Gu Weijing said to Katsuko Sakai: "This year, the new edition of "The Little Prince" launched by Scholastic Publishing House will be officially launched in this Easter book season. ”

Anna had never told Gu Weijing about the investigation by the marketing department in advance.

Therefore, he was still very surprised that the publishing house actually made a commercial film and put it on YouTube.

After all, it is a work that I painted.

Gu Weijing is like a housewife who accurately grasps her own doll among dozens or hundreds of running and noisy children at the end of school in a nursery school.

There is only a blurred shadow in the shot, though.

He still recognized it at a moment, it was the cover art he had drawn for "The Little Prince".

"Gu Jun, are you so sure? I didn't see anything clearly just now, and your eyes are so good. ”

Katsuko Sakai looked up in confusion.

"You can't be wrong. Charlie Hawke's translation, the illustration of the detective cat, should be the book is true. I remember the interaction between Scholastic Group and Detective Cat on Twitter that we saw together before, and it was about the cooperation of this contract. ”

Gu Weijing didn't answer positively, but just said vaguely.

Katsuko Sakai didn't care too much.

The art industry is small and full of rumors, and various online discussion groups are full of all kinds of workplace gossip.

The boyfriend may be more concerned about the detective cat, and it is not surprising to see some news on the Internet that she does not know.

"If you're right, this book is the Little Prince...... Oh, judging by the blurred shadows, it does look like it, no wonder, no wonder ......"

Hear the names "Detective Cat" and "The Little Prince".

It seems to have aroused some associations with Katsuko Sakai.

She muttered several strange things.

"Is that the Little Prince? Have you heard of it before? Gu Weijing heard the difference in Shengzi's tone.

The girl shrugged, "I mean, if this book really has the magic to make little girls smile, it's not surprising that the lady of the director held on to it and had a clear difference of opinion with the shareholders of the entire magazine. ”

"Which director?"

"I gave the detective cat a nine-score evaluation on the [Mr. Hyperion] channel before. Gu Jun, do you remember that video, what a beautiful young lady. ”

"It's really impressive."

Gu Weijing nodded.

It's not common to see a pretty girl who looks like a sculpture made of ice.

But she is still in a wheelchair.

He has the impression that the female judge in the video is the type that you can't forget for the rest of your life as long as you look at it.

Regarding the evaluation of the ten-dollar watercolor paper, you can see that there is a little bit of the character of the eldest lady who does not eat minced meat.

On the whole, among the people he came into contact with under the identity mask of a detective cat, the judge with a poisonous tongue was not as gentle and cute as Mr. Sloth.

But Gu Weijing's impression of her is not bad.

Who can hate a beautiful woman who praises himself for her righteousness?

Gu Weijing also scolded "Moon" and Van Doorne on Twitter because of the vulgar ridicule of the "Moon" newspaper.

Even his decision to go on Mr. Sloth's Art Criticism Podcast was triggered by this.

"You boys think she's the prettiest face you've ever seen, right?" Sakai Katsuko's tone didn't seem to care at all about casually mentioning it.

Gu Weijing just wanted to answer casually, of course.

Before opening your mouth.

Someone kicked themselves lightly under the table.

"Jasmine? What's wrong. ”

He turned his head in confusion.

Gu Weijing saw that Jasmine's little friend rolled his eyes at himself, "Idiot, even elementary school students know what the answer to this question is".

"I think Sakai-san is the most beautiful girl in the world. When I grow up, I can have a third of my sister and you, and I can wake up with a smile in my dreams. ”

The little girl took a sip of the juice on the table, and filled the hole that Katsuko Sakai casually dug for the straight man Gu Weijing's brother, who had a very high emotional intelligence.

"Jasmine is so cute."

Katsuko Sakai touched the child's face lovingly.

"I'm just asking, I don't mean anything else."

Katsuko Sakai dragged out the last note, and her tone didn't sound very convincing.

Jasmine was right. Of course not as pretty as you, Katsuko. ”

Looking at the smiling expression of the girl opposite, Gu Weijing suddenly realized that he had almost fallen into the trap just now.

Gu Weijing felt a little resentful in his heart.

Is it a girl's nature to compare?

Sakai Katsuko used to be so gentle, what a girl who doesn't eat fireworks in the world! After falling in love, I also made this kind of surprise attack for myself.

