"Is that what the magazine's board of directors meant, or what do you mean, Mr. Brown?"

The girl asked calmly.

"It's ...... Everyone's decision. Mr. Brown said slowly: "We are not the only art criticism magazine with a long history in Europe, and the magazine "Oil Painting" is also facing a lot of market competition. ”

"Is that so?"

Anna seemed a little distracted.

Sir Brown thought he had moved Anna, and said in a seductive tone: "The profits of traditional media all over the world have been declining rapidly over the past decade. Although we are an old publication, the times are different now, and even the newspaper founded by the Queen of Sweden has lost money to the point of cessation, which who would have imagined in the past. You have also seen the chronology of the annual magazine's revenue. ”

"It's for the common good of our magazine." He licked his lips.

"Common interests?"

Anna looked out at the brown walls of the quaintly furnished office.

Portraits of the heads of the "Oil Painting" magazine hang there. Generations of elders of the Elena family have left their mark on it.

The foremost part of the wall belongs to the old earl, the founder of the magazine. The Count is dressed in the dress of a senior army officer, which is the uniform attire of the great nobles of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

Unlike the flamboyant French royal family, the Austro-Hungarian Empire had a military tradition, and even the emperor liked to dress himself up as a captain officer on a daily basis.

The old count, who is neither armed with a cavalry knife nor a pistol at his waist, sits sideways behind a long walnut table in his office, holding a small picture frame in his left hand and a burning pipe between the fingers of his right hand.

Sir Brown noticed Anna's gaze and seduced her with reason: "The magazine has been the work of the Elena family for generations, and you want it to be better, right?" We are certainly an art magazine, but we are also a business magazine, and a business magazine must consider the impact of society. ”

"I see." Anna bowed slightly.

"It's a necessary effort." Sir Brown's heart was relieved, and a smile eased the tension that had just become tense, "I know that you admire that network painter and have your own insistence. But sometimes, in order to survive until the next spring, the violin has to be chopped into firewood to keep warm. Whether the detective cat draws well or not, whether it has artistic attainments, is an insignificant matter in front of the future of the magazine. ”

"Go write an apology letter, if you're willing to give us a call, I've got Vandoorne's contact information."

Sir Brown picked up the landline telephone on the table.

"No...... I refuse. Anna shook her head.

Sir Brown froze, the smile on his face fading.

"Kid! This is not only in the interests of the magazine, but also for your good. ”

He became a little angry: "If you notify me before accepting any invitation to shoot Mr. Hyperion's video, I will not allow you to participate in this kind of show. Why are other critics reluctant to participate in this kind of offending thing, Anna, haven't you thought about it!"

"Please stop preaching, Mr. Levinson Brown."

Anna held out her palm and stopped Sir Brown's rambling.

She tilted her head slightly and looked the chairman in the eye.

"From the moment I stepped into this office, I endured your humiliation all the time, tea, coffee, Filipino preserves, what kind of conversation do you think this is...... Principal disciplining disobedient female students? ”

She was a young girl, but Anna's voice was majestic.

Her voice was cold and capable, and compared with Sir Brown, whose beard was white, she seemed to be a superior person in a wheelchair.

"I'm fed up with you pretending to be a gracious priest leading the lost lamb. Chairman Brown, please observe at least a little workplace courtesy. Call me Ms. Elena, or Editor Elena. I am not your child, and I have never allowed you to call me by my name. ”

"Besides, you seem to have misunderstood what I was here for. I'm not here to beg for your forgiveness, I'm just here to inform you of my grievances. I am an editor hired by a magazine. It is my right and my job to express my personal opinion on the field of art. You can fire me if you don't want to, but I'm not going to be coerced into changing any of my opinions, good is good, bad is bad. I love detective cats, I hate Vandoorne, it's as simple as that. ”

"It's not about art, it's about reality? What a hellish joke this is, the reason why Oil Painting magazine has been able to survive for 200 years is not because of its financial reports and profitability, but because of its persistence in art. ”

Anna said coldly, "I just kept thinking that if my ancestor was here today, then he would definitely throw his pipe in your face and tell you-"

"Everything that happens in this building is only about art."

