Thomas turned to the camera and said—

"All seven of the drawings will be printed on the new mugs on my personal shopping site."

The specific shopping link will be pinned to the top of the comment section below the video, and it will be shipped randomly after purchase. You only need to spend five dollars to get a 1 in 7 chance of getting a million dollars worth of the same art, remember, log in ......"

As is customary, Thomas reads a large advertising message in front of the camera to bring goods to his personal shopping website.

The insurance commissioner on one side had also opened the handbag that was fastened to his belt by a locked handcuff behind him to prevent being robbed.

He pulled out seven illustrations wrapped in velvet cloth.

The area of each illustration is not large, which is the size of a children's book.

All seven illustrations, regardless of whether they are high or low, use the most exquisite mahogany frames and thickened glass panels.

In addition to uniform mounting.

In order to prevent accidental disclosure to Anna about the illustrator of the author.

Only a handful of the staff present knew the value of the illustrations, and even the insurance commissioner in charge did not know which of the seven drawings was worth a million dollars.

After Thomas finishes the commercial, he flips the frame through the velvet cloth.

He pointed to an area on the back of each of the seven paintings that was covered with stickers, and that was the name of the artist for each painting.

After the comparison of the seven illustrations, the true price of the illustrations will be revealed to the audience at the end.

He took a few blank cards from the staff, divided them into four groups, kept one for himself, and distributed the rest to the crowd along with markers.

The rules are like this –

It's similar to the previous $1 to $1 million challenge videos that selected the favorite water sports, favorite cars, and favorite special effects.

Anna as an art critic and Thomas as a collector.

The insurance officer of the insurance company and a black guy who was randomly selected from the fans to participate in the video represent the perspective of all ordinary viewers.

The four of them will work as judges to score each work.

Of these, only Mr. Hyperion knows the true price of each piece.

The full score is 10 points, the minimum score is 0 points, and the winner is the winner with the highest score by the sum of the 4 judges.

Thomas was not in a hurry to lift the flannel that covered the frame.

It's not the same as a sports car yacht.

He knows that many of his audience have no basic understanding of art, and they don't know what kind of paintings are valuable and what kind of paintings are not.

Therefore, he first pointed to the camera and said to Anna.

"Before the evaluation, can you tell our audience what kind of market the illustration market is through the profession?"

"In a popular sense, illustration is an art form that presents textual content, stories, and ideas in a visual way. It can be painted in a variety of forms, it can be a pen drawing, a colored pencil drawing, a marker drawing, or even an oil painting, but generally the painting is not too large and the color is ......"

"How expensive can the world's most expensive illustration be?"

Knowing that his audience wasn't here for an art lesson, Thomas hurriedly threw up a question that made the average person look at it more.

"It's hard to say that illustrators are not so [artistic] in the stereotype of ordinary people compared to oil painters. They have more works and lower unit prices, but the price of illustrations fluctuates very much, and the most expensive ones are ......."

Anna frowned in thought.

"What do you mean by not being so 'art'?"

Thomas caught the other man's words.

"How do you say it, it's like the content of your request is Batman......"

"Batman and my collaboration, to be precise, my personal peripherals, thank you." Thomas interjected.

"Say whatever you want. I mean, it's hard to imagine that painters like Titian, Monet, and Van Gogh would paint the subject of popular fiction in society at the time, just as Picasso wouldn't have painted Sherlock Holmes and Watson's portraits. But illustration is different, and the day of the birth of illustration and comics is connected to pop culture. ”

"For example, Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, the specific value of these cartoon characters is difficult to estimate, and if you want to include the IP value, it should be more than a billion dollars. One of the best-selling children's books in the world, "The Wind in the Willows", the artist Shep's version of the illustration is even more expensive than Greenham's own text story. Even if you want to have the original illustrations for the first Harry Potter novels, someone is willing to pay a premium for them. ”

"If you don't consider IP, how much can you sell for a simple sketch? One dollar, ten dollars...... All the way up to a million dollars, what kind of illustrations can be bought in the art market? ”

"One million is already the top price in the industry for small-sized illustrations. The illustration content that can be sold at this price is all the top artists in the industry, not only with mature art styles, but also with a certain historical story. For example, the most famous illustrator in modern times should be Norman Rockwell, a student of the anatomical painter George Berliman, and the German "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung" once commented that his illustration art has reached the peak of the 20th century. ”

"Norman Rockwell, I think I've heard that name in middle school class?"

