Chapter 4 The Cost of Counterfeits
After chatting about this story, looking at some of the idle classmates who were down, Mu Duanming pointed to the front yard and said, "You must have seen the "Lin Quantu" imitating Ni Yunlin hanging in the store, what do you think?"
As he spoke, Mu Duanming went out, took down the painting with a pole, spread it on the table, handed over a magnifying glass, and beckoned Chang Xian to look at it.
This is a vertical scroll mounted ink on paper, the picture scroll is surrounded by clouds and mist, the mountains and trees are integrated, and a spring is falling, quite meaningful.
The Linquan Hermit is a popular theme in Chinese painting, and many people have painted it.
Chang Xian didn't know much about the painting, but took a closer look at some technical details, for example, the color of the brocade at the upper and lower ends of the painting heart is very new, indicating that it is newly framed, while the color of the painting itself is faintly yellowish, like autumn leaves, and it is really not short after many years.
After a while, Chang Xian raised his head and smiled: "This painting is very good, but I know it's fake, fake at a glance." ”
"Oh? How so? ”
At this time, Mu Duanming was a little surprised.
"I don't have much research on ancient paintings, and I can't say why."
Chang Xian said: "But this painting is not clean, a little dirty." ”
It was obviously a clean painting, and there was nothing dirty on it, but Mu Duanming just understood, and nodded: "What else?" ”
Chang Xian smiled, pointed to the hermit in the painting, and said, "There shouldn't be him in the painting." ”
Mu Duanming was happy and said, "Your kid's identification method is also a bit interesting, and it doesn't take the usual path." ”
Chang Xian doesn't know how to draw, but he knows Ni Yunlin.
Painting is like its person, and it is not easy to be eternal.
In the end, Chinese painting must be the appearance of human bones, and no one can hide it.
People who are obsessed with cleanliness are also spotless in their paintings.
People are the cleanest people, and the paintings are also the cleanest paintings in the history of Chinese painting.
Even Tang Bohu's teacher, Shen Zhoulin, copied Ni Yunlin's paintings, but he lacked the heat, and he often got dirty when he painted.
Fan Wang Meng, Jian Yunlin.
Jian Dan Xuanyuan faction, Ni Yunlin wants to say second, no one dares to say first.
There is also a detail, when others paint landscapes, they all have character scenes, either "Fuqin and Waterfall", or "Riding a Donkey with a Cane", but Ni Yunlin's paintings, there is no one.
Someone asked him back then, is this for Mao?
The master rolled his eyes and muttered: "Cut, in this world, how can there be a real person!" ”
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The two laughed, and Chang Xian said: "I'm a sword that goes off the rails, objectively speaking, if such a thing is carefully packaged and designed, it is possible for people to take medicine." ”
Mu Duanming nodded and said, "We don't talk about other things, we just talk about being old." ”
He lifted a corner and twisted it with his fingers: "Look at the paper yellow."
Chang Xian looked down and found that the yellow of the paper was evenly distributed and the texture was dry.
"For unintentional fakes, the paper yellow is bitten out with smoke or tea dirt, with different shades, and the yellowing line and the texture of the paper are often inconsistent. And this yellow floats on the surface and falls off as soon as you rub it. ”
"Come over and give it a try."
Chang Xian stretched out his fingers and rubbed it, but it didn't fade.
"Awesome! Good job of being old. “
"This looks mysterious, but it's easy to say."
Mu Duanming showed a hint of sarcasm on his face, stretched out his right hand, and poked out three fingers and said, "One or two gardenias, a bag of black tea, and ten acorns!"
"One or two gardenias, a packet of black tea, ten acorns? What is this?"
What is the Chinese medicine prescription or the drink formula?
Chang Xian is really confused now.
"The gardenia water is brown, the tea is deep red, and the water boiled from the acorn shells is ochre yellow. With these three colors, you can bring out the old color and fragrant gray you want. ”
"In addition, there is a lamp in the hospital, an ultraviolet lamp for disinfection, which shines twenty-four hours a day, just over a hundred years."
"Why, paper absorbs so many ultraviolet rays in a hundred years. With this water and ultraviolet irradiation to embrittle, it is really seamless, and the effect is much better than using tea scale alone. ”
"This thing is the cost of a pot of herbal tea, how much does it cost to sell? Ten thousand times? 100,000 times?"
"For the sake of 30% of the profit, capital dares to take risks, and for the sake of 100% profit, it dares to trample on all laws. How much profit is made on antiques? I'm afraid that Wall Street doesn't have such huge profits, right?"
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When Chang Xian's face returned to calm and seemed to have been completely digested, Mu Duanming continued: "The second is to figure out the positioning."
"Take the character you brought as an example, at five o'clock this character is placed in Yuan Hanyun's study, that is a work of art, there is only one standard, that is, artistic attainment."
"Put it in my store after five o'clock, that is the product, and there is only one standard, that is, how much it is worth and how much profit it has."
"The former speaks of the value of the object itself, and the latter speaks of the price that the object brings."
"The value is constant, but the price is multifaceted. The value of Yuan Hanyun's words can never be higher than that of Mr. Hua Shikui, a master of our Jinmen, but the current price is higher than that of Mr. Hua, and the gap may become bigger and bigger in the future. Why is that?"
Chang Xian muttered: "Words are passed on from person to person. Yuan Hanyun has many halos of Yuan Shikai's son, the fourth son of the Republic of China, and the leader of the Green Gang, and he is definitely the number one person in the Republic of China. Naturally, there are a lot more bonuses in the price range that are not artistic attainments. ”
"Yes, I heard Nanshi say that the younger brother is quite accomplished in calligraphy, and there are two kinds of people in the history of calligraphy, one is that the characters are passed on from person to person, such as Wang Xizhi, Yan Zhenqing, Su Dongpo and so on; There is also a type of people to pass on the word, such as Mi Fu, Zhao Mengfu, Wang Duo, etc., the word to the person is close to the Tao, the person to the word is good at the skill, the style is high. “
Mu Duanming is a sage: "Yuan Hanyun was an artist when he was studying in the study, and once he placed an order in Rong Bao Zhai, he was a worker who served the goods."
"The most difficult threshold in this industry is how to cross the threshold of art, the threshold of family and country feelings, and become a businessman who deals in art.
His words became more and more straightforward: "The most important thing for businessmen is to observe the market, the price of the hole, last year the market was popular to play stamps, let's go to find monkey stamps, a piece of red, blue army post, black inscription; This year, walnuts are popular in the market, so let's go and tinker with the lion's head; Tourmaline will be popular in the market next year, so buy a ticket to Liangshan and Baoshan immediately. ”
"Calligraphy and painting is a major category of collection, we have a master Fan in Jinmen, I don't know how to say his artistic attainments, but his things are expensive, let's go to his door and wait to turn over the waste paper basket, cheeky to collect. The calligraphy and painting of Baijiao is a must in Shanghai, and the price is seriously underestimated, even if the level is a mountain higher than Master Fan, then we must be careful and careful. ”
"I'm in Tun Tang Bohu now, not because Tang Bohu is famous, his things were tens of thousands of dollars a few years ago, and now it's up, last year a small fan in Hanhai was auctioned for 280,000, the situation is very fierce, I estimate that I have to run for millions in front of the bar."
"Our positioning should be clear, we are doing this business, doing this for a living, eating this food, not the Museum of Culture and History, not the museum, their research is an academic career, our research is a means, a means to make money."
often idle and don't talk much, holding a tea cup in his hand, thoughtful.
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