The round fat uncle's words are not pure.

His main purpose is to use earthy love words, pat his wife's ass, and coax his wife to be happy and approve two more chicken rice balls.

But it is also a simple and straightforward summary of the painter's career.

The simplest example is also a disciple of Mr. Cao Xuan.

In the art circle, the media and newspapers are consciously or unconsciously created by the concept of "closed disciples" and "Cao Xuan's successor".

After this Xiangjiang auction, Tang Ning is already the most valuable one among his brothers and sisters, and he can top more than N Professor Lin Tao.

Is Tang Ning's painting technique really better than Lin Tao, who can be her father at her age?

Even better?

How many times better can it really be?

Of course not.

Just the little sister Tang Ning is the youngest closed disciple of Cao Xuan in the eyes of the Asian art circle, and she has this heavy special meaning.

Although Professor Lin Tao is the oldest, he is not a great disciple.

Collectors will naturally believe that Downing's works have more investment value and appreciation potential.

The great advantage of this status has nothing to do with the drawing skills.

This is just like Professor Lin Tao's natural identity advantage compared with other ordinary painters.

The entire Asian cultural circle has pinned all its high hopes and expectations for the cultural inheritance of the centenarian grandmaster on this female painter.

Same age.

Female painters are already one in 10,000 of the most successful when they become Ms. Anya of the Jujube Core Space Gallery, but Tang Ning is now nearly 100 times more valuable than the other party.

When she reaches the same age as Yayoi Kusama, where is the limit?

During the period when Ms. Tang Ning held an auction in Xiangjiang, she almost enjoyed the treatment of Faye Wong's concert in the Red Pavilion.

From the hotel to the shopping and shopping, there are paparazzi squatting 24 hours a day.

This is also the treatment that only the most top-notch and most topical super artists like Hirst and Takashi Murakami have in this era of pan-entertainment.

Gu Weijing pulled down the page.

He was in a lot of Downing's luxury store charters and was photographed having dinner with veteran Hong Kong stars in Victoria Harbour.

found the interview that should be Lin Tao motioning for him to take a look.

[Interview with Downing: A 43-year-old artistic genius who is not confused - in the second half of life, where is the road? ] 】

In this theme spring auction, Tang Ning came to the auction site.

Auctions are not about singers putting on stage.

There are not many opportunities for journalists to interview the artists themselves.

Tang Ning only cooperated with Sotheby's to make a few brief announcements on TVB Hong Kong Unlimited TV, and the interviews were relatively short and formulaic.

On the contrary, "Oil Painting" magazine deserves to be the most important art magazine.

After the auction was completely over, it was given the opportunity to interview Downing directly face-to-face.

The full professional interview will be published in the May issue of Oil Painting in the form of a cover story.

Able to appear on the cover of Oil Painting magazine.

The significance of this honor to art practitioners is not inferior to that of appearing on the cover of Time magazine, and even heavier.

Banksy, for example, was the cover character of Time magazine.

However, the oil painting magazine believes that his fame comes more from the hype of mystified characters and the deconstruction of the identity of the artist by mass entertainment.

The artistry and artistic value contained in his own works are not enough to support the weight of a cover interview.

It's just a "second-rate painter who hides his head".

After the explosion of the auction, Tang Ning immediately received an interview application from Oil Painting magazine, which was a double happiness and ushered in multiple recognitions of wealth and art status.

Before the full cover feature is released.

Conventionally,

Oil Painting magazine will edit some of the most gimmicks and topical questions in interviews and release them in the form of trailers to attract more non-serious art lovers to subscribe and buy.

The interview video in front of Gu Weijing is the warm-up of the interview released by the "Oil Painting" magazine.

"Miss Tang Ning, we just met in London two months ago, but when I interviewed you as the editor of Oil Painting Magazine, if I remember correctly, it should have been six years ago in Suzhou and Hangzhou Water Town?"

The reporter interviewed me is a full-time editor in charge of Asia in the visual arts section of Oil Painting magazine.

A Singaporean Chinese.

Like all the editors of Oil Painting magazine, the journalist himself is an art critic with a strong resume.

