Almighty painter

Chapter 234 Recognition
Gu Weijing really wanted to avoid Kou Kou a little bit.

During the past period of time, due to various reasons, he found that Kou Kou was very curious about him.

Maybe there was a bit of goodwill mixed in with curiosity, maybe not, or maybe all her closeness to herself was just to give Mona eye salve.

Kou Kou has a cute and ever-changing personality, she can get along with everyone, and get along well with most boys and girls.

Gu Weijing always felt that he could not understand Kou Kou.

But this is not the reason for him to avoid Kou Kou.

Gu Weijing, who is still a novice in the relationship between men and women, doesn't know how to deal with this situation.

In principle,
Gu Weijing thought that after he dated Miss Sakai, he shouldn't get too close to other girls.

He can delete all of Mona's communication and chat records on the phone.

Could it be that facing the little heroine in front of him who had just saved him not long ago, he was going to rush over and say—"Hey, Kou Kou, I have a new girlfriend now, so please don't rush to get here again."

Even Freud said that every relationship between a man and a woman has a strong narcissistic meaning.

But this kind of declaration is too narcissistic and suffocating, and it seems extremely rude.

He believed that Kou Kou definitely didn't care.

Even if Miss Kou Kou had a vague liking in her heart, it would not be so entangled that she would die or live.

It's just that when Gu Weijing thought of this kind of scene, he felt embarrassed and wanted to dig out the three-bedroom and one-living room with his toes and bury himself.

After some deliberation, Gu Weijing decided to cold treatment.

Kou Kou is so popular in school, if I avoid her for a while, the other party's attention should be attracted by other things.

Once the curiosity is over, it's fine.

However, Miss Koukou is really not a master who will obediently cooperate with the psychological activities of taking care of her.

After the little eighth woman saw Gu Weijing's plan, instead of turning her head and running away, she slammed him into the corner, ready to find out.

This is even more embarrassing.

In the quiet aisle of the teaching building,
Kou Kou looked directly into Gu Weijing's eyes, but Gu Weijing's eyes were uncomfortable.

The girl with braided hair leaned forward, and the two of them were very close to each other. Gu Weijing didn't mean to be so close, but he could still clearly see a string of platinum necklaces hanging around her neck disappearing into her undulating chest under the collar of her school uniform. It was so close that Gu Weijing could smell the peach flavor of the bubble gum in Kou Kou's mouth.

"Am I pretty?"

Kou Kou noticed Gu Weijing's dodging eyes and teased.

The great artists in normal history will experience countless love affairs in their lifetime.

Either he's hooking up with a girl, or he's on his way to hook up with a girl.

If an old pervert like Picasso faced this kind of problem, he might have wished to transform himself into a string of necklaces, buried in the undulating crests of beautiful girls.

But Gu Weijing's family education played a role in overcoming animal instincts at this time.

He thought it best not to let this ambiguous atmosphere continue any longer.

Gu Weijing decided to tell the truth whether it was suitable or not.

"Sorry, Miss Kou Kou, it's not your problem, you are also very beautiful. It's just that I don't think it's suitable for me to get too close to girls now, and I should keep a certain distance."

"Why?"

Kou Kou vomited a bubble like a red carp.

"You changed your hobbies and started liking men, are you gay?" Kou Kou tilted her head strangely, looking at Gu Weijing from head to toe jokingly.

"No, because I have an official girlfriend now." Gu Weijing replied honestly.

He was a little worried that Kou Kou would continue to gossip.

Gu Weijing does not want to confess his relationship with Sakai Katsuko in public now.

Discussion among people is not the point.

There is no teacher at Dulwich International School who will be bored and care about puppy love.

It’s just that Sakai Katsuko still holds the agency agreement of Tokyo Gallery + BTAP for young artists.

When signing the contract with Hanks, Mrs. Sakai was chatting, hoping whether the scandal in Myanmar would really spread to Tokyo Gallery.

It's better for the two of them to restrain themselves and keep a low profile in a public place like school.

Sakai Katsuko didn't seem to care much about it.

But if the relationship is really going to be exposed.

The right to control should also be held in the hands of other girls, not by Gu Weijing showing off all over the world.

"oh, I see."

Kou Kou let out a light oh, and was silent for a few seconds.

She didn't see any disappointment on her face, and she seemed to have suddenly lost interest in gossip.

She just stood there and spat out a bubble vigorously.

Bang!
Bubble burst.

Kou Kou withdrew her arm, turned and left.

……

Professor Vatel didn't even take the computer on the podium.

He originally wanted to fold Gu Weijing's sketching homework and put it in his pocket. Looking at the exquisite patterns on the sketch paper, he hesitated for a while, and walked halfway back to his office.

