The tea trickles down and pours into the cup.

An extremely thin layer of water vapor condensed on the lenses of Lao Yang's glasses. It didn't affect his vision, but it just covered the twinkling eyes behind his lenses.

In addition to the ripples of tea, trembling.

No one can know the turbulent waves in Lao Yang's mood at the moment.

Tang Ning's arrogant and disdainful eyes when facing the interview camera are still vivid. Lao Yang understands that other female artists said that her "Hundred Flowers" is there, so that mediocre people who are not able to recognize themselves can imitate the painting to try.

This is not an artistic contest, or an examination of the younger generation.

"When I painted this painting, I was also only twenty years old, and I was just a young painter like you."

Listen to it.

It's a lot of chewiness.

Tang Ning just wanted Gu Weijing to get out of the way quickly after the reality of human feelings.

Female artists are all about hitting each other and crushing each other.

Don't fight again in 50 years.

Tang Ning didn't want to take any risks at all, and was ready to use the safest and foolproof way to leave enough psychological shadows for Gu Weijing to affect her life in terms of psychology and technique, when the gap between the two of her was the largest.

Relationships are such a strange thing.

Obviously, a person is saying the most disdainful and contemptuous words in his mouth, but he is wary of this junior in his heart, and he is vigilant to death.

I have the impression that Downing wore a big sunglasses, and when he and he talked about things in private on a limited number of times, he looked up at the sparrows passing by outside the window more times than the number of times he looked at him squarely.

In terms of dealing with people, Lin Tao is a bit old-fashioned, and Liu Ziming is the kind of childlike who has read thousands of sails and enjoyed all the beautiful gold and jade in the world.

And Tang Ning is the youngest, and the domineering momentum revealed on his body is even stronger than her teacher Cao Xuan.

After Cao Xuan was in his old age, he returned to the basics, and most of the time he felt to outsiders as a spirited and dry little old man.

And the female disciple he brought out with one hand was like a polished cold light shining out of the sheath sword.

At the age of forty, it is the culmination of a painter's career, the combination of physical strength and mentality.

She became famous too early, her mentorship was too hard, and her worth was too high.

The whole career has been a path of sparks and lightning that destroy the faith of any unfortunate artistic genius who was born in the same era as her.

Louis troy, the famous artist in North America, the master of pop.

When Tang Ning first became famous, in a TV interview, he was at a loss several times in the face of the host's inquiry about the name, and asked who she was?

Therefore, this was interpreted by the art critics on Lao Mei's side as having the spirit of Hollywood entertainment tearing B - "This Asian girl is pretending to be stupid and taking the initiative to stir up trouble." There was a war of scolding.

The critic must not have known Downing himself.

Otherwise, you know.

She is probably not the one who plays the common trick of "leading green tea" in the film and television industry to win traffic. Downing should not have really cared who Louis troy was.

In the past 20 years, he has been sharp in art exhibitions.

The pride in her heart that she cultivated to be invincible among her peers, for the people she didn't care about, she simply ignored it, and she didn't even bother to remember the name.

Downing is definitely not an easy person to get along with, but she is very pure in pride.

Even though the two of them were worth about the same at the time, their resumes, backgrounds, and pasts were also very similar on paper.

If I want to look down on you, I really can't look down on you, and I won't even spend a little attention on you.

Lao Yang was skeptical.

He has known Tang Ning for so many years, and the other party may not be able to call his full name until now.

Tang Ning really admired and admired the only person in her life, and the only one who was also a teacher and a father, Cao Xuan, right?

Cao Lao values Gu Weijing.

So Downing couldn't remember Louis troy twenty years ago, and now he can't remember his old Yang.

Gu Weijing, a name that was only casually mentioned a few times by her senior brother Lin Tao, she firmly remembered that she would trample the other party to death as soon as she seized the opportunity. Every sentence that seems to be an understatement on the surface may have been carefully considered, and every sentence will fall into his heart.

Cao Xuan was willing to make a bet with Gu Weijing about the Lion City Biennale, Lin Tao heard it as a joke for the first time, and the old gentleman pointed to the stars in the sky to inspire the young people.

Tang Ning really cared.

The ideas of the exhibition and the creative ideas are the biggest secrets of the painter.

In front of the media camera in public, the carefully prepared exhibition ideas are announced in public.

If you do this kind of thing, you are not wronged when you are splashed with sulfuric acid by the other party on the street.

When the audience comes back to it, they will feel more or less "strange".

This kind of behavior is not big, it is not small.

