"Artists from all walks of life have almost confirmed this matter ten years ago, but now hearing you admit it in person still makes people's hearts beat faster. This is truly a historic juncture. ”

The reporter's face was full of excitement that he was fortunate to witness this scene and participated in history firsthand.

Whether Cao Xuan was a greater painter than Dalí is not known.

But he was sure.

The significance of Mr. Cao's official handover is no weaker than the impact of the sensational news that Dalí announced to the Spanish media in 1974 that he would fade away from artistic creation because of health problems.

It has always been a big deal for an artist to announce the handover of the class, seal the pen or something.

This means that his art career has come to an end, and no new works will be produced.

Since then.

Cao Xuan is just a living cultural symbol, not a super-painter who paints money on the last Federal Reserve printing machine.

Note.

This does not mean that the value of "Cao Xuan" has decreased.

On the contrary, this is great news for all collectors who hold Mr. Cao's works.

To put it mildly, the news made them second only as excited about the obituary they had read on Saturday's evening TV news about Mr. Cao's death.

Both the handover and the passing of his life as an artist represent the end of his artistic life to varying degrees.

From today onwards, all works on the market with Cao Xuan's seal are out of print.

Grand galleries and art galleries can begin to prepare retrospectives of the old man's career.

And art academies around the world can officially start making chronicles for Cao Lao's life, artistic style, and creative history.

It is even time to start preparing to write a biography of this contemporary art master and make a documentary film like "Mei Lanfang".

Well...... Based on Cao Lao's birth year, it is also possible that the academic community classifies him as a modern art master like Xu Beihong, rather than a contemporary art master.

Anyway, auction houses and the art market are just right.

Scarcity is expensive.

The price of Pokémon cards is out of print and has doubled, not to mention the big artists.

Usually as soon as a well-known artist is shot, it is common to turn his hair up several times.

In 18 years, Cao Lao announced the closure of the pen, and the market price has risen sharply.

The news of this shift has not only risen the average price of the paintings painted by Cao Xuan, which is already astronomical, but also the value of the 43-year-old female artist in front of the reporter.

If it is the contemporary Dongxia calligraphy and painting circle, it is still the same as during the Republic of China, and it is engaged in the Southern School of Painting, the Northern School of Painting, the Shanghai School of Painting, and the Beijing School of Painting.

After Cao Xuan officially gave up the position under his ass to his female disciple.

After Ms. Tang Ning's title, she can be crowned with the honorific title of "Head of the Southern School of Painting".

The Southern School of Painting is a literati painting of the scholar class, which must be both clear and expensive.

Lang Shining is almost meaningless like this.

During this period, many famous families themselves were Zhu Zi Gongqing or relatives of the emperor, what two Li, Bada Shanren, and Yishui were serious children of the clan.

Historically, most of the painters who had this honor were the emperor's guests, and they were so awesome that they exploded.

"Miss Downing, you are now one of the sixteen five-star painters in our buyer's guide."

"Before coming to this interview, I would like to say that you would like to congratulate you on your success in the art market, but unfortunately, I personally evaluate that Oil Painting Magazine will not increase your recommendation star rating because of this. After all, painting itself aside, the peak of 54 million Hong Kong dollars is too high for a 43-year-old Mesozoic painter. ”

The reporter snorted: "Oh my God! I've seen media reports that I've been a critic all my life, and my salary adds up to just a random bracelet on your wrist. ”

The Art Publication's Buyer's Guide is a section for investors with buying advice.

When assigning a star to each artist, it is not only the artist's own artistic value of the artwork that the artist himself is considered, but also the return on investment of the buyer.

In the field of medium and high stars above three stars, the more expensive painters "Oil Painting" magazine give them fixed stars, not necessarily higher.

In Hearst's '08, a single auction was as big a hit as Ms. Downing.

Tang Ning only sold more than 200 million Hong Kong dollars.

Fifteen years ago, when Hearst was just forty years old, he sold more than $200 million in an auction, and that spring, he was the most glamorous artist emperor on the planet in history.

It's the same spring,

"Oil Painting" magazine openly slapped the face and sang the opposite tone, and downgraded Hearst's recommended star rating.

