Almighty painter

Chapter 188
"How to say?"

"That kid drew a work, I think it's quite interesting."

Uncle Sakai is interested, and his wife has always been very picky. It is not easy to make my wife talk about interesting paintings.

"Look at our daughter's INS."

Uncle Sakai opened his INS and logged into his trumpet.

His official INS and Twitter accounts of [Kazei Sakai Studio] are currently operated by Ota Art Gallery.

High-end artists are often two extremes.

Otherwise, stay away from the social terror type of social media completely, and hand over the accounts to the brokers, and there are even quite a few people like Willein who don't use modern network equipment at all.

Otherwise, it is a genre of social influencers, extremely keen on self-media marketing, and can't wait to send more than a dozen tweets and various life photos a day.

Uncle Sakai found it troublesome, so he entrusted all of them to the agent.

Ota Art Gallery has a team dedicated to Internet marketing for Uncle Sakai, replying to some fan messages and so on.

Another significant advantage of having a dedicated person in charge is that,

Artists are not like the actor who plays Captain America, because of a sudden brain convulsion, he updates nude photos, bed photos or embarrassing private photos, and finds that the whole world is talking about his big baby .

It can also avoid being discovered by fans, and the artist makes random comments and likes on some sensitive topics that may involve political correctness.

These are inconspicuous to say the least, but they are all lessons from the blood of the predecessors.

"This kid."

Uncle Sakai saw his daughter Katsuko's [My Lover] note, and snorted in a slightly complicated mood.

He likes Gu Weijing, but he is still a little jealous of his daughter's bold show of love.

quickly,

His face became serious.

"Young people nowadays are becoming more and more ambitious." Uncle Sakai licked his lips, "They are rushing to become the next Wu Guanzhong."

"Mr. Wu Guanzhong?"

Hearing this name, Hanks, who was a little frustrated at first, suddenly stretched his neck and quietly pricked up his ears like a seal taking a nap on the ice when he suddenly smelled the fishy smell of salmon.

Professor Sakai talks with his wife mainly in Japanese.

Hanks' Japanese vocabulary is limited to simple words such as ordering food in restaurants, and he can't understand the conversation of the other party.

But he still keenly captured the syllable of the name that sounds like "Wu Guanzhong".

"Professor Sakai, you mean Master.Wu?"

Hanks blinked twice.

Not counting those famous antique paintings that have been exiled overseas, but only talking about modern Chinese painting artworks.

In the international art market, the works of masters such as Zhang Daqian and Huang Binhong can also be sold at a high price, but more overseas Chinese and ethnic Chinese circles are buying them.

On world influence,

Qi Baishi may be the pure Chinese painting master most sought after by international friends in the art market.The main reason is that Mr. Qi's fans are very powerful.

Picasso has always loved Qi Baishi's works.

It is rumored that a classmate of Picasso once said - "Oriental painters don't need to come to Paris to seek a teacher, go to Qi Baishi, that is a master work that I will never be able to paint."

This sentence can be called the most powerful and broad in the century. Since then, almost no critics will question the level of the old man Baishi.

Even if you don't understand Chinese paintings very well, and you don't have the culture to appreciate oriental art, collectors must believe in Picasso's vision, so they are also very fond of Qi Baishi's paintings.

Mr. Cao Xuan's works are the last surviving masters of traditional Chinese painting of the same generation, and the transaction prices gradually tend to catch up from behind.

In terms of the transaction price, one foot has already stepped on the threshold of the temple of the world's top painters.

The market predicts that after a hundred years, the old man's works may truly enter the super-class field.

But trends are just trends.

The art market has no fixed number. It is only a moment of greatness, or it will be prosperous for 50 years, 100 years, or even centuries. Only time can tell people the answer.

In terms of price,

Wu Guanzhong's paintings are half a grade lower than Cao Lao's, but they are much higher than Lin Tao and Tang Ning's second-generation disciples of Cao Lao. Several works have sold for [-] million yuan in Dongxia Xiangjiang.

And even more difficult,

His painting style was first sought after in the French market, and it set off a wave of collectors in this traditional European art heart before returning to Dongxia.

According to international practice, in order to give collectors an intuitive impression, foreign art critics like to call the great painter of the yellow race the nickname "Oriental + Famous European Artist".

For example, Uncle Sakai was once called the Ingres of the East, Taro Komatsu’s father Kenta Komatsu was called the Klimt of the East, and Wu Guanzhong has always been called the Van Gogh of the East.

The oil painting style is ethereal, with magnificent colors.

If it weren't for the bumpy and difficult road of fusion painting style, too few successors, not enough successors and a unified art genre, it would almost be possible to establish a school.