"Jasmine is telling the truth, for she has never seen Miss Yelena look like her. Gu Jun, what you said is a lie, because I am self-aware of myself. ”

Katsuko Sakai smiled lightly and took out the last two small breads from the small basket woven with bamboo chips.

One was stuffed into Jasmine's mouth, and one was fed to Gu Weijing across the table.

"But I love to hear lies, because I care about you. I care about you to be willing to eat some flying vinegar for such a gratuitous reason. ”

"If there is any girl in the world who doesn't want to be the most beautiful one in the eyes of her boyfriend, it can only be because she doesn't really like each other. If it was Komatsu Taro on the other side, I wouldn't have asked such a question. ”

Sakai Katsuko playfully exposed her dimples: "Because I love you, I have a little temperament." So, Gu Jun, don't be angry with me. ”

Gu Weijing touched his nose and smiled bitterly.

What can he say now?

"I still don't understand, what does Detective Cat's 'The Little Prince' have to do with the oil magazine and that Miss Elena?" Gu Weijing wisely changed the topic.

"Her surname is Elena, and she is a descendant of nobility. You've heard of the Elena family in Austria who founded the magazine Oil Painting. When I saw Mr. Hyperion's video introduction, my dad had a guess. Sure enough, the media exposed that this Miss Anna was the last heir of the ancient Yelena family. ”

"A very important issue in the restructuring of the oil painting magazine is to remove the Yelena family, who want to adhere to the old-style magazine operation model, from the management of the magazine. No one thought that she would be expelled from the board of directors at the shareholders' meeting. The only topic that Ms. Elena raised was about the detective cat. also took out a sample book that is said to be "The Little Prince" on the spot for everyone to evaluate. ”

"It's a pity, except for Miss Elena, who has a fascination with detective cats. Those respected masters don't have a high opinion of the detective cat. ”

"I've just watched the video of the shareholder meeting, and if you want to know more details, why don't we watch it together."

Katsuko Sakai clicked the play button for the video.

The Oil Painting Magazine sent the minutes of the shareholders' meeting and the magazine's new development strategy to the mailbox of every paid subscriber.

But in terms of the popularity of the topic, in fact, the number of people participating in the discussion on the public platform is more.

Now there are several bloggers on YouTube, uploading related videos.

Some are accompanied by experts' interpretations of the future impact of the resolutions at this shareholders' meeting, which are constantly circulating and fermenting on the Internet.

For example, the link that Katsuko Sakai shared with Gu Weijing is one of them.

This is a homepage introduction that is a video uploaded by a part-time up master of a financial working dog who is working in an investment bank.

The title is - [Let's take a look at the real business war, the shareholders of the magazine will vote at an estimated value of 500 million euros. The female judge in Mr. Hyperion's video appears again! 】

The video tag is the word "finance/art".

Since it was uploaded yesterday, the video has been viewed more than 323K so far.

Finance and art are both unpopular labels on YouTube, with more than 300,000 views in half a day, which is already a very popular video.

And the number of viewers and comments is still climbing over time.

Katsuko Sakai dragged the video's progress bar directly and located the footage of Anna Yelena asking the management of "Oil Painting" to apologize to the detective cat, and took out a sample book of the detective cat for the shareholders to see.

"These videos should have been shot from a fixed camera in the corner of the conference room, and I can't see the real face of the "Little Prince" in Miss Elena's hand when you focus on it, but when you say this, it is indeed very similar to the color scheme of the little girl's fairy tale book in the commercial just now."

Katsuko Sakai looked at the yellow book cover in the hand of the French academician.

She nodded in affirmation of Gu Weijing's judgment.

"That's right, that book should be 'The Little Prince'. Alas, whether it is a position or not, it has been collectively denied by so many masters of art criticism, which has almost pronounced the death sentence of the detective cat's artistic career. ”

Sakai Katsuko shook her head regretfully: "From my heart." I was really amazed by her sketches, and in Mr. Sloth's art criticism, I also benefited greatly from Detective Cat's interpretation of Impressionism. I actually have a lot of sympathy for this African painter. ”

"However, I do not have the courage to contradict Miss Elena and these masters, and I dare only say these things to you in private. Gu Jun, we must protect ourselves in the future, these people are all things we cannot offend. Sometimes these art critics want to praise you for being difficult and want to ruin a good painter, all they need is to write a few reviews and say a few random words. ”

"Even the big gallerists are afraid of these well-known art critics."

