Riding the wind of rebirth

Chapter 1093 Why do you have a bowl of rice to eat?

"Maybe it's their admiration for the master craftsman. They can't bear or dare not covet the merits of the master." Mr. Wang looked at the bottom of the rhinoceros box and said: "Although it is hard to disobey the emperor's order, people at that time were also very superstitious. .”

"Zhang Cheng's lacquerware was no longer practical in the Qing Dynasty. They didn't look at the bottom when displaying it. They used more brushes and fewer hands to fool the emperor. This can be regarded as a silent resistance on their part."

"Actually, there is another similar phenomenon." Mr. Wang said with a smile: "Official utensils are not allowed to contain private money of the craftsmen, but we also found that in some very secret places on official utensils, craftsmen secretly Leave your name."

"It seems that there is a similar phenomenon on the terracotta warriors and horses, right?" Zhou Zhi seems to have seen it in some report. The terracotta warriors and horses are hollow, and some craftsmen left their names on the inner walls.

"It's almost the same meaning." Mr. Wang smiled and said: "Isn't there such a bold person who dares to continue the sequel to Qianlong's "Complete Map of Bashu"?!"

Zhou Zhi: "..."

In any case, Zhou Zhi added another important item to his collection - a rhinoceros and cloud-patterned rhinoceros and rhinoceros pattern embroidered embroidery box made by Zhang Cheng of the Yuan Dynasty.

In the next two days, Zhou Zhi was dragged to the National Expo by Mr. Wang and Qi Lao to participate in the preparations for the charity auction.

The most important part of the preparation work is naturally to appraise the items to be auctioned and provide a guided starting price.

Of course, this is also a good opportunity for communication. Apart from ancient paintings and porcelain, Zhou Zhi is relatively weak in other aspects, so it can be regarded as opening his eyes and gaining knowledge with his elder brother.

The donors are all well-known people, and the things are basically open to the public. Many of them have appeared at auctions or exhibitions, so the difficulty of identification is not too high.

People from the art academy are also here, because among the donated items this time, there are also many works by modern and contemporary painters, which are enough to hold an exhibition.

Zhou Zhi's suggestion is to simply build momentum, arrange a hall, hold a cultural exhibition, hang all the auction items, display them, and then open them to the public for a few days so that everyone can come and see them.

There are many treasures here, such as Xu Beihong's "Double Auspicious Pines and Cypresses" provided by Zhou Zhi, and the porcelain soup basin with poems about snowy plums, which are all considered important items.

As for Bi Botao's Panasonic Wolu pen holder and Wang Qi's character screen, they are not very eye-catching now.

The status of the two authors is still very low now, but in later generations, the works of the Eight Friends of Zhushan will be prohibited from exporting abroad.

Among the rest of the lots, the Li family provided a set of Tang Sancai twelve zodiac figurines, similar in shape to the animal heads from the Yuanmingyuan, but with one sitting and one standing.

This is to continue to heat up the residual heat of the return of the Old Summer Palace animal head, and it is also a hot topic of speculation.

The Feng family provided a large vase with an eight-way plate mouth made by the Emperor Qianlong and dark pastel colors with eight immortals and longevity patterns. It is extremely exquisite and its value is no less than the two revolving vases that Zhou Zhi worked so hard to photograph in the past.

Even many wealthy merchants participated, such as Feng Cang and Pan Shiya, who took out a set of Qing Dynasty dragon robes and phoenix robes for auction.

Zhou Zhi estimated that these two pieces of clothing would eventually return to their hands. Pan Shiya was collecting the clothing of the Ming and Qing emperors, and he didn't seem willing to donate it.

Mr. Ma also contributed a piece of Duan inkstone from the Qing Dynasty. The shape is unremarkable, but the four words "Hejian Jishi" under the inkstone made Zhou Zhi feel itchy.

This is Ji Xiaolan's inkstone. Now Ji Xiaolan only has some folklore and is not well-known. His calligraphy and painting will soar after the TV series comes out.

Zhou Zhi has made up his mind to get this inkstone.

