Almighty painter

Chapter 259 Hello, Little Prince
An employee who has worked in a bookstore for a long time.

No one underestimates the impact a good poster can have on book sales.

The proportion of readers who choose books only by the appearance of the cover is more than most people imagine.

In the era of the proliferation of electronics, people who are still willing to buy books in physical bookstores and read paper books have a collection-like feeling for books in their hearts.

When they buy books, they are not only buying words, but also buying a beloved collection.

Especially when wandering aimlessly in the bookstore, drinking coffee, and posting on INS to show the life sentiment of petty bourgeoisie.A book that is beautiful and cute enough for those young men and women is an indispensable decoration.

Even in the display cabinet of Shuishi Bookstore, I like to put two books with beautiful covers in conspicuous positions.

It doesn't matter if the quality of the text is rough, it's the debut novel of an unpopular author whom no one has heard of, or it's a very obscure pure stream of consciousness or a book about spirituality.

As long as the cover painting has enough style and artistic conception.

There are always a few copies sold each week.

Over the course of a year, Zong Ling Zong Zong can also sell a lot of people.

In the book circle, these books belong to the category that relies on "face value" to make a living.

"Perhaps the long-term sales volume of "The Little Prince" is higher than many people imagined!" This idea came to the staff's mind.

"However, Miss, if you are willing to wait until the end of the signing session in the afternoon, you can take this poster away." He turned to look at Kelly, shrugged casually: "Anyway, Water Stone Bookstore keeps it, and it needs to be dealt with." dropped."

"Thank you then."

Kelly nodded in satisfaction.

She tilted her head and teased her best friend: "Maka, just prepare to have a platonic relationship with your boyfriend for a month."

"Maybe the painting is not bad, but if it can impress my sister, it's not that good."

Maca snorted harshly.

She had to say that the effect of Detective Cat's cover illustration was a bit beyond her expectations.

But from the very beginning of this agreement, Maca has been invincible.

Whether you have the urge to buy a book is up to you - it's just a book of fairy tales, what's so great about it!

The old lady said that if you don't buy it, you won't buy it.

Maca turned her head proudly, and looked away from the weird promotional poster.

"You think it's beautiful because you don't have enough aesthetic skills. All the truly high-level art critics in the world think that Detective Cat's works are clumsy."

She quietly recited this sentence in her heart.

In order to strengthen her inner belief, Maca even took out her mobile phone and entered the URL of Artrecord.com.

This is a portal website that collects art advice that professors recommend for their attention.

Artrecord.com itself does not produce any art reviews, but will collect news links and content summaries from various mainstream newspapers and periodicals for the convenience of readers to read relevant information.

Maca entered the name "Detective Cat".

Immediately, a large number of related art reports emerged from the screen.

[Why the new version of "The Little Prince" is doomed to failure: Abandoning the original illustrations is the worst decision Scholastic Group has ever made. 】--"Art room"

[A non-mainstream "art speculator"?Internet celebrity illustrator Detective Cat's wonderful road to fame] —— "London Art Match"

["From internet gimmick to commercial hype, it's time for this farce caused by unprofessional art critics and third-rate painters to come to an end"] - "Moon" on De Jong Van Doorn's latest interview.

[What is knife painting, explain in detail whether it is really an art form...]

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Among these newspapers, whenever the name of Detective Cat was mentioned, more than 90% of the media had a negative opinion.

Very strange.

It seems that every art review media can't wait to tear up "The Little Prince" and its illustrator with a pen before it goes public.

Some of the media that made the comments are understandable.

In the past half century, the total annual average shipment of "The Little Prince" has almost never been less than 100 million copies. The newspaper mouthpiece controlled by Townsendsman, the old rival of the Scholastic Group, naturally had to sneer at competitors trying to get a piece of the cash cow.

The "Moon" and Van Dorn have always sneered at Detective Cat, and it is normal to seize this moment to jump out and put on eye drops.

Just newspapers such as Art Space, London Art Match, and Literary Sunday.

