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Chapter 1066 Contemporary Artist

Zhao Mingyang went out with Wang Qi in the car, and the driver drove them to the largest art museum in Shanghai.

Zhao Mingyang was wearing a black sports cap, a pair of glasses and a mask, and a black sportswear with a pair of white sneakers. Wang Qi also wore the same suit.

The paparazzi who could follow Wang Qi were all thrown off by Zhao Mingyang, so Zhao Mingyang dared to take Wang Qi out of the street.

Zhao Mingyang brought Wang Qi to this exhibition hall to participate in an art exhibition. People who come here today can't get in without an invitation letter, and they all make appointments in advance. Of course, if the relationship is strong enough, there is no such thing as an appointment.

Wang Qi didn't know what Zhao Mingyang brought her here for, she held Zhao Mingyang's arm and followed him closely, at this moment she felt very happy, after all, Zhao Mingyang was the only real boyfriend, and he followed Zhao Mingyang at the age of first love , Zhao Mingyang seemed to be omnipotent, so Wang Qi developed a strong sense of dependence and admiration for Zhao Mingyang.

The exhibition is on the fourth floor of the art museum, covering an area of ​​more than 1000 square meters. There are thousands of paintings on display today.

There is an introduction next to each painting, about the author of the painting, the name of the painting, and the artistic conception expressed by the painting.

There is also the price tag. The prices of the paintings here are ridiculously expensive. Basically, a painting starts at [-] yuan. Many of the paintings of well-known painters come to participate in the exhibition. This is like a large-scale painting shopping mall. All paintings are for sale.

Some paintings are labeled tens of millions. Of course, tens of millions of paintings will basically not be sold here, either in private transactions or in auction houses.

Zhao Mingyang asked Wang Qi to go and see for himself. If there is anyone he likes, he must learn how to appreciate these paintings, including film exhibitions.

It's the style, the style that the high-end people like at the moment. Zhao Mingyang came here to see the wind direction, and to buy paintings.

The aesthetics of many high-end products may not be acceptable to ordinary people, because they are not for ordinary people at all. For example, some designs have added some styles, and ordinary people don’t care about the style. What you don't like is ugly.

Therefore, the design of many luxury goods will make people wonder, why this style, because this style must be popular in the high-end circle during this period.

All high-end products are designed for the preferences of the rich, and the preferences of the rich eventually become the preferences of the public, because other manufacturers will follow the luxury design to learn from.To put it bluntly, it is plagiarism.

If you know how to dress and match, you can know what style you like and what style suits you. When someone asks you where you bought this dress, you can just say that I like xx style, so I bought this dress instead of this one. You only buy clothes that look good.

Most people dress randomly and follow the trend. At this time, if you say something like this, although it is very pretentious, others will think that you know how to dress when they know that you know how to match your clothes.

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There are many paintings here, but Zhao Mingyang's goal is the works of a new artist. All the works of this artist are very abstract, and the price is [-] a painting. Generally, this kind of new artist will produce a series. After all High Yield.

Zhao Mingyang looked at a wall near the corner, called the staff to point to a wall, and told the staff that he wanted everything on this wall.

The staff was not surprised at all. After all, they were not surprised by this situation. There were a total of twelve paintings, totaling 120 million, and Zhao Mingyang bought them all by swiping his card.

Wang Qi came over to look at these paintings and asked curiously: "Do you like these?"

"No, it's not that I like it, but that you like it. Do you understand? I bought these paintings for you. You can take pictures and share them on social platforms. Tell everyone about your recent collection. I have written it for you, and you can just follow the copywriting when the time comes.

Not only you, but other artists in our company also want to buy these paintings. To put it simply, you have to help him publicize. He is a painter I trained, understand?It can also give you a little artistic boost. "Zhao Mingyang said with his arms around Wang Qi's waist.

"Understood." Wang Qi looked at the name next to the painting, Takahashi Token? R himself? R book's painter?Never heard of this name.

This painter is the owner of a trendy shop that Zhao Mingyang met on the streets of R Ben a few years ago, a fashion designer with a very unique personality. Zhao Mingyang asked him to paint, and he has already produced works in a few years.

His works tend to be abstract, and he is also a newcomer painter, after all, he belongs to the cross industry, but Zhao Mingyang wants to hype his paintings.

It is cheap to buy one of his paintings for 100 yuan, and then the listed price will be [-] million yuan for a painting, and then it will be tens of millions.

Zhao Mingyang has already bought foreign media notices, publicizing that Takahashi Token's paintings have been snapped up at high prices, making his paintings appreciate.

This is a huge profiteering industry. As long as Zhao Mingyang can hype up his paintings, he can do joint names in the future. More importantly, Zhao Mingyang can hoard his paintings and release them one by one. Now he can buy one hundred thousand. In the future, 100 million 1000 million will be released one by one.

