industry can create hundreds of billions of dollars in profits!

There is a reason why the Harry Potter series of movies are so popular! The funny thing is that China has been anti-feudal and anti-superstitious for so many years, but as a result, Europe and the United States, which have always been scientific and enlightened, have become more and more superstitious。。。。。。