"How?"

"That kid drew a piece of art, and I thought it was quite interesting."

Uncle Sakai is interested, and his wife's eye has always been very picky, so it's not easy to make his wife say that it's an interesting painting.

"Look at our daughter's INS."

Uncle Sakai opened the INS and landed on the trumpet.

His official Instagram and Twitter accounts for [Sakai Kazunari Studio] are currently operated by Daejeon Art Gallery.

High-end artists are often the two extremes.

Otherwise, the social terror type that is completely away from social media will be handed over to the manager to take care of the account, and there are even many people like Willein who do not use modern network equipment at all.

Otherwise, he is a social influencer, extremely keen on self-media marketing, and can't wait to post more than a dozen tweets and various life photos a day.

Uncle Sakai is more troublesome, so it's all managed by the agent.

Daejeon Art Gallery has a team dedicated to Internet marketing for Uncle Sakai, replying to some fan messages or something.

Another significant benefit of being responsible is that

Artists don't have to be like the Captain America actor who, with a sudden brain twitch, updates nude photos, bed photos, or embarrassing intimate photos, and wakes up to find that the whole world is talking about his big baby.

It can also avoid being discovered by fans, and the artist comments and likes indiscriminately on some sensitive topics that may involve political correctness.

These are inconspicuous to say, but they are all lessons from the blood of our predecessors.

"This kid."

Uncle Sakai snorted when he saw the text remarks of his daughter Katsuko [My Lover], and his mood was a little complicated.

He likes Gu Weijing, but he is still a little jealous of his daughter's bold show of love.

soon

His face became solemn.

"Today's young people are becoming more and more ambitious." Uncle Sakai licked his lips, "I'm going to be the next Wu Guanzhong." ”

"Mr. Wu Guanzhong?"

Hearing this name, Hanks, who was originally a little depressed, stretched his neck violently and quietly pricked up his ears like a seal taking a nap on the ice suddenly smelling the fishy smell of salmon.

Professor Sakai and his wife talk mainly in Japanese.

Hanks' Japanese vocabulary is limited to simple words like ordering food in a restaurant, and he can't understand the other person's conversation.

But he still keenly captured the syllable of the name that sounded like "Wu Guanzhong".

"Professor Sakai, what are you talking about?"

Hanks blinked twice.

Not counting those antique paintings that have been scattered overseas, only modern Chinese painting artworks.

In the international art market, the works of famous artists such as Zhang Daqian and Huang Binhong can also be sold very expensive, but more overseas Chinese and Chinese circles are buying.

On World Influence,

The most sought-after master of pure Chinese painting in the art market is perhaps Qi Baishi. The main thing is that Mr. Qi's fans are very powerful.

Picasso has always been a big fan of Qi Shiraishi's work.

Legend has it that Picasso's classmate once said, "Oriental painters don't have to come to Paris to study, go to Qi Baishi, it's a masterpiece that I can never paint." ”

This sentence can be called the toughest and broadest of the century, and since then few critics will question the level of the old man Shiraishi.

Even if you don't understand Chinese painting well and don't appreciate the cultural accomplishment of oriental art, collectors must believe in Picasso's vision, so they are very much after Qi Baishi's paintings.

Mr. Cao Xuan's works are the last living Chinese painting masters of the same generation, and the transaction price has gradually become higher.

In terms of transaction price, one foot has already stepped on the threshold of the temple of the world's top painters.

The market predicts that after a hundred years, Mr. Lao's works may really be able to enter the super-first-class field.

But trends are just trends.

There is no definite number in the art market, only time will tell whether it will be a success, or whether it will be 50 years, 100 years, or even centuries.

In terms of price,

Wu Guanzhong's paintings are slightly inferior to Cao Lao's by half a grade, but they are much higher than Cao Lao's second-generation disciples such as Lin Tao and Tang Ning, and several works have been sold for 100 million yuan in Xiangjiang, Dongxia.

And what's even more difficult is that

His painting style was first sought after in the French market, and it was only after this traditional European art heart that collectors frenzyed before returning to Eastern Xia.

In order to give an intuitive impression to collectors, foreign art critics like to call the yellow painter "Oriental + European famous artist" by the nickname.

For example, Uncle Sakai was once called the Ingres of the East, Kenta Komatsu, the father of Komatsu Taro, was called the Klimt of the East, and Wu Guanzhong was always called the Van Gogh of the East.

The oil painting style is ethereal and colorful.

If it weren't for the rugged and difficult road of fusion painting styles, too few successors, and the lack of a sufficiently weighty heir and a unified art school, it would have almost been possible to start a sect.

