Chapter 372: The Focus of the World

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It took Li Mobai a full 100 days, without leaving the door and not going out of the door, to complete this huge painting of 68 meters long and 5 meters wide. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info

Woke up from the blur again, Li Mobai regained his spirit, but the people around him were worried, in fact, Li Mobai, and even Li Mobai's mother was taken to Venice to take care of Li Mobai's life, and the business jet had to go back and forth to the capital almost every week to purchase all kinds of fresh fruits and vegetables to ensure Li Mobai's nutrition.

However, Li Mobai is ignorant of it, just painting like a madman, and does not care about the outside world at all, Li Mobai has no intention of mixing in the arguments of all parties, things are done, not spoken, as for the theory, let the critics comment first, everything has nothing to do with the painter.

Jiang Suhan watched Li Mobai paint frantically every day, and saw Li Mobai's vivid and different from the traditional figure, and his heart was both satisfied and worried, and he was worried.

When Li Mobai exhibited this masterpiece, the entire West was silent, the controversy stopped abruptly, and everyone had five tastes in their hearts, why Li Mobai, why Chinese? Why not white, even if it is a Western nationality, but it is a Westerner.

For a while, the news media only reported that Li Mobai had painted one of the world's largest paintings, but they did not comment on it, nor did they say that it was an oil painting, and the reporters could not locate the painting, let alone comment on the painting.

The West was silent, but there was laughter and laughter in China, and they all thought that this was Li Mobai's most powerful slap in the face to critics, and Chinese painters also thought that this was a slap in the face of contemporary art, nakedly resisting the slap in the face.

"When contemporary art represented by pop culture swept the world, China's Li Mobai was born out of nowhere, and fiercely fanned up more and more degenerate contemporary art, please allow me to pay tribute to Li Mobai." The famous painter Zhao Rangzhiru said in an interview with a reporter from CCAV's "News Network".

"Chinese culture has always accepted the cultures of all ethnic groups with a tolerant heart, and Li Mobai is the messenger of Chinese culture." So says another critic.

This news, which people all over the country are watching, took an unprecedented 3 minutes to report and simply interpret Li Mobai's "Road to Paradise", which is based on Dante's masterpiece "Divine Comedy", and the painting technique transcends the nation and culture, and almost integrates the essence of all painting schools, integrating visual beauty and ideological connotation, and playing a symphony of art history and Western history for the audience through the brush.

The Divine Comedy is the most glorious epic of mankind and can be said to be a work of great harmony with the Western cultural system.

When Li Mobai read the Chinese version of the "Divine Comedy", he was already fascinated by it, but due to the differences between languages, the linguistic beauty of the "Divine Comedy" was almost lost, so the first foreign language Li Mobai learned was not English, but Italian, when he could read through it without the help of a dictionary, Li Mobai was deeply impressed by Dante's genius, and at that time Li Mobai made up his mind in his heart that he must draw this painting in the future.

Although the Western art circle is temporarily speechless, Li Mobai's influence in the world is not inferior to that of big-name and powerful artists, and art lovers know that Li Mobai has exhibited a new work, and it is an amazing huge work, and their interest is immediately aroused, and they have gone to Venice to see what is going on.

As a result, there was a congestion incident in Venice, the gondolas were constantly going back and forth on the water, almost boat-to-boat, the pedestrian street was also crowded, and Li Mobai's museum was even more crowded, of course, it continued to be, on the one hand, the overall cultural level of Europeans was high, and the habit of maintaining order had penetrated into the bones, on the other hand, many people had read Li Mobai's collection of essays, and they understood Li Mobai's thoughts, and they all had a heart of admiration.

Western media reporters flocked to Venice in the hope of grabbing first-hand news, but when they were late, reporters could only queue up, and there was no way to enter Li Mobai's pavilion.

When Li Mobai saw this scene, he also had to admire the artistic accomplishment of Westerners, thinking about it, there are 2,000 museums in Italy alone, and other developed countries also have a large number of museums, such as New York, where there are hundreds of museums of all sizes in a city, and the artistic accomplishment of the common people is naturally not too low.

Thinking of this, Li Mobai couldn't help but sigh in his heart, how many museums there are in China, and there is no way to compare even a small Italy, but China has 9.6 million square kilometers and a population of 1.3 billion, how sad.

