Almighty painter

Chapter 311 I am Mr. Cao’s successor

The chubby uncle said this with impure intentions.

His main purpose is to flatter his wife with earthy love words and make her happy so that she can eat two more chicken rice balls.

But it is also a simple and straightforward summary of the painter's career.

The simplest example is also the disciple of Mr. Cao Xuan.

In art circles and media newspapers and magazines, the concepts of "closed disciples" and "Cao Xuan's successors" are created intentionally or unintentionally.

After the Xiangjiang auction, Tang Ning has become the most valuable among the seniors. She can rival many professors Lin Tao.

Is Tangning's painting skills really better than Lin Tao who is old enough to be her father?
Even better?

How many times better can it really be?
Of course not.

Just because Junior Sister Tang Ning is Cao Xuan's youngest disciple in the eyes of the Asian art circle, she has this special meaning.

Although Professor Lin Tao is the oldest, he is not a founding disciple.

Collectors will naturally believe that Tang Ning's works have greater investment value and appreciation potential.

The huge advantages brought by this status have nothing to do with painting skills.

This is just like Professor Lin Tao also enjoys a natural status advantage compared with other ordinary painters.

The entire Asian cultural community has pinned all its high hopes and expectations on the cultural heritage of the centenary master on this female painter.

Same age.

Female painters like Ms. Anya from Zaohe Space Gallery are already one in ten thousand of the most successful, but Tang Ning's current net worth is nearly 100 times that of her.

When she reaches the same age as Yayoi Kusama, where will her limit be?

During the time when Ms. Tang Ning was holding an auction in Xiangjiang, she almost enjoyed the treatment of a diva like Faye Wong holding a concert in the Hong Kong Coliseum.

From the hotel where you stay to when you go shopping, there are paparazzi around you [-] hours a day.

This is also the treatment that only top-notch and topical super artists like Hirst and Takashi Murakami can receive in this era of pan-entertainment.

Gu Weijing scrolled down the page.

He was involved in a lot of gossip and tidbits about Tang Ning booking a reservation at a luxury store and being photographed having dinner with a veteran Hong Kong star at Victoria Harbor.

He found the interview that Lin Tao should have asked him to take a look at.

[Exclusive interview with Tang Ning: A [-]-year-old artistic genius in his forties—where will he go in the second half of his life? 】

For this themed spring auction, Tang Ning came to the auction site specially.

The auction is not about a singer performing on stage.

There are not many opportunities for reporters to interview the artist himself.

Tang Ning only cooperated with Sotheby's and made a few brief announcements on TVB Hong Kong Unlimited. The interviews were relatively short and formulaic.

On the contrary, "Oil Painting" magazine is indeed the most important art magazine for the general public.

After the auction was completely over, it had the opportunity to interview Tangning directly face-to-face.

The complete professional long-form interview will be released in the form of cover news in the paid magazine "Oil Painting" in May.

Being able to appear on the cover of "Oil Painting" magazine.

The significance of this honor to art practitioners is no less than being on the cover of Time Magazine, or even more significant.

For example, Banksy is on the cover of Time Magazine.

However, Oil Painting Magazine believes that his reputation comes more from the hype of mystified characters and the deconstruction of the artist's identity in popular entertainment.

The artistry and artistic value contained in the works themselves are not enough to support a cover interview.

He is just a "second-rate painter who hides his face".

After Tang Ning's success at the auction, she immediately received an interview application from Oil Painting magazine. It was a double blessing, as she received multiple recognitions of wealth and art status.

before the full cover feature is released.

As usual,
"Oil Painting" magazine will edit some of the most gimmick and topical questions in the interview and release them in the form of trailers to attract more non-serious art lovers to subscribe and purchase.

The interview video in front of Gu Weijing was a preview of the interview released by "Oil Painting" magazine.

"Ms. Tangning, we just met in London two months ago, but I am interviewing you as the editor of Oil Painting magazine. If I remember correctly, it should have been six years ago in the Suzhou-Hangzhou water town?"

The reporter who interviewed me is a full-time editor in charge of the Asian region of the visual arts section of Oil Painting magazine.

A Singaporean Chinese.

Like all editors of Oil Painting magazine, the reporter himself is an experienced art critic.