Professor Vatel found a bottle of sketch fixing solution, shook it up and down twice, and then sprayed Gu Weijing's drawing.

He grabbed the book casually, inserted the sketch between the pages of the book, and then went out again with the book in his hands.

Vettel walked to the elevator room, swiped his faculty card, and took the staff elevator to the principal's office on the top floor.

Being a high school principal is a very powerful profession.

Especially in the so-called private aristocratic schools, the principal is like a little prince on campus.

Dulwich College Group is an established leader in the international private school industry, with various personal connections and campus resources extending in all directions.

The children of celebrities such as Faye Wong and Takuya Kimura also attended different campuses of Dulwich College.

It may not be as good as Eton and Harrow, which have been established since the Renaissance, and only come from various outstanding graduates every year, and the donations from the alumni associations are tens of millions or hundreds of millions of pounds.

But if you choose any campus, Dulwich College’s annual school funding is several million dollars.

In Myanmar,
The investment of a private school can be compared with the factories set up by multinational companies in Myanmar, and it may not necessarily lose.

A person who can become the principal of Dulwich College in Yangon holds such a large amount of foreign exchange, even if the school expenses cannot be used by the principal at will, he is also a bully figure who can easily talk and laugh with senior government and municipal officials.

The principal's office is also very luxurious.

Outside the door is a large piece of fabric carpet with exquisite patterns, and the walls and ceiling are carved with rococo-style antique patterns.

There is a pair of sculptures of white elephants at the door. The facial features of the sculptures must be revealed. The two pairs of long ivory tusks are ground out of a whole piece of jadeite.This is a gift from the municipal government to welcome foreign investment when Dulwich College was established.

Private schools don't talk about hard work and simplicity. The more dignified the principal's office, the more confident he will be when talking with parents about tuition increases.

Professor Vatel touched the smooth elephant head and rang the bell at the office door.

"Ding dong!"

The doorbell rang, and a few seconds later, the headmaster's voice rang from behind the door.

"Please come in."

"Mr. Vatel, it's you."

When the principal saw Professor Sketch coming to the door at this time, his eyes were slightly surprised, but his tone didn't show it too much.

He motioned for Professor Vatel to sit down on the opposite chair, and then asked, "Is there anything wrong?"

"Principal, I think you should perhaps take a look at this sketch."

Mr. Vatel straight to the point, took out the sketch paper from the book, and handed it over.

"Profess your new work? That's great."

The principal is from Quebec, Canada, and speaks with a strange English accent.

When he took the sketch paper, he felt a little disapproving.

He is busy with his daily work, and he is not busy, but he really has no interest in admiring a painting by his teacher.

In view of the fact that it was Professor Vatel, the headmaster reluctantly took it over.

Dulwich College started with art education, and art teachers are the most important part of the school's assets.

The artistic level of this sketch teacher is unique among his subordinates here.

That Mrs. Cruz?
please,

He just came here for a part-time job to accompany his daughter to school. Neither Mrs. Sakai nor the principal naively took their employment relationship seriously.

Even if there are allowances in remote areas these days, compared to Shanghai and Yokohama, there are not many good teachers who are willing to come to a place as chaotic as Yangon to teach.

The headmaster didn't dare show Professor Vatel's face easily.

"Well, the lines are not bad, and the tone is very neat...Hey, Professor Vatel, your sketching skills have improved a lot."

After speaking, the Dulwich principal's face became serious.

The principal originally just praised casually, and his tone was mostly perfunctory, like a shepherd stroking the head of a bleating goat to comfort him.

Half of his mind was wary of whether this guy came to the door with a sketch and wanted to make a fuss and ask for a raise.

The landlord's family has no food left, so it doesn't matter if the language praises are not costly, but it doesn't matter if you want to raise the salary.

The principal looked at it, and suddenly his back stood up from the chair.

Half of Dulwich College's senior teaching staff have art or education-related backgrounds. They may not be able to draw, and their art appreciation skills must not be low.

The principal looked at the sketch paper in his hand, looked at it, and slowly saw the way.

The lines are extremely neat, and his own rules are contained in it.

A pencil can draw the soft edges with soft shadows on the pyramid and the hard edges with clear boundaries and light and dark divisions.

This excellent control over the nib can be seen in general.

Sketching is not just about the precision of the pen.

It's just that the expressiveness of the final painting of the sketch work, the accuracy of the pen can often play a decisive role.

The principal looked at the pencil drawing in his hand.

He didn't think that Professor Vatel's sketching level was so good before. In the entire Dulwich system, there were not many teachers who could draw this hand.

The principal smacked at the level of the sketch, savoring it slowly.

