Gu Weijing opened the inner seal of the scroll, unfolded the painting, and found that it was a framed calligraphy work.

First there was a bit of normal disappointment.

More often than not, I felt a sense of relief.

If Mr. Cao, who had already sealed his pen, really sent him a Chinese painting, then the pressure in his heart would be too great.

Gu Weijing will even have a sense of unsteadiness as a child walking in the downtown with his daughter.

To be exact.

A character like Cao Xuan actually wrote a letter to him in return, which was enough to make any eighteen-year-old student who lacked enough concentration.

They all felt uneasy and even panicked.

Cao Xuan gave a piece of writing to himself!

In ancient times, the great literati were famous to a certain extent, and even the temple bosses at the level of the six ministers wanted to come over and ask someone to ask for a word or something in the family temple, but it also depended on the mood.

If you don't want to bird you, you won't bird you.

In the late Ming Dynasty clan like Bada Shanren, the country broke down and lived to the Kangxi era, and it stands to reason that they should be cautious like a trembling quail.

No.

The pattern is smaller.

People are still heroic and free-spirited, and they still make those local parents and officials who covet his calligraphy and paintings helpless.

If you want to kill me, I can.

I want to ask for words, uncle, I'm in a bad mood, I just don't write it for you, get rough.

Cao Xuan's social status today is not necessarily lower than that of those ancient literati. The nearly 100-year-old man personally wrote a letter to you, what kind of meaning is this?

Can you bear that meaning?

Especially what this calligraphy mentions.

[The pearl of luminous light does not have to come from the river of Mengjin. 】

[The best in your hand does not have to be mined in the Kunlun Mountain. 】

[Thousands of rocks are gorgeous, thousands of ravines are contending, but they want to stand out. 】

No matter how calm Gu Weijing was in the past, when he saw the vigorous and powerful cursive script, he almost jumped on the paper with encouragement, and thought about the deep meaning.

Still in a mood.

Gu Weijing looked at these thirty-eight big characters again and again.

After thinking for a moment, he rewound the scroll, held it in his arms, pushed the door and walked out.

——

[It is reported that the annual European Art Annual Conference will be held this weekend at the New Art Center in Glitz, Austria.] This year will be the 53rd edition of the European Art Association, since Pablo Picasso and 137 other artists signed a joint proposal in Vienna in 1971 to hold an authoritative symposium on the concept of artistic development. It was also the first time in the past half century that the annual meeting was held in Austria. 】

The annual conference is the authority of the most important contemporary art exhibition, and is the vane of the history of aesthetic and social and cultural development and change since modernism in the West and around the world. 】

[In order to show the importance of this, the Austrian leader will be present in person to make an opening welcome speech.] After a short video, we give the time to the news reporter in front of us ......]

"This year's annual meeting is quite concerned."

In the study.

Gu Tongxiang held a cigarette in his mouth, with reading glasses on his face, and looked at the news program of "Art News Profile" on the iPad in his hand, smacking his mouth and smoking.

Finish dinner in the evening.

I walked around the banks of the Yangon River, took a look at the store's income and expenditure accounts for the week, and finally spread out the pen and paper to practice drawing, and the daily schedule was settled.

In the past, before going to bed, Mr. Gu liked to watch short videos, and came out to watch two Hong Kong-style martial arts with threads from the bookshelf.

Now, the old man is once again concerned about cutting-edge art news.

In the past, Old Man Gu didn't have the heart to look at these things, and there was no need to look at them.

How big the ass is, how big the pants to wear.

He is an ordinary old man who runs a family business on the banks of the Yangon River.

Who leads the international art trend, who bursts the bubble, who wins the award in which art exhibition, and who is torn by Xiao San, has nothing to do with Gu Tongxiang's eight poles.

Anyway, the art market for Chinese painting is quite stable, and I can run my own small store and pass it on to the next generation.

Gu Tongxiang felt worthy of his ancestors.

