Walking out of the door of a gallery, Fang Yi couldn't help but reach out and pull his tie, and then unbuttoned his shirt to make his breathing easier. This is the sixth gallery that has declined to itself! In other words, from the three works painted, Fang Yi has been rejected by six galleries with his classicist works!

Fang Yi looked up at a hot dog stall not far away, and walked straight over with his painting. After four or five people in line, when it was his turn, he asked for a hot dog, leaned the painting next to him and ate it directly. While eating, I watched the crowd come and go.

The rejection of the sixth gallery did not bring much trouble to Fang Yi, Fang Yi knew that many masters had been rejected by the gallery again and again, and even the impressionist masters were opposed by the entire painting world at that time, compared with these masters, Fang Yi thought that his six rejections were really nothing, Fang Yi believed that there were always people who could see the pearls, appreciate their classicist works with a strong Chinese style, and be able to understand the ideas with Chinese meaning.

Of course, the hundreds of thousands of euros in Fang Yi's pocket also played a lot of roles in this regard. Don't panic when you have food in your hands! If Fang Yi really didn't have the last meal, and he didn't even have the money to buy paint, he probably wouldn't be in such a good mood. Anyway, now Fang Yi has money in his pocket, and the gallery has tried it out one by one.

Biting the hot dog one bite after another, wiping the crumbs from the corners of his mouth with his hands from time to time, Fang Yi just sat on the curb on the side of the road and ate his own food, with no trace of bitterness on his face, and a faint smile. From time to time, I raised my head to observe the crowd of people coming and going on the side of the road.

"Fang?" Suddenly, Fang Yi heard a voice behind him calling him. Turning his head slightly, he looked at the person who was talking to him, the tall girl!

The girl moved the sunglasses on her face to the top of her head, looked at Fang Yi, who was a little stunned, and said, "What? Don't know each other? ”。

Waiting for others to show their faces, Fang Yi remembered. The Spanish girl Beronica, whom I met at the Bernard exhibition almost a month ago! Hurriedly stood up and said with a smile: "Remember! Beronica! "A girl of more than one meter and eight meters is very conspicuous even if she is placed in the foreigner's pile, Fang Yi naturally remembered it when she thought about it.

And Beronica remembers Fang Yi, also because of Fang Yi's height, anyway, the Asians that Beronica met, now there are not many who are tall enough to Fang Yi's height, and it is even rarer to have small dimples hanging from the corners of her mouth when she smiles, although for Belonica, Chinese all look similar, but Fang Yi is an exception.

As soon as Fang Yi stood up, the enthusiastic Beronica directly stretched out her hand and shook Fang Yi and said, "I thought you would call me soon." Who knows that Lu Dao has not been fighting! ”。

Fang Yi was a little embarrassed when he heard this, and as soon as his mind turned, he thought of an excuse to point to the three works he was carrying and said: "During this time, I was busy with these paintings, and after I was done, I started to run the gallery to sell my works!" It's so busy, sorry! ”

"This is my friend Susanna! Susanna, this is what I mentioned to you about students from China. I met at the exhibition," Beronica smiled and introduced the female companion next to her to Fang Yi.

Fang Yi shook hands with the others again, and then found that the two girls were carrying one or two small bags in their hands. At first glance, you can see that you are here to go shopping.

"Can I see your paintings?" Finish introducing the two. Belonica asked at Fang Yi.

"Yes!" After Fang Yi finished speaking, he walked two steps to the side of the garbage Jane, threw the paper wrapped in the hot dog, and then turned back, picked up his painting, and opened the hard cloth bag.

Beronica took a look at Fang Yi's three works, these three are the scenes of Paris painted by Fang Yi standing on the terrace of his room, the names of the three paintings are "Early Morning", "Noon" and "Evening", which are completely realistic, with the silver blue sky in Fang Yi's works now, and the angles of the three paintings are almost identical. But the morning is seren, the noon is intensely enthusiastic, and the evening is with some strong melancholy.

Beronica carefully studied the painting for a few minutes, and then helped Fang Yi put it away. With such a big sun hanging in the sky, it is really not good to look at it for a long time: "You drew very well!" You said you were looking for a gallery, did you find the right one? ”。

"Thank you!" Fang Yi put away the painting with the help of Beronica, shook his head with a smile and said, "Not yet, six of them have already rejected me, and I have to run to two of them to try my luck in the afternoon!" ”。

Beronica looked at Fang Yi's smile and recounted that she was rejected by several galleries, and couldn't help but smile and said: "Your mentality is really good, an artist's own work can still maintain such a mentality when his work is rejected by others!" ”。

Fang Yi listened to it and explained with a smile: "Artwork, there are always people who like your style, or don't like your style, giants like Titian and Raphael, there are few in history where the style is widely liked as soon as it comes out, and I was rejected by the six families, which is really nothing!" ”。 Indeed, being rejected by six galleries is nothing! Van Gogh, a bitter ghost, only sold one painting in his life, and I heard that it was no different from giving it away for nothing, so what is it! The life of those who have no worries about food and clothing is much better than the life of most masters, what else is there to complain about!

"You will succeed, with your optimistic attitude, good luck!" Beronica smiled and said encouragingly to Fang Yi.

