"You think too much, the author of this painting is not my daughter."

Uncle Sakai smiled and waved his hand: "His name is Gu Weijing." ”

"Gu ...... For the scriptures? ”

Hanks read the name, changing his intonation and syllables several times, and he was sure he had never heard of it.

"Does he have anything to do with the avant-garde artist Koo Tak-hing in New York's Queens Modern Art District?" He racked his brains and pondered.

"There's nothing to do with it, it's not even a surname." Uncle Sakai shrugged.

"A Nobody," Hanks shrugged.

He could no longer find in his mind any nephew or young disciple of a great painter with this name.

It's supposed to be just a small character that no one cares about.

"I told you at the beginning that he's a nobody now."

Professor Sakai smiled, "I used to be a Nobody, OFA made me who I am, and I also repaid Daejeon Art Gallery with a lot of profits. ”

"Any master has ever been a nobody. The difference between the down-and-out Van Gogh and the wealthy Picasso may only be whether there is a suitable stage and whether there is a professional team of promoters behind them. Isn't that why a gallery like yours exists? ”

Uncle Sakai shared the photo with Hanks using the phone's AirDrop function, and then glanced at the barbecue bar in front of him with a little reluctance, and then stood up and prepared to leave.

"Maybe that's the truth. But the resources to push such a painter to the value of millions are enough to push any creator of the same level to the same position. In the high-end art industry, this level of technique is not a scarce resource, but the platform of Mars Gallery is a scarce resource. ”

"I said the choice is yours."

Uncle Sakai stood up with an unfathomable expression.

He held the Apple Watch on his arm in front of Hanks' eyes.

"In this industry, opportunities are always reserved for those who are prepared, both for artists and galleries. You can find me today in this barbecue shop at midnight, and I personally appreciate your hard work and perseverance, so I introduced him to you. ”

"I call other galleries before I go home and go to bed, no...... You have thirty minutes to make a decision, you should have the contact details of my studio, no waiting. ”

"I'll think about it."

Hanks was still the same answer, and there wasn't much enthusiasm in his tone.

Such a painter is signed by other galleries if they are willing to sign it.

"Boss, check out, don't want sake." The agent waved at Chef Ohtani, who was preparing sake, and was ready to end the unsuccessful supper.

The chef of the yakiniku restaurant is unwilling to let go of the opportunity to kill the wrongdoer.

He stopped Hanks with a dark glass bottle of sake, shook the bottle, and signaled that the drink had been opened, "The most expensive sake in the store, 122,000 yen, has been opened, and you can't do without it." ”

"You wine 122,000 yen?"

Hanks pouted,

The barbecue here was cheap, but he didn't expect the wine to be so expensive.

At 122,000 yen, it's about 1,000 dollars, which is already the price of the best sake.

The "Kikuhime" brand sake in this small shop in front of me belongs to the big road goods that are not even one-twentieth of the price in the store.

"Clearly marked the price, you order it yourself. Young man, do you think you were the first guest to accompany Sakai-kun to dinner and shout out the most expensive bottle of wine? ”

Master Otani has the expression that Lao Tzu is your profiteer.

"By the way, I think there's one more thing you should know." At this time, Professor Sakai had already walked to the door of the shop.

He stopped abruptly, turned sideways, paused for two seconds, and then said in a slow tone, "He's not my daughter, but he's only seventeen years old either. ”

"This is the work of a seventeen-year-old painter? Wait a minute, you can ...... in detail"

The uncle didn't pay attention to the stunned Hanks's inquiry, said hello to Master Otani, and turned into a cold fat man, and disappeared into the vast night on the streets of Tokyo without looking back.

Hanks, who was still arguing with the chef, froze for a moment.

Seventeen?

He didn't bother to question the sake that was obviously a bit of a trick, and hurriedly took out his phone again.

Once again, Hanks carefully examined the half-visible sketch of the work from beginning to end.

The painting is still the same picture,

The mentality of the person who looks at the painting is completely different.

All of Hanks's previous judgments were based on the fact that the other party, an artist in his forties who had matured his painting style, was evaluated as a template.

At this point,

When he learned that the creator of the painting was surprisingly young, not even an adult.

Hanks immediately had a very different feeling.

All the frizziness and shortcomings of the pen disappeared immediately out of thin air, how to look at how to like, how to look at how pleasing to the eye.

Where is this what an ordinary cheerleader,

This is clearly a beautiful embryo in the countryside, but peerless!

Don't look at the small jasper now, what is lacking is that you need to wait slowly for time to brew her beauty, and a few more experienced old mothers will teach her the style of a woman, so that she can turn into a stunner who turns all beings upside down.

