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It's not that Li Mobai is rare and weird, but "The Boy in the Red Vest" is too famous. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

In January 2008, a group of thieves armed with guns robbed four famous paintings at the Kunsthalle Breux in Zurich, Switzerland, including Cézanne's "Boy in a Red Vest", and the other three were Monet's "Poppies in Wittney's Field", Van Gogh's "Blooming Chestnut Branches" and Degas's "Accountant and His Daughter", the total value of the four paintings was as high as 160 million US dollars, but art is priceless, and the so-called value is only a standard.

Among them, Monet's "In Wittney's Poppy Field" and Van Gogh's "Blooming Chestnut Branches" were allegedly found in a nearby psychiatric hospital, in fact, who knows whether it is true or not, foreign devils often do these oolong incidents, of course, also to cover the lid, after all, these four paintings are too famous. But Cézanne's "The Boy in the Red Vest" and Degas's "The Accountant and His Daughter" were never found, but Li Mobai saw one of them here, and how could Li Mobai not be surprised.

Although Li Mobai already knew that most of the things in this auction were shady things, he did not expect to encounter famous paintings that caused a sensation in the world.

After carefully looking at the authenticity of this painting, Li Mobai is sure that the authenticity is undoubted, and the purpose of studying at Cambridge is to learn Western art, not to mention that when Li Mobai was studying, he visited most museums in Europe, and he was not uncommon to Cézanne's works, and he knew Cézanne's style very well.

Cézanne is known as the "father of modern painting", which is something that almost every art lover is familiar with, precisely because Cézanne put forward the views that "lines do not exist, light and shade do not exist, only the contrast between colors, and the volume of objects is expressed from the accurate interrelationship of tones", "painting does not mean blindly copying reality, it means seeking the harmony of various relationships", and fully embodies his own ideological system in his works.

And completely rely on his own reading observation to create, consciously turn his attention to the expression of his own subjective world, through generalization and trade-offs, show a solid geometric sense, ignore the texture of objects and the accuracy of the shape, emphasize the heavy, calm sense of volume, the overall relationship between objects. Sometimes, in order to seek the harmony of various relationships, he even abandons the individual's reading power and real surname, and depicts the object from the point of view of structure.

It was precisely because of Cézanne's subjective surname in painting that he changed the course of the entire Western art and had a conceptual shock to the artists after him, which led to the complete emancipation of artistic thought. It can be said that modern art began with Cézanne, and it is well deserved to be known as the "father of modern painting".

The boy in the red vest is the embodiment of Cézanne's artistic idea, in this painting is based on an Italian teenager named Ross de Michelangelo as a model, and it is also the only time in Cézanne's life that he paid for a model, a total of four oil portraits with different angles, and this portrait with a three-quarter side angle is the most successful and famous one.

In this painting, the figure's head rests on his bent left arm, while his right arm rests haphazardly on his lap, and the figure of the boy occupies the frame, and his bowed body is the main element of the composition. The image is firmly confined to a tight spatial structure - the left side is defined by the diagonal lines of the curtains; The upper end is framed by horizontal wires on the rear wall; The right side is limited by the dark color of the triangle, and the curved arms are in harmony with the curved body.

In order to achieve the appropriateness and harmony of the structure of the picture, Cézanne deliberately changed the shape and proportion of the objective image, especially elongating the left arm of the young man in the painting, so that the cold sleeves that were extended and drooping became white blocks with sufficient weight in the painting, and balanced with the large area of white and cold colors in the upper part.

The arrangement of the different shapes and colors of the color blocks in the painting is unique. Even the young man's question and the glittering whiteness and blankness of his forehead were by no means random or accidental; The square piece of white paper under the boy's left elbow is even more important in the painting, and if it is obscured when admiring the painting, the whole painting loses its balance, loses its brilliance, and is oblivious to everyone.

