Faculty of Goldsmithing, Craft and Recreation, on the riverside of the campus.

Pablo Picasso frowned at the paper and looked meditative,

On top of the drawing paper are all kinds of strange shapes.

At this time, a voice sounded,

"So, you have a new job?"

Picasso turned his head.

It was Pierre Mondrian.

Mondrian held an oil-paper bag that he could grasp with one hand, and it contained British delicacies—

Fish and chips.

Picasso was speechless for a while,

"I'm tired of this stuff."

Although he was complaining, he still picked a piece of fried fish and feasted on it.

The fried fish has a crispy skin on the outside and a juicy inside, and it is served with a special black pepper and salt for a lingering aftertaste.

Mondrian gave the other a blank look,

"Don't eat if you're tired of eating!"

As you speak, stretch your right hand back as straight as you can, away from the other person.

The two of them quarreled by the river,

Some passing girls passed by, and when they saw Picasso, they immediately covered their lips and smiled, and ran away from them in small and small whispers.

Mondrian's mind suddenly became unbalanced,

"You're bald, why do you like girls so much?"

Picasso broke the defense in an instant,

"Get out! You're bald! ”

In fact, the hairlines of the two are not very good, they just hurt each other.

After a while, the topic went around again,

Mondrian asked, "I heard that you have received a new job from the Mirror?" ”

Picasso nodded,

"Well, it's an advertisement."

He looked at the sun overhead, estimated that it was almost there, and then clumped the paper into a ball, ready to throw it into the garbage bag he carried with him.

Mondrian stopped,

"Don't lose it!"

As he spoke, he snatched the paper.

Both have a serious attitude towards art, but in different ways,

Picasso chose to dispose of the unsatisfactory work outright;

Mondrian will keep it, and with this move, he will draw inferences and witness his own progress.

He unfolded the drawing paper, and his face was surprised,

"Indigenous African sculptures?"

I saw that the graphics and lines on the paper all had a concise, simple, weird and rough feeling.

Picasso didn't want to talk about his failures,

"Don't talk about that."

He beckoned,

"Come, let's go to the Mirror newspaper together."

Mondrian immediately followed.

In the past, when they went to Fleet Street from school, they would first take a horse-drawn carriage to the ferry, and then change to walk after taking the boat.

But now, because of the success of "Jane Eyre" and "I Am a Cat", both of them have made a lot of money, so their lives have changed a lot, and they can take a horse-drawn carriage directly to London Bridge and go straight to their destination.

It took about 40 minutes to get there.

The two jumped out of the carriage.

They were greeted not by a newspaper clerk, but by a strong man covered in tendons.

The strong man seems to know them,

"Monsieur Picasso? Mr. Mondrian? Hello, I'm Percy Caro from Carlo Foods. ”

Carlo held out her right hand.

As soon as Picasso heard Caro Food, he knew the identity of the other party,

He took off his hat and saluted, shook hands with each other,

"Mr. Carlo, how did you recognize us?"

The corners of Carlo's mouth hooked, but he didn't squeak, but his eyes involuntarily aimed at Picasso's forehead with a hint of reflection,

Silence is better than sound at this point.

Picasso's arm shaking hands with the other froze and his other hand quietly put on his hat.

Mondrian tried to hold back a smile beside him, gently tugged at the elbow of Picasso's dress jacket, asked his friend to pull his hand back, and then changed the subject: "Mr. Carlo, this time you need Pablo to draw a full-page advertisement, right?" ”

Carlo nodded repeatedly,

"That's right! I think Mr. Picasso must have seen a single caricature, and I think it's very good. ”

Picasso said a little stiffly: "Mr. Carlo, I have my own judgment. ”

Carlo replied, "Of course I believe you. So ...... now? Forehead ......"

The words are only half spoken,

His expression became a little subtle.

Mondrian was surprised, "Is there a problem?" ”

"Hiss......"

Carlo let out a moan like a toothache and a constipated expression on his face, and said, "It should be okay, come with me." ”

What does "should" mean?

Picasso and Mondrian were in the clouds.

The two followed Caro.

