Chapter 019: Art Gallery

Hua Manrao couldn't wait to watch "Sleeping Beauty", but Gao Jue was nunu, seeing the endless crowd around her, Hua Manrao hurriedly apologized and said: "Mr. Gao is really sorry, I didn't pay attention to the occasion." Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info you've worked hard all the way, hurry up and get in the car, let's go to the art museum! ”

After saying this, Hua Manrao changed her aggressive attitude just now, and enthusiastically pulled Gao Jue to the parking lot, Wu Xueli also hurriedly followed, and the three of them quickly walked to the parking lot of the airport.

Along the way, Wu Xueli was introducing the situation of Yecheng Art Museum to Gao Jue, while Hua Manrao didn't say a word, grabbed the steering wheel with both hands, overtook left and right, and drove quickly towards Yecheng Art Museum.

After Wu Xueli's introduction, Gao felt that the Yecheng Art Museum is a historic old building, located in the downtown area of Yecheng.

From the outside, the art museum is a large garden house, the whole art museum is three floors high, consisting of a main building and two annexes on the left and right, the exhibition hall is the central main building, and the annex buildings on both sides are the offices of the art museum.

Hua Manrao parked the car in front of the annex building with ease, and a bald middle-aged man walked up enthusiastically.

After Wu Xueli's introduction, Gao Jue knew that this man was Chang Junshan, the director of Yecheng Art Museum, who shook hands with Gao Jue warmly with a formulaic smile on his face.

Gao Jue shook hands with Director Chang like he was flattered, Director Chang was very satisfied with him, this Chinese-American is quite on the road, not as arrogant as those foreign artists.

After leaving a good first impression, Director Chang personally took Gao Jue to visit the Yecheng Art Museum despite his busy work.

The annex building and the main building are connected by a long corridor, Director Chang leads the way in front, Gao Jue walks in the middle, Wu Xueli accompanies him, Hua Manrao follows behind, and the four of them walk along the corridor and enter the central exhibition hall.

This garden house is very imposing, the ground is paved with shiny marble, although the bungalow looks like a three-storey building from the outside, but in fact it is only a three-storey building on the side of the main building, and in the center of the whole bungalow, there is a square patio up to three floors.

The courtyard is supported by huge Roman marble columns, and the sunlight is filtered through UV-resistant glass and spills down from the dome, ensuring that the patio is lit and protected from UV rays that damage the artworks.

The patio is surrounded by a lot of modern art, which Wu Shirley spent a lot of effort negotiating.

After the Blood Butterfly Incident, the reputation of the museum was affected, and a large number of artists withdrew their works, and Gao Jue looked around, even if his poor art level was not able to see any excellent works that could catch his eye.

This is also something that can't be helped, the blood butterfly is very fierce in Yecheng, and now the major museums are in a hurry, the original exchange exhibition plan has been stopped, it is not easy to fill this art museum, those world-renowned masterpieces, no one dares to put them in the Yecheng Art Museum exhibition.

Director Chang walked and introduced the security measures to Gao Jue, but it still sounded so old-fashioned, and the camera in the museum was still very eye-catching. Although Director Chang boasted of tightening security measures, Gao Jue said that the museum's security was lax.

After all, Yecheng Art Museum is only a public welfare organization, and the usual funds mainly rely on appropriations.

Then again, even if Van Gogh's famous paintings were stolen here, it didn't have much impact on the museum, except for a little bit of reputation. After all, these famous paintings are insured with a large amount of insurance, and if they are stolen from the art museum, they do not need to be compensated by the art museum.

Director Chang led everyone to the largest glass booth in the center of the patio, he pointed to the booth more than one meter high, and said to Gao Jue with a smile: "Mr. Gao, your "Sleeping Beauty" will be exhibited here, as the finale of this exhibition, we have vacated the best showcase. ”

Gao Jue carefully looked at this display case, which is a three-meter-high marble wall, and at a height of one meter on the wall, a huge glass display case is shrouded, and the exhibits will be displayed in this display case.

Gao Jue looked at this glass display case, it takes three keys to open this display case, and the glass door is very heavy, it not only takes a ladder to open this glass door, but also takes a lot of effort.

But Gao Jue has seen the news, and a week ago, Van Gogh's famous painting "Sunflowers Cut with Two Knives" was displayed in this display case.

As the first theft, when the Yecheng Art Museum received a threat from the blood butterfly, they were very unimpressed, and the art museum could receive several copies of this kind of children's threat letter every day.

However, Director Chang still sent additional night guards, and deliberately divided the key to the display cabinet into three parts, locked one into the safe, and carried one with him, and the deputy curator with one.

