Almighty painter

Chapter 100 Special Invited Painter
"Oh, Ms. Detective Cat, hello, nice to meet you."

The assistant girl had a formulaic smile on her face: "It is a great honor to get the same rating as the giant in the illustration industry in the video of the big internet celebrity Mr. Hyperion."

Her words are impeccable.

Although the assistant girl doesn't like Detective Cat, it's because of purely professional reasons, and it's not that she has any opinion on this Internet celebrity painter himself.

Besides, she was curator Tonks' art assistant.

It is very unprofessional to offend other painters because of personal preferences.

"I know that Mr. Tonks is the international independent curator of the Singapore Art Exhibition, and Ms. Detective Cat is very interested in the Singapore Art Exhibition, so..."

Only halfway through Anna's words, the blond assistant shook her head inwardly.

They are all wise men,
She could understand Mr. Sloth's request to give Detective Cat a "specially invited artist" spot.

As Tonks' assistant,

Goldilocks had seen too many requests like this.

The curator of an international art exhibition is like the director of a Hollywood A-level commercial film that has invested billions of dollars. Naturally, various economic companies want to insert their own actors.

A large-scale art exhibition is divided into two participating channels: invited painters and contributing painters.

Specially invited painters can be invited by the curator or the organizing committee, skipping the selection stage of the audition stage and directly shortlisted for the main exhibition of the art exhibition.

Being a guest artist is a recognized honor in itself.

Basically, those who can get this honor are some internationally famous traditional artists, some painters represented by some first-line galleries, and fixed places allocated to those top art schools.

Goldilocks is the art assistant of Director Tonks, and of course she also has the right to recommend invited artists.

But Internet celebrity illustrators like Detective Cat, in the eyes of the assistant girl, can't meet this standard in terms of qualifications or reputation.

"Oh, Ms. Detective Cat, this is really great. Participating in this kind of international art biennale is a milestone commemoration for anyone working in the painting industry."

The blond assistant laughed at the detective cat Toad for wanting to eat swan meat, but still had a polite smile on his face.

"Singapore Art Fair welcomes submissions from international painters. I can send you the theme of this year's competition and the submission website. If there is a demand for participation, any artist can submit an article to the organizing committee." The assistant girl pretended not to understand Anna's words Meaning, practicing Tai Chi in a smooth manner.

"Will she be able to get a special invitation to participate in the exhibition? You also know that Detective Cat is very popular on the Internet."

asked Mr. Sloth.

"I'm sorry, the Singapore Art Exhibition is a professional international art exhibition, and it may not be suitable for Ms. Detective Cat... this kind of... anime artist."

The assistant girl tactfully refused.

If it was an ordinary matter and was rejected by others, Anna would not speak again.

But Detective Cat is different,
"Detective Cat's sketching level is really good. Even if she is only given a chance to try a draft, is it okay? To provide better opportunities for outstanding painters, isn't this the meaning of the existence of invited painters?"

Anna made a very sincere request.

There are also some less famous painters in the list of invited painters.

The original meaning of this "special invitation" model is to give curators the opportunity to discover those pearl artists who are buried in the sand sea.

The most classic example should be Mr. Nanjo Fumio, the curator of Japan.

When he was planning the Venice Art Exhibition in 1991, he discovered Cai Guoqiang, a not-so-famous Dongxia artist at that time, with unique insight.

In the next thirty years, Mr. Cai became the most famous pyrotechnic stage artist in the world.

Dozens of famous art exhibitions and museums, such as the Venice Biennale, the Kassel Biennale, and the Center Pompadour, now have his works in their collections.

He is also a recipient of the National Medal of Arts and the John Rockefeller III Medal.

The Pompeii Memorial Exhibition in Italy, the Winter Olympics in Beijing, and even the fireworks display at the World Cup in Qatar were all designed by the Qatari government at the invitation of Mr. Cai.

Fumio Nanjo has also become one of the world's most famous international curators.

This is a typical case of mutual achievement between curators and artists.

But the reason why this kind of example is classic is that it is really rare.

It is a rare opportunity to be appreciated by curators, but there are even fewer artists who can catch the opportunity.

In many cases, giving to some unknown little artists is the ending of letting each other down.

This has led to the fact that these small painters participating in the exhibition as specially invited painters are basically "special characters" reserved for the organizers to tell stories and used by the news media to write newsletters.

The black brother in Brooklyn realized his artistic dream by delivering newspapers by bicycle, which became another example of pursuing the American dream and so on.

