Gu Weijing turned the pencil around the desk with his fingers, turning a deaf ear to all the malicious whispers around him.

As a young painter who is about to open an exhibition at the Louvre Abu Dhabi.

Of course, he has enough confidence to treat all his peers who laugh at him as clowns.

All right

Strictly speaking, it is not so much that the Galerie de Mars wants to spend a lot of money to open a solo exhibition for himself, but rather that this promise is the bait for the devil to tempt Faust to sign him to sell his soul.

It's just two sides of the coin tossed in Hanks' hand, not hell and heaven.

It's just an extremely generous contract package and another contract that is a little crazy and ridiculous, and has never been seen before in the industry.

The "devil" of Mars III was too generous.

Generous to,

Gu Weijing knew that he might have signed a deed of sale covering the golden age of his entire career, and he didn't feel bored, only excited and excited.

"Is this the magic of Old Mr. Cao Xuan?"

I also knew with my toes that if it wasn't for Mr. Cao's efforts in it, the incredible option of opening an art exhibition at the Louvre Abu Dhabi would definitely not appear on the negotiating table.

No matter how genius it is, it's useless.

Tokyo galleries also have their own top art museums, but they have never promised Katsuko Sakai to have a solo exhibition in the museum.

Maybe someday in the future, a similar scenario will emerge.

But that's not now,

Not next year,

Not when Miss Katsuko was 19 years old.

It's not that Tokyo Gallery doesn't take Katsuko Sakai seriously, but there is no precedent for this in the industry.

The gallery has its own mature cultivation gradient.

Newcomer painters are usually required to participate in some academic seminars and collective art exhibitions held by the gallery itself after signing a contract with other colleagues, and show their faces in front of collectors' media.

Those who perform well will be given higher exposure and will be recommended to participate in small biennials as guest artists, and then participate in major biennials such as the Lion City Art Fair.

When you have achieved good results, you can consider starting a solo exhibition.

For cost reasons, the initial solo exhibitions were very small and simply online.

Only when the market feedback is good enough, can we gradually increase the scale of the solo exhibition, change to a larger stage, and consider giving the opportunity to participate in the art fair......

The reward at the end of this long ladder with no end in sight is to be able to hold your own solo exhibition in a major art museum.

It's like in motorsport, you have to drive a European kart, then you have to drive Formula Renault, and then you have to win the championship in F4, F3, F2. I have to go to other top races for two or three years before I can finally sit in the cockpit of an F1 car and have hundreds of millions of spectators around the world cheering for the athletes.

This is a mature business cultivation model formed by modern galleries after the test of time.

It is precisely because each step is doubling the scale of the previous step of burning money, so for regular new painters, if they want to strive for more exposure, they must be screened layer by layer.

After a detailed evaluation by the marketing department, it was decided that the gallery deserved to devote more resources to this represented artist.

Knowing that their investment will pay off will allow the painter to move on to the next step.

Mrs. Sakai originally proposed the conditions for a solo exhibition, and she judged in her heart that even if Mars Gallery agreed, it would be just a small-scale, very rudimentary solo exhibition.

It is already very careful to have a physical venue, instead of the kind of Internet art exhibition held online with a total of no more than 10,000 views.

More requirements, is difficult for other galleries.

At the age of 19, he is too young and too young.

Giving him such a big occasion and making the eyes of art lovers all over the world pay attention to him, he may not be able to control it himself.

Promote the 6-year-old go-kart prodigy into the ultimate cockpit of F1, and if you don't manage to do it, the car will directly kill you.

The huge public opinion and media criticism is also likely to overwhelm the gallery along with its representative painters.

Think about it

An amateur painter at the age of nineteen without any convincing achievements came up and got something that countless people could not get by struggling all their lives.

Those fellow painters who are still struggling to climb on the thorny road of art, they hate what you hate!

Mars III actually made this incredible promise.

I really don't know if it's fearlessness or madness.

The gallery is betting everything on the table, giving everything that can be given.

A personal friendship with the UAE royal family, and the qualification to open a joint art exhibition with the Abu Dhabi Museum, which is the biggest hole card of the Mars Gallery. It is also the fundamental reason why this old gallery, which is gradually like a withered towering tree, no matter how it declines, can still be called a first-line gallery in people's subconscious.

It can also be faintly overwhelmed by intercontinental galleries such as Tokyo Gallery + BTAP.

Even in the eyes of famous artists, this opportunity is definitely moving.

It is the strongest publicity resource and T0-level exposure channel in the hands of Mars Gallery, and it can be regarded as one of the honors in the middle and bottom of T1 in the entire art history.

This stage is slightly inferior to those super art museums, and is comparable to the forced style of many European national art galleries to hold exhibitions.

