"Gnomes?"

The middle-aged uncle's eyes lit up, and the reporter liked this offensive word the most.

"Art seems to me to be solemn and has a soul. To forcibly classify online painters like detective cats into the illustrator's profession is, in my opinion, a blasphemy. ”

"Isn't he an illustrator?"

Van Doorne scoffed, "Illustrator, God? As far as I know, apart from some amateur anime pictures on the Internet, she hasn't even created a serious illustration work. I was ready to laugh at the fact that such a person could talk to Curator Tonks about serious art, like a monkey sitting down with Einstein to talk about the theory of relativity. ”

The poster trailer for the podcast [Mr. Sloth's Art Review] was just coming out, and there were fans of good things on Twitter @Fandoorn.

Van Doorne knew this, but he didn't care.

If it weren't for the middle-aged reporter mentioning it at this time, he would have almost forgotten about it.

Ultimately

With Vandoorne's current status, he never had to think of an online illustrator as a rival.

Ignorance is the highest form of contempt.

If the number of fans and world influence of today's illustrators were displayed in a visual bar chart, the column representing Van Doorne would break through the sky like Mount Everest.

And the number of fans of the detective cat is only equivalent to the shallow snow on Mount Everest.

The gnomes in front of the giants all lifted each other a little.

When the heat of the video completely dissipates, most of this little snow will gradually melt with time.

"Oh, but Detective Cat can tell Curator Tonks how she draws the anime heroine in a bikini, and the internet painter is good at that, isn't it? And I, with my respect and morality for women, would never allow me to create such vulgar works. ”

Van Doorn said in a weird way.

He was referring to a new issue of political correctness in recent years in European and American painting circles.

The heroine of American comic works usually contains a lot of sexually suggestive elements.

For example, Catwoman uniforms, bikini armor......

Wonder Woman is even more direct, cartoonist Oliver was inspired by his favorite item of daily "entertainment" - the threesome SM sex uniform, and transformed it into Wonder Woman's suit, which belongs to the model of the car wheels are driven to the face.

Western cartoonists have been hammered by political correctness in recent years.

Van Doorne thinks that the only area that Detective Cat is good at is anime sketching, and the level is good, and he may really be able to say some unique opinions.

At times like these,

The effect of his direct attack on the other party who does not understand the art of sketching will not be too good.

Van Doorn cleverly chose to stand on the moral high ground and make a big deal out of the negative labels of "network painters" in society.

He hopes to convey to public opinion that the detective cat knows how to sketch, but he is just a vulgar ninth-rate "Internet painter", such an impression.

root cause,

Or is the colored pencil drawing in the chain of contempt for the artwork, which is very downstream in the way of drawing.

Compared to oil painting, gouache, watercolor.

It's not that professional and it's not that serious.

Because it is simple and popular, it has a low threshold, so it is not "artistic" enough.

If the detective cat is an oil painter or a watercolor painter, it is even the same subject.

As long as there is enough artistic concentration, there will be no such risk.

For example, those nude paintings by Van Doorn himself, and the spring palace pictures painted by Tang Bohu.

The elegant and exquisite artwork painted by a great artist to the old men of the upper class, and the animation figure drawn by the poor hand-painted to the dick, can it be the same thing?

The former is the erotic beauty of art, the latter is a vulgar eromania.

The double standard of society is everywhere.

"Actually, I understand ...... too"

Van Doorne faked a sigh, then grinned maliciously.

"After all, after Sir Brown, the chairman of the Board of Directors of Oil Painting, quickly corrected the mistake made by the magazine and swept the detective cat out of the house. She probably can only paint this kind of painting for the rest of her life. If you're lucky, you might be able to make tens of thousands of dollars a year, although I don't think it's worth it. But not everyone is well-cultivated enough to understand serious art. ”

He shrugged.

The serious art world is very networked.

I'm afraid of offending the big gallery, and I'm afraid of offending the big painters.

"A monkey who can only play basic scales."

This is the indelible imprint that Van Doorn has branded on the detective cat's "face".

Sometimes the big guy wants to destroy you,

It's really just a casual remark.

If you go back a few hundred years, in Florence, in Paris, in London...... No matter how good you paint, you offend the Venetian school, the celebrities in the academy, the pope's royal portrait painter or something.

If people say they hate you, they will become a rat crossing the street.