The ups and downs at the top of the world's art are too far away, and it is better to play chess with Old Man Wu if you have this thought.

Now it's different.

After he Gu Tongxiang signed with Mars Gallery, he boasted that he was also a well-known figure, and he could call himself an internationally renowned "well-known art expert" to fool customers.

So Gu Tongxiang thinks that he also has to be fashionable!

The city of Glitz is full of natural beauty, from classical Baroque palaces to Romanesque buildings with grey stone and brick vaults, to futuristic white palaces.

On the density of art museums.

In the whole of Central Europe, only a few cities such as Zurich and Vienna can be compared with it.

The narrator's background to the introduction of the European Art Festival and the city of Glitz is supposed to be an aerial shot shot from a helicopter gliding over the city's forest-like fountains, Roman columns, sculptures, minarets, and octagonal houses.

It's like a long scroll of scenery that is constantly unfolding.

The camera lingers for a few seconds above the New Art Center, which is covered with blue polymeric shells and curved glass that reflects sunlight, and is shaped like a spaceship.

It ended up on a small building with a blue roof and red brick walls.

The screen is switched back to close-up.

The reporters at the scene were already standing on a bench across the road dozens of meters in front of the small building, holding a microphone in front of the interview car.

[Hello host. 】

[Hello reporter, we all know that you should be in the city of Glitz right now, can you share with our audience the new discoveries at the scene?] 】

The culture reporter in the brown jacket nodded.

[Many people vaguely remember the famous slogan "Let the Olympics go home" at the 2004 Athens Olympics 20 years ago. The annual meeting of European art came to Gritz, a famous city of fine arts, where the publishing house of Oil Painting, the leading art criticism magazine, is well known, and behind me is the headquarters building of Oil Painting. We can notice that the eaves and windows of the building have been hung with small decorative ribbons. And hung up a special banner that "Art Returns to Art". 】

[This annual meeting of European art is not only a discussion meeting of artists, according to the previous annual conference plan, it will also be an art retrospective exhibition that lasts for more than a month. We can see Van Gogh, Picasso, Dalí, Jackson Pollock...... Many well-known masterpieces of art masters have been rented to Glitz by museums around the world during this time. 】

[Almost all of the major art museums here will hold special exhibitions.] Some of the museum's special exhibitions actually started a month or two ago, and the rest will open in the coming period. 】

The host in the small picture nodded slightly, this is indeed a grand event for art lovers.

[However, the most discussed issue in the collector's world and art lovers is still focused on the opening event of the day after tomorrow. 】

The reporter's words changed.

[At present, it has been reported that the pop artist Gerhard Richter, who will turn 92 this year and was originally scheduled to give a closing speech, will be temporarily absent from the speech at the European Art Annual Conference due to physical reasons. 】

[Therefore, if there is no major accident, according to the unspoken rules of the annual meeting, the second-to-last guest of the finale award is Cao Xuan, an artist from Dongxia - another heavyweight guest over 90 years old invited to this annual art conference, will automatically become the candidate for the closing speech.] 】

In the studio, the host asked: "If what I know so far is accurate, will this be the first time in history that a non-European artist will make a closing speech at the annual European Art Conference?" 】

[That's right.] 】

[Although it is nominally called the European Art Festival, because the host city rotates in major cities in Europe, in fact, from the perspective of the purpose of the initiation, it is more like a party of artists.] We can share a trivia that in 1971, at the first annual conference of fine arts, it was an American who almost made the closing speech. At that time, there were only two people in the art world who were recognized as having this honor. One is Picasso and the other is Andy Warhol. 】

[Andy Warhol, who has always been unruly and known for his controversial nature, shows a heartwarming side, and the Pop Godfather voluntarily relinquishes his position.] 】

The reporter in front of the camera explained.

