Chapter 388: Cao Xuan's Gift
Gu Weijing heard Mrs. Sakai's unhappiness in the microphone.
He explained with a smile that the security problem was not a big one, and if Brother Hao wanted to do something, he would have done it a long time ago.
The other party obviously also noticed the pressure brought about by Gu Weijing's network of connections, which restrained him from using some tougher means.
Gu Weijing is not too worried about encountering substantive problems in life at present.
If he found that something was wrong, he would not be reckless, and he would have immediately taken his family and sought the help of Mrs. Sakai.
Just now.
Katsuko should have told your aunt that all the locations of his works are in orphanages in Yangon, and painting in front of photos in real life is still a completely different feeling.
Wattle's 10-year practice is a clear example of this.
From the perspective of the perception of the picture, Gu Weijing feels that the other party may want to be realistic too much, and too much to pursue "photorealism" from the photographic sense of the photo.
This gives the work a sense of unreality.
The ripples in the lake that deliberately seek perfection, the excessively clear mottled weathering on the old-school classical buildings, and the contrast of brightness presents the shade and lawn of the obvious steps...... Everything is a textbook stereotype.
It seems to be painting against a book of "Encyclopedia of Photography Aperture", but it lacks the natural and hazy blank space that should be in life.
If Wattle could have copied the sunset on Museum Island every day, perhaps with a long period of practice, it would have been able to bring a different effect.
On the other hand.
Wattle certainly didn't paint it that way.
With Gu Weijing's semi-professional level, the problems that can be seen are probably not difficult to see by the Dulwich sketch teacher himself.
But again, that's the statement.
Techniques are limited.
The way the other party chose this kind of painting is like a young conductor who has only been in the choir all his life, directing the community children to sing the hymn "Hallelujah", and suddenly wants to conduct a three-pipe professional orchestra of 100 people in a large symphony hall to play an entire symphony of Mozart.
Different color superposition, different painting splicing, mink brush, flat pen, fan pen...... The different color combinations were like different woodwinds, strings, percussion, and so on slowly spreading out in front of him at the same time, leaving Wattel scrambling.
Commanding and directing, the various voices are mixed together and chaotic.
Those who learn from me live, and those who are like me die.
There is nothing wrong with incorporating the delicate visual elements of photography into his paintings, but the mistake is that Wattle's watercolor level is not enough to support him to really paint well, and he can only get a "copycat photo" that is inferior to photography everywhere, so it seems useless.
If Professor Watel uses a pen technique to divide three by five, every trace of light on the photo can be restored on the paper, all of which are clear and expressive.
It would have been a very different kind of painting.
Of course, Gu Weijing did not tell the other party about this conjecture.
If you say this kind of great truth that surpasses the ability to realize, there is a suspicion that you will not have a backache when you stand and speak.
Theories are everywhere.
"As long as you can figure out and restore every ray of light, you can paint satisfactory works and become an outstanding painter" is not fundamentally different from "as long as you can run nearly 9.6 seconds in 100 meters, you can win the Olympic championship and become a sports hero", "as long as you can score 700 points in the college entrance examination, you can go to Qingbei", they are all one of the thousands of very correct nonsense.
The truth itself makes no sense.
It's just a matter of seeing if anyone can actually make it happen.
Even if it is Gu Weijing, he thinks that he must be able to equip himself with successfully advanced watercolor techniques, so that he will be a little sure when he can control this complex light and shadow at the end of the pen.
The "Good Luck Orphanage in the Sun", which participated in the Singapore Art Exhibition, naturally had to be copied repeatedly in the Good Luck Orphanage, trying to figure out the subtle changes of the sunlight from the treetops, in order to achieve greater improvement.
Mrs. Sakai listened to Gu Weijing's explanation.
Also breathed a sigh of relief.
He was not forced to move.
As for the Calligraphy and Painting Association or something, he was told that there was no need to worry too much.
"Yangon Painting Association? It's a good thing to be able to help you, and if you don't want to care, you can just wave your hand and let it roll. Mrs. Sakai pouted.
Dulwich students may sound daunted by the Society's investigations and censorship, simply because they grew up in the city.