Even so, under the watchful eye of several security guards in turn, "Sunflowers Cut with Two Knives" disappeared from the display case. This can make the Yecheng Art Museum anxious, they checked all the surveillance, the police also interrogated the night shift security guards, everyone said that they did not see half a figure, this famous painting disappeared mysteriously!

This incident caused a sensation in Yecheng, and everyone knows what happened later, Blood Butterfly committed crimes in succession in Yecheng Exhibition Hall and Yecheng Modern Art Museum, and stole two other precious modern artworks in full view.

Gao Jue looked at this display case, and assessed in his heart the difficulty of stealing the paintings from the display case, what method did this blood butterfly use to steal famous paintings from here?

Curator Chang coughed lightly, and he said to Gao Jue, "Mr. Gao, you can rest assured that we are secure here. Now that we're here, can you take a look at the work "Sleeping Beauty", I've admired Adam Galloway's masterpiece for a long time. ”

Gao Jue smiled and untied the picture tube that he had been carrying behind him, he opened the picture tube and poured out a large picture that had been rolled up.

The original work of this sleeping beauty is a one-meter-long enlarged photo, Director Chang and Wu Xueli held the photo, Hua Manrao opened the photo with a pilgrimage mood, and a black and white beauty appeared in front of everyone.

The background of this "Sleeping Beauty" is an American-style bed, on the bed lies a short-haired beauty with a bare back, the photographer's composition is very simple, the short-haired beauty can't see the face, the lower body is also covered by the sheets, only the smooth back and slender beautiful neck can be seen.

As soon as I saw the panorama of "Sleeping Beauty", Hua Manrao's eyes lit up, and it was indeed Adam Galloway's masterpiece, this work was the best choice in terms of lighting, composition, and effect, although the beauty on the bed only showed her back, she still showed amazing beauty, this work was simply amazing.

Gao Jue saw the reaction of the three people, and chuckled in his heart, this work is naturally real, this is Gao Jue's use of the "image completion algorithm", according to the four corners left after the burning of "Sleeping Beauty", reconstructed photos.

According to Mei Xing's analysis, even if Adam Galloway was reborn, he could not tell the difference between this work and the original work.

Wu Xueli is also immersed in the charm of artworks, only Director Chang, his heart is very excited, his art appreciation ability is average, as a manager, Director Chang sees more of the benefits of the food hall.

This work is very beautiful, and more importantly, it is said that this model is the wife of the former president of the United States, and this gimmick alone can attract countless people to visit.

Regardless of whether she is the wife of the current president or the wife of the former president, whether she is full or open-backed, anyway, the advertisement is promoted in an exaggerated way, Director Chang seems to see the overcrowded scene of the art museum, and the more he looks at Gao Jue, the more pleasing it is to the eye.

Hua Manrao and Wu Xueli were immersed in the charm of the artwork, and if it weren't for Director Chang's heavy cough, the two wouldn't know when they would have seen it.

Hua Manrao blushed slightly, after all, she looked at the photo of the beauty for a long time, and the corners of her mouth were still saliva, she wiped her saliva embarrassedly, looked at Gao Jue with begging eyes and said: "Mr. Gao, this work is so beautiful, please be sure to ask my framing company to make a frame for you!" ”

Director Chang is usually not less benefited by Hua Manrao, he coughed and said: "Mr. Gao, our art museum has cooperation with Ms. Hua's company, as long as you choose her exhibition frame, our art museum will pay the fee." ”

Gao Jue didn't care, after he nodded, Hua Manrao discussed it with Wu Xueli, Hua Manrao pointed to "Sleeping Beauty" and said: "Originally, modern artworks use wood grain beech wood frames, but this work has a retro beauty, I think you can use a retro moire frame, Shirley, what do you think?" ”

Wu Shirley also nodded, she said: "Indeed, this "Sleeping Beauty" reminds me of "Mona Lisa" and Venus with Broken Arm, using a modern camera to shoot the beauty of classicism, Adam Galloway is really a genius photographer." ”

Gao Jue left the matter of the picture frame to the two women, and he strolled alone to the outside of the exhibition hall, where in the center of the three garden houses in the shape of a zigzag was a marble obelisk.

Gao Jue walked in front of the obelisk, which was the place where the blood butterfly wrote the war book, and the piece of cardboard printed with the butterfly seal was pasted on the obelisk.

Gao Jue looked around, this is a small square of the art museum, and there is no place to install cameras around, that is to say, the blood butterfly is grandly pasting the war book here.

Gao Jue turned to look back at the art museum, a shadow enveloped the entire art museum, Gao Jue looked up, a butterfly-shaped cloud floated over the art museum, Gao Jue chuckled, and said to himself: "Just waiting for you to take the bait, blood butterfly." ”