It's about the same as the temptation that can be carried out at the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg and the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy, which have a history of three or four hundred years.

Mars Gallery wanted to sign Professor Kazunari Sakai for the next five years, and the core condition of the offer was not a contract offer of tens of millions of dollars at all.

It's just that I'm willing to open a solo art exhibition for Uncle Sakai at the Louvre Abu Dhabi.

Six centuries after the Renaissance, the Medici family established the first art gallery in human history.

For the first time in history, this opportunity was put in front of a minor!

Even if he knew that this was the bait that other people's galleries fished for his own super long contract, Gu Weijing also decided to jump into the bowl willingly.

Theoretically, the opportunity to open this kind of art exhibition depends on seniority, connections, timing and luck, and it is not something that you can open with good painting skills.

If he goes step by step, even if he breaks through the sky with strong painting skills, Gu Weijing thinks that he will not be able to fight for such an opportunity before he is thirty years old.

Gu Weijing really couldn't refuse.

"Reckless young man, congratulations on signing a fifteen-year deed of sale."

Mrs. Sakai didn't stop her, and her tone didn't mock, she just shrugged her shoulders, "With such a long contract, you expect to have a good relationship with Mars Gallery in the future, and you won't be hidden." Luckily, Mr. Mars III seems to like you. But to be honest, Xiao Gu, I don't blame you. ”

"Such a contract is in front of Katsuko's eyes, and I will let her sign it after struggling for a long time. In front of the young Yicheng, he would pounce without hesitation, struggling and hesitating for a second, it was an insult to the condition of opening an art exhibition in a 'top gallery'. ”

"I know that I can't achieve it, but I still rush towards the moth to the fire, just to get a little closer to this goal, and the Louvre is such a charm."

Mrs. Sakai's chest heaved violently as she spoke.

Obviously, she was also shocked by the conditions offered by Mr. Mars III.

And Gu Tongxiang, another elder in the living room next to him, was already stupid, and fell into a state of madness when he approached Fan Jinzhongju.

Yesterday I was still in tears, and today I just sat on the side and laughed.

Art exhibitions at the Louvre?

My grandson?

Gu Tongxiang didn't care if it was a blank check or not, Gu Weijing probably wouldn't be able to grasp this opportunity in the palm of his hand.

The combination of the two words "Louvre" and "Gu Weijing" alone brought Old Man Gu the same pleasure as an orgasm in his skull.

I was crazy with joy, and I couldn't wait to dance.

This is definitely the happiest day in Mr. Gu's life, when he made a small windfall from ancient paintings, Gu Tongxiang had never been so happy.

"I just want you to understand that this is just a goal for you to work on. Don't be discouraged if you can't finish it, even if you can't open a solo art exhibition in the UAE, as long as you continue to paint seriously, it is not impossible that one day you can hold your own painting feast in the art gallery in Paris. ”

The blonde aunt stood up and patted Gu Weijing's shoulder and comforted.

The painting gallery in Paris is the main hall of the Louvre Museum in France to place paintings and artworks from all over the world, and is known as the best oil painting art in the world.

Picasso's paintings were included in the Louvre Museum and are placed in the halls of the gallery.

"Whether you can get it or not depends on the will of heaven, and do your best to obey the destiny of heaven."

Before Gu Weijing completed the signing, Mrs. Sakai checked the contract one last time and made more detailed agreements on several terms.

Including the issue of ownership of the paintings prepared by Gu Weijing for the Lion City Art Exhibition.

According to the contents of the contract brought by Hanks.

Gu Weijing's formal agency agreement with Mars Gallery should take effect at the end of August when the exhibition closes.

Starting from 0:00 on August 27, 2023, Gu Weijing will officially become the official agent artist of Mars Gallery, regardless of whether it is the execution of contract A or contract B.

"Who owns the paintings in the exhibition, Gu Weijing's own, or the Mars Gallery? The contract has to say yes. Mrs. Sakai pointed out the ambiguity in the contract.

"Mars Gallery will invest corresponding resources into Gu Weijing, and enjoy the resources, which should be the works of the gallery." Hanks said immediately.

"That's fair, I'm okay." Mrs. Sakai smiled and did not object: "It's just that the statement of the corresponding resources is too vague. Mars Gallery should need to give us a complete marketing plan first. ”

"All I can say is...... It can be considered on a case-by-case basis. ”

Hanks smiled wryly.

Mars Gallery has already proposed such a VAM agreement, and then worked hard to spend money to send Gu Weijing to the exhibition to win awards, and then worked even harder to take millions of dollars to Gu Weijing to hold a large-scale solo exhibition at the Louvre Abu Dhabi.

