Chapter Ninety-Two: Seeking Art

In addition to his own knowledge, Xie Bin often chats with Li Guohui, and has more and more understanding of the current market situation. There are some things that you don't know, and you can understand them all at once.

Li Guohui's auction house and more than a dozen large antique shops, I don't know how many objects come in and out every year, as long as the real and fake are representative, Li Guohui will generally find out about it personally. In this way, Xie Bin also got a lot of cheapness.

Yun Shouping is a person, Xie Bin is not unaware, he has heard his grandfather introduce him. His grandfather also said at the time that Yun Shouping's paintings were worth about 30,000 or 50,000 yuan. But the old man is talking about the price at which time.

But it is obvious that the old man underestimated the speed of the country's economic development, and also underestimated the enthusiasm of the people for collecting, which was 350,000 a few decades ago and has now become 35 million.

Yun Shouping also played landscape painting in his early years, but later he specialized in flowers and birds, and his achievements were extremely high. This one should be a flower and bird painting in his later years. The painting shows two orioles, one squatting on a branch with his neck crooked and squinting as if he was napping; The other stood on tiptoe, as if trying to jump onto another branch.

The painting is very simple, but the technique is very mature, the lines are very smooth, and the coloring is very light and detailed, but it is somewhat similar to Xie Bin, and he pays more attention to the image when depicting things. Although these two orioles are small, they are very clear in their strokes, especially their expressions are very vivid.

However, it is not only vivid, but also the portrayal of artistic conception is also very flexible, with two branches to depict the whole painting vibrantly, making people feel relaxed at a glance, as if there are really two orioles chirping in front of them.

And Yun Shouping is not only good at painting, the word is good, his words are mainly learned with Chu Suiliang, with the style of Mi Fu, but it is self-contained, known as "Yun body", which shows its high level. Xie Bin looked at the inscription of less than two crosses, and felt the deepest.

To be honest, in the past, Xie Bin used to look at people's calligraphy, generally only looking at celebrity calligraphy, and rarely looked at those who were not very famous, just like Yun Shouping, he didn't even know what type of character he was best at.

And now I have to admit that there are really few simple people who can leave their names in history. Yun Shouping's words are elegant and smooth, handsome, and very comfortable to look at, chatting a few words, but he completely portrays his indifferent and quiet temperament.

Although Yun Shouping has an extraordinary family background, his father and uncle have also achieved something, especially his uncle is good at landscape painting and has his own school. Yun Shouping himself used to be an official of the Ming Dynasty, but after the death of the Ming Dynasty, he has been running for the cause of opposing the Qing Dynasty and restoring the Ming Dynasty.

Later, after suffering a setback, Yun Shouping went into seclusion and concentrated on studying calligraphy, painting and poetry. However, if the literati at that time were not officials, they really had no financial resources. When Yun Shouping died, his son was only five years old, and the family didn't even have money for the burial.

Fortunately, Yun Shouping made a lot of friends, and with the help of Dong Heng, Zou Xianji and others, he was buried. And this experience is similar to Xie Bin and his grandfather, so Xie Bin has a good impression of Yun Shouping.

At this time, seeing Yun Shouping's autograph, I felt like I was a little closer, full of love. Of course, this is just Xie Bin's feeling, he has nothing to do with Yun Shouping, except that the painting style is a little similar, except that the life trajectory is a little similar to Xie Bin's grandfather.

Gently lift up this painting of Yun Shouping, and the next one is still Yun Shouping's, seeing that the payment was painted in the same period, and it was painted for the same person, it can almost be regarded as a set. If this is taken out, I don't know how many people will die of redness.

There are so many paintings, although most of them are from the Ming and Qing dynasties, and although there are also a large number of authors who are not very famous, but looking at the painting style and brushwork, there is no doubt that they are genuine. If they are all taken out, it will definitely be a big impact on the entire calligraphy and painting market.

In the same way, if these paintings can be taken out, they can also fill in some gaps in the records of calligraphy and painting, and can also add some new research evidence to the history of calligraphy and painting.

However, Old Man Mu obviously wouldn't do this, and it was impossible for him to take out his foundation for others to study. Xie Bin is also not a researcher, and he is not interested in the history and significance of these calligraphy and paintings, at most he admires the style of the ancients.

However, with so many calligraphy and paintings, it is impossible for Xie Bin to squat here and read them like this, if he wants to read them one by one, it is impossible to read them in a few days. After all, this thing is not easy to keep, and you need to be extra careful when handling it, otherwise it can be broken if you are not careful.

These calligraphy and painting papers, the short ones have a history of nearly 100 years, and the paper has become very brittle, and it is impossible to spell it if it is broken, unless you find those very high-skilled repair and framing masters.

According to Mr. Xie Bin, those skilled restoration and framing masters can put together almost completely broken calligraphy and paintings, of course, the requirements are very strict, there must be a special working environment, special potions, special tools, and then they can be pieced together little by little, and then completed.