It may not be possible to say that Downing is "cheap".

After all, the gap between the ranks of the two people is too big, and they can be regarded by the public as the seniors who are pointing out the juniors who have gone astray.

But even if it is used as a guide, strictly speaking, this thing is really tasteless.

It certainly didn't have a good impact on Downing's reputation.

Even some artist friends, not to mention it on the surface, will feel more or less in their hearts that she is dealing with it a little "not too exquisite" or even "too unsophisticated".

Since then, there has been an extra layer of vigilance.

It is possible to stop inviting her to her studio.

Tang Ning is worth tens of millions of jade, and Gu Weijing is just a dirt by the Yangon River.

The status gap between the two of them is the same, if she really thinks that Gu Weijing's work is a joke that can't be put on the table, why would she do such a loss-making business that hurts the enemy by a thousand and loses herself by eight hundred.

Cao Lao is among several apprentices.

Probably only Downing really believed in his heart that since the teacher was willing to bet, then this young man must really have hope of winning an award at the Singapore Art Fair.

No matter how particular she is, she will do it.

Now that the reputation has been slightly damaged, compared to a few months later, there is a little junior brother in the family, and the crown of the closed disciple has been worn away by others, which is much more cost-effective.

"But someone is not very reasonable."

Lao Yang put the teapot aside.

Seem...... This most foolproof way also seems to be a bit of a gutter capsizing now.

Lao Yang looked strange.

Deep in his heart, the balance between Tang Ning and Gu Weijing chose to tilt, and the moment they saw this "Wisteria Flower Picture", there was an almost impeccable wavering at the two ends of the weight difference.

"Sweet mouth? Do you see some doorways? ”

Cao Lao picked up a small stack of photos in his hand, looked at them one by one, took a sip of the tea handed over by Lao Yang, and seemed to notice something from the assistant's movements, and raised his eyebrows slightly.

"No, no, I don't understand too much."

Lao Yang immediately shook his head with a smile.

He didn't talk to his old employer about these thoughts.

Cao Lao's disciple, whether he can draw or not, is not his turn to be a little assistant to express his opinion in front of the old gentleman.

Just a painting that makes Lao Yang's eyes shine may not say much about things, and Ms. Tang Ning becoming the successor of the old man is also the trend of the times, and the entire art world is looking forward to it.

Lao Yang only knew two things.

First, when Cao Lao saw this painting, he should not be angry anyway, and he is likely to agree to accept this painting.

The second is ...... Lao Yang did not have an accurate concept of what kind of painter was the template of the painting agent's "dream lover".

Now Gu Weijing sent this painting.

Suddenly, he somewhat understood Mr. Cao Xuan's mood when he was in the Shwedagon Pagoda project.

Enemies!

It's this smell!

Damn, it's the taste of Little Brother Gu!

This kind of obscure background, this kind of miraculous talent, this is the jade cabbage that grows in the yellow earth! Such a jade, each piece is a gold vein that the agent dreams of.

I don't know if Lao Tzu has such good luck.

If he can encounter such an example when he becomes an agent in the future, he will pounce on him with his teeth and claws, and take the cabbage back to his home for it. Other agents dared to stretch out their claws, and Lao Yang definitely took a bite on the big pig's trotters of those bewitching and cheap goods, and said that he couldn't let anything.

"Not good."

Hey?

Lao Yang was still there in a trance, when he suddenly heard Cao Lao's critical voice.

Cao Xuan stared at the photo in his hand, his fingertips flicked lightly on Gu Weijing's withdrawal, and shook his head dissatisfied: "It's like a hundred flowers, and it's called a longevity cup every year." What kind of thing is this written, to have no body, to have no bones, soft and soft, a big fat ink pig. ”

When an oil painter paints a picture of his girlfriend's lover.

There are often painters who sign the blank space in the corners with paint, such as "Ah, my eternal love" and "Ah, my muse".

However, unless the auction house verifies the authenticity of the paintings, no one will be interested in studying the signatures.

Chinese painting, calligraphy and painting are integrated.

Preface, Epilogue, Inscription, Gifts, Collection Impressions, Posterity Attached Poems...... These things are also part of the artistic attainment of paintings, and the proportion is not low.

Anyone who has seen the paintings in the museum knows that some ancient paintings have a very small main body of the painting, but what really occupies the space is the teleprompter perception of various literati and ink writers that follow it.

At the same time, the calligraphy and painting template was fortunate to leave Mi Fu, Dong Qichang's inscription on it, a few words of paragraph, the value of art appreciation is much higher than the painting itself.