They are well-received by readers of the veteran art criticism media.

usually,

No matter how much the writers of these newspapers hate a painter, they are not willing to publish such a critical article with strong words and clear opinions before actually seeing the other's paintings.

This can make them seem unprofessional and overly subjective.

In the unlikely event of a face-slap incident with a small probability, it is really no fun to be caught and attacked by the competing media.

The formation of such a wave of public opinion is more due to the influence of the shareholders of "Oil Painting" magazine.

The art circle is a big spider web woven by connections.

The shareholders of "Oil Painting" magazine are the big spiders in the center of the network.

Their disciples and grandchildren, old disciples, are all over the entire art criticism system.

Shareholders can convey their ideas from inside to outside through spider threads, and implant the negative expectations of Detective Cat in the hearts of every lover and collector who pay attention to the art field in advance.

So Sir Brown also has the nickname "The Pope of Art" in the chats of some artists.

He is the spokesperson of the Muse in the world.

The majority shareholder of Oil Painting Magazine is his Cardinal Group.

The low-level magazines such as "Art Space" and "London Art Match" are priests of various small churches who use contacts as bridges.

Perhaps each of these art media has the ambition to replace "Oil Painting" magazine in the deepest heart, but generally they don't have the courage to turn the flag and sing the opposite.

Don't say anything else.

Guang was caught by the magazine "Oil Painting" every day and scolded him for his poor artistic vision. It was a kitsch magazine that catered to Middle Eastern buyers and oil nouveau riche who engaged in art speculation.

This is enough to bankrupt the credibility of these newspapers and periodicals in the minds of collectors.

Sir Brown has such an influence, he can use his own will to make some art magazines that were cautiously on the sidelines to let go of their integrity, and form a unified criticism of Detective Cat and Anna behind it.

These magazines don't care what competitors are picking on the wrong.

Anyway, you are scolding, and your competitors are also scolding, why are you afraid of capsizing?

For example, "Art Space" and "Art Sunday" are competing newspapers with the main readership in the British Isles, and there have been many frictions with each other in the past.In the past, they were tit-for-tat media with respect to concepts such as avant-garde art, Dadaism, and trendy toys.

But in the case of Detective Cat, the muzzle remains highly consistent.

But "Oil Painting" magazine itself remained silent on this issue.

Except for the video of the resolution of the shareholders meeting, the daily regular issue did not mention anything related to Detective Cat.

Silence is contempt of the highest order.

"Oh, Detective Cat, I actually admire her very much. Who doesn't have the right to pursue their hobbies? It's just that she was pushed to an inappropriate height by an inappropriate person at an inappropriate time. That's all, not Personal grievances."

A few days ago, Ole Kruger, the equity representative of Kruger Brothers Bank, officially replaced Miss Irene as the executive director of the "Paintings" magazine.

Sir Brown told the reporter who raised the issue: "We are an authoritative and serious media magazine. Unfortunately, the quality of online artists is not discussed in our normal work."

Unlike roommates who are obsessed with detective cat.

There is an authority-fearing side in Maca's character.

When designing clothes in her usual class, she would spend a long time studying the artistic language of luxury brand designers such as Chanel and Louis Vuitton this year, and then express them in her own designs step by step.

Art critics hold a lot of weight in Maca's heart.

From the first moment she saw the media article, she was a loyal supporter of these arguments.

Every time she argues with Kelly and criticizes Detective Cat, Maca feels as if there are countless senior masters standing behind her, speaking with her.

Reading these words at this time.

Gradually, the eccentric illustration of Detective Cat, the alluring attraction that had just been created in her heart, was expelled from her heart again.

"Please, I'm a student of the Royal Academy of Art. I don't want to be like those tasteless mountain cannons, buying the works of some online illustrators and putting them on the bookshelves. They have no style at all!"

Maca pursed her lips vigorously.

She spoke a little loudly this time, but she didn't mutter to her best friend Kelly, but to herself who was inexplicably shaken.

When she saw that poster, for a moment, she fell in love with this painting of a knife.

Heck!