Anna turned her wheelchair around and left the conference room without hesitation.

As soon as she left the building and went out on the street, her mobile phone vibrated and she received an email from the personnel department of the magazine.

"Miss, they won't really dare to fire you."

The nurse's voice was a little nervous, she had just been waiting at the door when she heard an argument coming from the office.

This is a magazine that has been the result of generations of the Elena family.

"Leave notice?"

Anna turned on her phone, glanced at it, and the corners of her mouth pursed.

No matter how angry Sir Brown was, he still didn't have the courage to fire Anna directly.

He simply informed the Personnel Department that Miss Elena was not fit to continue working at the relevant magazine in the field of visual arts due to her lack of social experience, and that she had taken an indefinite sabbatical.

In the email,

Sir Brown also suggested in a polite but rather flandest tone that it would be better for a little girl of her age to stay in an ivory tower and go on to a master's degree or something.

I was ordered to take a vacation!

That is, the legal proverb in the popular sense of Europe and the United States - "garden holiday".

In Western workplace culture, the company's management, core personnel or senior employees are judged to be unsuitable for their current positions due to scandals, non-compete restrictions, internal investigations, etc.

Officials will ask employees to leave their jobs on mandatory reasons such as "going on a trip", "keeping company with family", "having a pet", or "taking the time to tidy up the garden at home".

This is a euphemism for "you're suspended."

Sir Brown is using his practical actions to show that the magazine is very unwelcoming to her.

Anna thought for a moment, opened the official website of "Oil Painting" magazine with her mobile phone, entered the relevant information of the detective cat, and clicked search.

[Unfortunately, there are 0 pages and 0 search results under the current keyword, and there is no such person.] Please check your keywords and try again. 】

The buyer's recommendation for the detective cat has been completely removed from the website, as Sir Brown said.

This was a very big blow to the artist's reputation.

It means that the painter himself has nothing to do in the eyes of professional art critics, and instead of lowering your rating, he directly deleted you.

Anna stared at the phone screen for a few seconds and turned on the Whatsapp chat tool.

She sent a message to the detective cat.

"If you're really thinking about attending the next edition of the Salon of Art Criticism, come on."

Faced with the detective cat's previous request, the girl has not made up her mind.

In her mind, Detective Cat is a master of sketching and illustration.

However, aesthetic attainments and painting skills are never positively correlated.

It is normal for an online illustrator to have congenital deficiencies, and if she wants to become the other party's agent, there is a reason why she wants to lead the cultivation of the other party's aesthetic cultivation and aesthetic ability little by little.

Now that he has the artistic endorsement of the oil painting magazine, there is no need to let the other party risk embarrassment because of the unhappiness between himself and Van Doorne.

Moreover, many painters are born wooden and not good at expression.

Now, with Chairman Brown revoking the recommended rating of the detective cat. This is worse than before I didn't give the other party a two-and-a-half-star rating.

It almost confirms Van Doorne's assertion that the Detective Cat is an aesthetically incompetent monkey.

Anna, who had been suspended, couldn't help the other party anymore.

The only thing she can do is provide the other party with a platform to prove herself.

And those who can help detective cats,

Only herself.

"Don't be reckless." Watching the message come out, she was worried in her heart.

**

A few days later,

Dulwich College International Yangon, Opening Ceremony.

“…… As is customary, this year's school party will be held on May 14, Rose Valentine's Day, and students in grades 7 to 13 will be required to prepare their formal attire for the evening. The softball field on campus will be renovated and closed to clubs. If you are interested in opening a new club, please submit the application form to the Student Union Office on the third floor of the North Teaching Building before 3 p.m. this Friday......"

Dressed in a black jacket, beige knitted shirt, and dark blue bow tie, Miss Mona is giving her opening speech.

There was silence in the auditorium.