This pose also appeared in some of Cézanne's later portraits, such as: "Man Smoking", "Boy Sitting by the Skull", "Italian Girl", etc., so it can be said that this is the most important turning point in Cézanne's painting career.

After carefully appreciating this painting, Li Mobai decided to take this painting no matter what, and now for Li Mobai, there is no need to think about money at all.

After reading Cézanne's paintings, Li Mobai stepped down and saw that there were famous paintings of great value, even if they were not world famous paintings, they were also first-class painters in various countries, although he was surprised in his heart, but he also wanted to jump up excitedly.

Along the way, I found a world-famous impressionist master Van Gogh's "Leaving the Nieonen Church" again, which Li Mobai knew was from the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, which was stolen in April 2002.

This museum has a collection of more than 200 oil paintings and 500 drawings and a large number of Van Gogh letters, but it is also a sweet spot in the eyes of art thieves, repeatedly stolen, in 1991 there were more than 20 works that were stolen, and in 2002 2 works were stolen again.

"Leaving the Church of Niehenen" is a painting painted by Van Gogh for his mother, the church of Nieernen, where Van Gogh's father was a priest, originally there was only one woman, but later Van Gogh added a mourning scene when he learned of his father's death.

Van Gogh was a genius painter who never received an academic education in fine arts, and discarded all acquired knowledge, ignored the dogmas cherished by the academy, and even forgot his own surname. In his eyes, there is only a vibrant natural landscape, and he is intoxicated with it wholeheartedly, and he forgets about it; He regards all things in heaven and earth as an indivisible whole, and he embraces everything with all his body and mind.

"In order to express myself more powerfully, I use color more freely." In fact, in Van Gogh's paintings, not only the colors, but also the perspective, shapes, and proportions are deformed, in order to express an extremely painful but very real relationship with the world. It was Van Gogh's changes that made this distinctive feature the basis for the existence of Impressionism that later distinguished it from other schools.

"I risk my life for it; Half of my sanity collapsed because of it; But it doesn't matter...... Whenever Li Mobai thinks of what Van Gogh once said, he feels a kind of blood boiling, although so far, Van Gogh is still controversial, many people say that Van Gogh's words are not understood at all, but in fact, Li Mobai thinks in his heart that "Starry Sky" and "Crows Flying in the Wheat Field" are the pinnacle of Western painting, and they are the sanctuary of contemporary art.

Although he was depressed all his life, he devoted all his talents to painting, and never gave up his belief that art should be concerned with real problems and explore how to awaken conscience and transform the world.

For Van Gogh, Li Mobai has always been in awe, and Van Gogh is worthy of being a great artist and worthy of respect.

This is an early work in front of me, which cannot be regarded as Van Gogh's masterpiece, without the familiar depression, anxiety, and excitement, and obviously cannot be compared with the famous "Starry Sky", "The Wheat Field with Crows Flying", "Xiang Yuekui" and other masterpieces, but it also witnesses Van Gogh's growth process.

Seeing this Van Gogh painting, Li Mobai secretly said that after Shanying finished the Winter Palace, he would go to Europe to have a good time, let those art thieves do a few more big cases, and let them be put into the paradise of art theft and trading, and buy it back to China in a grand manner, so as to lay the foundation for his future museum to become a world-famous museum, and open it to everyone for free.

With an evil idea, Li Mobai admired the famous paintings that had been disappeared from all over the world, although they did not have the reputation of the world surname, but each had its own advantages, and he did not have the slightest sense of guilt for buying the stolen famous paintings and becoming an accomplice, but was full of interest.

When I looked down again, Li Mobai was really shocked again, Picasso's "Pigeon and Green Bean" was in front of him, for this cubist master, Li Mobai's first reaction was that he had so many lovers that he couldn't count them, in fact, Picasso is the most expensive artist in the world, almost everyone knows, it is a generation of myths, witnessing their own glory, artists who can enjoy this kind of treatment are really rare, of course, to get rid of captive artists and hyped painters.