He even thinks that this painting has the meaning of showing off skills.

"Good job."

Professor Vatel curled his lips and asked.

"The overall painting is very coordinated, and the painting has a clear grasp of the characteristics of light and shadow. But to put it bluntly, this painting is not complicated, so there is not much to see."

Without knowing the reason for coming, the headmaster would only cautiously give a seven-point praise at most.

the remaining three points,
Naturally, he was afraid that Professor Vettel would use this as a bargaining chip to make some fools.

"Not complicated enough? No No No."

"Sir, you are also a professional, so it's boring to talk like this. This skill is not found in many complicated sketches."

Professor Vatel doesn't like the headmaster's boast that he is not happy.

Shaking his blond hair, he looked like a disgruntled old lion: "Just tell me if the painting is good or not, and it's over."

"It's good."

The principal glanced at the sketch teacher in front of him: "But, our Dulwich teacher's teaching requirements are not limited to skills. Your sketch is so much better than the teachers in the training classes outside, but the parents may not know how to do it." Ah. Running a school is usually quite difficult..."

He started pouring bitter water.

The headmaster made up his mind.If the old teacher in front of me really wants a salary increase, he can be given a maximum of $200 a month.

Or $250?

The principal took another look at the sketch in his hand and decided that the bottom line was $300 and no more.

Any more other teachers will come to make a fuss.

"It's beautiful, but it's a pity I didn't draw it."

Professor Vatel and the principal finally gave a correct answer, and then they said it with a bit of a naughty taste.

The principal frowned.

"Don't worry, although this is not my painting, it is the work of our Dulwich students." Professor Vatel didn't really want to annoy the leader, so he immediately added.

Student work?
Students from our school?
Canadians are like the principal of a high school in a small county. He was shocked when he suddenly heard that a classmate in his school had won the gold medal in the Olympiad.

He squeezed the sketch paper in his hand, his face full of astonishment.

"Awesome, when I first saw it, I was even more surprised than you are now!"

Professor Vatel felt a little distressed when he saw that the principal squeezed out the handprint on this pencil draft that he had specially sprayed with fixative and carefully preserved.

When the principal let go, he calmly took the sketch back and put it back in his book.

"Could it be Ms. Sakai Katsuko's painting?"

The headmaster looked at Professor Vatel angrily.

Students like Ms. Sakai were not taught by you.What are you showing off here.

But the daughter of a great artist is amazing, she is so old, she can paint like this.

Compared with others, most art students feel that their time is spent on dogs.

"It's not Ms. Sakai. No matter how good Ms. Sakai's drawing is, I can't get credit for it. You should know that every year I assign homework to draw small grids in the class of the graduating grade. This is the class assignment that a classmate handed in this year. "

"A 17-year-old local student, principal, can you imagine?"

Professor Vatel stroked the beard on his chin, and smiled proudly: "I bet you will never guess which child drew this."

"It's not Katsuko Sakai."

The principal thought for a while, then patted the table twice with the back of his hand, "Then, could it be... Gu Weijing's work?"

what……

The headmaster's words made it impossible for the sketch professor who was holding a big secret to show off.

Professor Vatel stretched his neck and looked at the principal in front of him, his cheeks were filled with astonishment.

Leadership is leadership.

Can you guess this too?
"Have you seen Gu Weijing's paintings in advance?" Professor Vatel didn't know why.

"Is it his work? Since it's not Miss Sakai's painting, then I guess it's his."

Professor Vatel nodded.

The headmaster didn't look surprised, but had a smile on his face as expected.

"Since you showed me a sketch, I'll show you something too."

The headmaster stood up.

He took out a bunch of keys from the drawer, walked to the file cabinet by the wall, unscrewed the door and took out a large brown kraft paper file bag.

"This is the file received by the school secretariat three days ago. Seeing the content of the above file really shocked me."

"Did you know that last year the varsity baseball pitcher from the North American campus sports team was selected as one of the top ten players in the high school sports league and signed directly to the NCAA professional baseball team of Princeton University? I saw him play on TV. , this guy's speed is like a beast."

The headmaster said suddenly.

"Sorry, I'm German. I prefer football in sports, and I don't pay much attention to this." Professor Vettel shrugged.

Princeton University is an Ivy League school.

But he doesn't even pay attention to baseball leagues like MLB, let alone watch any college baseball development league.

Professor Vatel didn't understand why the headmaster suddenly brought up this matter.

"No... I'm not telling you to watch baseball. What I'm saying is that this student is considered by the full Board to be an excellent representative of Dulwich's educational achievements. When I went to Europe for the Dulwich Headmasters' meeting before the Christmas break, Mr. Andrew, the principal of the North American campus, proudly boasted about his precious students for 15 minutes. I can only hold my scalp and bear it."

