"Looks like a lot of money."

WHILE SWIPING THE GIRL'S INS HOMEPAGE, GU WEIJING OPENED THE SMALL WINDOW WITH THE ON-STAGE DISPATCH ON THE IPAD, AND CASUALLY POSTED AN ENVIOUS EMOJI.

He's not a jewelry lover,

However, I have been in Myanmar for a long time, and I have a little understanding of jadeite.

Judging from the quality of the jade bracelet pendant in the photo, the cheapest one may cost 18,000 US dollars, and the expensive 100,000 dollars may not come down.

"I don't like it. From noon to now, my mother has picked out six bracelets and three pairs of earrings for me and herself. And that's not all, when I got back to the hotel, there was a special tasting of state-run glass jadeite in the VIP room on the top floor of Aman, and the thought of her pulling me to continue shopping at night made me bored and hairy. ”

Katsuko said in a pitiful tone.

"Gu Jun, please talk to me about the paper."

If other girls said such things to the strange pearl treasures on the table, they would inevitably be suspected of showing off with minced meat.

Not only Eastern Xia had Versailles literature.

Gu Weijing remembered,

For a while, the rich ladies in the local school also liked to post scenes of various brand-name bags scattered all over the place after accidentally falling on INS, or updating photos of YSL Saint Laurent lipsticks facing a table on Valentine's Day, with the text "I have a lot of this color, and my boyfriend has to buy it for me, I'm really speechless." "This kind of show of affection.

however

has been with Katsuko for a long time, and he knows that Katsuko Sakai has always been a very straightforward person.

There's no need for Miss Sakai to show off.

For a family like Uncle Sakai, one of Asia's top artists who sell paintings a year and often sell tens of millions of dollars a year, it is easier to buy a jade bracelet for tens of thousands of dollars than for a local who earns $100 a month to eat a bowl of beef ramen on the side of the road.

Money at this level has long been close to insensibility.

Miss Katsuko Sakai, an artistic little princess who grew up in a golden house, has a natural sense of luxury.

Whether you like it or not depends on your heart.

If you like it, you can enjoy the seashells by the sea for a long time, and if you don't like it, even if it is the best jade that is as clear as water, people only treat it as glass.

"Papers? Haven't you already contacted the email address of the journal "Asian Art" to submit your manuscript, and now the results are out? Gu Weijing replied strangely.

That's too fast, isn't it?

"Of course, it's not so fast, the publisher of this kind of semi-annual journal works at a very slow pace, just a few old editors, and they have to contact the reviewers and professors who are assigned to be available. I mean, during the period of writing the dissertation, did Gu Jun feel the same emotion as me, whenever I admired and copied the paintings of the female painter Carroll, I always thought about ......"

On the screen,

Katsuko Sakai paused for more than ten seconds before typing quietly.

"I'm always thinking, you say, our papers, our copying, can awaken this "Old Church on a Thunderstorm" and the afterlife of the female painter."

Afterlife?

This unpopular description made Gu Weijing a little confused.

They have always used English to communicate on chat apps, but the word "afterlife" was specially changed to Chinese...... It could also be Japanese.

In Japanese, these two characters are not simplified by katakana, and they are completely consistent with the way they are written in kanji, and they are both Buddhist terms that represent the next life of reincarnation.

"Painting has an afterlife? I don't understand well. ”

Gu Weijing has never heard of such a literary and mysterious statement.

He was a little puzzled.

"This is a concept that Takashi Murakami's predecessors told me, you know Takashi Murakami."

"Of course, of course, wow! Katsuko, you know Takashi Murakami, although it was expected, but it was still really powerful. ”

Gu Weijing still knows about this thunderous Asian painter.

This is Takashi Murakami,

Takashi Murakami, who was once known as the world's first Mesozoic artist.

At his peak, a cartoon figure designed by any cartoon figure could sell for five million dollars.

In the art circles of Asia and the whole world, if you really want to rank the artists who are still alive in the order of 12345.

The only ones whose status can stabilize Murakami may be Cao Lao of Dongxia, Gerhard Richter of Germany, and Yayoi Kusama of Dongying, who are close to 100 years old.

Even if the market price of Takashi Murakami's paintings has dropped a lot, Professor Sakai Kazunari may still be slightly inferior to others.