The Yangon Calligraphy and Painting Association is already the most influential artist organization in the city.
Ideally, every city has its own artistic traditions, and every artistic style deserves respect.
Myanmar also belongs to the ancient Asian country that has been inherited in an orderly manner for thousands of years, and the artistic achievements of various Buddhist statue art and local silk paintings are not low, and may not be outstanding among neighboring countries.
But the artistic heritage and historical depth that can be excavated.
It should not be lower than the Coca-Cola bottle and the Las Vegas 1970 chips, both of which are important antique art deals.
However, reality is not a utopia.
Tell me a bad truth.
Maybe the Artists Association is not born noble or low, but the degree of social influence and popularity in the eyes of the world is like a world of difference.
To a large extent, the prosperity of the art market is directly related to the level of economic development.
North America remains the world's most influential art market and one of the most important trendsetters in the world.
Myanmar is no longer an ordinary third world country, and it is one of the world's least developed economies officially certified by the United Nations every year.
Before the whole country came out of the quagmire of chaos.
It is very difficult for the Myanmar Painting Association to make its voice heard in the torrent of art in the whole world.
It is not an ocean, it is not a deep pool or a large lake, it is not even a stream, and in the minds of people like Mrs. Sakai, it is just a withered dry well at this moment.
The frog at the bottom of the well.
will think that the small square of sunlight at the wellhead is already bigger than the sky.
If it weren't for the membership of the local painting association, you would have been able to get a lot of benefits and convenience in various international exchange and cooperation projects.
So much.
She took the initiative to ask Gu Weijing to quit the association.
What about expulsion? You don't have a strong enough artistic voice, so it also means that you want to throw dirt on people and do bad things, and your ability is also limited. Before Damien Hirst's prodigal son turned back, he was arrested several times by the London police as a juvenile delinquent for frequent thefts.
However, the old lady looks down on you, which doesn't mean that you can disgust me casually.
Mrs. Sakai told Gu Weijing that he didn't need to care about these things at all, as long as he didn't have a safety risk, then he just watched from the sidelines in a down-to-earth manner.
She assured that Gu Weijing would not leave a stain on her resume.
Gu Weijing only needs to come up with enough good achievements.
Such a trifle.
None of them have to win an award at the Singapore Biennale.
Just wait for him and Katsuko's paper in Asian Art to be published, and all those who doubt him, question him, and want to make a fuss about it will become a joke.
Such people need to be faked to join the Southeast Asian City Small Painting Association.
"Then the president of the Yangon Painting Association will probably have to dig Leonardo da Vinci out of the ground of the Bell Church in Italy to get the corresponding weight." Auntie exerted her consistent yin and yang weirdness on the phone.
After hanging up Mrs. Sakai's phone, Gu Weijing also put down a big matter in his heart.
It was Mona's sudden call that made him hesitate for a long time.
"Thank you, Miss Sandenu."
Gu Weijing stroked Ngawang's round head, looked at the sign on the phone that the message had been sent, and said softly.
He never felt that Mona had done anything wrong.
The other party is the bright light of his entire student days, his best friend from childhood to adulthood, a very good girl.
Because of this.
He didn't think he should answer the call.
It's not that Mona has anything bad about.
It's said that it's broken, that is, it's really broken.
Sticky and don't make it clear, the person who hangs other people's fish is irresponsible to both parties, a disappointment to Katsuko Sakai, and a blasphemy of his and Mona's beautiful childhood relationship.
Katsuko Sakai didn't fall in love with Komatsu Taro while trying to be a blue-faced girlfriend with him.
Even Mrs. Sakai, who was so desperate to match her daughter with the aunt of the young owner of Komatsu Gallery, simply and unceremoniously sent Komatsu Taro home and got rid of him after her daughter really confirmed the relationship with him.
Respect is always mutual, and it is a boy's moral responsibility.
Similarly, he is not a fool, Gu Weijing is really grateful that at noon, Kou Kou jumped out to speak for himself.
He found out about it when he got out of school.
I just edited a chat message that was absolutely polite but detached as a thank you.
Coco is cool.