Hanks thinks,

The Mars Gallery is quite suitable for this old woman.

"That's it at a young age, and you can pay it back in another five years? This is clearly another Miss Katsuko Sakai. ”

The growth of an artist's skills is never a smooth curve, and it is related to each person's physical condition, learning ability, natural aptitude, and the artistic environment that they can come into contact with.

Painters from remote areas,

Come to big cities like New York, London, Paris or Provence.

The most cutting-edge art trends are like ocean waves, and if they are not destroyed by the waves, it is easy to have a rapid growth that has been reborn.

Many black painters from Kenya and Tanzania have reached their peak in their careers only after they arrived in New York.

But in general, after deducting the environmental impact,

Before the age of 25 to 33, painters are in the stage of rapid growth in painting level, their learning ability is stronger, their techniques are improved faster, and their creative style will quickly enter the maturity.

Titian's fame in Florence, Picasso's real personal creative style of the "blue style" period, Monet and Renoir began to participate in French salon exhibitions, and the idea of creating impressionism was born, all of which occurred in this age range.

This is the golden age when painters are most likely to progress their techniques and be inspired.

There are also artists in the circle who changed from actuaries and lawyers to painting in their thirties, and finally became late bloomers, but after all, they are only a minority.

The younger you are, the more malleable you are.

After middle age, the level of technique begins to be stereotyped.

If Mars Gallery goes to sign a 43-year-old oil painter.

They certainly do not and cannot expect any impressive progress in the artist's painting skills by the time he reaches the age of 53.

Not to mention ten years,

Even after twenty years, if he is still creating, the style of painting may change, and in terms of pen skills, it usually does not grow much.

But young painters are different.

A 23-year-old painter does not need to be 33 years old, as long as he is properly trained and has a good learning environment, after three or five years, his painting level can easily be reborn.

Every five years is a very different realm.

The reason why Mars Gallery is willing to pay millions of dollars in liquidated damages to dig Katsuko Sakai is certainly not because the little girl is beautiful...... At least not mainly because the little girl is pretty.

It's because she is not yet an adult, and her painting skills are quite mature.

Among painters of the same level, Katsuko Sakai is much younger than the others, and it is almost impossible to imagine where the limits of her technique were when she was thirty years old.

In the eyes of the gallery, Katsuko Sakai is a scratch-off ticket with a high probability of winning the jackpot.

No one is sure if the next Kusama Yayoi can be scraped out.

To become a great painter at the top of the pyramid, you need to be on the cusp of the times, have good personal skills and good luck, and all three are indispensable.

It belongs to the type of seven points of destiny and three points of hard work.

But if you give her enough time, she can hope to become the next first-line painter in Asia like Kazunari Sakai.

It is a model for the future.

The value of such a genius is naturally not comparable to that of other adult painters of a similar level.

Like a racehorse on a racetrack,

With the same results, the foal is a seven-year-old prime, a four-and-a-half-year-old young horse, or a three-year-old foal, and the value of the pony on the market is often a difference between multiple zeros and less zeros.

Now, suddenly, another three-year-old foal with the "Gu Weijing" name tag around his neck appeared in Hanks's eyes.

His heart began to beat slowly.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

His heart pounded against Hanks's chest, his breathing became faster and faster, and his face began to flush even though he had been drinking.

And the best part, he found, was.

At this moment, the name is still unknown.

Obscurity means that there is more room for appreciation than you can imagine.

Of course

There is a lot of uncertainty on the road to art.

He had just read a manuscript now, and he only knew that Gu Weijing's name and the other party's age were two very rough pieces of information.

It is too far to say that in the future to cultivate a top-notch master like Takashi Murakami and KWAS.

But Hanks thought about it a little and still felt his blood boiling.

The more you put in upfront, the more you can reap.

There's no more lucrative business in the world than to train a nobody into a master artist, and for galleries, that means a gold mine for printing money in bulk.

For hunter agents, if you do this for a lifetime, you can live the financial freedom of a yacht supermodel, and a little bit of the contract is tens of millions of dollars.

Hanks wiped the sweat from his forehead.

He felt like he shouldn't have waited any longer.

"122,000 yen, welcome to patronize!"

Hanks looked up, and Chef Ohtani of the restaurant was still holding the sake bottle, blocking in front of him like a door god, with a posture that I wouldn't let you go if you didn't pay the bill.

He shook his head, took out his wallet from his pocket, took out his bank card, thought about it, and simply threw all the yen mixed with a pink five-hundred-euro note printed with modern architecture directly on the counter.