Dropped from six stars to four and a half stars, and noted in the buyer's guide - [Currently, there are a large number of Hearst works on the market waiting to be sold urgently. At the same time, parting ways with Gagosian Gallery brings with it the uncertainty of your career path, so be cautious and wait and see. 】

As a result, Hirst's works entered a long winter in '09, and even if inflation is not taken into account, most of the Hearst works held by collectors at that time were also negative.

"Oil Painting" magazine, like a prophet going against the current, predicted all this with a calm ice and snow when the market was at its hottest.

Of course.

There are also many opinions that, like the financial crisis and the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the downgrading of the recommended star rating of investment vane magazines such as "Oil Painting" itself also played a crucial role in the Hearst market crash.

The two things are cause and effect of each other.

"Oil Painting" feels that it is difficult for an artist to collapse, and it is difficult to think about it.

Even if you are the world's No. 1 Damien Hirst, you can't escape this law.

In short, Downing is worth a lot after this big increase.

Oil Painting magazine is still willing to keep the five-star recommendation unchanged, and giving investors a more optimistic evaluation is already very good to boost buyers' confidence.

"But now I feel compelled to retract that statement. Five stars is not high for the heir personally selected by Mr. Cao Xuan. I'm afraid I want to congratulate everyone who bought your paintings at auction today, Mr. Cao Xuan's words are enough to make your works rise by another 10 percentage points in an instant. ”

"I think after Sir Brown got the press release that I sent back. You will be one of the few six-star painters we have, just like your master Cao Xuan. ”

By the rules.

Before the high-level decision of "Oil Painting", the reporter should not say anything that could greatly affect the price fluctuations of the market.

For a small role like a detective cat, Miss Yelena can directly mention two and a half stars with a phone call.

Five-star, six-star painter.

In total, I can't find thirty of them in the buyer's section.

This kind of star rating change of the great painter is endorsed by the golden signboard and reputation of the "Oil Painting" magazine.

In an instant, it can set off a tsunami of hundreds of millions of dollars in the investment market.

Even when Miss Elena's aunt was still alive, the approval of all shareholders of the board of directors was required to promote anyone to the six-star recommendation level.

But the reporter made an exception to speak his mind.

Cao Lao's officially selected successor deserves to be given face by Oil Painting magazine.

The board of directors is not going to stand in the way of things like this at such times.

Now is the critical period of the restructuring and power struggle of the "Oil Painting" magazine, and the board of directors will go crazy to offend Mr. Cao Xuan, a cultural symbol with great symbolic significance.

Think of the extent to which Sir Brown can be a man.

The reporter felt that the chairman would even take advantage of this season when Cao Lao announced the handover.

mentioned Cao Xuan that after Andy Warhol was shot in 1967, the representative who had been hanging for half a century vomited blood and recommended the seven-star throne to sell it well and make a favor.

In the past, Oil Painting magazine was very noble and glamorous, and it was not very happy to chase the financial hotspots in the art market.

The Xiangjiang Spring Auction was still in the preparatory stage, and he received the interview task, and "Oil Painting" wanted to do a cover interview for Tang Ning after the auction. is the implicit meaning of showing favor to Tang Ning, and more importantly, Cao Xuan behind showing favor to Tang Ning.

The sedan chair was carried by everyone.

I'll give you a hand, and you will give me a face.

Old Man Cao is not expected to be on Sir Brown's side in the struggle between the Elena family and Oil Painting magazine.

Just sit quietly in that small courtyard of Jiangnan garden and do your academic research.

It's good that everyone is okay.

"A pair of master and apprentice, two six-star. I guess this is also a kind of inheritance and succession? Not really. ”

The reporter turned his head to look at the camera and spread his hands to the readers who were playing the video: "If this is not outstanding, what else is outstanding?" Art history does not remember who Andy Warhol's apprentice or Picasso's son was. But I think history will remember that Ms. Cao Xuan and Tang Ning are such a double master. ”

"I figured out what the title of our cover story should be - [Legend: Like the Master, Like the Disciple]"

"Ahem."

Ms. Downing cleared her throat, temporarily interrupting the reporter's emotional speech.

"Well, actually, the old man hasn't officially announced it yet, and wants me, huh...... As you say, you want me to take the brush from him. ”

The female artist looked at the reporter's stunned eyes and shrugged her shoulders reluctantly: "At least now, at this moment, not yet." ”

"Then you say ......"