Painters who are rejected by the great painters are immediately abandoned by the painters, the art dealers, and the inhabitants of the entire city.

No aristocrats want to fund you, and no one wants to buy your paintings.

Why is the Founding School the highest achievement of a painter?

It is because before modern times, the birth of a new school of painting often meant a revolution and revolt against the old school of painting, which originally dominated the art market.

This is a declaration of war by a painter or several painters against the entire art circle.

Never die.

The Romantic school challenged the academic school and was opposed by the realist school. Repin, one of the greatest painters in Russian history, rebelled against the Petersburg Imperial Academy of Fine Arts...... It's all true.

If you succeed, the city will change the banner of the king, and you will be the founder of a new dynasty of painting. If you fail, you will be a thief and a clown.

The vast majority of cases are the latter.

By the early twentieth century it was the same.

The most important patron of Impressionism and painter, the artist Gustav was depressed because he offended the academic bigwig Jérôme, and his works were rejected from the official French salons for the rest of his life.

Before his death, he hoped to donate his paintings and collections, including works by Monet, Degas and others, to the National Museum of Fine Arts of France.

As a result, Jérôme openly ridiculed that "it would be a great moral depravity if the government accepted this crude dross", and rejected all his paintings on this ground.

You must know that compared to this African network painter, Gustav is a member of the socialite.

Of course, a hundred years after the National Museum of Fine Arts, the bowels are all repentant.

Originally, the detective cat offended Van Doorne, and when he was deleted and "banned" by "Oil Painting" magazine.

It represents almost the banishment of detective cats in the entire serious art world.

Now illustrators don't starve to death,

But if you want to get some high-value contracts, don't expect extravagantly, especially after the popularity of YouTube video has completely dissipated.

According to Fandoorne, she basically draws anime illustrations and online avatars.

"A painter who doesn't have her own understanding of art is just a soulless craftsman, and to say that she is an illustrator is to insult the industry."

Van Doorne concludes: "I don't even think she had a professional art education at all. ”

This is Van Doorne's guess about the detective cat.

Relying on such an excellent sketch alone, as long as you have attended a professional art academy, unless the professors are idiots, there is no reason why you can't enter some large or small art studios.

There is no need to sell cheap illustrations online at all.

"Mr. Van Doorne, may I ask you more, you probably haven't heard of this issue of Mr. Sloth's art salon that just launched this morning, right?"

After the interview,

The middle-aged reporter simply deleted all the photos from the camera in front of Van Doorn.

It's just that before leaving, he suddenly turned his head and asked in a very playful tone.

"I don't think it's necessary."

Van Doorne stared at the reporter, who was not a hobby of podcasting and had no interest in listening to art salons.

Wait a minute

Van Doorne suddenly felt that there was something strange about the smile on the face of the bearded reporter.

The art and fashion circle has been mixed for a long time,

He has a keen sense of how excited journalists are about the news.

What I just said is definitely not any major news.

At least compared to my own interview with "The Moon", there is no difference in caliber.

And

Now that I think about it, although Van Doorne is famous, he is still a little worse than the king of rock and roll.

In order to interview him, the other party spent 200 euros just to bribe the driver of the shuttle bus.

Van Doorne had expected that the reporter would ask him about Amida's main fashion topics this year, such as art style and design language.

As a result, the other party asked himself for no reason - whether the serious art conversation between the detective cat and the curator of Tonks was a declaration of war against him.

Normally,

This question is not worth 200 euros.

Unless......

There is something else that I don't know.

"What's the problem? You've deleted all the photos, don't fucking shame on you. Vandoorne threatened.

"Don't worry, I don't want to go to jail either."

The photo may be a bit of a gimmick, but the crime of trespassing on the airport runway is not a trivial matter, and it is enough to be a criminal offense.

The middle-aged reporter shook his head.

"Don't worry, I'm only saying this because I've always been a fan of Mr. Sloth. When I came to the airport, I happened to listen to that podcast and saw that your plane was landing. All I can say is that today is my lucky day. ”

Looking at the middle-aged reporter's departing figure in style, Van Doorne felt a little uneasy for no reason.

"Darling, what's wrong with you? Let's have a glass of champagne and wish the best of luck at Fashion Week. ”

Rolls-Royce courtesy cars from the Hilton Hotel make their way through the narrow streets of Milan.