Both parties are high-ranking people in the Asian art circle, and their tone of conversation is very familiar.

"Yes, we did an interview at the old man's birthday party."

Tangning in the camera has an oval face and a slightly round chin.

She looks a bit like Hu Die, a popular actress during the Republic of China, in her middle age. Her facial features are serious but slightly girlish. She is wearing an unbranded thin gray windbreaker.

Full of literati temperament.

"I still remember the scene that year. At that time, there was news that Teacher Cao Xuan seemed to want to stop writing, and people in the entire art world were shocked. We at Oil Painting Magazine wanted to take this opportunity to Doing a cover feature interview for Mr. Cao Xuan again."

"If I remember correctly, it was the fourth time that Cao Xuan appeared on the cover of Oil Painting. This data set a new record. Dali and Andy Warhol only tied for three times."

"Of course this is a great achievement, but the old man has always said privately that this is because he lived the longest. However, don't get me wrong, the teacher is of course a greater artist than Dali and Andy Warhol. 100 years later People will understand that.”

Tangning pointed at the camera with a camera-like attitude.

The reporter laughed: "Sorry, you know that we are a neutral art media, but we dare not agree with the statement that there are 'topics'. Of course, I cannot deny that the answer to this question may really have to wait until 100 years from now. Only then can people answer.”

"But in any case, a painting master who inherited the painting techniques of the Guangxu era in the 21th century, and whose peak period of painting lasted from the 22th century to the [-]st century, and whose final conclusion will not be possible until the [-]nd century, is rare in the world."

Painters in Mr. Cao's sect all live a long life.

Tang Ning's master became famous during the Guangxu period of the late Qing Dynasty. Mr. Cao, like Tang Ning, was the youngest of his generation's brothers and sisters.

Three generations of master and apprentice can directly meet Van Gogh hand in hand. There is no other such thing in the history of art.

The reporter sighed: "A painting master whose artistic influence can span 400 years of history. This incident alone is enough to make the symbol Cao Xuan one of the greatest names in the history of art, isn't it? ?”

"The great masters of Renaissance painting are only 500 years away from us."

This sentence is both a compliment and a sincere statement. [My teacher is better than Dali and Andy Warhol] - This sentence was said by ordinary people, and everyone just regarded it as the rant of a lunatic who wanted to impress others.

Being praised by a painting master worth tens of millions of dollars, her painting master teacher worth billions of dollars only sounds domineering and condescending.

Dissatisfied?

The auctions and galleries are there, and whoever is dissatisfied can go and paint.

"Sorry, I can't agree with you."

Unexpectedly, Tangning actually shook her head.

"You said that the painting techniques of the Guangxu period in the [-]th century were inherited. No, this is wrong."

The round-faced woman stared at the reporter's astonished face and said with a smile: "To put it more closely, our style of landscape, flower, and bird ink painting originated from the literati painting genre created by Su Dongpo in the Song Dynasty by combining calligraphy skeletons with painting brushwork. , from Su Shi and Mi Di to Zhao Mengfu and Huang Gongwang in the Yuan Dynasty, Dai Jin, Chen Hongshou, Bada Shanren in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and then to my teacher Cao Xuan, more than 30 masters, this is 1000 years."

"Going further back, we can also go back to Yan Liben's magnificent pen and ink, Wang Mojie's birds singing and painting fragrance, Gu Kaizhi's spring silkworms spinning silk, and keeping the spirit with form. It can be said that the entire 5000 years of family and country customs are contained in one line. In terms of painting, this is a historical heritage that the Western art world can only dream of and even envy."

"Whether it's 5000 years versus 400 years, or 1000 years versus 400 years, it's not too much."

Tangning shrugged: "The Renaissance is nothing. Our paintings will be discussed for at least another 1000 years."

The reporter and Tang Ning looked at each other again and burst into laughter.

"Wonderful, this discussion is really wonderful. If you don't mind, I will put it at the beginning of the column interview."

The Asia editor of Oil Painting applauded lightly.

"Let's talk about your master's influence on you. At the birthday banquet six years ago, Mr. Cao held your hand and wrote the word 'Shou' and the word 'Jing' on the table. This photo was taken by us Take the photo."