Yangon accounts for five of the eight international secondary schools in Myanmar, and this British-style private secondary school is best known for its arts education.

The school is located on the outskirts of the city and covers an area of about 80,000 square meters.

In addition to general education, there are also three additional art courses in classical music, sculpture, and painting.

Miss Mona is the president of the school's Girls' Student Council.

In an international high school, the student council has a lot of power and is responsible for organizing all aspects of the school's social activities.

When applying to a great foreign university, in addition to hard grades, extracurricular activities, letters of recommendation, interviews, and even daily social service are very important.

Gu Weijing, who was sitting in the corner seat at the back of the senior group, sighed.

HE WAS VERY FAMILIAR WITH THE CONTENT OF MISS MONA'S ANNUAL LECTURE AT THE BEGINNING OF SCHOOL, AND AFTER LISTENING TO IT FOR A WHILE, SEEING THAT NO ONE WAS PAYING ATTENTION, HE QUIETLY TOOK OUT HIS IPAD FROM HIS SCHOOL BAG.

Whether it's tuning, painting, or modeling.

Art students often use the professional software on tablets, so the use of electronic devices is not prohibited in schools.

Gu Weijing opened Apple's official podcast and clicked on the private radio station in his favorites - [Artists Review By Mr.Folivora]

The page jumps to Mr. Sloth's podcast channel.

The background poster of the channel's homepage is Van Gogh's famous painting "Starry Night", and the host's photo column shows a fat sloth with palm-colored hair.

Below are the podcast ratings.

At present, it shows that a total of 190,000 people have subscribed, and more than 407,600 people have scored, and the overall score is 4.8 points.

In the field of art podcasts, this rating and popularity are already very good, and even surpassed NBC's "The Sound of Art" in this week's category rankings.

The podcast homepage has been updated with a new radio poster - [Art Salon Series Issue 9: When Classical Meets Modern, Talk about the Light and Shadow of Painting Art with Mr. Tonks, Director of the Taylor National Art Gallery, and Detective Cat, an online illustrator (next Tuesday at 8 p.m., online on time)]

As in previous art salons, below the title is a Keynote (similar to Apple PowerPoint) file for fans to download.

In total, five works of art are included in the file.

These works were selected by the director of the Taylors Museum of Art from the contributions of podcast fans and made him feel good.

Originally, there were only four paintings, one of which was a watercolor painting and three were oil paintings.

After Anna decided to add another guest, worried that the detective cat would not be able to read the paintings, she specially picked one more sketch, a total of five paintings.

The format of this salon revolves around these five drawings, where everyone chats with each other and expresses their personal views and opinions.

The total duration is about 40 minutes.

The post-production of the audio file is not complicated, this kind of three-guest chat-style salon, it is good to make a timeline after the recording.

The podcast will be available next Tuesday, and the recording will be scheduled for the end of the week.

Anna passed Gu Weijing a link to an online conference room, calculating the time difference, it should be late at night on Friday, Yangon time.

There's still a week to go,

Gu Weijing has already begun intensive preparations.

First, he needs to process his voice.

The network voice changer for male voices to female voices is everywhere on the Internet.

To be on the safe side, he bought a voice-changing voice card on Amazon that can be used for a long time to adjust the thickness of his voice.

After trying the effect, he was still quite satisfied with the gentle female voice.

Then it's about the preparation of the salon content.

Fans of high-quality art podcasts have contributed to Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, and even some professional painters who have become famous.

And the works that can make the director of the Taylor National Art Gallery in the United Kingdom interested in commenting are very high.

In order to have a clear and accurate judgment of these works, there are even several works that require him to repeat the calligraphy and painting appraisal technique more than once.

Gu Weijing had used up almost all the free experience points he had accumulated these days, and he looked very tired.

I want to impress the audience enough in the art salon to testify for the detective cat and the art critic named Miss Elena,

This is undoubtedly a necessary effort.

The people I talk to are all bigwigs in the art circle.

Needless to say, Mr. Sloth, the other Mr. Tonks is the director of the Taylor National Art Gallery in England.