The short-haired assistant noticed that Vandoorne was a little distracted.

She took a bottle of champagne and two goblets from the miniature bar at the front of the carriage, poured a glass of wine, and handed it over.

"You put something for me."

Van Doorn took the glass and took a sip, his mind still on the interview not long ago.

"Do you want to listen to music?"

The assistant leaned lazily on Vandoorne's chest, took out his mobile phone from his pocket, and connected it to Bluetooth in the car.

"The Apple Podcast, Mr. Sloth's Art Review, should be called that, and the new episode that was just updated this morning, the guests should be Curator Tonks and Detective Cat."

Van Doorne thought for it.

"Detective cats? Scold...... This kind of small painter ...... It's also worth your attention. ”

The assistant shook his head disdainfully.

"Hurry up."

Van Doorne urged.

The assistant slid on his phone for a while, and found the podcast episode that Van Doorne said at the top of Apple's art hit list.

[Art Salon 09: The World of Painting Light and Shadow from the Perspective of an Excellent Painter] - Van Doorn saw the audio title on the assistant's phone.

The uneasiness in his heart was even greater.

The title of a podcast is often a direct reflection of what's in it.

The host Mr. Sloth, Curator Tonks, and Detective Cat, whether they are excellent or not is another matter, but among these three people, only Detective Cat can be called a painter.

The title is not the world of light and shadow from the perspective of an art critic or curator, but from the perspective of a painter?

As the assistant presses the play button,

In the background of a soft violin song, Mr. Sloth's voice soon sounded.

"Hello listeners......"

Van Doorn snatched the phone from the female assistant and quickly pulled the timeline back a little.

Then he heard a female voice that was most likely the detective cat say.

“…… The painter uses jagged shapes and sharp brushstrokes to suggest that this is a cold and biting winter day. We can see that the middle of the picture is upper, and the dry erase technique is skillfully used to create a fogging effect. I guess a little olive green should have been added to the paint configuration, and the rougher fan-shaped edge of the round-tipped brush was used to restore the sparse texture of the branches and grass reflected on the surface of the lake......"

What the fuck，

Van Doorn listened to the first ear, and subconsciously cursed in his heart.

He didn't download the e-book on the podcast, he didn't know which picture the detective cat was talking about, and he didn't have to.

To evaluate a luthier, you only need a few complex chords.

To understand a person's artistic accomplishment, you only need to listen to a few paragraphs casually to have a general understanding. Dogs can't spit out ivory from their mouths.

As soon as the other party opened his mouth casually,

Van Doorne knew that he could disassemble an oil painting to this point, and the detective cat behaved quite professionally.

Of course

After all, Van Doorne hasn't seen the painting yet, so it's possible that the detective cat is just pretending to be casual nonsense, but this is self-deception.

Is it to fool Mr. Xuanxu Nanguo, and the other two guests are not fools.

Soon, Van Doorn heard Gu Weijing's judgment that "White Lake Baikal" was painted against a photograph in the studio.

"It's a mystery."

The corners of the assistant's mouth barely sketched a smile.

To be Van Doorne's assistant, even if she is a vase, she has been in the upper art circle for so long, and she is more professional than most ordinary people.

At this time, she also realized that the detective cat really didn't sound like a parallel import.

It's not just a parallel import.

For an online illustrator, it's a bit too much.

The complex mix of colors and pigments on those oil paintings are easily analyzed by the detective cat, as if I had watched the painter paint with my own eyes.

But even so,

The assistant still doesn't believe that anyone can analyze the artist's painting environment just by looking at an oil painting.

"Who does she think she thinks she is, a mind-reading witch?"

The assistant noticed that the fingertips of Fandoorne's left hand were white, and she was pinching the phone screen, and her eyes looked at the phone, which was a small reader's message under the podcast.

"I'm Tom Raymond, the owner of the Riemond Gallery in Germany and the creator of the painting White Baikal. Teacher Detective Cat spoke quite professionally, which benefited me a lot, thanks to Mr. Sloth, thank you to Mr. Detective Cat. By the way, the original manuscript of this painting is a photographic image from page P53 of the magazine "Polar Geography" No. 206, I have always found it beautiful. ”

"It's ...... Fake, right? ”

The assistant covered his mouth.

(End of chapter)