Hello, I'm good, everyone is good.

The painting circle is the same as all literary circles in the past ten years, it is always useful to stack buffs to tell stories.

No matter how the work is,
At least there is news to write, and it also shows the organizer's concept of equal rights.

According to the evaluation criteria of the assistant girl.

Detective Cat’s status as an online illustrator who accepts orders on Fiverr—in terms of storytelling, it’s not a plus, but a minus.

Internet illustrators are a mixed bag,
Especially for many part-timers on Fiverr, the biggest impression to the art judges is that they are low and unprofessional.

The public impression is not very good,

Sometimes these painters also play pornographic and bloody sidelines.

The assistant girl saw a piece of news not long ago that police detectives from Scotland Yard raided and arrested two illustrators who took orders for erotic illustrations on Fiverr last week.

Europe and the United States have a very high tolerance for artistic nudity, but the erotic works of these two painters involved children, which has exceeded the bottom line of public morality.
Getting started is basically a felony.

"It's not a question of whether the painting is good or not. The invited artist is a right. Every invited artist should be an extension of the exhibition planner's concept of the exhibition. The risk of an online illustrator is uncontrollable. Ms. Detective Cat, I ask Do you... have you ever participated in a large art exhibition in the past?"

Goldilocks asked knowingly.

"No." Gu Weijing shook his head.

"Have you ever held a personal art exhibition?"

"No."

"Did you graduate from a top art academy and sign a contract with a large gallery?" the assistant girl pressed on.

"No."

"So you are just an Internet painter, don't be angry, but we need to make sure that any invited painter in a professional art exhibition-he or she has enough aesthetic creativity to understand art trends and artistic core. This is related to the art exhibition Reputation. Similarly... the art exhibition requires that the works must be original, which is actually not suitable for online cartoonists like you."

"Otherwise, you can give full play to your strengths and try to participate in some online animation illustration competitions... The Singapore Art Exhibition is facing serious art. Of course, no offense, I still like your paintings very much."

The assistant girl suggested with a smile.

……

Six o'clock in the evening London time.

Curator Tonks approached his study.

He is in his early 50s, with the baldness typical of British men, and a bit of a belly.

"Both, good evening, Mr. Sloth, Mrs. Cat. Wow, I should really have a code name for myself, like Tiger Gentleman, we just happen to have a feline zoo."

He sat in front of the computer, shook his stomach, and started with a common British joke.Then he laughed to himself.

The old British man is internationally known for his love of telling nasty jokes and bad jokes that no one can understand.

Curator Tonks is a standard old British man.

While recording a podcast, naturally he can't talk about nasty jokes, but he doesn't mind showing off his sense of humor in public.

There was a brief silence in the online chat room.

"Sloths aren't felines, are they? It seems to be a big sloth." Gu Weijing replied doubtfully.

He didn't understand the point of the joke at all.

Anna realized that Director Tonks was telling a joke, but she was not interested in flattering the narcissistic old British man's stinky feet because of her cold personality.

"Curator Tonks, can we start recording the podcast?"

Anna asked.

"Okay... let's start then, by the way, the part just now was cut after the recording in the salon."

Tonks waved.

Mr. Curator is a little upset.

He is in a high position, so no matter how funny a joke is, at least there will be a lot of people cheering him on.

For example, Goldilocks, as a personal assistant, is an expert in this way.

If she stayed in the study at this time, she would surely smile and send a few words of flattery at the right time.

"Hello, listeners. Welcome to this special art salon program. The guests we invite in this issue are Mr. Mika Tonks, co-director of the National Gallery of Art in Taylor, UK, and the famous illustrator Ms. Detective Cat... You can find the Kenote documents about the five works of our program on Apple Podcasts or Mr. Sloth’s Art Review, and I suggest you listen to them in conjunction with the painting documents.”

According to the usual practice, Anna officially entered the theme of the salon after reading an oral broadcast.

"Mr. Tonks, the audience knows that you are a senior art curator who knows a lot about art. The fans of this show voted for these works. Why don't you talk about your favorite works first?" Paintings?"

Anna was the first to send out an invitation to Curator Tonks.

After learning that Detective Cat's best oil painting is knife painting, she really has no confidence in Detective Cat's aesthetic ability.

It is an unmistakable choice for curator Tonks to talk about his views on the five works.

Not only because Tonks is the most senior guest among the three of them, but also with him as a foundation, even if Detective Cat doesn't understand art, he shouldn't be too wrong.