Maca was very angry that his artistic taste was so far behind the masters.

"The signing will almost begin."

The staff will place all the advertising signs.

He checked the time, walked back and took off the "Closed Business" sign in front of Shuishi Bookstore.

The audience began to pour in slowly.

Maca followed Kelly to the door of the bookstore without saying a word.

Standing under the black signboard of [Waterstone's] in the shop, the moment you are about to step into the black glass door.The girl involuntarily looked back at the advertising illustration facing the crowd in the distance.

Looking at it again, it's still beautiful.

Just across the road, a primary school student holding a hydrogen balloon pointed to the poster and said something, and then walked towards the bookstore with his father.

This scene fell into Maca's eyes.

For the first time, Maca felt uncontrollable wavering about the authoritative views of art critics.

"This painting... really has very low artistic attainment, and has inexplicable shortcomings. Is it because my artistic accomplishment is not enough that I can't see it?"

"At least, it's not as bad as those media say."

Illustration work that produces such appeal is not good enough.

Then,

What about the works of other illustrators she had seen before? ——
Kelly got a purchase intention survey card from the staff at the door, and walked into the main hall impatiently.

The bookstore has been given a new look.

The store area of ​​Waterstone Bookstore on Oxford Street is not small.

They have a lot of experience in undertaking various new book signings. At this time, under the careful arrangement of the staff, they immediately seem to have entered the fairy tale world of "The Little Prince".

An orange-red planet with a diameter of one meter that looks like a round cheese hangs from the ceiling above the ceiling. This is the asteroid model of the little prince's hometown, code-named B612.

The surface of the model has chocolate-colored volcanic protrusions.

In the display window next to it, there is a pair of flying glasses with dark leather straps that Saint-Exupéry used to fly a water reconnaissance plane during World War II and his pen.

There is also a wax figure of the Little Prince, 50 centimeters high, holding a rose growing in a glass windshield.

Under the spotlight, the wax figure of the little prince comes to life.

Even the wallpaper on the surrounding load-bearing columns has been replaced with the main body of roses.

What attracted Kelly the most was not these, but the display cabinets with books all around.

There are special sections in Shuishi Bookstore, from the best-selling works area, children's area, and science fiction area on the outermost side, to the emotional reading area on the inner side...everything.

Because today is the first day of the signing of "The Little Prince".

So the staff removed the innermost side of the bookstore yesterday, and placed the R18+ restricted works area with pornographic covers such as protruding girls and exposing girls, an area that doesn't quite match the theme of fairy tales.

And there are four large display cabinets full of physical books of "The Little Prince" by the door.

The covers of brand-new "The Little Prince" were stacked neatly on the bookshelves, and the aroma of ink that had just rolled out of the printing factory's assembly line still remained between the pages.

There are 280 sets of paperback editions of "The Little Prince", and 70 sets of hardcover editions of "The Little Prince" with thicker printing paper and hard covers, for the readers who participated in the signing meeting to take it out as soon as they enter the door arrive.

Kelly couldn't wait to hold a book in her hand.

ho!
The blonde girl suddenly twisted her neck and couldn't help but let out a gasp.

"OMG."

The moment she looked at the little prince in the illustration on the cover of "The Little Prince", it was like a hallucination.

The little man sitting on the top of the golden sand dune seemed to blink his eyes!
Kelly also blinked her eyelids vigorously.

This time, the illustration is still the still illustration.

The four-dimensional space cannot be broken, and the little prince has not really come back to life.

But the feeling in her field of vision, as if the little prince would really come out of the screen at any moment, did not fade away together.

It's really so vivid!
Kelly lowered her head and couldn't help saying hello to the characters on the cover.

"Hello, Your Excellency the Little Prince."

During the simulated market research conducted by the publishing house, Kelly had seen this cover of "The Little Prince".

Her more expectations were originally focused on other illustrations in the book.

At this very moment, hold the physical book in your hands.

She suddenly felt that the painting in front of her and the photos bound in white text she had seen before.

Looks the same but not the same!
　Go home in a few days and it should be updated.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)