"Doves and Green Beans" is famous for the art theft in 2010, five famous paintings of the Musée d'Art Moderne in Paris, France, were looted, in addition to Picasso's painting, Italian painter Modigliani's "Woman with a Fan", French Cubist painter Braque's "Olive Tree by Estaque", as well as French painter Léger's "Extinguished Candle" and Fauvist master Matisse's "Pastoral", which can be said to be the biggest art theft in recent years.

Created in 1912 during Picasso's Cubist period (1907-1916), this painting breaks up and reassembles representations in order to capture deeper imagery. An arc appears between the overlapping irregular squares on the screen, with five gray grain-like objects in the center representing green beans. Picasso did not paint them in the usual turquoise of life, and the master claimed that it was because "in order to make it easy for the general public to absorb the new artistic style, you have to be a little tricky." As Hegel said, people can only understand what they know. So how do you guide them to learn new things?"

From Picasso's words, it is already clear that it is to make the general public not understand, if you do, how can this game be played according to the artist's intentions? Perhaps this is the characteristic of abstract art.

Art theft is now almost every day, according to statistics there are more than 500 works stolen by Picasso, more than 40 by Van Gogh, nearly 200 by Rembrandt, more than 200 by Rearnault, as well as Caravaggio, Van Van. Almost all of the works of Ike, Cézanne, Titian, Greco, Munch, Matisse, Leonardo da Vinci, Vermer and many others have been stolen, and although countries are trying to track them down, only 5% of them can be recovered, most of which were collected by private buyers, a small number were destroyed, and a very small number were left in the hands of thieves because they could not be sold.

Through the analysis of these thefts, the over-reliance on security systems in European and American museums, coupled with the lack of responsibility of security guards, and the cooperation of insiders, the security of these museums is like a piece of paper.

As for Chinese painting and calligraphy, Li Mobai really hasn't seen a few fine works, they are all ordinary goods, famous paintings are not said to be masterpieces painted by famous artists, Picasso painted nearly 70,000 works in his lifetime, it is impossible that none of the works are of the peak level, if calculated by market value, there are now many works with prices of tens of thousands of hundreds of thousands of euros.

After reading these paintings, Li Mobai found that there were a lot of bronze, bronze, stone tablets and other exhibition shelves next to him, until he got closer, he found that they were basically Chinese cultural relics, including bronzes, gold and silver and porcelain.

After seeing it, I found that there are 18 pieces of bronzes, there are Ding, Gui, Mustache, Hu, Zun, etc., they are all old objects before the Spring and Autumn Period, some of the bodies still have the smell of earth, and I can't help but hate the domestic tomb robbing gangs, especially the organization that resells cultural relics abroad has the ability to get back the foreign cultural relics when you go abroad, and get the treasures of foreign museums back.

Anger is anger, but Li Mobai knows that it is all money, and the tomb robbers are all unprofitable and cannot afford to be early, so they have no morality. At this moment, a bronze mirror next to him attracted Li Mobai's attention, this mirror was too familiar, I had noticed it in the foreign market before, but I didn't expect to run into it here.

I can't help but be a little excited, this is the national first-class cultural relics stolen by thieves from the Dunhuang Museum in China - the 'Position to the Three Princes' bronze mirror in the period of the Sixteen Kingdoms, the other side looked carefully and found that it was the Dunhuang Museum's 'Position to the Three Princes' bronze mirror.

"Sir, the preview time is over, please go and rest, the auction will start in an hour." When Li Mobai was excited in his heart, he heard someone talking next to him.

I looked down at my watch and realized that it was 8 o'clock in the evening, and I realized that I had been looking at it for about 8 hours.

Suddenly I felt that my stomach was already hungry, but I thought that there was still an hour to start filming, but I didn't care about eating, so I said, "You inform Mr. Zhang and Mr. Carol from Hong Kong to come to room 1109, I have something very important to find them." ”

(To be continued)