"The first time I heard this, I think it was around 2009, when I was a student who had just started elementary school, and I can't remember the exact time."

It seems that the jade private plate on the treasure ship is really boring, and Katsuko Sakai talks about it very strongly.

She recounted the story of her childhood.

Katsuko Sakai recalls, "I just remember one day after school, my dad drove me and my brother to see Takashi Murakami's exhibition at the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum.

It was a big exhibition, and at that time, Time magazine wanted to write a special report for Takashi Murakami's predecessors, and all kinds of European and American journalists and the wife of the American ambassador to Japan came. Takashi Murakami was surrounded in the middle, and everyone wanted to say a few words to this great epoch-making artist.

At that time, my father was far less famous than he is now, so I had never seen such a scene, and I was very envious in my heart, and I said loudly that I would become a great artist greater than you in the future. ”

"It's embarrassing to think about it now. Saying such things in front of such seniors, my newborn calf at that time was not afraid of tigers, it was really naïve to die. ”

Katsuko Sakai made a shy expression.

"It's cute, and then what? What did Takashi Murakami say? ”

Although Gu Weijing hasn't figured it out yet, what does this have to do with the "afterlife of painting" they are discussing.

But this kind of precious story around a great artist cannot be understood by anyone who grew up in a high-end art circle like Katsuko Sakai.

So he still listened to it with relish.

Around 2010, as Miss Sakai said, it was when Takashi Murakami was in the limelight.

The Palace of Versailles, the Royal Palace in Paris, held a special exhibition for him, and the New York Times wrote a personal column for him.

When it comes to fashion crossover,

Louis Vuitton, Chanel, Hermès, any top luxury company is eager to work with Murakami. The work signed with the three characters of Takashi Murakami represents the guarantee of artistry and is a model for the combination of elegance and fun.

When Louis Vuitton and Takashi Murakami's co-branded bags and shopping bags were selling well among celebrities around the world, Van Doorne was still playing with mud.

Even when Time magazine selected the 100 most influential people of our time, Takashi Murakami beat out celebrities such as Taylor Swift, Warren Buffett, and Murdoch on the list, and was also the only visual artist on the list.

Unexpectedly, Katsuko Sakai had the honor of having face-to-face contact with Takashi Murakami at that time.

Imagine,

At such an exhibition of famous artists, a little girl of a few years old said loudly that it is really funny to become a great artist who is even more powerful than Takashi Murakami.

"You're being laughed at by everyone?" Gu Weijing was curious.

"No, the great artists of other people will not be as knowledgeable as a little girl like me. The senior was silent for a few seconds and asked me what kind of work is truly great in my heart. ”

"I thought about it for a long time, but I couldn't say it."

Miss Sakai typed and said, "Takashi Murakami-senpai seemed to know my name, so he walked out of the crowd and squatted down and touched my hair. ”

He told me, "Miss Sakai, it doesn't matter if I become a so-called great artist or not, and it doesn't matter if I become the next one or not. Worldly success is not important, it is important to draw works that can overcome death. ”

"A work that triumphs over death?"

Gu Weijing recalled this statement.

"He told me that the works of the truly great masters have an afterlife. Their works will never die, but will only be reincarnated again and again in the long river of time. Every time someone recites their name in the long river of time, the artist's soul is reborn from the smoke of the past. ”

"Those who run through time are immortal and immortal, and they are great."

Miss Sakai slowly explained to Gu Weijing the philosophy of art she had received.

When evaluating the works of art of any painter, his paintings can be divided into two stages: "the present life" and "the next life".

When an artist's artistic life ends, his paintings [the present life] also ends.

There will be no new kind, and all that remains is a long afterlife.

Art is a strange circle,

Picasso is always a lucky few who became famous during his lifetime and left a name in the history of painting after his death.

There are those whose works are so splendid and fiery in the world that no one cares about them after death.

There are also those whose works were not worth mentioning when they were alive, but who illuminated the entire history of art after their deaths.

The professors in charge of the official salons of Paris, who denigrated the Impressionists, went in and out of the Louvre in fancy clothes, dined with dignitaries and distinguished officials, and decorated their works with frames inlaid with gold and silver threads.

