Being able to intern at Yayoi Kusama's studio is a great opportunity for most painters.

Basically, it has the same effect as going to Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase to study finance, and going to PricewaterhouseCoopers and Ernst & Young to study accounting, and it has to be the core position of the core department.

With this kind of resume endorsement,

Whether you want to take the pure art painting route and sign a contract with a gallery in the future, or become an art curator, go to an auction company like Christie's and Sotheby's as a senior marketing consultant, or even go to a luxury company like LV and Hermès to make a fortune, it's completely up to you.

In particular, Yayoi Kusama was the first female artist.

In the market, the price of works by female artists is often much lower than that of male artists, and the average price of Kusama's works is almost equal to that of top male artists.

Cao Lao can't compare, it's not about money.

The first is the first, and it is difficult for critics to judge who was the most influential male artist in the World War II and post-war era.

If you do a poll,

Most likely, it will be Picasso, maybe Duchamp, or Andy Warhol.

But Cao Xuan's name is difficult to enter the first impression of the top spot on this list in people's hearts.

It's superb, but it's not the first.

And Yayoi Kusama is the only supernova, an idol in the eyes of female art students all over the world, light, electricity, mythology, and the Pop Queen on the same level as Andy Warhol.

Takashi Murakami is just a junior in front of her.

Pop Art is the most lucrative and commercial genre in the art world, and if it is supported by Yayoi Kusama, it will fail if it does not reach an annual income of one million dollars in a few years.

I have to say,

Gu Weijing was really tempted.

Unfortunately, he knew that Cao Lao's Chinese paintings might be more suitable for him than the colorful pop art.

It is also more suitable for the seal engraved with "Gu's master".

After Gu Weijing already had certain economic conditions, making money was an accessory to painting, not the purpose of painting.

The conversation with his grandfather Gu Tongxiang gave him a sense of responsibility for the inheritance of brush and ink in his heart, and his ancestors, his bloodline hidden the artistic soul of Chinese painting.

"I'm probably going to university in Germany...... If you ask me about my recent schedule, maybe I'm going to try to attend a biennale in the summer, right? ”

Gu Weijing shook his head and said.

"Singapore Art Biennale, Germany, is that what Cao Lao means?"

Katsuko Sakai's ability to capture artistic trends and cutting-edge information is not comparable to that of a local girl like Mona.

German universities plus summer exhibitions, two messages.

She barely thought about it, and guessed eight or nine.

"Oh, if you can study with Mr. Cao Xuan for a while, it will be no worse than going to Kusama's senior's studio, it seems that the old gentleman really likes you."

Katsuko Sakai nodded.

In her mind, she thought that Cao Lao would at most let Gu Weijing follow him, occasionally carrying and carrying children, just like going to Yayoi Kusama's studio for an internship.

Even Miss Sakai didn't think about accepting apprentices at all.

Mr. Cao Xuan's seniority is too high, and the old man who is almost 100 years old is enough to be a living fossil of their grandfather.

According to the age of his debut, Cao Lao can even be classified as a painter of the pre-World War II generation, and it has been almost 30 years since the last apprenticeship.

"Forget it, if you want to get in touch with pop art more at that time, I'll find a way for you."

Katsuko Sakai failed to poach for her father, and she was a little disappointed.

But she didn't force it.

Art style is the best thing that suits the other party. can be appreciated by Cao Lao, and she is also very happy for Gu Weijing.

Her focus shifted to the exhibition that Gu Weijing was talking about.

Katsuko Sakai wrinkled her nose: "The Singapore Art Exhibition is indeed a good platform for debut, but due to the postponement of the epidemic for several years, the competition should be fierce this time. If you're willing to participate in the Yokohama Triennale a year late, which is on par with the Lion City Art Exhibition, I can ask my dad to figure out how to get you a special invitation. ”

This is Katsuko's hint that he can go through the back door,

Mr. Sloth also once asked the blonde assistant to Director Tonks if he could ask for a place as a guest painter, but the assistant pretended not to understand and politely declined.

With the popularity of Uncle Sakai,

If he himself expressed his willingness to participate in the exhibition, not to mention the Lion City Art Exhibition, even if it was the Venice Biennale, the jewel in the crown of art, the organizers would definitely be happy and presented the invitation with both hands.