Upon entering the door, instead of turning right to the editor-in-chief's room, they walked straight ahead and came to a room.

The heavy door was closed, but it didn't prevent the sound from coming from inside.

"Miss Dale, I think you should ask your father to come over."

"No, no. I can make my own decisions. ”

"It's a 10,000-pound ad and you're going to get paid a handsome, so be sure to ask Mr. Dale to come over. He's the one who can be responsible. ”

……

It seems to be two women arguing.

Picasso looked at Carlo,

Carlo pouted,

"Oh, woman......" ×2

The two spoke almost in unison.

Mondrian lowered his voice as low as he could, "What the hell is going on?" ”

Carlo replied, "Employment contract." ”

Picasso knew about the image ambassador, because Lu Shi said it when he handed over the job to him.

He couldn't help but be surprised,

"Contract? Didn't you talk about it? ”

Carlo shook his head solemnly and said, "With Professor Lu taking the lead, it is impossible for Princess Margarita and Miss Dale to not get along. Now the question is who will sign the position of the second party of the contract. ”

Picasso spreads his hands,

"Just let Miss Dale sign it herself."

Carlo sighed,

"Miss Dale is only fifteen, and that contract ......"

He stepped forward and said a number.

"What?"

Picasso gasped.

"You heard me right, that's what it pays for," Carlo said. ”

Picasso nodded,

"That's why Her Royal Highness wants Miss Dale to find her father to sign on her behalf. Well, I agree. ”

Carlo spreads his hands,

"But, as you know, Miss Dale toured all over Europe, taking charge of her own affairs, from princes and nobles to peddlers and pawns, and was sought after by countless people, and she could not be treated as an ordinary girl. She thinks she can take responsibility for herself. ”

The public says that the public is reasonable, and the mother-in-law says that the mother-in-law is reasonable,

It's a blur.

Picasso couldn't help but have a big head.

In his impression, Princess Margarita was not an aggressive woman, how could she resolutely not give in?

It's so weird!

"What now," he asked. ”

Carlo scratched her head,

"Otherwise, you will go in and persuade you?"

Picasso: "......"

If it weren't for the fact that the other party was as strong as a cow, he really wanted to give the other party a punch.

Mondrian said, "Why don't I go find ......"

The voice did not fall,

Squeak –

The door suddenly opened.

Margarita stood in the doorway, turned back and said, "Miss Dale, you are so irrational, then I can only ...... Hey...... You ......"

She noticed three men.

Mondrian was the most emotionally intelligent of them, and he said in a hurry: "Your Highness, I heard that Professor Lu has taken the lead in creating a new advertisement, and if he proposes cooperation, it will definitely succeed." So, I came here to study. ”

When Lu was mentioned, Margarita's eyes softened slightly,

"'Sure to succeed'......"

She repeated, turning back.

In an instant, the eyes of the two women met in the air, as if the two houses of the Senate had reached a consensus on joint rule, and decided to temporarily put aside the dispute and seek common ground while reserving differences.

In any case, we have to get the job done first.

Don't let Lu Shi down!

Phyllis took a deep breath and picked me up,

"Three, please come in."

Margarita cooperated to get out of the way.

Carlo hesitated for a moment and walked into the office first.

Unlike the clutter of Lu Shi's office, Margarita keeps her office environment organized, with all kinds of supplies neatly arranged, each with a fixed location, so that it can be easily accessed at any time.

Margarita said: "Monsieur Picasso, I have already thought of a plan. ”

As she spoke, she took out the sketch,

"What do you think?"

Picasso glanced at it, not knowing what to say.

It can only be said that Her Royal Highness the princess should be an honest manager, and don't participate in specific business or anything, otherwise it will be easy for a layman to lead an insider.

And Phyllis also has his own vision,

"You're Mr. Picasso? Nice to meet you! ”

After saying hello, she also handed over the sketch,

"How's this?"

After reading it, Picasso sighed in his heart,

There is indeed an intrinsic connection between the arts, and the actors stand on the stage a lot, and the understanding of composition is indeed a bit of a doorway.

But can this be said truthfully?

Picasso raised his head,

I saw that Margarita and Phyllis were staring at themselves,

The atmosphere in the room became scorching.

