There are remarkable achievements in the country's artistic creation, what kind of achievements are considered significant achievements? What criteria do the judges rely on? Have a certain artistic status? What does it mean to have status? The bottom of the ranking is also considered status, but the status is relatively low; The work has a greater influence in the country, and this is just a hype, and you can buy a Baidu bid.

As for entering the international auction stage, it is better to say that it is okay to find a small foreign auction company to auction it, it is a big deal to sell and buy by yourself, and the auction company earns a commission for nothing, and the company has to do this kind of thing; There are also works that are quite popular in the domestic collection world, so what is considered popular?

Therefore, Zhou Ming's rating of painters is completely inappropriate for a while, and the evaluation of first-level painters may be more difficult, but second-level and below are really nothing, and people with strong relationships can be rated even if you don't know how to paint at all.

Of course, if you only look at Li Guizhen's conversation, she really looks like a person with real skills. But the more this is the case, the more disdainful Zhou Ming becomes, just be your second-level painter, it's not that you can't make money, why do you have to make this pool even more turbid?

But now that economic interests are paramount, Li Guizhen does this, others can't say anything about him, if people who don't know how to listen to his explanation, it is estimated that they will give him a thumbs up, praise him for his ancient ways, and say that he understands how to promote the younger generations.

It's a pity that everyone who understands understands that the profit is too great, and if you can sign a contract with a relatively high-level painter, it will be like buying a money printing machine, you can withdraw money at any time, and you are not afraid of inflation.

So when Zhou Zhou Ming heard Li Guizhen ask him if he wanted to be a professional painter, he refused without hesitation on the spot.

However, without talking about money, Zhou Ming is still quite happy to exchange his painting experience, after all, his level has some moisture, without the help of the jade pen, his painting skills obviously cannot reach the current height, so when he meets an experienced old painter like Li Guizhen, he doesn't mind learning from the other party.

When it comes to purely academic things, a few people present can't interject, but the old man Liu, who is puffing up on the side, is a little unexpected by Zhou Ming, and his insights in calligraphy and painting are also extraordinary.

However, the framing industry itself is inseparable from calligraphy and painting, some calligraphers and painters have no money to hire framers, and they can also work part-time to frame, and some framers see more calligraphy and paintings, and will learn to write and paint. After the liberation, the status of the framing craftsmen has been greatly improved, and the skilled can also be rated as the master of arts and crafts.

The evaluation of the title of the master of arts and crafts is much more rigorous than the evaluation of the painter's grade, because the evaluation of the title of the master of arts and crafts is not simply to see how artistic you are, but also to see your skill level, this is a hard standard, give you a piece of rice paper, you can uncover a few layers is to be able to uncover a few layers, the level is not enough to fool over.

Therefore, craftsmen who can be rated as national/national arts and crafts masters are much more reliable than any first-class and second-level painters. As a national/national arts and crafts master in the framing industry, Old Man Liu has a normal temper, not to mention that if this old man talks well, it is also quite funny.

The three of them talked about speculation, and they were interested in putting pen and ink and moving their hands, but they had the idea of competing.

Zhou Ming did not show weakness, and made a small freehand orchid picture according to a pot of orchids in the store on the spot.

Traditional Chinese painting is divided into two kinds, freehand painting emphasizes artistic conception, and gongbi emphasizes image, and small freehand is a technique between freehand and gongbi, the local portrayal is as delicate and delicate as gongbi, but the overall artistic conception is not bad at all, so since the Song Dynasty, the painters of the literati school prefer the small-handwriting technique.

If according to the level of technique, there is no distinction between high and low, each has its own strengths, the image of the fine brush is more real, the artistic conception of the freehand is more profound, and the small freehand has both the strengths of the two and is a school of its own. But there are some differences in the difficulty of using techniques, Gongbi is the foundation, you can learn it if you have a heart, but it is difficult to master the freehand technique, even if you barely master the basic technique, if the artistic aesthetics and ideological realm can not keep up, then the painted thing is only in vain, not a freehand work at all, because the freehand work is the first realm.

Zhou Zhou Ming also started to learn Chinese painting from Gongbi when he was a child, but although Gongbi painting is relatively easy to master, it is more troublesome to paint, especially a test of patience, plus he couldn't afford to buy various colors of pigments before, so after mastering the freehand technique, he only does freehand works, even if it is to paint a portrait of someone, it is also a small freehand in black and white.

Now Liu Xiaoya has all kinds of pigments here, and Zhou Ming is also in high spirits, and seriously drew a small freehand orchid picture, which is not big in size and is just one foot, just to make a mirror heart.

After the painting was completed, Zhou Zhou Ming was very satisfied with his watch, and secretly said in his heart that his skills had grown because of the jade pen, and the sensitivity of his fingers, wrists and brain seemed to have improved a lot, and even his eyes were much more sensitive to color, and his control of lines was more refined when painting.