The reporter picked up an issue of "Oil Painting" from six years ago from the table at hand.

"I remember that was the first time you appeared on the cover of our "Oil Painting"——"

"Yes, when I was around the millennium, I almost became the youngest person on the cover of "Oil Painting" in history. Unfortunately -" Tangning interrupted.

The youngest person on the cover of Oil Painting magazine is an Italian painter. He is also the youngest winner in the history of the Venice Biennale.

Winning the award at the age of 27.

That Venice Biennale has been criticized a lot over the years.

There have always been comments that the jury deliberately favored local painters because he won the award because of his household registration advantage.

Tangning was once just a hair away from breaking this record.

When she was 21 years old, she won the gold medal at the Shanghai Art Biennale. The oil painting almost chose her as the cover image at that time, and the interviews were all done.

Unfortunately, at the last minute, because she was still too young, she was replaced and placed in the second issue.

"Yes, I'm really sorry for what happened back then. I didn't expect you to remember me for so long." The host smiled bitterly.

"No, I don't regret it at all. Of course, you should regret replacing me, otherwise, this should have been another good story in the legendary history of Oil Painting magazine."

Tangning said calmly: "This is your loss."

"Well, the editor-in-chief Chen who made the call at that time has retired, otherwise I would have reported back to Sir Brown and suggested that he fire my boss." The reporter smiled humorously, "At least you can rest assured that there will be no one this time. Replaced your cover issue."

He was not angry at all because of the aggression in Tangning's words.

Some people are really born to make a lot of money.

The advantage of Tang Ning's young age is not only that she is a close disciple of Mr. Cao.

At the same time, compared to Lin Tao, who has aged over the years, he is already like an old man and an old lady, and he is better at dealing with the media in the Internet era.

Powerful, domineering, and confident.

Who doesn’t love interviewing the more topical big artists these days?
If the spotlight doesn’t revolve around them, who does it revolve around?

"Let me return to the topic just now. When I saw this photo, the critics almost unanimously called it 'inheritance'. The masters of the previous generation are holding the hands of the masters of the next generation."

The reporter smacked his lips: "It is comparable to the classic photo of Ronaldo carrying Messi on his back, the world champion. At that time, only some media predicted this. Six years later, we saw the real result - a Miracle."

“A single auction fetched HKD 2.6 million, and a single work fetched HKD 400 million, a miracle.”

"Today, Master Cao Xuan has officially announced that he will cease painting, and you have almost become the most valuable painter in the Mesozoic era." The reporter asked: "Can I say that, starting from today, you have officially taken over the painting? With the paintbrush in the hands of Mr. Cao Xuan, his closed disciples will officially become the successors of his artistic legacy?"

Originally, the reporter thought that the answer was already obvious and that this was just a logical answer.

Ms. Tangning in the camera fell silent.

No one knew what she was thinking.

People could only see that her brows twitched violently a few times, and she wanted to speak several times.

a long time.

"Of course..." Tangning seemed to have finally made up her mind.

She raised her head and looked directly at the camera: "This statement is not wrong."

The round-faced female artist seemed to be answering the reporter's questions, and she seemed to be speaking to someone else in the distance.

"I am the heir to the old man's mantle."

Confidence and pride appeared on the face of the round-faced female artist, and she said softly: "It must be me, who else can it be besides me!"

In terms of social status, Tang Ning is already the most accomplished among the senior siblings.

From a personal relationship perspective.

Tang Ning is also the closest disciple and junior to Mr. Cao.When she was still a little girl running around on the ground, she was sent to the sect of Grandmaster Cao Xuan by the family elders.

over the years.

She is even closer to Mr. Cao than to her biological parents.

Cao Xuan is like her grandfather, and Tang Ning is like Mr. Cao's biological granddaughter.

Every time the brothers and sisters mentioned Mr. Cao's name, it was like mentioning a great Bodhisattva that they respected and feared.

Only Tang Ning would call him "old man".

And Cao Xuan would call her "Xiao Ning" or "Tang Girl".

The closeness of the relationship between the grandfather and grandson can be seen from the shouting.

Due to emotions and reasons, no one in the world would be more qualified to take over Mr. Cao's job than himself.

(End of this chapter)