Just when the art circle was silent, the Vatican Holy See was the first to criticize, after all, in this painting, the historical pope, the patriarch, and the clergy are placed on the fourth level of the region to be punished, and Pope Pontiffis VIII is interrogated on the eighth level of the region, which is detrimental to the majesty of the Holy See.

When the Divine Comedy is a literary work, it can only affect readers who like to read, but when it becomes a famous painting, it can affect everyone, just one glance, and through a simple textual introduction, everyone will understand that the Holy See is so greedy, and this emotion can be contagious like a virus.

As the first shot was fired at the protest of the Holy See, Li Mobai's opponents naturally moved by the wind and began to criticize Li Mobai's works for being vulgar, ugly, bloody, violent, etc., and even said that Li Mobai had ulterior motives, and almost all vicious attacks were published in the newspapers and on the Internet.

For a time, the art circle of the entire Western world was full of gloom, especially the loudest voice of the academic school, and they couldn't wait to eat Li Mobai, thinking that Li Mobai had destroyed the tradition and upbringing of art.

Li Mobai didn't care at all, and even watched the soap opera happily in the room, not affecting his mood at all because of these criticisms.

When the West is criticizing it, the domestic media and artists are vigorously defending Li Mobai, and have published articles to counter the West as a pseudo-boiling, saying one thing and doing another, etc., Li Mobai knows very well that this is the high-level is fueling the flames and further consolidating the foundation of the rule, and he is not grateful at all, and such a debate has completely deviated from the track of art, although he is indeed politically ironic, but he does not praise any magnates, but for the ruling class, the enemy of the enemy is the ally, Naturally, I don't mind coming out to sing when I need to.

Li Mobai's domestic fans also organized groups to go to Venice, hoping to witness Li Mobai's paintings for the first time, but most of them followed Li Mobai's advice, and after the Venice Biennial, they will be publicly exhibited in China.

As for the Internet, everyone is discussing "The Divine Comedy", discussing what painting techniques Li Mobai used in this painting, and how to perfectly integrate these painting techniques.

Of course, fans have not forgotten to fight back against Western criticism, and fans who are proficient in foreign languages have even climbed over the wall to log on to foreign websites to argue with Li Mobai's fans abroad with the same hatred and hatred as those critics.

All the viewers who have seen this painting have expressed their views on Weibo, believing that this is a visual feast and the pinnacle of painting art of all ethnic groups in the world.

As the debate heats up, the media in Florence and Sicily in Italy take the lead in firing at critics, after all, Dante is the pride of all Italians, and Florence is Dante's hometown. After a short period of loss, the mainstream media in Italy also firmly cheered for Li Mobai, this painting is based on the pride of Italy - Dante's work as the prototype, no matter how you say it, it has raised face for your country, criticizing Li Mobai is criticizing Dante.

With Italy's counterattack, American artists also stood up to fight back, and the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Wall Street Newspaper, and N and NBC became the most powerful positions, and many artists who understood the painting did not hesitate to praise Li Mobai.

"When I first learned that the Venice Biennale invited Li to hold a solo exhibition, I was surprised, and even had a kind of psychology of reading jokes, but when I saw Li's set of "The Emperor's New Clothes", my heart was pounded fiercely.

And when I saw this "Road to Heaven", I was already surprised beyond words, this is a miracle, thousands of tasks are vivid, the painting technique is even more exquisite, I really can't find any reason to criticize, although I really want to criticize Li always dislikes to communicate with people, but now there is a channel of communication with Li, that is, Li's works. Finally, I would like to say that if the Golden Lion Award of this Biennale is not awarded to Li, it will definitely be a loss for the Venice Biennale, and it will be a shame for the entire art circle. ”

Wilkinson, a well-known art critic, wrote in the New York Times that Wilkinson criticized almost all artists, but did not criticize Li Mobai, Wilkinson is a well-known critic, as long as he says a word of praise in the newspaper, the artist's value immediately doubles.

"A cross-generational master rises in Venice"

"The battle of one man and one era"

"A new Renaissance is about to begin"

With the all-out counterattack of American artists and critics, more silent critics and artists in Europe have also adjusted their mentality and begun to fight back.

In the midst of the controversy, the Venice Biennale is about to settle, and the most prestigious Golden Lion Award Gala for Art is about to be revealed.

(To be continued)