This can be handed down to future generations, and it is an intangible asset. Of course, Zhao Mingyang can also give these paintings to others, which is equivalent to giving money, but only Zhao Mingyang knows the actual value.

As long as the value of this thing is recognized by the market, it will be a currency in circulation.

For example, some wine is so expensive, it is no longer wine, it is currency in circulation.

Takahashi Token has officially debuted, and Zhao Mingyang wants to make him an artist, a contemporary artist, a living artist, and make him an artist with a market value of several billion.

All the works created by Takahashi Token so far have been accepted by Zhao Mingyang. He has basically exhausted his talent in the past few years, and it will be very difficult to create anything later.

Moreover, Takahashi Token still had a contract with Zhao Mingyang, so he couldn't get out of it. If he wanted to terminate the contract, the fee would be sky-high.

All the copyrights of Takahashi Token also belonged to Zhao Mingyang, and he would not lose what he could get. Takahashi Token also knew why he became popular and who was behind the scenes, so he would not easily offend Zhao Mingyang.

After all, he is no longer a young man. Takahashi Token knows that Zhao Mingyang can lift him up and step him down. The best way is to listen to Zhao Mingyang's arrangements. Zhao Mingyang doesn't interfere with him, and he is very good This is enough for the creative environment and living security.

Wang Qi accompanied Zhao Mingyang to look at other paintings. Wang Qi liked a sunflower painting worth 30 yuan. It was a painting by a relatively famous artist. Zhao Mingyang bought it and gave it to Wang Qi.

Takahashi Token could not actually participate in such a venue, but Zhao Mingyang had the ability to make money and directly let his paintings participate in large-scale art exhibitions around the world, and bought his paintings at a high price as different buyers.

This time it is 120 pieces, 50 million a series, the next exhibition will be 100 pieces, and the next time it will be [-] million pieces.

"This wall was also packed for me." Zhao Mingyang pointed to a wall and said.

Wang Qi was puzzled. This wall is full of landscape paintings, and the price is not cheap. Each painting costs 10,000+. There are three paintings in total. Could it be that this is also the painter Zhao Mingyang wants to hype?

Zhao Mingyang didn't tell Wang Qi about this anymore. This is a list that Cai Qimin gave to Zhao Mingyang. This is the painting of an old gentleman. The old gentleman has always loved painting and has been painting all his life, but he has never been famous.

Moreover, the prices of paintings have never been low, and now they are still low. Before, the price was 50 yuan for a painting. The old man always felt that others did not know what to buy and did not know how to appreciate his paintings.

Now Zhao Mingyang bought it, not for anything else, just because the old man has a good son-in-law, and his son-in-law brought this to the exhibition, and the old man was also at the scene, because the old man's son-in-law has been promoted step by step in recent years, so Cai Qimin wants to be with him He walked closer and asked Zhao Mingyang to come over and buy paintings.

"Do you like this painting?" An old man's voice came from behind Zhao Mingyang.

Zhao Mingyang turned his head to look, and an old man in his 80s with a cane came over and asked with the support of a woman.

"I like it. These three paintings are a group. They are about mountains and rivers, singing birds and flowers, and changing seasons. I like the painting style of flowing clouds and flowing water. I also feel a sense of endless life in the picture, coupled with the sharp contrast of colors. It gives people a visual impact. Most importantly, I like the agility of this painting, and every part is lifelike.

There is also the core of this painting, which has artistic conception. If you look at the mountains and rivers here, you can see that the mountains are mountains, but the mountains are not mountains. The reflection on the water surface is another painting, a picture-in-picture. If you look at the reflection in reverse, does it look like a city, a city floating on the water, a capital on the sea, and the fish and shrimp in the water look like the residents of this city.

There is also this forest, every tree is different, every bird on the tree has a different expression, including the stones in this painting are all strange, this painting is really good, I like it very much.

Especially the fallen leaves, from a distance, it really looks like a fallen leaf slowly falling, with a sense of hierarchy..."

Zhao Mingyang flattered wildly. He heard from Cai Qimin that this old man is evil. Before he asked someone to buy a painting, he didn't sell it, saying that the other party didn't know how to paint. So Cai Qimin secretly sent Zhao Mingyang the authenticity of this painting. Zhao Mingyang studied it and concluded flattering After the filming method, I said it.

Zhao Mingyang's words made the old man very comfortable. In fact, he was really flattering, because the paintings this old man drew were really not very amazing. Why didn't the people before him feel as good as the old man who flattered him?

Because the person who bought the painting before was too professional, in terms of color tone, painting style, etc., to flatter me, do I need to take pictures?
Zhao Mingyang was straightforward, what you see is what you get. Of course, many professionals can see some things here at a glance, but they think it's complicated, thinking that the old man will definitely not like to hear such superficial expressions and praises.