Establishing a sect...how many artists and galleries have the highest pursuit and dream.

As long as the painting industry exists, your name will be immortal.

If Hanks' performance in front of Uncle Sakai was just flattery, then any hunter agent would have no choice but to pounce and kneel and lick in front of a master who was expected to establish a school.

Even if the master has been dead for more than ten years.

When Hanks spoke, he still respectfully added the title of MASTER (master) before the surname of the great artist who has won the highest honor in the art world [French highest honor of literature and art] awarded by the French government.

This is used to praise the works of the other party for having the wonderful ability to reconcile the yin and yang of the Eastern and Western art styles like a mysterious alchemy master.

Uncle Sakai glanced at Hanks, but did not speak.

He just said so.

The photo posted by Sheng Zi is just a base map. This painting can only be said to be designed in a painting style similar to Wu Guanzhong's works.

In terms of the final effect, it is far from worthy of being compared with that top artist.

It's like the gap between a kid's karting champion and an F1 world champion.

The issue is,
This rate of progress is terrifying.

Every time Sakai Kasunari felt that he already had a high regard for this kid, but next time Gu Weijing would give him an unexpected surprise.

The master starts from the bottom, and Schumacher also came from the karting championship.

What my wife said is absolutely correct. At Gu's age, this kind of ability to control the style of pen and ink is really surprising.

"Young people nowadays are so powerful that I hate them!"

How old is the opponent?
It is still only the embryonic form of the master's road,

What about five years, ten years?
From the perspective of artists competing with each other, Uncle Sakai even has a sense of crisis of replacing the old with the new generation.

There are only so many cakes that can be distributed in total, if your works are not meaningful enough.

The emergence of a new generation of supernovas means a reshuffling of the art market, and there will always be old artists who have become obsolete and have been abandoned by collectors.

At his current age, Uncle Sakai can still be regarded as a Mesozoic artist.

He felt that he could still survive in the vast ocean of this market for more than ten or twenty years, and he didn't want to be shot to death on the beach by a young man so soon.

He changed his mind and thought again, the two most talented young people he has ever seen, one is his daughter, and the other is his daughter's sweetheart.

Rounding it up, the children's awesomeness is equal to their own awesomeness.

Uncle Sakai became happy again.

"This painting already has an obvious personal style. It's pretty good, and it's awesome for young people." Uncle Sakai put the receiver of the phone to his ear again, and continued to flatter his wife: "Our daughter's vision is indeed good, Katsuko It has [-]% of her mother's skill back then."

"Hmph, shameless, you didn't have such accomplishments when you were a student." Mrs. Sakai teased, and she was still in a very happy mood.

"I think our family's Shengzi really likes him. If that's the case, this kid's life is good. I think so. We need noble people on the road of art. If you have time, give Gu Weijing more advice and help him. , just help him." Mrs. Sakai instructed.

"What kind of ecstasy did that kid give you to make you willing to help him like this?"

Uncle Sakai was a little surprised by the change in his wife's attitude.

"The little bastard is also worthy?"

Mrs. Sakai "cut" lightly, but said helplessly, "It's not for our girl."

"The more you help him, the more he will coax and spoil our daughter. The more important Shengzi will be in Gu Weijing's heart."

Feelings are like that.

The more the family pays and gives to one of the two parties, the more power and confidence they have willful and willful, and those who eat soft food have no capital to betray.

On the contrary, seeing her daughter and each other are in love with each other, the mother-in-law is still unhappy with her son-in-law, making all kinds of stumbling faces, and it is her own daughter who gets hurt in the end.

In school, Mrs. Sakai never treated those students with contempt, because those people's social status didn't even make her interested in perfunctory.

As far as art is concerned, the gap in social status between people may be wider than that of people and dogs.

But she realized that her daughter might have fallen in love with Gu Weijing at first.

No matter how Mrs. Sakai felt that the other party was not pleasing to the eye, she never really said bad words to each other. Instead, she held her scalp and patiently, and made a serious agreement with the other party for three chapters.

"Our daughter is too soft-tempered. That little bastard must know that Shengzi's liking is a blessing he has cultivated in several lifetimes. As long as he can make Shengzi happy, I am willing to give him a ladder to success."

Shengzi is not an unruly daughter who likes to show off,
But Mrs. Sakai didn't mind showing that little native in Rangoon how precious a lover like Yukatsuko was.

"What do you say?"

"I have no problem here. It's just...they have Lin Tao as their teacher, and the ladder to the blue sky has already been halfway. I don't need to intervene."

Uncle Sakai smiled.