Turn.

This is also the reason why Qianlong is so criticized, this old brother is the largest collector in human history, and he is very capable of mentioning, I can't wait to see a painting stamped with a chapter and two lines of poetry, and his artistic attainments are not very high, and he was sprayed and destroyed by scholars.

To be fair.

The level of Qianlong's poems is really not good, pretentious, and the handwriting is actually very good, at least it is not unsightly, but compared with the limited masters of the line, there is a gap.

Gu Weijing's calligraphy is very bad.

Lao Yang Ting professionally cut and enlarged the head and main body of the sketch, as well as various details, and printed them into photos respectively, so that Mr. can appreciate them accordingly.

The top photo in Cao Xuan's hand is the gift written by Gu Weijing to Cao Lao.

Gu Weijing has also practiced calligraphy, and it is not ugly to look at.

Take a photo and send it to a circle of friends, and you can get a lot of likes, but in the eyes of professionals, you haven't even entered the door.

The threshold for appreciating calligraphy is much higher than that of painting.

People who are not literate enough do not even understand what constitutes a standard of beauty.

Those who are good at writing are boneless, those who are not good at writing are meaty, those who are boneless and slightly fleshy are called tendon books, and those who are fleshy and micro-bone are called ink pigs.

Those who have more strength and abundant tendons are sacred, and those who are weak and have no tendons are sick.

The only thing that Gu Weijing's ink blot has in common with the "Qiong Bao Knot Cui" on the Hundred Flowers Diagram of Tangning is that they look like calligraphy characters.

Put it in the hearts of professionals like Cao Xuan.

He writes a thousand words in a pile, and it is not as pleasing to the eye as Xiao Ning's words.

Cao Xuan frowned and said to Lao Yang: "You go back and tell Gu Weijing, let him practice his words well, if he writes this broken character again in the future, don't give it to me, I am ashamed and disliked." ”

Knife mouth tofu heart.

Cao Xuan said this, and when he saw this sentence in his heart, "It's like a hundred flowers, and it is called a longevity cup every year", it was still a little comfortable.

Older people, no matter how indifferent they look at life and death, are still willing to see auspicious words of health and longevity.

Pity.

This kid, what's the use of being able to speak, his mind is not on the right path.

He put his mind on studying auspicious words, put it on being down-to-earth, calming down to practice painting, and Cao Xuan was also happy if he didn't say these words.

If you don't talk well, study these speculative and flattering words all day long, even if you are lucky enough to win an award at the Lion City Biennale by relying on your innovative ideas, the old man will not bother to take a look.

Read this verse.

Cao Lao felt that this inscription was a bit of an eyesore, so he casually threw it aside, replaced the second photo, and began to look at the wisteria flowers written by Gu Weijing.

"Alas, young people nowadays, did I see it wrong at the beginning, hiss......"

Just for a moment.

Cao Lao's back quietly straightened, and his pupils contracted sharply.

Lao Yang had been quietly paying attention to Cao Lao's reaction, his heart was beating faster, and he had a sense of anticipation that he was about to see the old man show a demeanor that he had never seen before.

In the past, the old gentleman was fairy-like, like a walking Bodhisattva.

If you want to see his gaffe, it is difficult to do so, the works of the little female apprentice have been sold for hundreds of millions in Xiangjiang, and Cao Xuan is also a light and unmoved look.

Even the time to go to bed at night was the same as in the past, and I waited until noon the next day to make a call.

The old man is a little similar to Gu Weijing.

When he was young, he was a person who came from the chaotic era, and he was also shot to the head by the gangsters of the Green Gang, and witnessed the people of Chaotian Palace on Babao Street running rampant and killing progressives on the street.

The state of mind cultivation that is not alarmed at every turn has reached the realm of transformation.

But—

Even the old man really didn't expect that he could see such a painting here and now.

Cao Xuan had generally maintained his calm, but the study was too quiet, and Lao Yang was engrossed in observing his employer's reaction all the time.

So.

He clearly really heard it, Cao Lao had just ...... I gasped.

If you read 3,000 rolls of flowers, you will know that the wind and rain will also be clear.

The literati who have seen a lot of Chinese paintings, flowers, birds, landscapes, and landscapes can see the climate and humidity conditions that the painter is copying just from the posture of a flower and leaf.

Cao Xuan's height at the peak of art is much higher than that of his assistant Lao Yang, and he can see more things at a glance.

The impact will be even greater.

(End of chapter)