Both sides are upper-class people in the Asian art circle, and the conversation between them is very familiar.

"Yes, we did an interview at the old man's birthday party."

The Downing goose egg face in the lens has a slightly round chin.

She is a bit like the middle-aged appearance of the popular actress Hu Die during the Republic of China, with a slight girlish look in her serious facial features, and she is wearing a gray thin windbreaker without a brand.

The literati are full of temperament.

"I still remember the scene from that year. At that time, the news that Mr. Cao Xuan seemed to want to close the pen was shocked. We at Oil Painting Magazine would like to take this opportunity to do a cover interview for Mr. Cao Xuan again after nearly 30 years. ”

"If I'm not mistaken, it was the fourth time Cao Xuan had appeared on the cover of Oil Painting. This statistic set a new record, and Dalí and Andy Warhol were only tied three times. ”

"Of course it was a great achievement, but the old man had always said privately that it was because he had lived the longest. But don't get me wrong, the teacher is of course a great artist from Bigali and Andy Warhol, and people will understand this in a hundred years. ”

Downing's camera with a very lensy sense.

The reporter laughed: "I'm sorry, you know that we are a neutral art media, but I don't dare to agree with such a statement that there are 'talking points'." Of course, I can't deny that this answer will really have to wait until a hundred years from now. ”

"But in any case, it is rare in the world to inherit the painting techniques of the Guangxu era in the 19th century, the peak period of painting lasted from the 20th century to the 21st century, and it was not until the 22nd century that it was possible to close the coffin."

Cao Lao's painters are quite long-lived.

Tang Ning's master became famous during the Guangxu period of the late Qing Dynasty, and Mr. Cao, like Tang Ning, was the youngest of his generation of brothers and sisters.

The three generations of master and apprentice can directly meet Van Gogh hand in hand, and there is no second such thing in the history of art.

The reporter sighed: "An artistic influence, a painting master who can span 400 years of history before and after his death. This incident alone is enough to make the symbol of Cao Xuan one of the greatest names in the history of art, isn't it? ”

"The giants of Renaissance painting are only 500 years away from us."

This sentence is both a compliment and a genuine feeling.

[My teacher is stronger than Dalí and Andy Warhol] - this sentence is said by ordinary people, and everyone thinks it is just a crazy dream of grandstanding.

Praised by a painting master worth tens of millions of dollars, her painting master teacher who is worth hundreds of millions of dollars only sounds domineering.

Defy?

The auction and the gallery are there, and whoever is not convinced, who will paint it.

"I'm sorry, I can't agree with you."

Who knows, Tang Ning actually shook his head.

"You said that you inherited the painting techniques of the Guangxu era in the nineteenth century, no, this statement is wrong."

The round-faced woman stared at the reporter's stunned face, and said with a smile: "Closer to the past, our style of landscape flowers and birds and ink comes from the combination of calligraphy skeleton and painting brushwork by Su Dongpo in the Song Dynasty, and created the genre of scholar literati painting, from Su Shi and Mi Di to Zhao Mengfu and Huang Gongwang in the Yuan Dynasty, Dai Jin, Chen Hongshou, Bada Shanren in the Ming and Qing dynasties, and then to my teacher Cao Xuan, more than 30 masters, this is a thousand years. ”

"In the distance, you can also push forward to Yan Liben's magnificent brushwork, Wang Majie's bird song and painting, Gu Kaizhi's spring silkworm spinning, and guarding the gods with form, it can be said that the whole 5,000 years of family and country customs are hidden in a single brush, which is a historical heritage that the Western art world cannot envy."

"Whether it's 5,000 years vs. 400 years, or 1,000 years vs. 400 years, that's not much."

Downing shrugged: "What is the Renaissance, our paintings will be discussed for at least another thousand years." ”

The reporter and Tang Ning looked at each other again and let out a burst of laughter.

"Wonderful, this is a really wonderful statement, if you don't mind, I'm going to put it at the very beginning of the column."

The Asian editor of the oil painting applauded gently.

"Let's talk about your master's influence on you, at the birthday banquet six years ago, Cao Lao took your hand and wrote the word 'Shou' and the word 'Jing' on the table. We took this picture. ”

The reporter picked up an issue of "Oil Painting" from six years ago from the table at hand.