However, if it is replaced by recommending the younger generations to participate in the exhibition directly...... The organizing committee will have to think about it.

In fact

To be honest, it was not difficult to change to the previous years.

High-end painters have always been a small circle of helping each other, you recommend my students, I bring your apprentices, the level of the past, a place will be given.

Anyway, as long as you don't be too embarrassed, the audience may not be able to see it.

Only after the epidemic, in order to boost the tourism economy and the image of the city. The amount and scale of this year's Lion City Art Exhibition are exceptionally high, almost setting a new record for Asian art exhibitions.

This summer, the world's most important art focus should be the Singapore Art Biennale.

Celebrities gather, and the strong are like clouds.

Not only Mr. Cao, but even Mr. Sloth, who was far away in Europe, recommended him to participate in the Lion City Art Exhibition.

This is both a good thing and a bad thing.

On the bright side, the attention of this Lion City exhibition is unprecedented.

Any painter who can make a name for himself on this stage will be infinitely magnified by the spotlight, and once he or she exhibits in the exhibition, he will attract the attention of the world's top gallerists and art promoters.

Participate in an art exhibition and struggle for 30 years.

The bad news is,

The level of competition is also unprecedented.

Who of the great painters doesn't have a nephew? All kinds of art galleries with magical powers have also crossed the sea and found channels in the hope of stuffing their new artists into this ladder of green clouds.

Everyone has a relationship, which means that everyone has no relationship.

The organizing committee of the organizer is very strict about the quota card of the invited painters, basically unless you have a special and hard relationship, it is difficult to operate the quota through personal connections.

Katsuko Sakai also seriously considered participating in the Lion City Art Exhibition.

Professor Kazunari Sakai suggested that his daughter take a little slow, and Katsuko Sakai's current level of painting skills is a little embarrassing.

Participating in student competitions, he was almost outstanding and couldn't find an opponent at all.

And if it is a master group of art exhibitions such as Magic City, Taipei, and Lion City, and those old painters who are generally forty years old and above and whose artistic style is close to maturity, it is difficult to say whether they can be shortlisted.

The emotional expression in the work is Miss Katsuko's weakness, and she was eliminated if she didn't do well in the audition.

It's better to be a year later,

With Uncle Sakai's connections and connections, it is not too difficult to give my daughter a place as a guest painter through the organizer's channel at next year's local art exhibition.

"I actually have some understanding of the Lion City Art Exhibition."

Gu Weijing smiled, he noticed that Katsuko Sakai's gaze swept over the easel covered with his garbage bag many times, and walked to the easel.

"Katsuko, do you want to see my design?"

"What you want to see, what you want to see, can you?"

Katsuko Sakai immediately nodded playfully and quickly, revealing a curious expression.

From the moment she entered the house, she noticed the easel covered by a dark plastic bag, and her heart tickled as if she had been scratched by a kitten.

Shengzi was forced to endure his curiosity, so he didn't open the plastic bag, and he didn't even mention to Gu Weijing what he wanted to see.

She was well educated.

If Gu Weijing wants to share his creativity with herself, she will naturally show it to her.

If the other person is unwilling, then give him enough privacy.

It's one thing to be a boyfriend and girlfriend, it's another thing to be respectful.

Many painters keep their unfinished ideas as secret as if they were the passwords of their private vaults.

Even a lover or wife will lose his temper when he looks at it.

On the one hand, the spiritual connection between the artwork and the creator is very deep.

Some of the works are probably painted for yourself. When you suddenly see it to outsiders, you will have a feeling of discomfort that you are naked and exposed to the eyes of outsiders, similar to private photos in your mobile phone.

The main reason is that there is a fear of leaks.

Unfinished creative ideas are likely to be stolen by others due to various carelessness.

In art circles, plagiarism is not news. On the contrary, if only a few painters plagiarize this issue every year, it is news on the Internet.

The biggest and most "notorious" black spot in Picasso's life is not his ruthlessness in his treatment of lovers.

With the social concept of the time, what is it that a great artist plays with a woman? Many girls even take pride in sleeping with Picasso for the rest of their lives.

What made Picasso hate Picasso the most by his peers at the time was that Picasso was a painter who liked to "steal".