[It was also Picasso's last appearance at a large-scale public event before his death.] After that, Radford in the United States, Colin in Brazil, Barcelo in Britain and India...... Almost every year, well-known creators from all continents participate in the annual symposium, but there has never been a history of closing and opening speeches. 】

[The European Art Annual Conference has always been known as the vane of Western art. Master Cao Xuan was invited to give the closing remarks, partly due to Richter's absence, but also because of the growing importance of Asian art in the current art movement. It is a very simple fact that the art market in Dongxia has indisputably become the second largest art market in the world, and in terms of transaction value, it is almost the combined value of Britain, France and Germany......]

"Old man Cao Xuan is amazing, this is the face of our Oriental painter."

At the table, Gu Tongxiang took a hard puff of his cigarette and waved his fists like a little fan.

[In addition, there is another point of concern in this speech——]

[This is the first time that the heirs of the Yelena family and the chairman of the board of directors of oil painting have jointly attended an important public event after the controversy over the restructuring of the "Oil Painting" magazine, which is now rumored to be boiling and intensifying. 】

[As the audience may have noticed, the place I am now in is not the New Art Center, where the annual meeting is held, but the headquarters of Oil Painting magazine. I was tempted to interview Sir Brown himself, but I was told that there was an important announcement at the annual meeting of Oil Paintings, and that no outside interviews would be given for the time being. But I think a lot of people have seen something really interesting—]

The reporter's finger pointed across the road.

The photographer zooms in.

Under the stairs in front of the oil painting magazine, in front of the fluttering banner of "Art returns to art".

The old count's bronze sculpture is already surrounded by a thick layer of green nylon cloth and sandbags, like warm cotton wrapped around the street trees in winter, and a German sign of the renovation is hung on it.

Unfamiliar foreign tourists will not think that it is a sculpture at first glance, but will make people feel like a large green rice dumpling.

[The last time this sculpture was in a similar situation was during World War II to avoid possible Allied bombing.] Now, the official explanation of Oil Painting magazine is that the pavement in front of the headquarters building will be completely renovated, which is just a normal protection measure. But at present, the entire public opinion has almost regarded this as a landmark event for the "Oil Painting" magazine to completely break away from the control of the Yelena family, and the two sides of the event are ......]

Freeze frame.

Photographs of Sir Brown and Miss Anna taken on various occasions began to be displayed on the screen, as well as the interpretation of the incident by various experts.

"The rich have troubles at home."

Gu Tongxiang crushed the cigarette butt in the ashtray next to him, took out the most common yellow packaging and flat brand cigarettes in Yangon, put it in his mouth and wanted to order another one.

Hesitated for a few seconds.

He put the cigarette back into the box, took a thermos cup out, lifted the corner of the curtain, and poured out a little wolfberry and chrysanthemum from the small tin can by the windowsill.

Doing business in this kind of place is unavoidable, tobacco and alcohol.

In the past, Gu Tongxiang strictly forbade his grandson to touch smoking, but he was the kind of "I don't smoke cigarettes, it's human feelings", "Smoking is harmful to health, and smoking air has viruses!" "This kind of place is fighting every year, and small motorcycles are running around, so instead of worrying about lung cancer, it is better to worry about going out and being hit by a locomotive!"

The kind of smoker who talks about crooked truths, sets of old fritters.

Gu Weijing said that his grandfather had been several times, but he couldn't control the other party.

Now, seeing myself and my grandson are about to tremble.

Gu Tongxiang not only began to take care of his baldness, but even smoked a lot less, and those who had suffered a lot were about to live a good life when they saw the time coming.

He really wanted to live a few more years.

"Hey, don't mention, I still have that Miss Elena's social buddy!"

Gu Tongxiang carefully blew the wolfberry tea on the table, pouting proudly.

I turned on my mobile phone and was able to contact the beautiful heiress of the Elena family, who seemed to have come out of the history books, and his grandson was very appreciated by Mr. Cao Xuan.

Just while watching the news.

For the first time in his life, he collided with a handful of art masters at the top of the world, and for the first time there was a sense of participation that "this person knows himself".

That's why the old man let out that sigh.

(End of chapter)