Almighty painter

Chapter 171
"It looks like a lot of money."

While browsing the girl's INS homepage, Gu Weijing opened the small window with the front-stage dispatcher on the IPAD, and casually sent an envious emoji.

He is not a jewelry lover,
But after staying in Myanmar for a long time, I know more or less about jadeite.

Judging from the quality of the jadeite bracelet and pendant in the photo, the cheapest one might cost [-] dollars, and the expensive [-] dollars might not even be worth it.

"I don't like it. From noon to now, my mother has picked out six bracelets and three pairs of earrings for me and herself. That's not all. After returning to the hotel, there will be a state-run entertainment in the VIP room on the top floor of Aman. There is a special presentation and tasting session of glass jadeite, and when I think of her pulling me to continue shopping at night, I feel so bored that I want to grow hair."

Sheng Zi said in a pitiful tone.

"Gu Jun, please chat with me about the thesis."

If other girls said such words to the table full of strange pearls and treasures, it would be suspected of showing off why not eat minced meat.

Not only Dongxia has Versailles literature.

Gu Weijing remembers,
For a while, the rich girls in the local school also liked to post scenes of various famous brand bags scattered all over the floor after accidentally falling down on the INS, or update photos of YSL Saint Laurent lipsticks facing a table on Valentine’s Day , with the text "I have many of this color, and my boyfriend still insists on buying it for me, I'm speechless." This kind of loving words.

however,
Having been with Shengzi for a long time, he knows that Sakai Katsuko has always been a very straightforward person.

Miss Sakai has no need to show off.

For a family like Uncle Sakai, whose annual sales of paintings are in the tens of millions of dollars, the income level of top Asian artists, buying an emerald bracelet worth tens of thousands of dollars is cheaper than that of a local who earns 100 dollars a month. Eating a bowl of beef ramen on the side of the road is easy.

This level of money has long been close to senseless.

Ms. Sakai Katsuko, an art princess who grew up in a golden house, has a natural nobility.

Whether you like it or not is up to your heart.

If you like it, you can appreciate the shells on the seaside for a long time. If you don't like it, even if it is the top-quality jade that is as clear as water, people will just treat it as glass.

"Thesis? Didn't you already contact the email address of the "Asian Art" journal to submit the paper, and now the results are out?" Gu Weijing replied strangely.

This is too fast.

"Of course not so fast. The publishers of this kind of semi-annual journal work at a very slow pace. There are only a few old editors, and they have to contact the reviewers and professors who are free. I mean, during the writing of the paper, Gu Do you feel the same emotion as I do? Whenever I admire and copy the paintings of the female painter Carroll, I always think..."

on the screen,
Katsuko Sakai paused for more than ten seconds before typing quietly.

"I always think, you said, our thesis, our copying, can awaken this "Old Church on a Thunderstorm Day" and the afterlife of the female painter."

afterlife?

This unpopular description made Gu Weijing a little confused.

They have always communicated in English on the chat software, but Ms. Shengzi specially changed the word "next life" into Chinese...or Japanese.

In Japanese, these two characters have not been simplified by katakana, and they are completely kept in the same way as Chinese characters. They are both Buddhist terms, representing reincarnation and reincarnation in the next life.

"Painting and afterlife? I don't quite understand."

Gu Weijing has never heard such a literary and mysterious statement.

He expressed a little puzzled.

"This is the concept that Takashi Murakami told me, you know Takashi Murakami, right?"

"Of course, of course, wow! Katsuko, you know Takashi Murakami. Although it is expected, it is still really amazing."

Gu Weijing still knows about this great Asian painter who is well-known.

This is Takashi Murakami,

Takashi Murakami, once known as the No.1 Mesozoic artist in the world.

At the peak, Takashi Murakami, who designed any cartoon doll, could sell 500 million US dollars.

In the art circles of Asia and even the whole world, if we really want to rank 12345 artists who are still alive.

The only ones who can stabilize the status of Takashi Murakami are living fossil gods in the history of modern art who are close to [-] years old, such as Mr. Cao of Dongxia, Gerhard Richter of Germany, and Yayoi Kusama of Dongying.

Even if the market price of Takashi Murakami's paintings has dropped a lot, Professor Kazushige Sakai may still be slightly inferior compared with others.

