"How?"

"What else can I say, please her as much as possible."

"I guess people will ask you to talk about the mood of creation, the connotation of inspiration, how you paint, when necessary. You can also mention that you will be able to publish more of your work at Mars Gallery...... Never mind. ”

Hanks hesitated, but changed his mind: "Let's not talk about this for now, at least don't say it in the first chat." It looks like you're desperate to stick to someone's wallet. ”

"Understood. I want people to praise me, but I don't want to express it immediately, which is too explicit. Gu Tongxiang nodded.

For an old man like him who has experienced the ups and downs of the world in Southeast Asia, there is no need for Hanks, a young man, to teach him how to behave.

"That's what it means, anyway, having a good relationship with such a big buyer will always be only beneficial." Hanks smirked twice on the other end of the line. "When you opened a gallery in the past, you would also leave some contact information for generous customers, maintain customers, and cultivate your own basic plate, which is the same thing as now."

Gu Tongxiang completely understood the purpose of Hanks' call.

Not only is painting a profession where personal connections are king, but galleries are also personal businesses.

The biggest asset of the industry's top galleries, such as Mars Gallery and Gagosian Gallery, is not the nine- or ten-figure annual sales.

It's a big list of buyers who have a good relationship with the gallery and a track record of transactions.

Gu Tongxiang's top friend on Whatsapp and WeChat chat software is a South African embassy counselor from Johannesburg and a gem merchant from Dongxia. These two brothers once supported Gu Weijing and Gu Lin's Dulwich tuition for several years.

The South African counselor later went to Russia and lost this big customer who loves oriental art, and the old man Gu Tongxiang really regretted it.

"I thought it would be a little different to be the representative artist of Mars Gallery...... For example, it is colder higher. Gu Tongxiang shook his head.

"We are very cold to ordinary buyers, except for the real big guys, you have never seen the big boss Mars III at some celebrity social dinners, it is like a big butterfly that spreads pollen like crazy, constantly exchanging phone numbers, selling his own gallery, after all, connections are wealth."

Hanks snorted twice and said, "It's just that big galleries like ours are more ambitious." Mr. Gu, you used to add a customer's WeChat account to sell an extra $1,800 of your paintings. Our ultimate goal now is to see if she can fund your solo exhibition or something. ”

"Do you know who bought your work?" Hanks on the other end of the phone licked his lips, "It's Miss Anna Elena, the same Elena from Oil Painting magazine." ”

In fact, it is not common for collectors to directly add painter social software.

Even if the ordinary white-collar middle-class is willing to buy a painting in the Mars Gallery, they are not qualified to ask for the contact information of the painter.

The real big buyers are very concerned about personal privacy, and the gallery wants to but does not dare to disturb others.

Even Hanks only knew that this buyer was a super VIP, and he didn't know her specific identity until the other party took the initiative to contact her today.

The person who photographed Gu Tongxiang's "Peony Picture" turned out to be Miss Elena, who is now at the center of the whirlpool of public opinion in the art world.

That's not a bad thing.

Regardless of the final outcome of the argument between Miss Elena and the management of Oil Painting magazine.

The wallets of the Yelena family are still very fragrant.

"It's the family."

Gu Tongxiang was in awe when he heard this.

He did not expect that he would still have direct contact with such a legendary figure in the history of art in his lifetime.

"So let's take advantage of it! You don't know they bought an obscure ...... like yours Objective statement, no malicious ...... The little pawn painter also took the initiative to find out how difficult it was for the painter himself to encounter such a thing. A little money casually falls between people's fingers, and it is enough for you to open a personal exhibition. ”

"Sadly, you're not so unlucky, and now I've heard that Miss Elena has fallen out with Sir Brown, the head of the Oil Painting magazine. In the past, if you could mix a few hundred words of editor-in-chief recommendation in the visual arts column of the main journal of "Oil Painting", then it would be called earning. ”

When he hung up the phone, Hanks's tone was still a little regretful.

ended the call with the agent, and Gu Tongxiang stopped washing the car.

The old man leaned against the car door, took out his phone and googled Anna Elena's name.

"This girl is a real sign, it turns out to be her."