"But it's just a matter of time. Whether the old man said it himself or not, what difference does it make? I'm definitely the right one. ”

Tang Ning's tone was for some reason, and people could see some obvious dissatisfaction.

"I'm afraid, Miss Downing, strictly speaking, there is still a difference between this. At least the confidence of art investors will be different, you know what I'm talking about. ”

The reporter was stunned for a few seconds.

He's an old fritter too.

The reporter suddenly found that when Tang Ning mentioned the issue of heir, his mood seemed to fluctuate a little abnormally.

Hey?

Interesting.

The reporter narrowed his eyes.

People from all walks of life have long felt that it is a sure thing for Tang Ning to take over Cao Lao's class.

But now—

"Who else but me? Did the old man say it himself, and what difference did it make? ”

The reporter pondered the subtle difference in the tone of the middle-aged woman in front of him.

His first reaction was, don't let Cao Lao die suddenly.

Wrong.

Mr. Cao has a lot of public activities this year, he went to Southeast Asia at the beginning of the year, and he will speak at the European Art Annual Conference after a while.

The body has always been very strong, and I haven't heard any bad rumors.

so

Maybe Mr. Cao's door is not as peaceful as he imagined, and the question of the heir - will there be more twists and turns?

His heart pounded.

I thought that the interview was a drama in which the master held the master's heart, but I didn't expect to dig out a palace fight drama with the turbulent undertide of the art school.

It's just ...... Great!

The scene of the master's heirs fighting each other is not weaker than the scene of the wealthy family robbing the family property in the villas in the Taiping Mountain of Xiangjiang.

Picasso's wife, lover, illegitimate child, and legitimate child, fighting, scolding, swallowing guns, hanging, deprivation of visitation rights, and being expelled from the house from the day Lao Bi hung up, has been gossiped by the art media to this day.

There are a bunch of autobiographies from different perspectives.

Could it be that this scene will be staged again in 2023?

The art circle attaches great importance to inheritance, especially in the Asian art circle.

The meaning and interests behind Cao Xuan's heir's name are no less than Picasso's family fortune.

"I take the liberty of asking, your senior brother Mr. Lin Tao ......"

The reporter pondered that it was the apprentice who made Old Man Cao suddenly think about something else.

Most likely, it is Lin Tao.

The oldest, and it is also the signature of CAFA, as the most powerful art academy in Eastern Xia, all kinds of relationships are complicated, and there may not be no idea of pushing Professor Lin Tao out to take over.

Thinking about it this way, should I go home and clear the stock and change a few paintings of Lin Tao to hold?

Well, it could also be that fourth junior brother Liu Ziming Mr. Liu.

It is rumored that Cao Xuan's two youngest disciples have always had the intention of competing to take over, and at present, Tang Ning's achievements are higher, but the fourth disciple Liu Ziming also has personal advantages.

Although he is a Malaysian, Cao Lao's only apprentice accepted overseas, but he is also the one with the best family background among his brothers and sisters.

The few disciples who can worship Cao Lao's door are almost all scholarly families, and their family backgrounds are not particularly bad.

It's just that this Mr. Liu is not ordinarily good.

He is the third son of the old ship king of Malaysia, and he is an elegant person who loves art and not business. Although the huge shipping group has long been inherited by his elder brother, he is definitely a very rich uncle.

In the art industry, the underlying logic is that wealth is strength.

If he has a heart, he may not have been out of this inheritance battle.

"You may be mistaken."

When Tang Ning saw the reporter's trance-like gaze, he knew that the other party was thinking too much.

The woman shook her head angrily and directly: "The senior brothers and sisters are very good, they also spoil me very much, and they won't rob me." It's just that the old man is old, and he has a childish temperament, and sometimes, he doesn't talk much. This will give some people thoughts that they shouldn't have. ”

During this time, she was very confused about one thing.

At the birthday banquet that year, he had obviously already held his hand, not to mention the outside world, at that moment, even Tang Ning himself believed that he was the successor of Cao Lao.

Why did you suddenly have the idea of recruiting another disciple?

Crazy.

Recruit a child who is not yet an adult into the school.

He also deserves it?

(End of chapter)