"I remember it was the first time you were on the cover of our Oil Paintings—"

"Yes, when I was about a millennium, I almost became the youngest person ever to be on the cover of Oil Painting, unfortunately—" Downing interjected.

The youngest person on the cover of Oil Painting magazine is an Italian painter who is also the youngest ever winner of the Venice Biennale.

Won at the age of 27.

The Venice Biennale has been criticized a lot over the years.

There have always been comments that the jury deliberately favored local painters because of his domicile advantage.

Downing was once just one step away from breaking that record.

When she was 21 years old, she won the gold medal at the Magic City Art Biennale, and the oil painting almost chose her as the cover character at that time, and the interview was finished.

It's a pity that at the last moment, because I felt that she was still too young, she was replaced and put in the second issue.

"That's right, it's a pity what happened back then, I didn't expect you to remember it for so long." The host smiled wryly.

"No, I don't regret it at all. Of course, you should regret replacing me, otherwise, this would have been another good story in the legendary history of Oil Painting magazine. ”

Tang Ning said lightly: "This is your loss. ”

"Well, the editor-in-chief Chen had already retired at that time, otherwise I would have reported to Sir Brown and suggested that he fire my boss." The reporter smiled funny, "At least you can rest assured that no one will replace your cover issue this time." ”

He wasn't at all angry at the aggressiveness of Downing's words.

Some people are really born to make a lot of money.

Tang Ning's advantage in being young is not only that she is a closed disciple of Cao Lao.

At the same time, compared with Lin Tao, who has aged over the years, he is already a senior brother and sister like an old man and an old lady, and he is better at dealing with the media in the Internet era.

Powerful, domineering, confident.

Who doesn't like interviewing big artists who are more topical these days?

The spotlight doesn't revolve around them, around whom?

"Let me go back to the topic just now, when I saw this photo, the critics almost unanimously called it 'inheritance', and the previous generation of masters took the hand of the next generation of masters."

The reporter smacked his lips: "It's comparable to the classic photo of Ronaldo carrying Messi's ball king on his back on the green field." At that time, it was only the media that predicted that. Six years later, we see the real result – a miracle. ”

"A miracle of HK$260 million for a single auction and HK$54 million for a single work."

"Today, Master Cao Xuan has officially announced the sealing of the pen, and you have almost become the most valuable painter of the Mesozoic Generation." The reporter asked: "Can I say that from today onwards, you have officially picked up the paintbrush in the hands of Mr. Cao Xuan, and his closed disciple has officially become the successor of his artistic cymbals?" ”

Originally, the reporter thought that the answer was already obvious, and this was just a logical answer.

Ms. Downing in the camera fell silent.

No one knows what she's thinking.

People could only see that her brows jumped violently a few times, and she wanted to speak several times.

Long.

"Of course......" Downing seemed to have finally made up his mind.

She raised her head and looked directly at the camera: "There is nothing wrong with this statement. ”

The round-faced female artist seems to be answering a reporter's question, and she seems to be speaking to someone else in the distance.

"I am the heir to the old man's mantle."

Confidence and pride appeared on the face of the round-faced female artist, and she whispered, "It must be me, who else but me!" ”

In terms of social status, Tang Ning is already the most accomplished of the senior brothers and sisters.

In terms of personal relationships.

Tang Ning is also the closest apprentice and junior to Mr. Cao. When she was still a little girl running around on the ground, she was sent into the door of Grandmaster Cao Xuan by the elders of the family.

For so many years.

She is even closer to Cao Lao than to her biological parents.

Cao Xuan is like her grandfather, and Tang Ning is like the biological granddaughter of Old Man Cao.

When each of the brothers and sisters mentioned Cao Lao's name, it was like mentioning him as a great bodhisattva that they respected and feared.

Only Downing would call him "Old Man".

And Cao Xuan will call her "Xiao Ning" or "Tang Girl".

From the title, you can see the closeness of the relationship between the grandfather and grandson.

is reasonable, looking for it with a lantern in the world, no one is more qualified to take over Cao Lao's class than himself.

(End of chapter)