"Ahem......"

Picasso coughed awkwardly, set up his easel, and laid out the paper,

"Your Highness Princess, Miss Dale, I don't think you need to dwell on this matter. Because I'm a professional, I'll leave the composition to me. ”

However, this statement does not have a final word.

Phyllis and Margarita faced each other again,

"Your Royal Highness, I don't think your composition is aesthetically pleasing!"

"I know! But this is an advertisement, not a painting! What we want is to highlight the product called the cat can. The importance of canned cats in advertising, canned cats > our generation > you. ”

"However, there is no aesthetic sense that will not attract consumers at all!"

……

Again, this is a situation in which each has its own reasons.

Carlo looked at us,

As a result, my generation also shrank there honestly, trembling.

Picasso looked at the two women,

I saw their lips trembling rapidly, like the lid of a kettle of boiling water that was constantly being lifted up,

The strange thing is that they are obviously talking, but Picasso does not understand,

On the contrary, in the bottom of my heart, it seems that the voice of "Ode to Joy" sounds.

In an instant, the impulse to create came up,

Picasso picked up a pencil,

Accompanied by the sound of "rustling", some wonderful lines began to form, as if visualizing the voices of Margarita and Phyllis.

Mondrian looked over,

"Pablo. Pablo!? ”

Picasso has lost the concept of sound,

His world is only paintings.

Unable to do so, Mondrian quickly rushed out of the room and returned with Lu Shi a few minutes later.

The room immediately fell silent,

“……”

“……”

“……”

Margarita and Phyllis kept their heads down, like children who have done something wrong.

Lu Shi looked left and right, with a helpless face.

He said to Phyllis, "After drawing the original draft of the advertisement today, call your father to come and sign the contract." ”

Phyllis couldn't help but feel aggrieved,

She pouted,

"Okay."

There are thousands of thoughts in his heart, but he does not refute Lu Shi.

The corners of Lu Shi's mouth hooked, and he said reasonably: "Your father is your agent, of course you need him." ”

The profession of artist agent emerged with the rise of the Hollywood film industry, and at the beginning of the 20th century there were no commercial films, let alone agents.

Phyllis was puzzled,

"Agent? What does it produce? ”

Lu Shi said with a smile: "To put it simply, it is the middleman. Agents charge commissions to negotiate on behalf of actors for better pay and roles, and at the same time, they help actors make the right decisions in their careers. ”

Phyllis was surprised, "Why can't you come by yourself?" ”

Lu Shi said: "People's energy is limited, and the main business of actors is to study acting skills and stand on the stage. ”

Phyllis loves to hear this,

She was convinced.

Lu Shi turned to Margarita again and said, "Your Royal Highness, what I just said also applies to you. The manager can do a good job in enterprise management, and leave professional things to professional people. ”

Margarita let out a low "um".

So, everyone looked at the professional person.

Inexplicably, Picasso is looking at his paper with a look of intoxication, as if enjoying the afterglow of some kind of pleasure.

A few people approached curiously,

It was a pencil draft.

Although it is not colored, no one can argue with its creativity.

Picasso used a flexible and layer-by-layer, powerful plane modeling technique, combining the structure of the body at will, and painted two young girls.

These planes even transcend a single object and encompass the entire surrounding space.

There is no doubt that Picasso completely rejected the traditional painting since the Renaissance that regarded three-dimensional space as its main purpose.

Lu Shi couldn't help but think of "The Girl of Avignon",

"This ...... This is cubism! ”

Picasso woke up from a dream,

He turned around, his eyes gradually regained their brilliance, and he looked at Lu Shi,

"Good! That's a good name! It's cubism! ”

In fact, between the Blue Period and Cubism, Picasso had another experience -

Rose period.

From the name, it is not difficult to see that it is related to love.

At that time, Picasso settled permanently in the Montmarre district of Paris and cohabited with Fernand Orivier,

Pastel pink tones began to seep into his canvases,

Within a few months, the warm, delicate rose red replaced the hollow, abstract, heavy and depressive blue.

And now, because of Lu Shi's "butterfly flapping wings", cubism was born ahead of schedule!