"Let Ms. Detective Cat talk first. Compared to me, I think many viewers are more curious about this recently well-known internet celebrity illustrator."

Curator Tonks pouted,

He has no malice towards Detective Cat. As a senior curator, he can tell the level of Gu Weijing's sketch illustration at a glance.

The painting is indeed outstanding,
Otherwise, I would not have agreed to record a podcast with Detective Cat.

But just like what Van Dorn said, whether one can draw and one has artistic accomplishment are two closely related but completely different fields.

Trained monkeys can also play the piano.

Originally, he didn't mind having a chat first, but... since he's upset now, he doesn't mind making things difficult for him a little.

"Why don't I... let me talk first?" Anna was not at ease.

"It's okay, let me talk about it first, just to throw a brick to attract jade, if there are any deficiencies, please give pointers to the two seniors."

Gu Weijing is not afraid.

Instead, he wanted to test the difference between his calligraphy and painting appraisal skills and the eyes of these experts who had been in the art criticism industry for many years.

"My favorite work is this oil painting called "White Lake Baikal"."

Gu Weijing swiped the screen of the iPad next to him and called up a landscape painting.

【Work Title: "White Lake Baikal"】

[Sketch Technique: Lv.5 Professional Artist·Second Level]

[Oil painting techniques: Lv.6 Professional Painter·Third Level]

【Mood: A Simple Work】

"Ok?"

The layman looks at the excitement and the insider looks at the doorway.

Sometimes when judging whether a person understands painting or not, you can understand it by listening to the first sentence the other person utters.

Whether it was Director Tonks or Anna, when Gu Weijing said this, they hummed slightly in their hearts.

It's just that one person is surprised, and one person is surprised.

"I thought you'd like that sketch of The Rider."

Anna said softly: "You, like me, think this painting "White Lake Baikal" is the best?"

They all thought that Detective Cat would start with the sketch of a man riding a horse.

She has already shown what it takes to be a great sketcher.

Relatively speaking, it is definitely the easiest to evaluate sketches.

It is true that Anna also thinks that "White Lake Baikal" is the best purely from the perspective of professional painting skills.

But art is inherently subjective.

People just like sketching, and there is no problem.

It was for this reason that Anna specially added an extra sketch besides the four works originally selected by Tonks, to avoid the dilemma that Detective Cat had nothing to say.

"That painting is not bad, but its composition and lines are still far behind this "White Lake Baikal"."

Gu Weijing replied.

"White Lake Baikal" is the only one among the five paintings that has reached the third level of professional painter in the system rating.

Even if the line and shape are compared separately, it is not inferior to the "Horse Rider".

"Why is this painting good, and what is so good about this painting?"

Director Tonks became slightly serious.

He looked at the virtual avatar of Detective Cat, as if he was examining an art college student visiting an art gallery.

It's good to feel the beauty.

But if you can really say why, you can be called excellent.

"You might as well tell the audience what you think about this painting. I think the author of this painting should be listening to your comments by then."

"The painting method of the author of this painting has a little shadow of Impressionism. By depicting strong and subtle changes in light and shadow, and capturing the fleeting color style to describe Lake Baikal in winter, the selected scene is good. The beauty is set off by nature, and the Light breeds color..."

"...We can see the initial position of the picture. The painter should start to compose the picture from the upper right of the picture and use a fast and direct drawing method to paint..."

"...the rays of sunlight falling on the grass and leaves, as well as the changes in the sky and water are faithfully reflected in the picture..."

"...the artist uses jagged shapes and sharp brushstrokes to imply that it is a bitingly cold winter's day...the warm small color spot on the left makes the effect of the cold color base more intense..."

Gu Weijing began to talk about his perception of this "White Lake Baikal".

The large number of details provided by the calligraphy and painting identification technique gave him a very comprehensive understanding of the painting.

If you have never eaten pork, you have always seen pigs running.

The painting technique of this painting also has the shadow of Impressionism. After appreciating two painters, Ray Noir and Carroll, let him evaluate this oil painting.

Just like a student who just finished the college entrance examination, even if he failed in the college entrance examination, it is still very easy to do a sixth grade math problem.

At the beginning, Director Tonks and Anna would interject a few words between Gu Weijing's speech.

Afterwards, everything gradually became quieter.

In the entire network meeting room, only Gu Weijing's speech-like voice was left.

The remaining two guests were shocked.

(End of this chapter)