Mixed in the red dust, no one will be free.

Katsuko Sakai is also serious about art, but she doesn't have Anna's family background and doesn't have any need to speak up for the detective cat in public.

Even if she doesn't think about herself, she has to think about her father.

Painters have a high status in modern society, and they can be mavericks, even promiscuous, not birding the orders of government officials, and laughing at collectors who do not deal with themselves as turtles.

When it comes to Uncle Sakai's tonnage, even the gallerist can not care so much.

Anyway, if you don't have Daejeon Gallery, you can go to Gagosian, and if you don't go to Gagosian, you can go to Tokyo Gallery, Lisson, PACE, and Mars Gallery is waiting for you waving a check.

As long as it is not blocked by the industry, there is room for flickering and maneuvering.

Well-known art criticism institutions can have the right to "ban" a painter.

In his later years, Balthus, an expert in painting cats, was exposed to be suspected of pedophilia, and there were a lot of depictions of the flesh of little girls in his paintings, which almost touched the bottom line of social tolerance, but the works could still be sold very expensive.

Just like those precious jewelry made of Tibetan antelope hair, elephant teeth, and kingfisher feathers, as long as the work itself is beautiful enough, whether moral or immoral, collectors will pay for it.

But in 2012, Robert Hughes, a great art critic, wrote only a review of the artist Witkin's graffiti paintings, which had just sold for sky-high prices at Christie's, arguing that he lacked real creativity and was only catering to the needs of the market commercially.

cut the unlucky Wirtkin's works in half at the moment when the average price of his works was scolded.

For five years in a row, almost no major collectors were willing to buy Vitkin's paintings.

"Gu Jun, are you okay?" Sakai Katsuko suddenly noticed that Gu Weijing's face was a little ugly.

Gu Weijing did not speak.

He looked at the screen of his mobile phone, and the video happened to be played by the jazz known as "Sir. Brown" commenting on the painting style of his works, which belongs to the genre of knife painting where scammers gather, and there is no rhetoric at all.

With the sound of "Ms. Yelena, you are wrong" from the speaker.

Gu Weijing's brows became tighter and tighter.

"Listening to the comments of the shareholders of "Oil Painting", it seems that the detective cat in "The Little Prince" adopts the painting method of painting with a knife, which is not accepted by the critics, and I am not surprised."

Katsuko Sakai looked at the screen and commented.

"Nope."

Long

Gu Weijing shook his head slowly.

As if responding to Katsuko Sakai's point of view, he seemed to be saying to himself, "It's not a matter of drawing with a knife. ”

Painting the knife and painting the whole gives people a bad impression, and the industry does have such and such problems.

But it is a drawing method that can be systematically evaluated as legendary.

Any well-educated art scholar can easily tell that his work is not the same thing at all from those scammers who trick art lovers into signing up for classes.

His own work can conquer Mr. Sloth, and there is no reason why he can't conquer these judges.

The only possibility is that

They don't give honest evaluations of art.

Gu Weijing slowly clenched his fists.

Three points in his heart felt happy, three points felt ridiculous, and the remaining four points felt angry.

Thankfully, because the detective cat is just one of his vests after all.

What does the critics' ban on the street painter detective cat have to do with Gu Weijing, who is determined to participate in the art exhibition and become a closed disciple of Mr. Cao Xuan, who is an academic Taishan Beidou?

And the absurdity and anger are because he has a longing for "Oil Painting" from his heart.

This is the world's most authoritative art criticism body, and it should be brilliant and impartial.

Any art student in the world is proud to be praised by Oil Painting magazine.

People respect the highly respected academicians, curators, and judges of the oil painting magazine, just as every scientific researcher respects the scientists of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, which selects the Nobel Prize.

How could they not be respectable gentlemen?

One of the good wishes that his grandfather Gu Tongxiang wanted to realize in his life was to get his own column rating in Oil Painting magazine.

If even the judges who evaluate the quality of the art choose to speak with a clear conscience.

Isn't this industry a joke?

In the past two weeks, I have to go back to my hometown to deal with some things, and I am almost soaked in the road.

The update is less stable.

It would be nice to wait until I return to Beijing. Let's start with 4,000 words today.

Excuse me.

(End of chapter)