Almighty painter

Chapter 118 From the Attention of the Publishing Giants

Gu Weijing regretted his slip of the tongue.

I mentioned this sentence when I was recording Mr. Sloth's podcast, and now I will say it in my own capacity.

There is somewhat of a risk of being associated.

but……

Today is Tuesday, and the salon show should be online now, right?
"Huh? I still wanted to be with you."

Sakai Katsuko's eyes lit up all of a sudden: "So, you have already listened to Mr. Sloth's new podcast."

"It's such a coincidence. In the newly launched audio program, Detective Cat happened to mention a lot of papers we read together... Don't you think we really have a tacit understanding with this sketch?"

Sakai Katsuko was amazed.

"Miss Katsuko, are you Mr. Sloth's audience?" Gu Weijing looked at Katsuko Sakai, making sure that there was no other meaning in her words.

"Hmm, I've been following him since the third episode last year. This is the highest-quality English art podcast in my opinion in recent years. Even my father thinks Mr. Sloth's program sounds very interesting."

Sakai Katsuko nodded.

She looked at Gu Weijing with a smile on her face.

The art podcast circle itself tends to be niche and professional.

Loving a certain podcast is like liking a certain obscure band.

Sakai Katsuko was very happy to find that Gu Weijing had the same hobbies as her tacitly.

"I listened to this episode of the art salon program on the car that came to school in the morning. I have to say that Detective Cat is really an amazing master of art, especially the last summary about Impressionism, which moved me warmly."

Sakai Katsuko said softly.

"You like Detective Cat very much?"

Gu Weijing looked at the look on Miss Sakai's face.

He did not expect that this girl, who was called a once-in-a-century painting genius by the Japanese media, turned out to be a fan of "myself".

"Well, not only do I like her, but I also respect her. I really hope to have the opportunity to meet this female illustrator."

Katsuko Sakai doesn't hide her respect for Detective Cat.

There is a strange brilliance in her lilac-colored eyes: "A net painter born in the art desert of the third world has such a deep understanding of serious art. I guess her art career must be very admirable." .”

Girls know the world is not fair.

For Katsuko Sakai, receiving the highest quality art education has always been within easy reach.

But in some parts of Africa,

You may not be able to find a professional studio in a radius of hundreds of kilometers.

A female online illustrator with a meager income makes a living by selling cheap illustrations for ten dollars a piece on the Internet. Relying on her daily study and hard work, she has not only developed master-level sketching skills, but also raised her own ideas about Impressionist art. Such a moving insight.

In Sakai Katsuko's mind-filling, the bitter story here can almost make an inspirational movie similar to "The Wind and Rain Harvard Road".

"Ms. Detective Cat is more admirable than us ordinary art students. This is the soul that truly loves art." She praised.

Sakai Katsuko saw Gu Weijing's face was a little strange.

"Oh, sorry, I have no other meaning..."

She suddenly remembered that the boy next to him was born in Myanmar, and it was a bit arrogant to mention the term "art desert of the third world" in front of him, and it might have hurt the other person's self-esteem.

Sakai Katsuko explained apologetically.

"You are already great. After all, we are still very young, and there is no regret that we can't compare with Detective Cat. In another 30 years, I believe that your achievements will not be lower than this master."

Sakai Katsuko opened a desktop podcast software on her laptop.

"No, before you came to the study room, I was preparing to revisit this episode of the podcast again, and write an after-listening review, which will be updated on my social account. Do you want to listen to it together?"

Sakai Katsuko plugged in the earphones to the computer, put on one herself, and handed the other to Gu Weijing.

Listening to the gentle female voice that he had processed with the sound card of the voice changer came from the earphones, it was also a very novel experience for Gu Weijing.

Katsuko Sakai turns on viewer comments below the podcast.

“干货十足!!!时间轴指挥部：1、侦探猫解析《白色的贝加尔湖》绘画技巧。（时间：1分32秒处）2、唐克斯馆长质疑绘画缺点，侦探猫女士判断该画面取景于一张照片。（8分19秒处）3、侦探猫探讨……19、侦探猫谈论对于印象派的美学概括：（46分31秒处）。总结：本期节目全程无尿点，处处精彩，建议从头听到尾，一秒也别错过。”

Some fans have already made a timeline in the comment area.