Lu Shi looked at the painting again,

In the painting, it is apparently Margarita and Phyllis,

Although the facial features have been changed beyond recognition, even "intricate", anyone can see that the two are arguing.

That's the magic of cubism,

It clearly conveys the atmosphere of the two people arguing.

Lu Shi asked, "What is this painting called?" ”

Picasso muttered,

It's called "The Girl with a Red Face"?

Or......

"The Girl in the Shura Field"?

Picasso felt that both names were very apt.

But he glanced at Margarita, and his gaze lingered on Phyllis's face for a moment, and the words that came to his lips were swallowed back in an instant.

He said, "Or call it ...... The ...... of the dispute "The Girl in the Dispute"? ”

That's a good name,

Lu Shi thought of "Avignon Girl" again,

The theme of that painting was to associate indulgence with death, because there were many people in France at that time who were sick from indulgence and died in agony.

So, in the painting, all five women are naked and sick bodies,

Their bodies were entangled in disease, showing haggard faces of fear, and even on one face, all the facial features were in the wrong place, showing a state of elongation or extension.

And "The Girl in the Dispute" is also a similar technique,

Of course, the facial features and bodies of the two girls give people feelings that have nothing to do with pathology, but with unyielding and stubbornness.

Lu Shigang was about to express his affirmation,

Unexpectedly, Margarita on the side spoke first: "That's not a 'dispute'. ”

Her voice was unusually smooth, and she couldn't even hear emotion.

"Goo......

Picasso couldn't help but swallow his saliva,

"That's ...... What is that? ”

Margarita propped her chin on her hand and fell into deep thought, as if searching for the right words.

Phyllis on the side said: "I think 'fight with reason' is more appropriate. ”

The tone of the statement is unquestionable.

Miraculously, Margarita nodded in agreement and said in a low voice: "Yes, there is not only right and wrong in this world, there are often two kinds of right collisions, and at this time, it is necessary to argue with reason." ”

When Picasso looked at Lu, he blinked lightly and sent out a distress signal.

"Tsk......"

Lu Shi was speechless,

After thinking about it, he said: "The name of "The Girl Who Argues with Reason" is too long. It's better to call it ...... Well...... I want to think about ......"

Suddenly, a bolt of lightning struck down and hit the Heavenly Spirit Gai,

Lu Shi suddenly opened his mind,

""Girls in Cooperation"! What do you think? That's not bad, right? ”

Hearing the name, all the rest of the men present,

Carlo, Mondrian, Picasso,

They were shocked.

And, a thought lingers in the mind,

Is this how women cooperate?

"Hiss......"

Carlo gasped and quietly gave Lu Shi a thumbs up.

It's called emotional intelligence!

High, really high.

On the other side, Picasso hurriedly put away the painting, replaced it with a new piece of paper, and at the same time said to Lu Shi as if he had shaken off a hot potato: "Professor Lu, I will take this painting back and finish it, and then I will give it to you." ”

Land Hours: ???

Cubism's pioneering work for yourself?

If memory serves, Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon reached a transfer price of $2.4 million in 1937.

The same should be true of this "Girl in Cooperation".

He waved his hand and said, "No! How is this ......?"

Picasso immediately interrupted,

"Absolutely! You are the pioneer of the Oriental School of painting, and you are my guide, what is the problem with the painting? ”

Lu Shi opened his mouth,

As a result, before he could speak, Picasso said again: "Professor Lu, you obviously accepted one of Mr. Monet's "Water Lilies", but you didn't accept my painting, do you don't like me?" ”

Even this straight-ball method is used.

Lu Shi was speechless,

"You...... Alas..."

I have "Female History" and "Water Lilies",

There is another youth version of "The Girl of Avignon", which seems to be nothing.

"Okay, I'll take it."

Lu Shi is as good as a stream.

Picasso couldn't help but be delighted, and peeked in the direction of Margarita and Phyllis,

Luckily, it was sent out!

"Now that the two have reached a settlement," he said...... Forehead...... Once agreed, let's get started. ”

He instructed Phyllis, "Miss Dale, please pick me up." ”

(End of chapter)