When they were alive, their paintings were sought after by the trend and were hard to find, but a hundred years later, their names have long been submerged by time and no one cares.

Van Gogh sold only one cheap oil painting in his lifetime, but now it is regarded as a treasure by major museums, and even a cultural symbol, more remembered by mankind than the surname of the Dutch royal family.

Huang Binhong, a master of Chinese painting, once said that 50 years after my death, people will understand me.

In 2003, Christie's auctioned off the Chinese paintings of this master, whose works of art were not too highly regarded during his lifetime, for a whopping 370 million yuan, 50 years after the death of the old man.

Success is not necessarily great, and greatness is not necessarily success.

Before the modern gallery system and the capital promoters of the art market formed a mature system, this was the portrayal of generations of painting masters in modern times.

"I can imagine that I would easily become a very successful and wealthy painter in the future."

Katsuko Sakai said that this is not an exaggeration.

"But I don't know if my work will be able to beat time. Whether it is good enough, and whether my [Afterlife] can leave an echo in the history of art again and again. Compared to the rough circumstances of those previous masters, I even felt a sense of guilt and uneasiness. ”

"I have always believed that having the courage to become a van Gogh that no one cares about is more valuable than the ambition to become a great artist in the secular sense."

"So, while we were writing our papers, I always had the feeling of pilgrimage to the senior female painter named Carol, especially after a small dispute with you about the identity of the female painter." Katsuko Sakai wrote softly.

This is also the advice of my father, even though it is far-fetched to find celebrities in the art world. But your insistence on Carol's true identity can still convince me in the end, and make me admire. Although this may only futile raise the probability of one percent or one in a thousand. ”

"Her penmanship is brilliant, and her name is unnoticed. The name of such an outstanding female painter should not die out in time, if we can find her story together and bring her dark tone of impressionism back to life. The fact that this female painter was reincarnated under our pen is the most memorable thing I can think of. ”

"Gu Jun, I want to use a long time in the future to encourage you."

Katsuko Sakai said slowly.

Maybe it's because the wireless network signal at sea is not good, or maybe the girl was pulled by Mrs. Sakai to choose jade jewelry again.

After sending this line.

Miss Sakai didn't speak again, showing that she was offline.

Gu Weijing stared at the screen for a long time.

He turned off the Whatsapp chat app and switched back to the photo Katsuko had posted on the Instagram wall in the morning of standing on a sea shell.

Gu Weijing looked at the photo, Sakai Katsuko's elegant and noble beautiful appearance, and had to sigh from the bottom of his heart.

Miss Katsuko is really that kind of soft girl with a strong artistic temperament.

Like a blooming lotus flower.

He remembers,

I once swiped an emotional teaching video of a rich second-generation girl about character preferences on YouTube, which has been played more than one million times.

The guy above looks like a playboy when he looks dressed up, and divides the girlfriends he has dated into several categories.

The easiest thing to get is a money-worshipping style girl, who only needs a limited edition Dior perfume + a candlelight dinner in a Michelin restaurant, and the probability of success in confession is nine out of ten.

The most difficult to get and the most sincere emotion is this kind of art girl.

What money can't buy is the most expensive.

I want to get into the heart of this kind of girl,

You don't need a luxury bag or a Porsche car key.

What people want is emotional communication, a tacit eye that is just right, a heart-pounding brainwave fit, and an ideal ambition with a common language.

She can jump into the ocean with you for a kiss under the stars, or she can throw the 999 custom blue roses you gave her for $5,000 into the trash can downstairs without a hint of souvenir.

In order to chase such a beautiful girl, the little brother went to a Syrian refugee camp affiliated with an NGO in Jordan to volunteer with the girl for more than half a year, and almost died of malaria in the Middle East.

A young lady like Katsuko Sakai is born with nothing lacking.

Her heart towards art is pious and literary, and her feelings for people and things are very pure.

That's probably it,

Katsuko Sakai is so obsessed with copying Carroll's paintings.

Even Gu Weijing copied so many copies of "The Old Church on a Thunderstorm", but it was more for the utilitarian needs of obtaining the system treasure chest, rather than the same as Miss Katsuko, who placed such great emotional expectations on her.

"The Afterlife and Present Life of a Work of Art."

Gu Weijing recalled this very chewy statement in his mind.

(End of chapter)