"We only record sunshine and air... This sentence is so powerful, I am so moved that I am about to cry." Someone left a message.

"It's too much, too much, too much. As a student in the oil painting department of the University of Fine Arts in London, I announce that Ms. Detective Cat has beaten the curator Tonks. Her understanding of painting is really deep and clear. It is suggested that Mr. Sloth invite Detective Cat to be a frequent guest, even if it is changed to a paid program, I am willing to listen to it." A netizen named John gasly replied.

"It cannot be said that Detective Cat is a painter by profession, while Mr. Sloth and Director Tonks are art critics and curators. It is normal for Ms. Detective Cat to have a deeper understanding of the details of paintings. "

This is the view of a more neutral and objective fan.

"Normal? LOL (abbreviation: laugh at me to death), I am a professional painter. I am very responsible to tell you that Ms. Detective Cat's interpretation of these five paintings is no different from magic in my opinion. This This kind of understanding of art has nothing to do with whether Detective Cat is a professional painter or not, it's just because she is awesome."

Some fans refuted the upstairs.

Although the podcast has only been online for more than half a day, the popularity of comments has been ranked in the forefront of Mr. Sloth's previous programs, and now there are nearly a thousand comments.

Gu Weijing saw that the comment with the most likes in the comment area was a reply from an author who claimed to be "White Lake Baikal". The number of likes for this comment has exceeded 2000.

"It's amazing. I only know a few masters who have the ability to infer the environment of the painting just from the final effect of the oil painting."

Sakai Katsuko looked at this comment and sniffled, "My dad may be able to do it, but I'm still far behind. I'm really envious."

Gu Weijing let out a slow breath.

It was also an unexpected surprise for him to have the artist's personal affirmation in the comment area.

"It's just amazing!"

"OMG!"

"It's unbelievable, does this kind of judgment really exist!"

Under the artist's own explanation, many fans commented and followed up to express their shock, and some people mentioned Van Dorn.

"Now, it's very embarrassing to switch to Van Dorn. This is the African monkey illustrator he said? It's just that the painting is not as good as others, and it's like a clown who refuses to admit it. Fan Dorn's fans scold you again! What you advertised Is this the vision of a great artist?"

This time, Mr. Sloth's podcast has no one to speak up for Van Dorn.

All the disapproval and attacks on the aesthetics of Detective Cat before the podcast went live were all transferred to Van Dorn.

This kind of professional art podcast has this advantage. The audience generally has a high level of art literacy, so you can tell whether they are capable or not.

"They don't dare to speak at this time. If I were Van Dorn, the best way now is to deal with it coldly, as if this incident never happened. When the limelight is over and people forget about this incident, he is still his art. Grandmaster."

"It may not be so easy when the limelight passes. Go and see the tweet just posted by Director Tonks."

Sakai Katsuko also saw the news.

Without Gu Weijing's reminder, she clicked on the link below and jumped into the account of the director of the National Gallery of Art in Taylor, who was certified by the blue Twitter V of Director Tonks.

"Great artistic insight, refreshing, I love it." - This is a tweet that Tonks just sent two hours ago.

Someone posted a related photo in the reply comment area below.

The Taylor National Gallery is one of London's landmark buildings. It was converted from a huge old power plant along the Thames River. It has a total of eleven floors, including the Sculpture Gallery, Modern Art Gallery, Dali-Picasso Museum, etc. Waiting for hundreds of large and small exhibition halls.

The annual number of visitors is between 500 million and 800 million people.

There is a silver nameplate in front of each independent exhibition hall to introduce the specific collections in the exhibition hall, accompanied by a slogan.

Some of the slogans are famous quotes from painters, some are quotations written by former art museum directors, and some funny jokes or symbols with unknown meanings are even displayed in front of some modernist exhibition halls, which can be regarded as one of the characteristics of art museums.

Many tourists or travel bloggers will punch in front of these brands.

Katsuko Sakai has been to the Taylor Museum of Art, and she remembers a slogan with black humor on the nameplate of the former Impressionist-themed exhibition hall.

"Enter carefully, these rubbish are a denial of beauty and truth, and can only give people a crude impression."

The signature should be An idiot reporter (an idiot/stupid reporter).

This was an attack by a mainstream art journalist on the yin and yang of Monet's own paintings when Impressionism was just born.