What are they trying to do!

Gu Weijing is the illegitimate son of Mars III?

Bastards may not have this treatment, this is like the little ancestor of the Mars Gallery.

Since the ancestors of Mars III have been lying obediently in the family cemetery, I have not heard of anyone suddenly deceiving the corpse.

So normally,

Hanks said that it depended on the situation, but in fact, since the contract was signed, the gallery would definitely not work hard to promote Gu Weijing.

Although the Singapore Art Biennale has attracted a lot of attention from the academic art community this year, it is also a new art exhibition with a short history.

There are no less than 12 or 3 biennials at the same level as it and more important than the Lion City Art Exhibition.

Mars III even hoped to get Gu Weijing's fifteen-year long-term contract, and use this failure to tie Cao Lao's possible closed disciples to the warship of his own gallery in the future.

The art style of waiting for Gu Weijing is more mature, and there are more chances to win awards!

At that time, we can even consider some major biennale awards such as silver and bronze awards, rather than just marginal and comforting trophies such as "Best Newcomer Award" and "Wonderful Creativity Award" as this year.

Hanks thought, "Well, at least, we can cover all the expenses of Gu Weijing's trip to Singapore, book him a hotel or something, and we can give him the standard of five hundred dollars a day for the duration of the exhibition, how about it?" ”

"Then forget it, don't bother. We set the hotel ourselves, and the ownership of the painting in the contract is also attributed to Gu Weijing himself. ”

Mrs. Sakai smiled.

Regardless of whether they win awards or not, works with the qualifications of the master group of large-scale biennials can be sold for more than $7,000.

One or twenty thousand, thirty or twenty thousand is also a common thing.

No matter how small the mosquito is, it is also meat, so that the painting that will be very monumental after becoming famous in the future is not cost-effective to give ownership to the gallery for a few days in a luxury hotel.

"If I want to win the award completely on my own strength, my current level of painting must only touch the mood of the organizing committee. If you can completely solve the sense of fragmentation of the picture, and add the personal creativity of the finger painting method proposed by Katsuko, you should have a relatively large grasp of painting at the level of "heart feeling". ”

At this time, in the back row of the Dulwich classroom,

Gu Weijing recalled the scene of signing the contract a week ago, thinking about the plan for the near future, and tapped his fingertips on the desk.

"It would be nice if I could come up with a work that is more emotional, or has a master-level technique."

Gu Weijing thought for a moment.

Ms. Tang Ning's entry "Hundred Flowers" at the Magic City Biennale in the past few years is a work that has reached the level of Chinese painting at the level of a master.

Shun Shunli won the gold medal that year.

In terms of influence and the scale of previous competitions, the Lion City Art Exhibition is similar to the Magic City Biennale.

Except for some great painters who are occasionally invited to participate in the exhibition, the group of painters who are attracted to the exhibition is also at a similar level.

Gu Weijing now has a little understanding that in the field of art, the master rank seems to be an insurmountable threshold.

Just like the name of the system for this stage - when you cross this line, you are a real master, and if you can't step over, you are just an ordinary professional painter.

He recalls the digital booklet on the Lion City Art Fair's website.

Among the painters who can participate in the main exhibition, as long as they are creators in the field of classical art who pursue painting techniques, Lv.4 is almost the lowest bottom line for participation.

There are many painters who can reach Lv.5, and there are seven or eight works that are exhibited every year with the expressiveness of Lv.6 occupation.

Most of the awards of the Biennale are rounded up by these Lv.6 paintings.

However, works that can have the level of painting at the master stage are extremely rare.

Compared with the third order of the profession, which is not unusual, it is obviously only a small stage behind, and the number of people is completely falling off a cliff.

There may not be a single work like this in a year.

Gu Weijing only saw the vivid brushwork of the paintings in the digital album at the Singapore Art Fair in 2009 and 2017, and he was amazed by the vivid brushwork.

After using calligraphy and painting for identification, Gu Weijing found that they were indeed master-level paintings.

The former is a sketch master, the latter is a watercolor master, one is from the National Gallery of Singapore, the largest local gallery in the Lion City, and the other is from the Standing Wood Gallery in New York.

If only you could raise any of the items of "Good Luck Orphanage in Yangon" to the first level of master.

No matter how fierce the competition is this summer, no matter how many mid-range painters around the world are fighting for the duel, winning the award is also a matter of hand.

"It's hard." Gu Weijing shook his head.

He understood that no matter how hard he worked in a hundred days, the goal of ascending to the master level was too much to achieve.

Just from Lv.5 to Lv.6, you need to spend a full 100,000 dollars to pile up, and it should cost you more to upgrade to the first level of Master.