"I don't have to endure all this this year, because after so many years of opening the school, finally..." the headmaster handed over the portfolio with a smile on his face, "During my tenure, this kind of harmony also appeared in my hand." Students at the same level as high-level athletes.”

Vettel took the portfolio in his hand.

He found that the dark brown file bag was engraved with the English logo of the Yangon Calligraphy and Painting Association under the Yangon Cultural Bureau, and the file bag had been opened.

Vatel pulled out a large stack of papers.

"Notification Letter of Identification of High-level Artist and Member of Yangon Painting and Calligraphy Association."

When Professor Sketch scanned the content on the document, his eyes paused for a moment.

It is a very happy thing for every art practitioner to join a local art association.

Literati have been indifferent to each other since ancient times.

Being able to become a member of an official organization is not only a recognition of your academic ability, but also an acceptance of you as a member of a larger circle.

Monet and the others were squeezed out by the academic circle at the beginning.

There are no opportunities to hold exhibitions or participate in celebrity salons.

So in a fit of anger, he decided to go it alone, and held the so-called "Unselected Salon" on the banks of the Seine.

I dare not say that joining the Art Association will definitely not be suppressed, but at least it is much better than floating outside alone.

A better artist association will even hold large-scale art exhibitions for its members on a regular basis.

corresponding,
The art associations in the world are usually not the ones you can join if you want.

In some local art associations, only artists represented by large galleries can apply, and in some art associations, several old members must act as recommenders.Some associations also have a special jury to review the recommendation qualifications.

Dongxia's art association implements a strict scoring system for fairness.A score ranging from 1 to 6 points will be assigned to the artist's contributions to national exhibitions, regional exhibitions, and publications in journals of different levels.

Accumulate 9 points to join the club.

Many teachers from the eight major art academies and researchers at the level of full professors in museums cannot meet the threshold for membership.

The Yangon Painting and Calligraphy Association is not as famous as the art associations in Dongxia, Britain or Germany.

Considering that Gu Weijing is 17 years old, it is still very good.It's not even what two words can describe.

"so good."

Professor Vatel looked at the name of the artist Gu Weijing on the document and expressed his heartfelt emotion.

The Artists Association in his hometown Hamburg is also a well-known old art association, which has left its own place in the history of art, and great artists have emerged in large numbers.

Of course, no matter how good the Hamburg Art Association is, Professor Vatter is not eligible to participate.

"I'm not surprised that Gu Weijing's ability to use a brush can be recognized by the Yangon Painting and Calligraphy Association."

He told the truth.

"Gu Weijing's participation in the Art Association is not due to his ability to use a pen."

The principal smiled: "Don't feel too unbelievable when you see the contents of the supporting documents."

Vettel saw the following documents about the Shwedagon Pagoda project at the beginning of the year.

He nodded suddenly: "I see, this is really a good opportunity for gold plating."

Vettel went back to Europe for the holidays at the beginning of the year, but he had heard about such an important event in the local art world as the Shwedagon Pagoda Restoration Project.

There were more great artists in Yangon in those few days than the sum of the well-known painters who have been here in Yangon in the past 100 years, and their status in art history is also unparalleled.

But this kind of thing is too far away from Professor Vettel.

He also only knew a little about traditional oriental art, so he didn't pay much attention to it.

did not expect,
Gu Weijing unexpectedly had this opportunity to meet the world.

"Student Gu Weijing is more than just gold-plated. He just jumped into the golden river and took a bath. I would be envious of this opportunity. Look at the creators of the murals behind."

The headmaster sipped the black tea on the table and reminded.

Professor Vatel turned to the mural of "Picture of Respecting the Buddha and Protecting the Dharma" at the back of the file, and saw the name of the creator underneath—【Artist: Cao Xuan/Gu Weijing】

I'm going!

"Is this 'CAOXUAN' the Cao Xuan that I thought of?" Professor Vatel asked dumbfounded.

Even art practitioners who do not know oriental art will not be unfamiliar with the name Cao Xuan.

His status in the field of art is like that of Hemingway in the field of literature.

"Besides that Cao Xuan, who else is there?" The principal spread his hands.

He knew Professor Vatel's mood at the moment too well.

This is a joint painting!

A joint painting of fuck, fuck, fuck and Mr. Cao Xuan! ! !
The headmaster is jealous to death.

This is a mural fixed there, which cannot be taken away or sold.

But any work that is painted on paper and put on the auction house may be worth millions of dollars.

If it weren't for the three words "Gu Weijing" that followed it, which lowered the style of this work, otherwise it would still be exaggerated.

(End of this chapter)