Gu Weijing saw the [0\1000] progress bar on this skill panel.

This skill has no cooldown, but it costs free XP to activate it, and it's not cheap.

Fifty free XP.

Activating a skill once is equivalent to 1 million kyats thrown out.

Although his business on Fiverr is much better now than before, when he upgraded his Chinese painting to the level of a professional painter, the remaining free experience points are only a little more than a few hundred.

If he fed this skill to the 1,000 times required to level up, it would require 50,000 free XP points, which is enough for him to upgrade his drawing skill to 10 times at the first level of a profession, which is 500,000 dollars.

But Gu Weijing knew,

The appraisal and appreciation of calligraphy and painting has always been a very professional thing, and inviting people to look at paintings and talk about paintings is like asking a treasure connoisseur to look at antiques, which has never been cheap.

It is not difficult to find out where the other artist is inferior to his own level and find out where the other party is wrong.

Just like he doesn't need calligraphy and painting appraisal skills, Gu Weijing can also analyze Sakai Tsunamasa's sketching level based on his own painting experience, hovering around the Lv.3 semi-professional level in the middle of the range.

But when it came to Professor Lin Tao, the other party's sketches were good, and he knew it.

How good the painting is, where is the good, Gu Weijing can only express a vague feeling.

Aesthetics is an abstract concept, and everyone has an instinct to feel beauty.

However, to be able to accurately evaluate and understand beauty, we must appreciate and observe the vision tempered by famous paintings and sufficient artistic accomplishment.

A lot of people don't have that ability,

Even Gu Weijing didn't dare to say that he had it.

For those works that are too much higher than his own level, even he can only sigh meaningfully in shock.

Just like Cao Lao in the "Buddha Protector Map", he painted the moment when the Bodhisattva opened his eyes.

Gu Weijing felt a tremor in his soul.

This shock is the contagious power of the master.

But from the professional point of view of painting, does he really understand this painting?

He knew what kind of skill Cao Lao's fluttering stroke revealed, and he understood how the emotions in the other party's heart were surging?

This is difficult to capture accurately.

That's why professional curators and art critics are so important for the painting and calligraphy industry.

The influence of these people on the trend of painting art is even higher than that of the painter himself.

Even the godfathers of many art circles and the directors of museums, portrait galleries, and art galleries are not painters, but professional art critics or curators.

They don't need to know how to draw, they just need to know how to appreciate it.

Want to invite these people to see the paintings?

Five hundred dollars?

I'm sorry, who do you look down on?

Trouble at least add two more zeros to the end, and you can't please it yet.

To take a more intuitive example, a work of art is like a smooth drop of water in the three-body problem, or a moon stele with a ratio of 1:4:9 in the pen of science fiction writer Clark.

And everyone's eye for beauty is the microscope in the hands of scientists.

Everyone's natural magnification is slightly different, and with the improvement of art courses and artistic accomplishments, your magnification will become larger and larger, and your observation ability will become more and more refined.

There is no perfect work in the world, and if it seems to you that a painting is incredible, it means that the level of the painter is too much higher than yours.

Of course, if your magnification is too small, it's easy to see that everything is the same, and you can't understand some art forms that are too advanced.

This is the reason why some unlucky masters will disappear into the dust.

Although Gu Weijing is not rich, if fifty experience points can disassemble a work from beginning to end, from lines to colors, it is undoubtedly very worthwhile.

I was guided by a top art teacher to make progress.

He walked around the shop and pressed his finger to a painting in the gallery called "Kingfisher Singing Bamboo".

This is a work received by his uncle.

Gu Weijing had always felt that this painting was a bit strange before, but he couldn't say how strange it was.

He threw out a calligraphy and painting appraisal technique.

The next second,

The whole picture changes.

The paintings hanging on the walls quickly disintegrated right before his eyes.

The beak, cheeks, and silk feathers of the kingfisher are crimson with carmine-colored hooks, and hundreds of clear tail feathers......

All the elements on the rice paper are like spring silkworms stripped of by the dexterous hands of a peasant woman, and they are decomposed little by little.

Gu Weijing seemed to have a light curtain in his mind.

The paint and lines of the whole painting are like crystals shattered by a hammer, and they explode into countless colorful and beautiful pieces in an instant.

And again in a very short period of time and again again.

A new panel appeared in front of Gu Weijing.

[Title: "Kingfisher Singing Bamboo"]

[Chinese Painting Technique: Lv.4 Career 1st Order (3968/5000)]

[Mood: perfunctory]

Gu Weijing blinked, the painting in front of him was still the same painting, but a new sense of enlightenment appeared in the bottom of his heart.

When he once again looked at the kingfisher hanging in front of the gallery, he could almost clearly feel the artist's brushwork and thoughts.