He just paints dollars, and he can't draw hundreds of thousands of dollars for such a long time.

"The focus should be on emotions." Gu Weijing thought about a feasible method.

Now the more realistic approach is to bridge the gap in the fusion painting as much as possible.

On the other hand, if you can't improve the level of technique, you can enhance the emotional depth contained in the picture.

Mr. Cao Xuan taught him.

A good painting is a picture expression supported by the three solid fulcrums of skill, emotion, and knowledge.

He has already felt the magic of the wonderful communication between the viewer and the work that comes from his painting of "The Little Prince" after the mood of the painting rises to a certain height.

Although there are few master-level paintings, there are even fewer paintings that can meet the evaluation of "painstaking efforts".

In the previous works, Gu Weijing didn't even see any of them.

Even being able to achieve the evaluation of "feeling something" is a minority of the few.

There are still traces of improvement in painting skills.

The injection of mood and emotion in painting can really only rely on life experience and the favor of the muse, and Monet does not feel that he can paint his heart casually.

Gu Weijing knew that maybe it would be a better choice to find a way in this regard.

[Your Free XP has increased by 616.27!]

[Your Free XP has increased by 701.13!]

[Your Free XP has increased by 727.27!]

While he was thinking about the exhibition, the system suddenly heard a prompt in his ear.

Gu Weijing opened the virtual panel and saw a prompt that a large amount of experience points had arrived.

"Uncle Alai is really reliable, he can do it so quickly."

Gu Weijing was not surprised, but smiled slightly.

Myanmar's currency control policy is strict.

Foreign currencies can be exchanged for Kyats as much as you want, as long as you can increase the government's foreign exchange reserves, the better.

It is difficult to exchange kyats for foreign currency.

Hanks made up his mind to build a good relationship with the young man who the big boss personally cared for.

He didn't even mention that he was now past the deadline he had originally mentioned for the signing.

Hanks also knew that the aunt was more difficult and liked to take advantage.

So after Gu Weijing finished signing, the broker handed over the large box of brand-new kyats to Gu Weijing in private.

It's kind of-" Little heart, please have a drink with Mr. Gu. ”

Hanks said with a big smile on his face.

This money is different from the gift given by Brother Hao, Gu Weijing is at ease.

He turned around and entrusted tens of millions of kyats to Uncle Alai and asked him to help exchange them for the things that the orphanage urgently needed and donated.

Uncle Alai did things very neatly without any discount, and in the blink of an eye, the three supplies had become free experience points on the virtual panel of the system.

Plus the newly credited experience of about 2,000 points.

Gu Weijing's free experience points available to him reached nearly two thousand five hundred points.

He didn't hesitate too much about how to use the experience points.

Gu Weijing had already thought about it before, sketching is the foundation of art modeling, and it can be used in a large number of painting-related occasions.

One law and one hundred laws, the scope of application is extremely strong.

Improving the ability to shape the lines of painting is a good choice at any time.

The video on Mr. Hyperion's channel, with the blessing of the beautiful judge's sister named Anna Yelena, has now exceeded 430 million views.

One out of every five YouTube users clicked through to play this video.

Touched by the light of the world's No. 1 Internet celebrity, Gu Weijing's bound mailbox can still receive hundreds of new emails every day.

He even had to unbind and change to a newly registered email address to handle orders in this regard.

Since Mr. Sloth's introduction to himself, he has received a project from the Scholastic Group, unless the subject matter is suitable and the unit price is more than 800 US dollars.

Gu Weijing is no longer willing to take on Fiverr's online business.

It's boring to earn three melons and two dates, and he wants to gradually get rid of the name of cheap illustrator.

In the days when there was no manuscript from the local tyrant, Gu Weijing would also regularly launch [Menzel's basic experience in painting] every day to draw some simple patterns.

If you don't make money, you have to keep your hand.

The main purpose is that every time you activate the skill to feel the experience of drawing with a pencil, the sketching skill can be greatly improved.

The harvest of insisting on exercising is great, and Gu Wei has finally filled half of the sketching technique column by his own efforts after a week's work.

Now, with this extra wealth, he should be able to directly enter the next stage and become his second skill to reach Lv.5.

"It's a cold mango juice on a summer day, thank you, Mr. Hanks, I appreciate your affection." Gu Weijing was very satisfied with the gift given by the blonde agent, and chose to assign all the experience points he had just gained to the sketch column.

[Determined to be a sketch technique, allocate 2716 experience points?] 】

【Ding, the level of your sketching technique has been increased!】 】

[Current Level: Lv.5 Class Painter: 2nd Tier (1/10000)]

(End of chapter)