It is said that there is such a person in the Forbidden City, who specializes in restoring all kinds of artworks, and that kind of means is simply beyond ordinary people's imagination. But you don't have to think about it to know that ordinary people don't ask such a master to make a move, and ordinary calligraphy and painting people probably don't bother to make a move.

Xie Bin didn't continue to look at it, he was satisfied with a general understanding, stood up and smiled at Old Man Mu: "Old Mu, I thought you only had jade here, but I didn't expect that there were so many good things, enough to open a museum of a small scale." ”

Old Man Mu laughed, obviously very proud, "This is collected by my father and me for two generations, and it is also a bargain for the turmoil of the times, otherwise where will these good things be collected by us?" ”

This is true, it is estimated that only in that era and under that kind of situation will people throw these precious calligraphy and paintings that have been preserved with great difficulty as waste. Can you imagine how many good things were burned or thrown into the garbage heap to rot slowly in that environment.

However, this matter is also uncertain, under the general environment, some things are destined to be unpreserved, even if they know that they are precious. Just like last year, when Egypt was in turmoil, the National Museum was smashed and looted, and a museum in Nuoda was destroyed except for the one that could not be taken away, and there was nothing left left.

But what can be done? What else can be done but sigh? No one can do anything about disasters that cannot be controlled by man.

Seeing that Xie Bin's face was slightly lonely, Old Man Mu smiled and said, "What? Don't like these things very much? Let's take a look at our family's collection of jade. ”

Xie Bin didn't explain when he heard Old Man Mu say this, but followed Old Man Mu to change rooms. In this room, there is all jade, mostly jadeite, mostly wool, only a small part of the material and half-open windows, of course, some have been carved and formed.

It's just that this quality is top-notch, and no matter where it is placed, it is an absolutely good thing, including the Big Mac that was transported to Kunshi for exhibition that day. But this giant is here, although obviously, but it is not the best.

There are similar giants here, Xie Bin saw three pieces, although it is not a clear material, but looking at the skin, it is definitely a good thing, and if you take it out and put it on the market, it is also a sky-high price.

In addition, there are countless other kinds of excellent materials, even the very rare purple eyes can be found here, although there is no such material as Fu Lu Suxi, but Fu Lu Shou's three-color material also has two pieces, both of which are not bad.

Xie Bin used to be proud of his collection of so many good materials, and he was quite complacent when he heard other people's praises, but now looking at so many good things from Old Man Mu, Xie Bin felt a little embarrassed in his heart, this is what people call collecting.

However, thinking that this is the collection of two or three generations of the Mu family for nearly a hundred years, Xie Bin can understand, and the Mu family is still specialized in the raw material business, if there are no treasures, it will not be reasonable. Therefore, relatively speaking, what shocked Xie Bin even more was those antique porcelain calligraphy and paintings.

Seeing Xie Bin's face, Old Man Mu was also very proud, stroked his beard and smiled: "Xiao Xie, do you like it?" ”

Xie Bin was a little stunned when he heard Old Man Mu ask, what does this mean, do you want to give some to yourself if you like it? Suddenly remembering that Old Man Mu invited him to come and see his collection, it was a little too abrupt, and Xie Bin's heart suddenly became shocked.

Pursing his lips, Xie Bin smiled faintly: "Everything is a good thing, but Mu Lao should say something directly." ”

"Okay," Old Man Mu was not angry with Xie Bin's directness, and said, "I want Feng'er to worship you as a teacher, how about learning carving?" ”

When Xie Bin heard this, he shook his head with a wry smile, "Mu Lao said that my hand can microprocess jadeite?" Seeing Old Man Mu nodding, Xie Bin smiled bitterly and shook his head: "Old Man Mu, don't say that there is really no way to teach it, even if it can be taught, do you think I may teach it to others?" ”

Old Man Mu smiled slightly: "As long as you are willing to teach, you can pick three things here, no matter what kind of thing it is." ”

These words made Xie Bin's heart a little excited, jade is nothing, the calligraphy and painting over there are good things, not only Zhang Daqianqi Baishi level, but also other celebrity calligraphy and painting, which are worth a lot of money, and the jade and jade here are even more so, even if you just get three pieces back, this value is also very amazing.

However, Xie Bin's craftsmanship really can't be taught, but Old Man Mu obviously doesn't believe it, otherwise he wouldn't be so sure. Think about it, according to Xie Bin, his ability is practiced by practicing qigong.

But after all, qigong can be taught, as long as there is a chance, you can still learn, Old Man Mu is an expert, naturally understands this, even if the opportunity to learn is small, Old Man Mu has to let Mu Feng try it, just to learn Xie Bin's craft.

Thinking of this, Xie Bin shook his head, "Mu Lao, it's not that I don't want to, it's really impossible to teach, even I don't know why I have such a strange ability, so you better stop talking, don't say that you only choose three, even if you give me all the treasures here, I can't teach them." ”

(To be continued)