The sky is high and the clouds are light, and the winged kingfisher falls on the lotus flower on the river......

Hey?

Lotus? River?

He knew why he thought the painting was strange.

The kingfisher is also known as the kingfisher fisherman in the Chinese painting tradition.

Because kingfishers are good at fishing, they are often paired with scenes such as lotus flowers and rivers in the artistic conception of Chinese painting.

But this picture is called "Kingfisher Singing Bamboo", and it wants to show the mountain forest scene, and there is not a drop of water in the whole picture.

"Why did you think of lotus?"

He felt that the mood of the painting was strange, as if it had been deliberately cut from the middle.

Gu Weijing's gaze fell on a place in the bamboo joint, which was particularly heavy, like a splash of ink.

"Original...... Is that so? ”

He thought with his chin propped up.

Gu Weijing saw that there were no customers in the store at this time, and there were guards standing at the door, so there shouldn't be any chaos. He took the painting from the wall of the gallery and took it into the house.

He had already guessed what was going on with the painting.

If his guess was correct, it should be a fragment.

It's all too normal for artists to have unexpected variables when they are drawing.

Sometimes it's a change in the way you want to paint, and sometimes it's just a mistake.

For example, the color is not adjusted properly, the brush accidentally clicks on the paper, or the dry work falls to the ground and someone steps on a black footprint in the blank space......

This situation has been encountered by many art students.

If you are painting in oil, you can use a painting knife and a spatula, or simply cover it with a different color when you paint the next layer, but you can't do that with rice paper.

If you don't want the whole painting to be scrapped, you have to redraw it from scratch.

There is some ridicule in the traditional cross talk of Dongxia, the painter paints the fan - the beauty painting can be changed to Zhang Fei if he makes a mistake, and the painting Zhang Fei mistakes to change the willow tree, and finally it is all painted into a black fan and rewritten with gold characters.

Although this is an exaggeration, this is not uncommon.

Gu Weijing wanted to verify his conjecture, and he felt that the bamboo in this painting should have been changed later.

"Grandpa, is there something wrong with this painting?"

"What's the problem?"

Hearing Gu Weijing's questioning, grandfather Gu Tongxiang hadn't said anything yet, and his aunt had already frowned.

"Is there a problem with the drawing paper, or is the picture damaged or smudged. Impossible, when we bought the goods, our old Gu checked it, did you not pay attention to it when you looked at the store by yourself a few years ago, and the painting was dirty. If you don't know how to do business, forget it, and make trouble for your family......"

She began to babble accusations.

This painting is not the work of Gu Tongxiang, but an art agent who is familiar with the uncle in charge of the store.

In the calligraphy and painting market, there are big fish and small fish, and there are shrimp under small fish.

Gu's Calligraphy and Painting Shop and Komatsu Gallery are shabby like street stalls, but in this part of Yangon, it can be regarded as a big deal in the gallery.

Yangon's high-end galleries are mainly concentrated in a few of the two areas.

One is the banks of the Yangon River, where daily cruises come and go, and there are several similar painting and calligraphy shops scattered along the streets of the wealthy northern districts and the Golden Villages, where diplomats are concentrated.

The main caters of these galleries are foreign tourists.

The rest is scattered in various shopping streets, snack streets, alleys selling tourist souvenirs, etc., which are more crowded calligraphy and painting night markets.

Most of the works sold here are painted by students of the Academy of Fine Arts, hanging like dried rags on wires or spread on the ground.

There is a certain industrial gap between a small art gallery-style art gallery like Gu's Calligraphy and Painting Shop and this kind of small stall that cannot be put on the table.

In the small stalls on the street, even if there are occasional fine products, they cannot be sold at a high price.

And Gu's calligraphy and painting shop is not big enough to have a complete range of subordinate contracted agents and agent artists like those large galleries, providing a steady stream of paintings.

Basically, the only fixed "signed" artist is the old man Gu Tongxiang.

In the past few years, the old man has been old, and Gu Weijing is too young to be well-known, so many times he needs small art agents and second-hand dealers to buy goods.

These agents have a bit of connections, and they'll collect good art and antique paintings in the corners of the city, or get a few works from local painters they know well through various connections.

If you can find a buyer, sell it yourself.

If you can't find a painting for sale, send it to the secondary market like Gu's calligraphy and painting shop, and ask the calligraphy and painting shop if it is willing to sell it or take it away.

This has formed an industrial chain.

This picture of "Kingfisher Singing Bamboo" was collected by Gu Weijing's uncle from an art dealer for more than 2 million kyats.

It's about a thousand dollars, which is not cheap for a calligraphy and painting shop of their size.

When she saw her nephew say that there was something wrong with the painting, her aunt was immediately unhappy.