The person only replied casually - "Uh-huh-la-ha, I got angry when I saw the reporter's stupid face talking nonsense in front of the camera, and it has nothing to do with you." Remember to give me a gift on my birthday in return. I didn't tell the reporter that you look like you're developed now. Don't worry, I know you have a girlfriend, I don't want to care, as long as it's expensive. I don't mind what gold bars, mobile phones, bags, etc.! (Ps. Last time I rehearsed, my iPhone 13 hit the ground and the screen shattered.) Big money, this hint is obvious enough. Bring your girlfriend along next month. My sister will help you check the color first. ”
Thinking of Coco's dashing reply.
Gu Weijing smiled slightly.
"They're all super nice girls, aren't they? So it's worth someone to like them wholeheartedly. ”
Gu Weijing hugged Ah Wang in his arms and whispered into the air.
Ah Wang was rubbing in Gu Weijing's arms, his back on his chest, and signaled to the masseuse that Xiao Guzi could serve harder.
Heard Gu Weijing's sigh.
Ngawang raised his head curiously, sniffing the faint mixture of biological courtship hormones and sadness in the air.
She thought for a moment, though she still couldn't understand the complex emotions of humans in love.
But it was still a paw on his chin.
"Cut, hesitating, tangled, no wildness at all, is this still an artist?" - If Ngawang could one day fully understand the situation that Gu Weijing was facing, he would definitely make such a sharp comment on this.
She Awang is the most beautiful, handsome, and powerful cat in the world.
The famous Yangon River Bully.
If you see a pleasing cat face, and you want to be lucky enough to sell the young man's uncle's Liying short cat, you won't go to sleep with the big orange that sells fried noodles.
However, most of the domestic cats of the surrounding uncles and aunts have been sterilized, and they are useless.
Otherwise, Ngawang must have already bullied his mother and formed a huge cat harem group.
A small tom with one paw, canned meat with one paw.
The beauties of the country are all included in my family.
Seeing that Xiao Guzi's tangled mud couldn't support the wall, Ngawang jumped out of Gu Weijing's arms, pouted his ass at him, and licked his paws very contemptuously.
Gu Weijing didn't know that his cat was disappointed in him.
He shook his head.
Putting the phone back on the table, he continued to use his utility knife to open the delivery box next to him.
After he sent out the "Wisteria Flower Picture" that day, he received a call from Mr. Cao himself, in which Master Cao Xuan asked him in detail how he painted the Chinese painting, and the two chatted for a long time.
When I hung up the phone.
Cao Xuan said that he also sent him a return gift and asked him to pay attention to the receipt.
Gu Weijing originally thought it was some kind of art textbook, painting experience and the like, but when he signed for the express today, he found that the express delivery had a sign of "art consignment".
It turned out that there was a commissioner of a logistics company, carrying a courier, and flew over from Hamburg to ask him to sign for the delivery.
Gu Weijing was simply shocked.
"Art Express...... Return Gift...... I'll go, no. ”
He's a very calm man.
Thinking that maybe he was holding a Bugatti in his forehand and unpacking it, his heart began to beat uncontrollably.
The most valuable work Gu Weijing has ever handled should be Carroll's "The Old Church on a Thunderstorm", followed by Downing's "Hundred Flowers".
In terms of painting techniques and aesthetic value, Gu Weijing prefers the old church.
Judging from the market price, it is difficult to say that the painting is worth more money.
For a painter like Carol who has no fame and no background, Uncle Sakai is willing to offer a price of tens of thousands of dollars, which is really the conscience price of those who love painting.
If the paper is successfully published.
Maybe it's not difficult to double tenfold, referring to Miss Mary's fine paintings and calligraphy, the price range of 50~1 million is possible. Over time, if the academic community could agree that this was the first female impressionist work, it would be much better.
But that takes time to discuss and settle down.
Now that Ms. Downing's value has risen sharply, "Hundred Flowers" may also be sold for hundreds of thousands of dollars.
In the antique art market, it is the fame of the painter, not the painting technique.
After all, you can consider gritting your teeth and going to Monet, which is a stable investment, and there is no need to bet on a painter who does not know the exact origin.
But if it's a work of art with Cao Xuan's name, it's really hard to say.
It is likely to be able to surpass this price range.
(End of chapter)