The old man's paintings are very ordinary, and he pretends to be clever to hide the mystery. The mountain shadow reflected in the water is problematic at a glance.

But many people think that this is not worth mentioning, and the appearance of the bird on the tree, it is impossible to draw exactly the same, it is meaningless to blow this,
And the fallen leaves, at first glance, it seems that I want to highlight the moment of the fallen leaves, and draw a fallen leaf at each part of the distance, and finally fall to the ground. This kind of painting is really boring, and the expression is too intuitive, but it makes professional people not to blow it. These.

Zhao Mingyang just brags about this. This old man is obviously the kind of person who thinks highly of himself and can't tell how much he weighs. Otherwise, he dares to sell his paintings at a price of 50 yuan?
He wants to be famous, he needs to be talented, this painting has been bought long ago, the price of 50 has been reduced by 10,000+, probably because he thinks it is too expensive, and some people can’t afford it. Arrange for someone to come over to make the old man happy.

The old man pulled it up, feeling that he couldn't sell it easily, and that he was pretending to sell it to someone who knew his paintings, and having a buyer willing to buy his paintings would give him more confidence.

People who don't know how to do it really can't do this kind of flattery, and people who know how to do it can't do it like this. Only half-assed people like Zhao Mingyang know how to flatter people like this.

Not everyone has been in the industry for a long time, so they must be very good. Art is a thing that depends on talent in the end, and hard work is just to continue the life of talent. This old man can at best be regarded as a good painter, but his talent is average. One or two thousand for a painting, if it is higher, it can be up to five thousand, and there is no guarantee that someone will buy it.

But he doesn't know enough about himself, it's not his fault, it's a common problem among a group of people in the art industry, similar to literati who feel that they are the best.

Some people wake up early and recognize the upper limit of their talents, while some people realize it late and always feel that they are underappreciated.

How can there be so many underappreciated talents in this world, most of them are mediocre and ineffective.

Especially in the era of the rapid development of the Internet, there is basically no such thing as being underappreciated. If you start a live broadcast, as long as you have talent, you will be noticed instantly.

If this kind of art exhibition is often exhibited, let alone, it's just that this old man is more stubborn.

The son-in-law wanted to make the old man happy, but in fact, he wanted to help the old man to complete an affirmation by others, to prove that his paintings are valuable, to complete one of his obsessions, to prove that his life's persistence was not in vain, what if The day is gone, go without regret.

Zhao Mingyang's simple and direct flattery was exactly what the old man needed. He wanted people to say Zhao Mingyang's direct words, but no one said them, because the more professional a person was, the less he could say them. important.

"You know how to paint. This is my painting." The old man said proudly.

Zhao Mingyang took off his mask, hat, and sunglasses and said respectfully: "It's a pleasure to meet you. I didn't expect to meet the author himself. I like your painting very much, sir. Do you have any other paintings? I think Collect a few."

The old man raised his head and said forcefully: "No more, I only draw these three paintings in my life, I hope you can keep them well, this is my absolute must."

When Zhao Mingyang heard it, the good guy is pretending, it seems to be saying that he himself is at the same level as Qi Baishi and Da Vinci, and he only does one thing in his life. Three paintings, this is out of print.

"It's a pity, sir, only painted these three paintings, but boy, I got lucky and received out-of-print paintings."

"Hahaha~ You are destined for this painting, see you in Jianghu!" The old man turned and left, and the woman helped him to leave. He probably had a blast with his family, relatives and friends when he went back. Men love to pretend until they die.

Zhao Mingyang put on his mask, glasses and hat again, picked up his phone, took a picture and sent it to Cai Qimin, who was telling the old man's son-in-law the information.

As for the three paintings, Zhao Mingyang didn't intend to ask for them, so he donated them to Fuda. This force has come up again, and the old man has boasted again, but it is estimated that he will have to go to Fuda three times a day to see his favorite works. , Everyone brags that his paintings have been collected by Fuda.

Cai Qimin also thought so, so that the old man's son-in-law could remember Cai Qimin's favor.

Society, isn't it just like this, with each other helping each other, I am most afraid of those who don't know how to measure.

For example, Hao Ren, who is very dizzy at this moment, called Zhao Mingyang. Zhao Mingyang took out a card and handed it to the staff to swipe the card to pay the bill and leave. He arranged for a car to come and transport these paintings away. Go to a villa, where Zhao Mingyang used to store things.

"Mingyang, are you busy?" Hao Ren said.

Zhao Mingyang got into the car, took out a bottle of water from the car refrigerator, Wang Qi unscrewed the bottle cap for him, Zhao Mingyang took a sip from the water bottle and said, "Not busy, tell me, what's the matter?"

(End of this chapter)