"Enough to pay."

Lao Tzu is now a gold medal agent who wants to create the next new art star and make tens of millions of dollars in big business, and he is too lazy to care about this little money.

Hanks didn't wait for Master Otani to find money, picked up his briefcase with one hand, snatched the bottle of sake from the other's arms with the other, and hurried out of the store.

"Professor Sakai! Professor Sakai! ”

By the time Hanks rushed out into the street, Uncle Sakai was gone.

He took out his cell phone and began to call Professor Sakai's personal assistant, and before the call could be answered, Hanks waved down a taxi and ordered, "Go to Narita Airport." ”

He couldn't wait any longer.

Hanks wanted to fly over to see the other party at the first moment of learning the specific information of this Gu Weijing.

……

When Professor Sakai got home, he saw his assistant leave him a message on the social media app LINE, and he smiled as he should be.

He knew that Hanks must be in a hurry to find himself right now.

Uncle Sakai only told the other party the key information of Gu Weijing's age at the last moment of leaving, of course, not to create some kind of bad taste dramatic effect.

Uncle Sakai is already an old fritter in the industry.

Whether it is a collector buying a painting or an agent signing a painter, it is always the more anxious the two parties, the more they rush to catch up with the party who wants to sign the contract, and the greater the cost will be.

He deliberately wanted to make Hanks anxious, which could better reflect the value of Gu Weijing.

Similar to when buying a house, the agent said that if you don't want it at such and such a time, I will sell it to someone else, the same reason.

Professor Sakai was willing to recommend Gu Weijing to Mars Gallery, and it wasn't just because Hanks happened to come over today.

He had thought about it in his mind before, and found that the situation of Mars Gallery was really a good match for Gu Weijing.

My arsenic,

The honey of the other.

The Mars Gallery, which is in decline, is not very attractive to Professor Sakai, but it is very suitable for the development of that young man in Yangon.

Even Gagosian may not be comparable.

First of all

Objectively, a super gallery like Gagosian may not be a good idea.

Geniuses are rare, but there are already a lot of art masters in the super gallery, and you are not inferior to this at all. There is no need to bet on the uncertainty of whether a genius will succeed or not.

Uncle Sakai hesitated and didn't want to sign Gao Guxuan,

It's because even if he joins Gao Guxuan, stinky fish and rotten shrimp will not be, but they also belong to that kind of small fish and shrimp, listening to the majesty, staying may not be more comfortable than now.

Gu Weijing is not even a fish belly player, compared with those big artists, his status is really just a hair on his body, nothing.

No matter how many resources these big galleries have, all they can do on you is a little bit of the dregs of the art giants' teeth.

The same is true for Uncle Sakai's own private galleries such as OFA or Tokyo Gallery, which take the high-end route of high-end boutiques and only have four or five representative painters in total, and all the resources have been divided.

It is not difficult for him to mobilize some connections and get a contract for Gu Weijing as a cutting-edge painter.

But this is not necessarily the best for Gu Weijing.

Mars Gallery has been in a hurry to go to the doctor in recent years, and has signed a small 200 people, although it is a bit of a laughing stock in the industry, but it is precisely the scene where there is no tiger in the mountains to make the monkey the king.

There is not so much seniority, and capable young people are more likely to come out.

Uncle Sakai thinks that the Mars Gallery is a small pond that can't be opened, and that's because he is Sakai Issei.

The difference in the weight of the two names Sakai Issei and Gu Weijing in the minds of collectors is countless times larger than the difference in their weight.

No matter how depressed and unbearable the old qualified big galleries are, they are not comparable to some second-tier galleries.

The global promotion of artworks and the presence of galleries on five continents alone are the foundation of decades of operation.

The small pond in his eyes, if Gu Weijing jumped into it, it was an invisible, boundless ocean, the sea and the sky, and there was space for fluttering.

"The wind is surging, the clouds are surging, and the white clouds are stepping on the white clouds."

Uncle Sakai softly recited the famous sentence of this Toei poem Sacred Taneda Mountain Head Fire, and smiled, "Boy, the opportunity is there, whether you can step on the white clouds or not depends on your own creation." ”

He was stuck for thirty minutes before finally connecting to Hanks' phone from his assistant.

Last night, Picasso's last lover died.

Last year, there was a solo exhibition of this grandmother's 100-year-old man.

It's really the mark of an era that has dissipated.

In the writing plan of this article, there should be a plot of this grandmother, and then it should be the development of another timeline.

(End of chapter)