Gu Tongxiang stroked his hair.

Even though the old man's memory is not very good, after seeing a few media photos, he still immediately remembered the YouTube video content he had seen on the Internet TV in the restaurant at home a few months ago.

When a girl is so beautiful and in a wheelchair, it is difficult to deliberately forget it.

Old man Gu sniffled, his back was like an old caterpillar, and he twisted proudly against the car door several times.

It's not that Old Man Gu Tongxiang is sullen or not serious, of course he doesn't have any other thoughts.

Pure ambition is complacent.

The so-called talented and beautiful people, talented and beautiful women, ancient and modern, Chinese and foreign, east and west, north and south.

In the life drama of a great artist, there must be a story of conquering a beautiful girl with talent.

Su Shi and Wang Wei, the two peaks of the Eastern Xia literati painters, are actually very popular with women in history, especially the romantic characters who please the lady and the young lady.

Needless to say, Tang Bohu and Liu Yong, the notorious old man Qian Qianyi and Qian are accompanied by Liu Ru.

The great painters and writers of the West are all walking piledrivers, the source of venereal disease infection, and they are racing one by one.

There are even some schools of painting that simply have the coquettish declaration that "works that can conquer beautiful girls are good works".

The profession of an artist contains a latent sullen gene.

Mr. Cao Xuan was also a very romantic figure when he was mixed in the Shanghai Tan Ten Mile Foreign Field.

"No wonder I can hook up with Miss Sakai, or Lao Tzu's genes are good, like me. It's a pity I'm getting old. ”

Old Man Gu pried his beard and looked at Anna's photo, there were no dirty thoughts in his mind, but he was filled with a huge sense of vanity.

Your grandfather is your grandfather.

can attract the favor of the heiress of the Elena family, but it can compare to the grandson.

When Wang Wei was scrolling, a poem conquered Princess Yuzhen, and it was passed on as an elegant and beautiful talk for the ages, and it was nothing more than that.

Princess Yuzhen is not known for her appearance, and she must not be as beautiful as this Miss Elena.

Gu Tongxiang was silly in place for a while, and finally regained his mind, opened the chat software Whatsapp, and clicked on a link that Hanks had already sent.

In order to protect privacy, Whatsapp can add friends through a specific link generated without going through a mobile phone number.

Are you sure you want to request to be added to your address book with Anna Elena? 】

The phone screen jumps to the social homepage, and the corresponding chat prompt pops up.

The social media page is very clean, with no superfluous notes or jumbled screen names, just the simple German name Anna Elena.

Her avatar is neither like Musk's Twitter homepage, which is full of two-dimensional anime otaku style, nor is it a personal headshot or life photo like many business people or celebrities.

Anna's homepage photo is an impressionist oil painting of a large dog with black and white spots, which can reflect the feeling of a young girl.

Gu Tongxiang doesn't remember that there is a famous painting like this, and she doesn't know if it was painted by herself.

"Huh? It wasn't the account of someone's assistant or secretary, it looked like it was a private account used by Miss Anna. ”

Gu Tongxiang was even more pleasantly surprised.

He clicked OK to add the other party's friend, and almost immediately, the application was approved.

Gu Tongxiang was still racking his brains thinking about how to write a suitable self-introduction as an opening statement, and the other party had already sent a new message.

[Bonjour Monsieur Gu, vos dessins m'impressionnent.

A large line of Latin letters, which he did not recognize, appeared on the screen.

odd

Is that...... Is it French?

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meanwhile

Gu Weijing walked into his bedroom, locked the door, turned on the voice changing card on the computer to test the sound, and then entered the ZOOM web chat room that had been reserved.

Mr. Sloth was already waiting in the chat room at this point.

"Bonjour (Hello)"

“Bonjour。”

"Being able to use illustration to treat autism, if successful, will be a very sensational good news, Detective Cat Ms. please cheer."

"Of course."

The two casually exchanged greetings.

They usually spoke in English, and occasionally used French words as they do now.

Mr. Sloth is fluent in French.

There are several countries that cannot avoid learning Western art and learning from high depths.

In the history of art, Britain and the United States can only be regarded as second- and third-rate countries.