"Thank you!".

Beronica thought for a moment and said to Fang Yi: "Now the works of classicism are not performing very well in the market!" If you have good skills, why don't you try realism, or modern painting, a more personalized style is the most popular in the modern oil painting market! ”。

After thinking for a while, Fang Yi said to Beronica: "Xie Lu Xie!" I'll think about it! ”。

Fang Yi's words are not perfunctory, but really thinking about this matter, whether it is classicism or realism or contemporary abstractism, cubism, in general, it is a means of expression, now classicism has reached a bottleneck for Fang Yi, it is said to be innovation, but now Fang Yi has no brains at all, where to innovate? Technique or material? How?

Real innovation is not something that can come out when the upper lip touches the lower lip, and now Fang Yi's innovation of classical techniques can be said to be a mess, and there is a feeling that he has no way to start. If you are always grinding on what you have mastered, then you might as well try to go another way! Maybe there will be a different perception.

Thinking of this, Fang Yi remembered again that when he drove Charlotte back after the exhibition, Charlotte let herself make more friends and dissolve into the real Parisian life.

"I'd like to go to the art market in Montmartre in a few days, but I wonder if you're interested?" Fang Yi thought that since he decided to dissolve into the life of Paris and make more friends, let's start with the tall big foreign girl in front of him! Open the door first, whether people are going or not anyway, I have asked.

Beronica listened to Fang Yi's words and thought for a moment and said, "I don't have much time tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, but I have a whole day on Thursday!" Did you have the time at that time? ”。

"Yes! Yes! Fang Yi smiled and nodded and said, "Now I basically have time!" ”。 There are still a few months left until the start of the Deco Academy in October. Fang Yi has touched the bottleneck here again, and is preparing to visit Paris, wandering in various art salons, and there is plenty of time.

Beronica asked, "Do you have a car?" ”。

"Yes!" Fang Yi pointed to his own Renault not far away and said, "I'll pick you up then!" ”。

"Then I'll send the address to your phone, and you can pick me up when the time comes. Don't come too early, it's half past nine," Beronica said with a smile at Fang Yi.

Fang Yi listened and nodded. The three of them chatted for a while. Fang Yi looked at his watch and said, "I'm leaving, I'm going to the next gallery with an appointment."

"What a shame! Good luck! Beronica and her companion both said a word of blessing to Fang Yi.

Fang Yi said thank you, and Xie Xie walked towards his car with his painting.

Looking at Fang Yi's back, Suzanne said to Belonica: "Are you sure he is Chinese?" ”。

"Why do you ask that?" Beronica looked at her friend and said, "So what nationality do you think he is?" ”。

Suzanne smiled and said, "There are also a lot of Chinese students in our school, but Chinese boys look very shy, and there was once a boy who secretly looked at me at a party and was discovered by me. Looking at the boy looks more pleasing to the eye. I smiled at him, I thought he would come up directly to talk, but who knew that he actually blushed, and then left! I'm so disappointed! ”。

"Ha Lu Ha!" Beronica laughed when she heard this: "Maybe it's because Fang studied art." Not as shy as an ordinary Chinese boy! Fang talked to me first during the exhibition! ”。

Suzanne listened and said, "Probably! ”。

Fang Yi didn't expect that these two girls would talk about Chinese boys because of their performance, if Fang Yi knew that he would smile and say that this kid has a thief's heart and no thief's guts.

After driving the car, he found a parking space at the entrance of the gallery and stopped, Fang Yi took his painting and got out of the car, looked at his watch, and found that there were still seven or eight minutes before the agreed time. I walked straight into the gallery, buttoning up my shirt and tie as I went.

Entering the gallery, I explained my intention to a girl inside, and the little girl flipped through the schedule and walked inside with Fang Yi.

After a few words with the manager of the gallery, Fang Yi opened his painting and put it on the table.

The manager looked at it for a few minutes and said to Fang Yi: "This style is difficult to sell in the market now, if you want to, you can put it in our gallery and sell it on consignment, and the price I can give you now is six hundred euros!" ”。

As soon as he heard this, Fang Yi's heart began to shake his head, selling it for six hundred euros, and then the gallery would take thirty or forty percent, and there would be three or four hundred euros left in his hands, and then he would remove his own cost, then he would really be busy in vain. According to Fang Yi's thoughts, it would cost a thousand euros anyway. Besides, I can't leave my paintings in the gallery, and there are a few of them waiting for me to run, so why don't you run if you don't paint?

"Forget it then!" Fang Yi shook his head and said, "I'll try somewhere else!" ”。

The manager looked at Fang Yi and said, "That's fine!" Thank you for coming to our gallery! ”。

The manager didn't think that Fang Yi's painting was bad, on the contrary, he thought that Fang Yi's painting was good, but now things with a classical style are not so popular in the European market, not to mention that Fang Yi's works still have an exotic taste! Now the market is looking after those works with a strong personal style, these things seem strange in the eyes of ordinary people, the more weird the more people are sought after! As a gallery, you can't just think about art, most of them have to think about the current market!

In this way, the seventh gallery, Fang Yi failed again. The next eighth had the same result, and even people directly euphemistically expressed that they were not interested in Fang Yi's works. (To be continued......)