"The first time I heard this statement, it should have been around 2009. At that time, I was still a student who had just entered elementary school. I can't remember the exact time."

It seems that the jadeite private disk on the treasure ship is really boring, and Sakai Katsuko is very talkative.

She brought up the story of her own childhood.

Katsuko Sakai recalled: "I just remember one day after school, my dad drove me and my younger brother to see Takashi Murakami's art exhibition at the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum.

It was a big exhibition. At that time, "Time" wanted to write a special report on Takashi Murakami, and all the European and American journalists and the wife of the US ambassador to Japan all came.Takashi Murakami was surrounded in the middle, and everyone wanted to say a few words to this epoch-making great artist.

At that time, my father was far less famous than he is now, so I had never seen such a scene. I was very envious and said loudly that I would become a great artist greater than you in the future. "

"It's so embarrassing to think about it now. To say such things in front of this kind of senior, I was so childish that I was not afraid of tigers when I was a newborn calf."

Sakai Katsuko made a shy expression.

"It's cute, and then? What did Takashi Murakami say?"

Although Gu Weijing hasn't figured out yet, what does this have to do with the "afterlife of painting" they are discussing.

But people who grew up in high-end art circles like Katsuko Sakai cannot understand the precious stories around such great artists.

So he still listened with gusto.

Ms. Sakai said around 2010 was the time when Takashi Murakami was in the limelight.

The Palace of Versailles in Paris held a special exhibition for him, and the New York Times wrote a personal column for him.

When it comes to cross-border fashion,

Louis Vuitton, Chanel, Hermes, any top luxury goods company is eager to cooperate with Takashi Murakami.A work signed with Takashi Murakami represents a guarantee of artistry, and is a model of the combination of elegance and fun.

When Louis Vuitton and Takashi Murakami's co-branded bags and shopping bags were on sale among celebrities all over the world, Van Doorn was still playing with mud.

Even when "Time" magazine selected the 100 most influential people in contemporary times, Takashi Murakami beat Taylor Swift, Buffett, Murdoch and other celebrities on the list, and was also on the list. The only visual artist.

Unexpectedly, Katsuko Sakai was lucky enough to have face-to-face contact with Takashi Murakami at that time.

Imagine,
At the exhibition of such a famous artist, a little girl of a few years old said loudly that it really makes people smile to become a great artist better than Takashi Murakami.

"Have you been laughed at by everyone?" Gu Weijing was curious.

"That's not true. Great artists don't have the same knowledge as a little girl like me. The senior just kept silent for a few seconds and asked me what kind of work is truly great in my heart."

"I thought about it for a long time, but I couldn't say it."

Ms. Sakai typed and said: "Senior Takashi Murakami seems to know my name, so he walked out of the crowd and squatted down, touching my hair."

"He told me, Ms. Sakai, whether you become a so-called great artist is not the key, and whether you become the next me is even more irrelevant. Worldly success is not important, what is important is to draw works that can overcome death. "

"A work that conquers death?"

Gu Weijing reflected on this statement.

"He told me that the works of really powerful masters all have [afterlife]. Their works will never die, they will only be reincarnated in the long river of time. Whenever someone recites their works in the long river of time name, the soul of the artist will be reborn from the smoke of the past."

"Those who pass through time are immortal and immortal."

Ms. Sakai slowly explained to Gu Weijing the art philosophy she had received.

When evaluating any artist's works of art, his paintings can be divided into two stages: "this world" and "afterlife".

When an artist's art life ends, his paintings [present world] also end.

There will be no new ones of the same kind appearing, and the rest is a long [afterlife].

Art is a strange circle,

Picasso was so successful during his lifetime, and the lucky ones who left his name in the history of painting after his death will always be a minority.

Some people's works are extremely gorgeous in the present world, and the fire cooks oil, but no one cares about them after death.

There are also some people whose works are not worth mentioning when they are alive, but they illuminate the entire art history after death.

The professors in power at the official Paris Salon who slandered Impressionism, they went in and out of the Louvre in well-dressed clothes, dined with dignitaries, and decorated their works with picture frames inlaid with gold and silver threads.

When they were alive, their paintings were sought after by the trend, and it was hard to find one. A hundred years later, their names have long been submerged by time, and no one cares about them.