Thomas said.

"Of course you should have heard of it." The girl was not surprised.

"The pinnacle of Norman Rockwell's lifetime achievement was the creation of the Four Freedoms series during World War II at the behest of President Roosevelt to boost national morale. Some have compared the newspaper that published the series to the Declaration of Independence printed in the Philadelphia Evening News. ”

"He also received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from Congress, the highest honor a New World citizen can receive in his life," Anna tipped a strand of her hair back to the back of her head. ”

"One million, is the top artist?"

"The top strokes, the most gimmicky stories, and the market's sought after. That's why I said, since you're not the president, and it's not World War II, it's not a good choice to spend a million on a proposition. ”

Anna nodded and made a generous joke: "It's a pity that the person who most resembles Roosevelt in this room is not you." ”

She is very beautiful and cold, and this smile has the feeling that the ice is melting and the flowers are blooming.

(Note: Like Anna, President Roosevelt was famously handicapped with a disability.) ）

"100,000 to 1 million dollars, this price can usually buy the work of top artists, but it doesn't need to be supported by too many historical events. For example, at Christmast's recent Himalayan Art Sale, an illustration by an Indian artist depicting Hindu mythology was auctioned. “

ANNA GRABBED AN IPAD FROM THE CARETAKER AND CLICKED ON AN ILLUSTRATION OF A GOD AND A FAIRY WITH A CROWN IN THE JUNGLE.

The information above shows that this beautiful illustration was once used as a blueprint for nineteenth-century French and English books on Indian religion.

"The original painting of this painting is very good."

Anna enlarged the picture and commented.

"The brushstrokes are fine. It starts at $80,000 and is estimated to sell for around $120,000 to $200,000. But buyers seemed to like the painting that day, and the auctioneer had a good ability to stir up the mood, and the final price was $585,000. This figure is much higher than the market expects. ”

"Ten thousand dollars to a hundred thousand dollars. At this price, you can find very experienced second-tier painters, who may not be top artists, but everyone has their own mature art style, which is also a common price for high-end manuscripts. The biggest clients of these painters on a day-to-day basis are film companies. You see in the cinema those beautiful art posters before the new movie goes online, most of them are the work of artists in this price range. ”

"About $5,000, in addition to not thinking too much about the art component, you can hire a good professional illustrator, which is the price of a large daily order in a small painting studio."

"About a thousand dollars, I don't have to ask for more, but you can still get an appointment for what seems to be a past work, and as for less than five hundred dollars, sorry, that's not my area of expertise."

Anna's lips pursed slightly in a mean-looking arc.

"What do you mean it's not your area of expertise?"

"Not absolutely, but generally, it's a substandard work of art."

Anna thought about it and still commented.

An art critic is not the same as an appraiser at an auction house.

The latter needs to try to discover the merits of a work, which is related to the commission and the commission of the unsuccessful auction.

Art critics, on the other hand, are more vicious on a daily basis, they need to find the shortcomings of a painting, and identify the deceitful ones from the painter community to abuse them.

Don't look at Anna in a wheelchair as a cold and talkative little queen, her writing in the art weekly has always been known for being mean and ruthless, but it is not an old painter with no hair and a gray beard who has been scolded and cried by her.

She was such a person who went her own way, or she wouldn't have been willing to accept Thomas's invitation.

Anna is not short of money, art is just her spiritual sustenance.

She doesn't have a good impression of low-cost painters who work part-time online. She wants to expose the work of these artists.

In the field of art,

She has always thought that if you don't have confidence in yourself, how can you let others have confidence in you? And how can you make the market have confidence in you?

Anna knew that the price was usually not a work of art.

The vast majority of them are online work-study art students or amateur painting enthusiasts, and it is a very happy thing for them to be able to sell a commissioned illustration.

Otherwise, her evaluation would not have been so polite as "unqualified". According to her character, it would be nice not to call each other garbage.

"Alright, let's start with the first picture." Anna unveiled the canvas on a painting.