Even if there is no improvement in the realm of the works made in this way, the overall feeling will be raised to a higher level, otherwise the big picture he made for Feng Junshan would not have made Li Guizhen pay so much attention to him.

Waiting for Zhou Zhou Ming to put away the pen, Li Guizhen also finished painting, exchanged and looked at each other, Zhou Zhou Ming secretly pouted, this Li Guizhen's theoretical knowledge is quite rich, but the kung fu is really average, and the painting is also a freehand landscape painting, the ink is relatively light, and the rough look is also very good.

It's just that the first artistic conception of freehand painting, Li Guizhen's painting of this landscape just has no realm, more like casually copying someone else's painting, the mountain does not look majestic enough, the water is not so soft, and you can't see any theme when you look closely, perhaps because the painting time is relatively short, even the brush is not too much, and it is not very accurate.

Although the freehand can be appropriately reduced, as heavy and light as cursive, but you can't even do the integrity of the basic form, how can it be considered a good painting, especially when the reduction of the brush is not the place, how to look at the whole painting how awkward.

Zhou Ming didn't believe that this was Li Guizhen's true level, if he was given time to paint seriously, he would definitely be able to make better works, after all, the two of them were just improvised, and they were not fully prepared.

But the more normal people are in this situation, the more they can produce high-quality products, because improvisation is the most suitable for Chinese painting, the feeling is richer when the interest is reached, and the works made are more excellent, many painters are like this, the more improvised the better.

Li Guizhen's painting is so bad, obviously he is coping with it, maybe he has been mixing with the contracted painter all the year round, and he has slowly become accustomed to coping with it intentionally or unintentionally, anyway, this is just an ordinary exchange, and it is not to take it out and sell it for money, and he can paint casually, and this mentality has slowly become a norm with the recommendation of time.

Zhou Zhou Ming looked at Li Guizhen's painting and shook his head secretly, and said in his heart that this person should not want to make any progress in this life, and not only did he destroy himself, but the contracted painters he signed probably didn't want to make any progress, when there is no pressure in life, it is difficult for ordinary people's self-control to make them improve.

However, Zhou Zhou Ming didn't say anything, and nodded with a smile, "It's really old-fashioned, and it deserves its reputation." ”

Li Guizhen is also a little self-aware, after reading Zhou Ming's painting and shaking his head with a wry smile, "I can make such a delicate freehand work in such a short time, I can't do it myself, especially this line, it is too exquisite, just such a one-foot painting, put it in the market, I estimate that 500,000 people will definitely rush to ask for it." ”

Zhou Ming smiled, "It's a pity, I'm not interested in the other." ”

"Is it okay to cut love? I'll pay 500,000 yuan to moisten the pen," Li Guizhen suddenly said, meaning that he planned to spend 500,000 yuan to buy this small-handed, orchid picture.

Zhou Zhou Ming subconsciously wanted to refuse, because he knew that this painting would definitely be transferred by him at a higher price if it fell into Li Guizhen's hands, but he nodded in his heart, "Mr. Li likes it, it's naturally good, but are you sure it's really worth 500,000?" ”

"Value, value, of course value, better than the vast majority of painters on the market, definitely worth it," Li Guizhen saw that Zhou Ming seemed to be relieved, nodded quickly, and then said: "I'll transfer the money," and really started to transfer money.

Seeing this, Zhou Ming smiled, "Okay, I'll write you an inscription and draw a seal," without waiting for Li Guizhen to say anything, he picked up the brush and wrote a fresh and elegant line in the blank space next to the orchid.

"In the summer of the second year, the twenty-year lotus moon was the predecessor Li Zhigui to make an orchid picture for a foot to commemorate," a line of twenty-eight words is divided into three lines of orchids scattered next to the blank space of the picture scroll, because the blank left a large hook, and the small line of Zhou Ming is elegant enough, so it looks extraordinarily harmonious/harmonious.

At the end, Zhou Ming changed a brush and dipped it in red paint, and drew a seal seal at the lower end of the inscription and in the lower left corner of the whole painting. He didn't have a special seal, so he could only draw two by hand, but his painter was here, and although the seal was less gold-and-stone, it looked a little smoother.

The two painted seal script prints are respectively "Zhou" and "Yiming", "Yiming" is under the inscription, "Zhou" is in the lower left corner of the painting, and there is nothing wrong with the layout being regular, but Li Guizhen on the side saw the eyelids jumping, opened his mouth and wanted to say something, but in the end he didn't say anything, but his face was very ugly.

Zhou Ming saw it in his eyes and smiled in his heart, and said in his heart that without my consent, you don't want to take a little advantage from me.