However, Van Gogh only sold one cheap oil painting in his life, but now it is regarded as a treasure by major museums, and even a cultural symbol, which is more remembered by mankind than the surname of the Dutch royal family.

Huang Binhong, a master of traditional Chinese painting, once said that people will understand me 50 years after my death.

In 2003, when Christie's auctioned the traditional Chinese paintings of this master whose works of art were not valued much during his lifetime for a sky-high price of 3 million, it would be 7000 years before the old man passed away.

What is successful is not necessarily great, and what is great is not necessarily successful.

Before the modern gallery system and art market capital promoters have formed a mature system, this is the portrayal of generations of modern painting masters.

"I can imagine that I should easily be a very successful and well-off painter in the future."

There is no exaggeration in Sakai Katsuko's words.

"But I don't know whether my work will be able to defeat time. Whether it is good enough, whether my [afterlife] will leave echoes in the history of art again and again. Compared with the rough situation of those previous masters, I even There's a guilty unease."

"I have always believed that having the courage to be a Van Gogh that no one cares about is more valuable than the ambition to become a great artist in the secular sense."

"So, when we were writing the thesis, I always had a feeling of pilgrimage to that senior female painter named Carroll, especially after a little dispute with you about the identity of the female painter, this feeling became more obvious." Sakai Katsuko wrote softly.

"This is also the common practice in art circles, and it is also my father's suggestion. But your insistence on Carroll's true identity can still convince me in the end and make me admire the reason. Although this may only increase the probability by one percent or one thousandth in vain."

"Her brushwork is brilliant, and her name is unknown. The name of such an outstanding female painter should not disappear in time. If we can find her story together, and bring back her dark impressionist style to the world. This is Only one female painter can be reincarnated under our pen, which is the most memorable thing I can think of.”

"Gu Jun, I want to share this hope with you for a long time in the future."

Sakai Katsuko typed slowly.

Maybe it was because the wireless network signal was not good at sea, or maybe the girl was dragged by Mrs. Sakai to choose jade jewelry.

After posting this line.

Ms. Sakai did not speak any more, indicating that she was offline.

Gu Weijing stared at the screen, lost in thought for a long time.

He turned off the Whatsapp chat software, and switched back to the photo Katsuko posted on the INS photo wall in the morning standing on a sea shell.

Looking at the photo, Gu Weijing saw Katsuko Sakai's elegant and elegant appearance, and he couldn't help feeling from the bottom of his heart.

Ms. Shengzi is really the kind of soft girl with a strong artistic temperament.

Like a lotus flower in full bloom.

He remembered,
I once saw an emotional teaching video on Youtube about the rich second generation talking about girls' personality preferences, which has more than 100 million views.

There was a little brother who looked like a playboy in his attire, and divided the girlfriends he had dated into several categories.

The easiest thing to do is a money-worshiping girl. You only need a limited edition Dior perfume + a candlelight dinner at a Michelin restaurant, and there is a high probability of success in confession.

The most difficult to deal with, and the most sincere emotion is this kind of artistic girl.

What money can't buy is the most expensive.

I want to get into the heart of this kind of girl,
What is needed is not a luxury bag or the keys to a Porsche.

What people want is emotional communication, a just-right tacit understanding in the eyes, a heart-beating brain wave fit, and ideals and ambitions with a common language.

She can jump into the sea with you because of a kiss under the stars, or she can throw the 999 custom-made blue roses worth five thousand dollars that you gave her into the trash can downstairs without a trace of souvenir.

In order to chase such a beautiful girl, the little brother went to a Syrian refugee camp affiliated to an NGO in Jordan and worked with her as a volunteer for more than half a year. He almost died of malaria in the Middle East.

A young lady like Sakai Katsuko is born with everything.

Her heart towards art is pious and literary, and her feelings for people and things are very pure.

Probably that's it,
Sakai Katsuko is so persistent in copying Carroll's paintings.

Even Gu Weijing copied so many copies of "The Old Church in a Thunderstorm", and it was more for the utilitarian needs of obtaining the system treasure chest, rather than Miss Shengzi, who placed such great emotional expectations.

"The afterlife and present life of artworks."

Gu Weijing recalled this very eloquent statement in his mind.

(End of this chapter)