Located on the east bank of the River Thames in the United Kingdom, the Taylor National Art Gallery is one of the most popular art galleries in the world, funded by sugar tycoon Taylor Henry, and has four branches in Liverpool and Scotland, making it the largest non-national art gallery run by a private foundation in the United Kingdom.

The A&HCI publication "Taylor Art" mentioned by Uncle Sakai is their professional journal.

Being able to talk to such a big bull is a rare opportunity, but at the same time, it is also full of crises in the dark.

As the classic French proverb goes, a salon can make a polymath famous overnight, or it can leave the ignorant in the name for a thousand years.

There is a saying in the entertainment industry about "pressing the play",

A little fresh meat and an old actor play against each other, and they may not be able to open their mouths because they can't say two lines, or they will be overwhelmed by the other party's momentum, or they will become exaggerated and incongruous.

This is the crushing of acting,

In the end, it was presented as the effect of the show, the better the old drama bones played, the worse the little fresh meat played.

A more classic example is a natural actor like Xiao Li Zi in "The Wolf of Wall Street", who was a little suppressed by the veteran actor Matthew McConaughey when he was in the play.

It's the same with conversational salon podcasts, as soon as the connoisseur opens his mouth, he will know if there is one.

Several experts who have been immersed in the industry for many years talk to each other, and the kind of in-depth collision of thinking and hearty brainstorming naturally make the audience fascinated.

But if there is one person who is a clearly weak layman.

When someone talks to you about lines, colors, and emotions of a painting, you don't even know which painting the other person is talking about, so the audience still sprays you without discussion.

This is especially true in a niche field like art, where there are more capable professionals in the audience, and there is no door to get through the tricks and tricks.

Mr. Tonks may not have been the most academically regarded guest of honour by Mr. Sloth in the past.

But this detective cat is definitely the painter with the thinnest "resume" who appeared in this podcast in the past year.

is so thin that even Gu Weijing is a little surprised that this Mr. Sloth, who has never met before, is really willing to agree to be a guest on the other party's podcast.

Below the poster, many veteran fans of the show have also expressed their incomprehension of Mr. Sloth's decision.

"Detective cats? Who's the detective cat......"

"An online painter who was very popular some time ago, the first online illustrator in history to appear in the "Oil Painting" magazine. However, talking to Mr. Sloth seems to be a bit incompetent. ”

"That online painter who makes a living drawing anime illustrations? I read the report on "The Moon" and it doesn't seem to be very high about her. ”

"There's no need to talk about the news in third-rate newspapers like THE Moon, their words are disgusting...... But having said that, I did worry a little bit about the quality of this episode. Detective Cat and the other two guests are not people of the same world at all, can they talk together? ”

It is said that the artist Van Doorn questioned the professionalism of the magazine "Oil Painting", believing that he and the detective cat could only keep one, and did not know whether the news was true or not. But "Oil Painting" does seem to have deleted the page about the detective cat. You say, will this participation in the art salon be an opportunity for the detective cat to fight back? ”

"It's good to fight back, don't be ashamed. She's like a broom star. I heard that Miss Elena in Oil Painting magazine was affected. Mr. Sloth shouldn't have invited him to be a guest ......"

The professional art circle is so big, and any gossip spreads quickly.

Soon the comments below gossip about Vandoorne's feud with Anna and the detective cat.

The web illustrator who had just been on the canvas for less than a few weeks – his page had disappeared from the recommendations page on the official website of the magazine a few days earlier.

Also missing out was the new editor in the visual arts section, whose initials was the new one.

Someone @ Vandoorn with the news.

The other party only replied with a photo of a circus clown with the caption "There is no such person!" (No such person)"

I don't know if he's mocking Anna or the detective cat, but it's more likely that they're both clowns.

Quite a few artists who knew Van Doorn well forwarded the message.

At least in the eyes of the vast majority of podcast fans, in this kind of salon that tests aesthetic ability, detective cats are still just an insignificant joke.

(End of chapter)