Founding a sect...... The supreme pursuit and dream of many artists and galleries.

As long as the painting industry exists, your name will be immortal.

If Hanks was only flattering in front of Uncle Sakai, then any hunter agent would only have to pounce on his knees and lick his way in front of a master who was expected to start a sect.

Even though the master has been dead for more than ten years.

When Hanks spoke, he still respectfully added the honorific title of MASTER in front of the surname of the great artist, who had received the highest honor in the art world [the highest order of French literature and art] awarded by the French government.

This is to praise the other person's work for his ability to reconcile the yin and yang of Eastern and Western art styles like a mysterious alchemist.

Uncle Sakai glanced at Hanks and didn't speak.

That's all he said.

This photo by Sheng Zifa is only a base map, and this painting can only be said to be designed in a painting style, similar to Wu Guanzhong's works.

In terms of the final result, it is far from worthy of comparison with that kind of top artist.

It's like the gap between a junior kart champion and an F1 world champion.

The question is,

That's a terrible rate of progress.

Every time Sakai Issei felt that he had already looked down on this kid, but next time Gu Weijing could give him an unexpected surprise.

The master started from the end, and Schumacher also came out of the kart championship.

What my wife said is completely right, at the age of Gu Weijing, this kind of ability to control the style of pen and ink is indeed very surprising.

"Young people nowadays are so annoying!"

How old is the other party?

Now it's just the prototype of the path of the master,

Five years from now, ten years from now?

From the perspective of artists competing with each other, Uncle Sakai even has a sense of crisis that a generation of new people will replace the old.

There are only so many cakes that can be distributed, if your work is not timeless enough.

The arrival of a new generation of supernovas means a reshuffle of the art market, with old artists becoming obsolete and discarded by collectors.

Uncle Sakai's current age can still be regarded as an artist of the Mesozoic Generation.

He felt that he could still flutter in the ocean of this market for more than ten or twenty years, and he didn't want to be shot to death on the beach by Xiao Young so soon.

He thought about it again and again, the two most talented young people he had ever seen, one was his daughter, and the other was his daughter's sweetheart.

Rounding it off, the children are as good as themselves.

Uncle Sakai became happy again.

"This painting already has an obvious personal style, which is quite good, and the future is terrifying." Uncle Sakai put the receiver of the phone to his ear again, and continued to pat his wife's ass with his heart: "Our daughter's vision is indeed okay, Katsuko has her mother's seventy percent of the skills back then." ”

"Hmph, shameless, you didn't have this attainment when you were a student." Mrs. Sakai laughed, and the mood was still quite pleasant.

"I think our Katsuko really likes him. In that case, it's a good fate for this kid. I think so, you need nobles on the road of art, you have time to give more pointers, and if you can help him, you can help him. Mrs. Sakai commanded.

"What kind of ecstasy did that kid pour you into making you willing to help him like this?"

Uncle Sakai was a little surprised by the change in his wife's attitude.

"That little bastard deserves it too?"

Mrs. Sakai "cut" it lightly, but still said helplessly: "It's not for our girl." ”

"The more you help him, the more he has to coax and spoil our daughter. The more important Shengzi's position in Gu Weijing's heart is. ”

That's it.

The more the family gives after one of the two parties, the more arbitrary and capricious the right and confidence they have, and those who eat soft rice have no capital to betray.

On the contrary, seeing that her daughter and the other party's love were dead and alive, the mother-in-law also saw that her son-in-law was unhappy, and all kinds of stumbling blocks made her face white, and in the end it was her daughter who was injured.

Mrs. Sakai was never dismissive of the students at school, because their social status did not even give her a perfunctory interest in them.

As far as art is concerned, the gap between people's social status can be bigger than that of people and dogs.

But she realized that her daughter might have liked Gu Weijing at the beginning.

Mrs. Sakai felt that the other party was not pleasing to the eye again, and she did not really speak ill of each other, but pinched her scalp, patiently, and seriously agreed with the other party in three chapters.

"Our daughter is too soft. That little bastard must know that Katsuko's liking is a blessing he has cultivated for several lifetimes. As long as he can make Katsuko happy, I am willing to give him a ladder to success. ”

Katsuko is not a daughter who likes to show off,

But Mrs. Sakai didn't mind showing the little native of Yangon how precious a lover like Katsuko was.

"What do you say?"

"I'm fine here. It's just that...... With Lin Tao as a teacher, the ladder of Qingyun has already been halfway up. I don't need to meddle. ”

Uncle Sakai smiled.