During Picasso's years in France, he often liked to wander around the studios of various young painters.

He would steal inspiration from the unfinished work, see whose work was well designed, and run back to paint it himself.

Let's be honest,

Picasso was a great artistic genius.

His plagiarized works are often better than those of the original painters, and the techniques of painting are more outstanding.

But this does not hide that it is very "sinful" to do so, and it is also the exploitation of the talents of young painters who have been copied.

At that time, many of his peers hated him, and when they heard that Picasso was coming to the public studio, they hid their paintings one after another, just like hearing that the devil was going to enter the village.

Picasso himself had an artistic motto: "Good artists borrow from them, and great artists steal." ”

This sentence was later adopted by Jobs as one of Apple's business ideas.

Katsuko Sakai was reluctant to cross the line.

Lovers who respect each other can go further.

"Of course, you're welcome to give me advice." Gu Weijing gently lifted the bag on the work, "I just finished drawing the base map." ”

Katsuko Sakai crossed her fingers on her chest and said expectantly, "I can already see a rough idea of the base map." ”

As the coverings on the easel were removed, the sketches on the linen canvas were fully revealed to her eyes.

Witnessing the excellent technique of copying "The Old Church on a Thunderstorm", Katsuko Sakai thought that Gu Weijing would choose oil painting as the choice of the exhibition, and he showed a good level of Chinese painting on the murals of Shwedagon Pagoda, but the oil paintings at the Lion City Art Exhibition were obviously more popular.

Unexpectedly,

But she could see such a mesmerizing basemap.

Is this kind of lingering and delicate line the technique of the brush? How does this flattened perspective focus be expressed? It is obviously the style of oil painting, and it reveals the oriental rhyme.

The composition is also exquisite, with a slanted triangle, resembling a skewed Leaning Tower of Pisa.

Obviously you think that the composition of the picture will immediately lose its balance and fall to one side, but it gives the viewer a sense of steadiness with a wonderful peace.

The girl breathed slowly, her eyes staring at the canvas in front of her, unblinking, as if she had been sucked into the whirlpool of a black hole.

"I love you."

This sentence came out of Sakai Katsuko's lips gently, and I don't know if she was talking to Gu Weijing or the painting in front of her.

The style of the West, the charm of the East.

The painting in front of her is not yet finished, but it gives Katsuko an illusion of resonance.

Katsuko Sakai slowly stretched out her hand, her fingertips stroking over the rough fiber surface of the canvas centimeter by centimeter, and she could even feel the lines of the picture rhythming with her breathing.

She was looking at the painting in front of her, as if she were looking at herself.

This piece is just amazing!

The two souls of the East and the West, both bloodlines in Sakai Katsuko's body, seem to have been inspired.

The intertwined lines on the canvas form a wonderful whirlpool, attracting the girl's gaze to continue to go deeper and explore.

Different paintings have different appeals to different people, sad people are more likely to like Van Gogh's works, and children prefer Monet's brushstrokes full of sunshine, freedom and fresh air.

Katsuko Sakai, on the other hand, is particularly fond of the style of painting in front of her, and she sees in the picture a kind of cultural impact and blending, blooming with magic that makes her addicted.

She even felt the urge to cry.

Long

Katsuko Sakai withdrew her gaze from the drawing board.

She walked over without saying a word, gently stretched out her arms, wrapped her arms around Gu Weijing's neck, and gave each other a deep hug.

"I have only found this feeling in Mr. Wu Guanzhong's art exhibition before, how did I draw this? I can see that the lines on this must have something to do with the pen portrait you gave me earlier, right? Katsuko asked softly.

"Cao Lao's guidance, the style of line drawings and the characteristics of Lang Shining's new style paintings, do you know Lang Shining?" Gu Weijing explained.

"I've just heard about it, and I'll look for his paintings when I go back."

Katsuko Sakai shook her head.

She was educated mainly in Western modern art, and she is still familiar with Wu Guanzhong, a master of fusion painting who once set off a boom in Paris.

A court painter of the Qing Dynasty like Lang Shining is a little unfamiliar.

Katsuko buried his face in Gu Weijing's arms and sighed: "It's so beautiful, I love this painting." ”

(End of chapter)