The word "impression" of Impressionists got its name from the title of this news.

Katsuko Sakai was quite impressed, and she even took a photo with this slogan.

but,

Now this tourist card has been replaced, and it has become a brand new nameplate in the photo.

"We don't portray the gods, we only record the sun and the air. We don't follow the dogma, because the beautiful things will stay, and the pain will eventually pass - Detective Cat"

"Curator Tonks is not joking. He really removed the nameplate of the Taylor Museum."

Sakai Katsuko looked at the photo below with longing in his eyes.

"Ms. Detective Cat can be regarded as being treasured by the Taylor Art Museum in a sense. This is one of the largest private art museums in the world."

As a painter, one of the highest pursuits is to be able to enter art museums and be treasured by people.

It means that you successfully defeated death and time and left your name in the history of art.

The initials of a few letters in the art gallery are the highest honor for a painter in his life.

Even in this form, it is a matter of great pride to be able to leave your mark before millions of tourists.

Many of the hundreds of thousands of fans on Director Tonks' Twitter retweeted this news, including some well-known professional painters.

Sakai Katsuko casually clicked into a few tweets and looked at them before preparing to quit.

and many more,

Her hand suddenly paused for a moment, her eyes fixed on a retweeted message, and she didn't move.

"Congratulations to Ms. Detective Cat for leaving her name in the Taylor National Gallery. She deserves her name. She is indeed a very good illustrator. Are you interested in cooperating with us? There is a very interesting project in the group, and the art department has contacted her." Your mailbox is up, pay attention to check it. @Detective Cat" - Scholastic Publishing Group.

"Scholastic? The Scholastic Group actually interacted with Detective Cat!"

Sakai Katsuko was very surprised.

"What is Scholastic? Is there anything surprising about it?"

Gu Weijing looked at this tweet.

"Scholastic is the second largest publishing group in North America and the sixth largest publishing group in the world. It is almost the only giant in the field of children's literature."

Sakai Katsuko let out a breath slowly.

She clicked on the account of Scholastic Publishing Group, glanced at the introduction on the homepage, and confirmed that this was Scholastic's official tweet and not some prank of a high imitation account.

"Such a publishing group should cooperate with countless illustrators every year."

Gu Weijing was not too excited.

The video of Mr. Hyperion has just been released, especially when he was selected as a two-and-a-half-star illustrator by "Oil Painting" magazine, and the traffic is the largest.

In addition to movie posters, the highest-paying art commissions also have cooperation invitations from several publishing houses.

But at that time, he felt that he did not have the ability to complete these orders, so he declined all of them.

After he was removed from "Oil Painting", these orders basically disappeared.

"You haven't understood yet, this is not a concept at all."

Sakai Katsuko shook her head and explained: "Because Scholastic is the leader in the publishing industry, it rarely cooperates with outside illustrators. Its art department has nearly a thousand professional painters and art teams. This volume is Dozens to a hundred times that of a general large-scale illustration studio.”

"Under normal circumstances, only a very small number of top-level projects will cooperate with external illustrators. Being invited by such projects is almost equivalent to identifying you as a first-class illustrator in the eyes of Scholastic. A golden opportunity that any illustrator could only dream of."

"So powerful?"

Gu Weijing was also a little surprised.

"Yes, just look at the records of artists who can interact with the official Twitter of Scholastic Group, and you will understand."

Katsuko Sakai pulled Scholastic’s Twitter records to the column of historical news, entered the word illustrator, and showed it to Gu Weijing.

"The next two news are the news of mourning the co-artist published on the anniversary of Andy Warhol's death in February, and the 2th anniversary of Jane Arnold's "Miracle of Oz" series of illustrations for Scholastic. This kind of The official accounts of large publishing groups are quite aloof, even if it is an ordinary first-line artist, it is not easy for him to interact with the official account."

Sakai Katsuko was puzzled.

Faced with this kind of invitation, if Detective Cat can behave well.

In a sense, this is a better chance for an illustrator to become famous than being selected as a two-and-a-half-star painter by the "Oil Painting" magazine.

only……

Although this episode of the show is really exciting, but it has just been online for half a day, and it has attracted the attention of giants like Scholastic, which is a bit too exaggerated.

Could it be because of Director Tonks?
Or that Detective Cat...has some incredible contacts in the art circle?
(End of this chapter)