He thought to himself that oil painting was better than Lin Tao's, but teaching children of Gu Weijing's level, Professor Lin Tao was already very good at teaching, and there would be no qualitative difference in his teaching.

"You are such a great artist, you can always do something, or I will contact him with several sponsorship scholarships from the International Art Foundation?" Mrs. Sakai suggested.

"Sponsoring scholarships, um, but at most seven or eight thousand dollars a year, plus air ticket reimbursement, etc., it's not very interesting... And many scholarships of this kind of foundation have additional requirements, and there are many routines. It's a scholarship. Do it It’s not good, but I still need to take a percentage of the money he sells paintings in the future, it’s not necessary.”

Uncle Sakai shook his head: "Since we want to send charcoal in a timely manner, we should send a big one."

"Well, speaking of which. I do have an idea, and it just so happens that one came along recently..."

He suddenly turned his head to look at Hanks on the side, squinting his eyes, as if a shark saw a stupid seal looking for food on the ice.

Hanks, who was trying hard to eavesdrop on Uncle Sakai's conversation, inexplicably felt some hairs on his neck tighten.

He turned his head and saw Professor Sakai who put down the phone smiling at himself.

Hanks was flustered by the laughter, and quickly smiled back.

"Professor, think about it, 5000 million US dollars, it should be difficult to have a more sincere bid than ours." Hanks thought that Uncle Sakai was a little moved.

"No, no, no."

Sakai Kasunari shook his chubby fingers like radish sticks, and said softly: "With all due respect, if Gagosian or Lisson gave me this contract, it would be called sincerity. But Mashi Gallery is much less attractive. .”

“Actually, I don’t mind telling you that Gagosian is also negotiating with me. They are willing to cooperate as an agent in the consignment model, and I will get a 800/200 share of the sales. OFA’s offer to renew my contract is also four years, almost [-] million U.S. dollars , if the difference is only [-] million US dollars, why don't I continue to cooperate with my old club?"

The smile on Hanks' face was a bit forced.

He knew that Professor Sakai was telling the truth.

OFA is no worse than Ma Shi, and Gagosian is the top brand in the industry.

With Gagosian's channel, the total amount of Uncle Sakai's works may not be less than [-] million US dollars in the next few years, or even more, but the consignment returns are slower.

"I believe that your desire to change galleries is not just about money."

Hanks hesitated for a moment before saying: "At Ota Art Gallery, as long as Yayoi Kusama is still alive, you will never be the leading artist, and Larry Gagosian may not be willing to make you the next Damien Hector." ster, but in our Marsh gallery, everything is possible.”

It is impossible for Ota Art Gallery to give up promoting Yayoi Kusama, who is still creating, for the sake of Professor Sakai.

Gagosian is even more famous. There are at least five or six painters who are at the same level as Kasunari Sakai, and Uncle Sakai is just one of them.

"I admit that I have such concerns about changing galleries. I don't intend to offend, but does Mashi Gallery have the confidence to market me as the next Kusama-senpai?"

Uncle Sakai asked back: "It's useless to say it verbally. How many artists are there in your family, more than 190? How many successful ones?"

This sentence hit Hanks' pain point.

Mashi Gallery currently has a total of 193 represented artists around the world, the oldest is 81 years old, and the youngest is 23 years old. This number is already a lot in the gallery business, and it ranks first among the first-line galleries.

This is actually not a glorious ranking.

The art industry is one of the industries with the most serious Matthew effect. A high-level artist is better than a basket full of rotten fish and shrimp.

Tigers walk alone, cattle and sheep are in herds.

Local tyrants are not stupid [beep——], oil tycoons, and Arab princes can use hundreds of millions of pounds to pay for works signed by Hirst without frowning.For a little artist who is not well-known, he is not willing to pay a hundred dollars.

The really awesome boutique galleries can easily sell hundreds of millions of dollars in paintings a year, but there are only a few painters.

The super-galleries such as Gagosian, Hauser & Wirth, and PACE, the kings of the gallery world, each have only a few dozen signed artists on average.

Gagosian has the largest scale and the most employees. It has represented a total of 122 painters in history, but at the same time, there were only about a dozen or so painters who were actually featured.

Randomly pick two of these dozen or so painters and add up their net worth, and they can instantly kill all the more than 100 people in Ma Shi Gallery.

The total sales of Mashi Gallery last year were only about 4000 million US dollars.

"Instead of wanting to sign me, I recommend you to change your goal. Turning an unknown person into a master is more proof of Ma Shi Gallery's ability than raising the value of a master by one or two million dollars, isn't it?"

Seeing that Hanks was silent, Uncle Sakai smiled, and pushed the screen in his hand over.

(End of this chapter)