Chapter 11: Peerless Genius

The elegant and tranquil violin sounds.

This is a café, just opposite the fast food restaurant where Uncle Xin often likes to order food, there is no grade, and salarymen love to come here to drink a cup of freshly ground local coffee in their spare time.

However, it is not yet the right time, and there are only two customers in the small café, Li Wen and a woman in a windbreaker and sunglasses.

The woman takes off her sunglasses.

The face under the sunglasses is very unfamiliar, but it is very delicate and eye-catching.

"Let me introduce myself, my surname is Wu, I also studied art, and I spent $50,000 on that painting of 'Death, Knight and Devil' to get Steve to cut his love, I don't tell you this for any purpose, just to prove that I value you very much." The woman looked at Li Wen with clear eyes.

Steve's old fox sent me away for a thousand dollars, but he sold it for fifty thousand dollars, worthy of a profiteer among profiteers, but this woman was willing to buy it for fifty times more price, and she really valued me, and the identity of a 'painter' was really hammered.

Li Wen adjusted his sitting posture and asked in a flat tone, "Then I want to know why you attach so much importance to me, Ms. Wu?" ”

"Because I want to get an answer to how exactly you did it in just three days, and still do it so perfectly." The woman placed the painting on the table.

"Huh."

Li Wen smiled, "Since Ms. Wu, you are willing to pay 50,000 US dollars to find an answer, then I can't be hypocritical." ”

Li Wen took the painting in his hand, "It is indeed difficult to create this masterpiece from scratch, it can be said that it is very, very difficult, but the secret of counterfeiting is only two words, that is, 'copy', with the master, I only need to copy the exact same." ”

Li Wen raised three fingers, "There are only three difficulties for me to reproduce this painting of 'Death, Knight and Devil', and of course it only takes three days to solve the three difficulties." ”

Hearing this, the woman nodded frequently, "Then I want to know, what are these three difficulties?" How did you solve it. ”

"Ms. Wu, you should know that this painting was painted by the famous painter Dürer in 1513, so the first difficulty in copying it was on paper. It is necessary to soak the paper in oil, to make the color of the paper lighter and yellow, and to make it 100% similar to the original, which cannot be distinguished by the naked eye. ”

"The oil used by connoisseurs is usually vegetable oil, but I use animal oil, white vinegar, and 0.1 percent of a chemical solvent to blend it, so that it dries quickly, and it only takes eight hours to make the paper achieve the color I want."

"Of course, the above is only to solve the first difficulty, the second difficulty is it, Ms. Wu, please take a closer look here, what do you see?"

The woman craned her neck, "This is ...... Texture......"

"That's right, Ms. Wu observed very carefully, and these prints on the original work are the second difficulty I want to solve."

"At that time, these prints were printed with copperplates, and unless you touch the original, you can't judge the depth of these prints."

"But this is also difficult for me, because times have changed, technology has long been ahead of the centuries, I only need a spotlight, move the light source, under the high magnification lens can easily judge the depth of the print, so as to engraving, this is also the most time-consuming, to complete the engraving at least a day and a half, so that it will take almost two days."

The woman nodded heavily, "Two problems that many people can't solve in a lifetime have been solved in two days, and Li asked you is really amazing." I'm curious, what is this third difficulty? ”

"The third difficulty is coloring. Ms. Wu, you are also studying art, and you should know that the pigments of centuries ago are very different from the pigments we have now, and after years of oxidation, no matter how you mix the colors, the new work cannot be exactly the same as the original work, which is the biggest difficulty. ”

"Then Li asked you how you solved this biggest difficulty?"

"Again, the times have changed, in today's technology, there is no difficulty that cannot be overcome, I only need a computer, a software that can carry out color analysis, the shop is ready-made, and then oxidation deduction, choose the color closest to the original pigment, but the only regret is that the similarity can only reach 99%, can not reach 100%, but the general auction house analysis instrument can only distinguish the similarity below 97%, in exchange for the naked eye is even more indistinguishable."

The woman used her mobile phone to call up the original physical picture for comparison, and she really couldn't see any difference in the color of the two paintings.

"After the pigment is selected, the last step is easy to do, after coloring, I will seal the surface of the paper with wax, add a catalyst to the wax to accelerate the oxidation of the pigment, and then sprinkle plant ash on the surface, dry it after two to three hours, and then make up the color, repeat it three times to get the finished product, and the whole process does not take more than three days."

"It's not simple, it's really not simple, Li asked you to be such a genius." The woman looked around, "I should invite you to a more advanced place, and then open a bottle of red wine, so that a genius like you deign to the café on the street is mine, I don't know if Mr. Li can move?" ”

Li Wen looked down at the time, and then at the gradually darkening sky outside the window and the street lamps that emitted yellow light, "I'm really sorry, I have other things to do at night, how about another day?" ”

"Okay then," the woman nodded, "I also delayed Mr. Li for a short time today, and I'll come back to you another day, goodbye." ”

The woman smiled kindly, put on her sunglasses again, and left the café first.

After Li Wen went home, he went to the next door to paint with Ruan Wenwen as usual to increase his relationship.

Outside the window, in the darkness where the street lamps could not shine, a woman in a windbreaker and sunglasses looked at it silently.

It turned out that this person named Li Wen came back in such a hurry to learn painting with this woman, hehe, interesting, a fake painting to learn real painting, the drunkard does not mean to drink.

A smile rose into the corner of the woman's mouth and quietly left.

After she left, Li Wen quietly glanced at the place where she had been, even though there was not a glimmer of light.

She didn't know that he was the creator god, omnipotent, and no matter what happened around her, she couldn't escape his eyes.

It seems that the 'painter' has taken the bait, and my stage will soon come, but before I can go on the stage, I have to solve another problem to avoid worries.

Li Wen secretly glanced at the woman beside him who was carefully teaching him to paint.

This worry is Nguyen Van Van .

Before the buds of dedicated care bear fruit, it is natural that others cannot be allowed to steal the fruits first.