He thinks that oil painting is better than Lin Tao's, but teaching a child of Gu Weijing's level, Professor Lin Tao is already very superb, and there will be no qualitative difference in his teaching.

"You are such a big artist, you can always do something, or I will contact him with a few sponsored scholarships from international art foundations?" Mrs. Sakai suggested.

"Sponsoring a scholarship, well, but at most seven or eight thousand dollars a year, plus reimbursement of airfares or something, it's not a big deal...... Moreover, many scholarships of this kind of foundation have additional requirements, and there are many routines. Say it's a scholarship. It's not necessary to take a cut of the money he will make from selling his paintings in the future. ”

Uncle Sakai shook his head: "Since we want to send charcoal in the snow, we should send a big one." ”

"Well, speaking of which. I have an idea, and I happened to have a ...... that came up recently."

He suddenly turned his head to look at Hanks to the side, and narrowed his eyes like a shark seeing a stupid seal on the ice probing its brain for food.

Hanks, who was trying to eavesdrop on Uncle Sakai's conversation, had some hair on his neck for some reason.

He turned his head and saw Professor Sakai smiling at him as he put down the phone.

Hanks panicked at the laughter and quickly smiled back.

"Professor, think about it, 50 million dollars, it should be difficult to make a more sincere bid than us." Hanks thought Uncle Sakai was moved by something.

"No, no, no."

Sakai Issei shook his fat fingers like radish strips, and said softly: "With all due respect, if it is Gao Guxuan or Lissen who gave me this contract, it is called sincerity." But the Mars Gallery is much less attractive. ”

"Actually, I don't mind telling you that Gagosian is also talking to me. They are willing to cooperate with the agency in the consignment model, and the sales are 55% with me. OFA offered me a four-year contract extension, almost $48 million, if it was only $2 million, why didn't I continue to work with my old club? ”

The smile on Hanks' face was a little reluctant.

He knew that Professor Sakai was telling the truth.

OFA is no worse than Marsh, and Gagosian is the top brand in the industry.

Fifty-fifty shares, with the channel of Gagoxuan, the total amount of Uncle Sakai's works in the next few years may not exceed 100 million US dollars, or even more, but the consignment payment is slower.

"I'm sure it's not just about money when you want to change your gallery."

Hanks hesitated for a moment before saying, "At Daejeon Gallery, as long as Yayoi Kusama is alive, you will never be the main artist, and Larry Gagosian may not be willing to make you the next Damien Hirst, but if we are at Mas Gallery, everything is possible." ”

It is impossible for Ota Art Gallery to give up all its efforts to promote Yayoi Kusama, who is still creating today, for the sake of Professor Sakai.

Gao Guxuan is even more famous in the world, and there are at least five or six painters of the same level as Sakai Issei, and Uncle Sakai is just one of the most ordinary ones.

"I'll admit that I had such concerns when I changed galleries. No offense, but Mars Gallery has the confidence to market me as the next Kusama senior. ”

Uncle Sakai asked rhetorically, "It's useless to say it verbally. How many artists are represented by your family, more than 190 of them, and how many of them are successful? ”

This sentence poked at Hanks's pain point.

Mars Gallery currently has a total of 193 represented artists worldwide, the oldest being 81 years old and the youngest being 23 years old, which is already a lot in the gallery business, and even ranks first among first-tier galleries.

It's not really a glamorous ranking.

The art industry is one of the industries with the most serious Matthew effect, and a high-level artist is better than a basket full of stinky fish and shrimp.

The tiger walks alone, and the cattle and sheep are in herds.

The tycoons are not stupid [beep--], oil tycoons, and Arab princes can pay for works signed with Hearst's name without frowning their brows. For a little painter who is not famous, he is not willing to pay a hundred dollars.

The really awesome boutique gallery casually sells hundreds of millions of paintings a year, but there are only a few painters.

The biggest galleries in the gallery world, such as Gagosian, Hauser Wirth, and PACE, have only a few dozen signed artists on average.

Gagosian is the largest and has the largest number of employees, representing a total of 122 painters in history, but there are only about a dozen or so painters who really promoted it during the same period.

These dozen or so painters can pick two random ones and add them up to their worth, and they can kill all the more than 100 people in Mars Gallery in seconds.

Last year, the total sales of Mars Gallery were only about $40 million.

"Instead of trying to sign me, I recommend you change your target. Turning a nobody into a master is a testament to the capabilities of Mars Gallery more than pushing up the value of a master by one or two million dollars, isn't it? ”

Uncle Sakai saw that Hanks didn't speak, smiled slightly, and pushed the screen in his hand over.

(End of chapter)