American collectors are relatively broad, and the boldness of major art foundations to acquire art at auction may only be matched by buyers in Eastern Xia.

But after all, the history is relatively short, and the artistic and cultural heritage is much worse.

To this day, it still has not completely shaken off the national image of the nouveau riche old hat.

The shortcoming of Britain is that there is only one name that can shine on the world with Turner on the cover of the £20 note, and the rest are Thomas Gainsborough, William Blake, and Byrne Jones...... Of course, they are all well-known painters, but they still lack a bit of meaning from the kind of giants who really slap on the table and make people tremble.

Germany and Russia each have their own unique aesthetics and are qualified to try to sit in the first place. Germany is a world of philosophy, but it is drawing, printmaking and watercolour that really stand out.

Without a legendary oil painter, it is like a track and field powerhouse without a 100-meter championship.

In addition, it is the drag of the inglorious history of World War II.

In fact, Russia's problems are the same as those of the Yankees, and the history of art is too short.

Before the anti-French coalition and Pushkin's generation, the literati of St. Petersburg had always regarded France as their spiritual homeland, and even they themselves despised the culture of their native country, Tsarist Russia.

It almost slammed from the brute on the snowy field into a glorious golden age without any transition.

Of course, this feature, which is like a cannonball exploding in a snowfield, makes the whole of Europe prostrate in an incomparably dazzling way, and is also a unique charm of Russian literature and art.

Only the history of art in France belongs to the type of "Lao Tzu with his hands in his pockets and no opponent" in the Western world.

Britain and France, the century-old rivals, talking about literature, John Bull, Shakespeare, Dickens, and Wilde can parry twice, talking about the art of painting, the French look across the English Channel more, and the Chinese lose.

Degas, Cézanne, Monet, Gauguin, Renoir, and Picasso can also be considered mostly French...... To this day, Nanfa is still a sacred place for art students all over the world, attracting millions of art lovers to make the pilgrimage there year after year.

Paris is the Jerusalem of the Western art world.

At a time when Dulwich required every student to take a minor language as a compulsory subject, more than 50 per cent of students took French.

Gu Weijing's French class has always been good.

His father also worked in France, and in Grade 11, he scored A2 in the DELF (similar to the French version of IELTS).

Before meeting Cao Lao, Gu Weijing's dream was actually to apply for a French art academy when he was in college, and the cost of studying in France in Europe is relatively low compared to the United Kingdom, the United States, and Australia.

He chose Algeria as the nationality of the detective cat, not only because it was alphabetically first, but also because it was a French-speaking country.

"Uh...... Excuse me, two of you, can you speak in a language that I understand? ”

A slightly rough and confused male voice said in English.

There was a third person in the chat room, and the only one with a live camera.

He was an Asian man who looked to be in his mid-fifties, his hair was held back with wax, and he wore a black and gray striped suit and a white shirt with a Windsor collar.

Even though the background is a warmly furnished private office, the tie is still meticulously tied.

The first impression of a person dressed in this way is that he is an academic intellectual, a lawyer, a university professor or a senior doctor.

"Dr. Kim An-kyung."

The man raised his hand and briefly introduced himself: "Mr. Jane Arnold's personal counselor, the head of Tony's psychotherapy, is also the one I propose to invite you to intervene in Tony's treatment process. Considering the language I speak, out of politeness, I would suggest that if everyone else speaks English or New Zealand Maori? ”

"Sorry, of course, I'm just used to it."

Before Gu Weijing could answer, Mr. Sloth had already apologized.

In a three-person meeting, it is rude for two people to communicate in a language that others don't understand.

"English is good."

"Don't be inhibited, I just made a little joke. Actually, if any of you really know Maori, I can't understand it. I just howl along with the college soccer team on the court. Being multilingual is always enviable, French is beautiful, and there is no need to apologize for my ignorance. ”

Dr. Kim smiled gently.

Gu Weijing also laughed, Dr. Jin deserved to be a very accomplished expert in the field of psychology, and only used a small joke to enliven the atmosphere of the chat room.

"So let's get down to business, everyone got Tony's case checklist, right? The patient's condition is already outlined in great detail. ”

(End of chapter)