However, this only lasted two days, and Zhou Zhi was dragged away by Mr. Yuan to go shopping.Then Zhou Zhi felt that girls' liking for shopping might have nothing to do with their education, introverted and extroverted personality, or their age. It all depends on the categories girls like.

In two days, Mr. Yuan took Zhou Zhi to the Central Academy of Fine Arts, the Chinese Painting Academy, and the Liulichang Rongbaozhai, doing only one thing, buying paintings.

I don’t know whether Mr. Yuan regarded Zhou Zhi as a big sheep to be slaughtered, or he was the director of the Poverty Alleviation Office. In short, he kept promoting the works of contemporary painters to him.

Among them, the works of fellow Zhouzhi and Sichuan painters are mainly included.

Many of these people are not well-known yet, such as Shi Lu’s elder brother Feng Jianwu, and Li Wenxin alongside him, as well as Li Qiongjiu and Li Daoxi, the founders of the Jiazhou School of Painting. Their paintings, even large-scale masterpieces, are now Just a few hundred yuan, a thousand yuan.

Even if the Chang'an Painting School was founded, the famous Shi Lu could buy his large-scale masterpieces for RMB [-].

In addition to these people, there is also Su Baozhen, who passed away just a few years ago. He has a [-]-foot-[-] painting. Now you can buy one for about [-].

Su Baozhen's paintings were transferred from Yuzhou Jinyun Gallery to Rongbaozhai. At that time, the price was 200 yuan per piece. The increase was not obvious while the artist was alive. Once the artist passed away, the price increased tenfold in just two years.

Su Baozhen was very good at painting grapes and was known as "Su Putao". In addition, he also had many paintings that reflected the great changes in Sichuan over the years, which were very full of the spirit of the times.

In addition to Su Baozhen, there are also his contemporaries such as Cen Xuegong, Liang Baiyun, Guo Shiqing, Han Zhizhong, Liu Zezeng and other Sichuan painters.

At that time, Sichuan Fine Arts University admitted a large number of artistic talents due to the Anti-Japanese War, forming a rich tradition of education, and many painters emerged later.

For example, Liang Baiyun, whose six panoramic bamboo curtain paintings "Three Gorges" were exhibited in the Cyprus World Exhibition in [-];

Another example is Cen Xuegong, who created a large number of works about the Three Gorges, and is known as "Cen Sanxia".

These paintings are very consistent with the theme of the Three Gorges Cultural Preservation Fund, and the price of the paintings is less than a thousand.

There are also many types of paintings by painters. For example, Li Keran also painted a lot of "Landscapes of the Li River". Many of his social works were "copies of himself" and he didn't even bother to change the poems.

This is not a problem only for modern painters. Even Xu Wei and Xu Wenchang, his poem "Half life has been spent as a man, an independent study whistles in the evening breeze. The pearls under the pen are not sold, and they are thrown into the wild vines leisurely." At least in Appeared in four paintings of "Ink Grapes".

Moreover, these paintings have been handed down and are collected in the Forbidden City, Taiwan, and Zhejiang Museum of Art.

Therefore, Zhou Zhi is quite picky. Price is not an issue, but he only wants "masterpieces".

Even so, I still collected dozens of works in one day. In addition to flowers, birds and figures, many of them were based on landscapes in central Sichuan, such as Three Gorges, Emei, Qingcheng, Ertan, etc. The combination of modernity and tradition reflects the development of the times. The changes are very interesting.

However, these works were not framed, and there were still problems in putting them on display, so Zhou Zhi took Mr. Wang to the calligraphy and painting restoration room of the National Museum of China.

Zhou Zhi mounted all these calligraphy and paintings there, and showed the staff the traditional "gong-gong" mounting technique to promote communication among everyone.

After finishing the work, Qi Lao smiled and patted Zhou Zhi on the shoulder: "One day in the future, if you can't find a job, come to the National Museum or the Forbidden City or the restoration room, and you will have a bowl of rice to eat!"

In addition to these, Zhou Zhi's work at night is to work with Mr. Ma to count the things in Mr. Wang's "Collection of Treasures" that have been transferred to him.

(End of this chapter)