Almighty painter

Chapter 355 How to win the prize
"This painting is very good!"

Professor Kazunari Sakai took a big sip of celery juice. His fat chin swayed, his big belly swayed, and his whole body swayed like a big balloon filled with water.

The uncle was just like a balloon filled with water, building up momentum in his chest.

When preparing to open the show, you have to say some fierce and sharp accusations.

Professor Sakai wanted to tell this young man that he might be able to pick up a paper on "Asian Art" with great luck.

Art exhibitions are a completely different matter.

Painters, critics, scholars and curators are all important parts of the art circle.

There are certain industry commonalities, but there are also many differences.

It is certainly very cool for a painter to work part-time to publish a heavyweight paper. It is very cool and arrogant. It will obviously improve the social status. It will also facilitate the publicity of the gallery and get a tenured teaching position at the Academy of Fine Arts. In the future, critics will even want to criticize When he speaks, he will also consider his words to some extent.

Estimate whether your authority in the academic world is as high as others.

These tangible benefits are of course too numerous to count.

Otherwise, the two of them would be busy racking their brains to arrange a paper for their daughter.

But you can’t make one mistake.

Just like sports stars crossing over to participate in variety shows.

These are the icing on the cake, a series of multipliers that follow the main business and greatly increase their value and popularity.

The works written by the pen are the most real thing and the main business.Art exhibitions are the most difficult battlefield for artists to take advantage of.

Gu Weijing was able to pick up an AHCI paper and a precious [-]th century Impressionist work.

But he will definitely not be able to win an award from a Singapore art exhibition just by relying on good luck and connections.

The uncle’s history of becoming famous is a series of bitter tears.

Kazunari Sakai almost lost his life before he got a chance to participate in the London Art Fair. The painting that made him famous was really amazing.

Only by giving [-]% can you get such a reward.

Sakai Kazunari felt that he had an obligation to let this little guy know that there was still a big gap between Gu Weijing and himself, a strong, outstanding and talented man who was rare in the world.

"Kid, you're at this level and you still want to win an award? I've seen your work, and I'd rate it at [-] points for creativity, which is considered excellent, but for the painting effect, I might only be able to give it [-] to [-] points. What does this mean? ? means if you are lucky, some judges will like your painting and will even include you in the candidate list for winning the prize. If you are not lucky, if you encounter something you don’t like, it will be a failed painting, you know? You know! You might even be eliminated at the audition."

"Oh, you have to pin your future and destiny on illusory luck!"

"I admit that the story about apples you told Shengzi is very interesting, but maybe a rotten apple can be all kinds of cute in color, but your current painting ability only has a few bright spots. Have you ever settled down to painting? Uncle, I used to In order to paint, I had to stay in the studio for a whole week. I only ate rice balls and didn't even take a shower. Today's young people no longer have the character and perseverance like me."

"No matter how tempting the rewards offered by Mashi Gallery are, if you can't get them or grasp them, you will only be left with regrets."

Uncle Sakai's mouth was wide open and he was drooling.

When the words come to your lips, what comes out becomes something completely different.

"This stroke is very neat. The combination of long and short strokes is calm and orderly. Praise me."

"I also like the combination of paints. The single-layer paint painting method, which is similar to the impasto method, can express such a variety of colors. It is considered a thoughtful use."

"Well, Katsuko zoomed in on the upper part of the canvas that was in focus... Isn't the transition between the woods and the sky space not weakened? The transition of the landscape with clear edges is more suitable for a grander painting like the Hudson River Watercolor School. As for scene themes, except for the landscape paintings of Lesfeld and Daniel Garber, who like to use clear outlines, in my impression, in today’s mainstream modern aesthetics, landscape painters seem to prefer to use romantic and soft lines. Transition edge?”

"That's right, Professor Sakai. I want to leave the transition here to the end and use the finger smearing method to create a more unique and smooth paint texture effect."

"The finger smearing method, let me think about it...gulu gulu...it's quite interesting, I like it."

"It was Miss Katsuko's suggestion."

"Katsuko? Oh, oh, thumbs up. My daughter is awesome."

"The improvement in my brushwork is really obvious. It looks like I have practiced hard. By the way, do you have any good methods for training your brushwork proficiency? Let Shengzi send it to me. I'll see if I can do it in the studio. Let’s start classes.”

"Well...some of them were practiced by myself, and some of them feel like they fell from the sky out of thin air."

"That's right. That means hard work and understanding coexist. That's right. It's pretty good."

The bald-headed physical trainer also pricked up his ears and listened playfully.

Even in the history of Japan's Central Academy of Fine Arts and the super-prestigious Tama Art University, Professor Sakai Kazunari's worth is quite rare, and he doesn't really teach at the school.

Only a few very lucky students have the opportunity to enter Professor Sakai's personal studio.

The coach was very curious about what it was like for such a top painter to teach students on a daily basis.

After hearing this, Baldhead suddenly felt enlightened.

Art students are indeed fundamentally different from sports students.

Mr. Sakai sounded so fierce just now, but he didn't expect that when it comes to teaching people, he is actually a very gentle and easy-to-talk fat man.

The gentle fat man, Kazunari Sakai, was holding his mobile phone in one hand and sipping celery juice in the other. He also felt that the happy way of unfolding "father is kind and son is filial" at this moment is a bit strange.

I obviously wanted to criticize this boy and make him lick me pitifully.

grandma's.

It seems like it's the other way around.

Uncle Sakai felt a little sad.

Gu Weijing's painting skills are really mature, and his painting skills are considered to be supermodels for his age.

When the work on the easel came into view, it was like a needle piercing his chest, releasing all the resentment he had been brewing for a long time.

Young people today are so scary.

At this age, he can draw like this. Even Kazunari Sakai feels that it would be a bit too much to criticize him again.

"Dad, is Gu Jun very good at painting?" Miss Sakai said with a smile.

Love the house and Wu.

Seeing that even the father of a great artist praised her boyfriend's painting skills, Sakai Katsuko naturally had no reason not to feel happy.

"Yeah." Sakai Kazunari hummed.

"Professor, do you think this work of mine can win an award at the Singapore Art Exhibition?"

Gu Weijing put down the brush and carefully rubbed his fingers on the edge of the transition between warm and cold colors. He kept moving his hands and asked casually.

He can use calligraphy and painting appraisal techniques to roughly estimate what kind of works can meet the standards for shortlisting for art exhibitions.

But when it comes to subjective judgments like awards.

It is definitely Katsuko’s father’s rich experience that can grasp it more accurately.Uncle Sakai's status is no lower than that of the curator he met on Mr. Sloth's broadcast, Curator Tonks.

Don't say it yet.

Kazunari Sakai actually served as the chairman of the organizing committee of the Yokohama Art Exhibition two years ago, and as an overseas judge for the Magic City and Singapore Art Biennales.

There are many international art exhibitions on a continent, but there are only a few professors from top art schools and top artists.

The total amount of works sold can exceed [-] million US dollars.

It can be said that almost most art exhibitions in the region will send them invitations. It just depends on whether they have time and whether they are willing to be a judge.

This year, because his biological daughter will be participating in the exhibition, Professor Sakai Kazunari probably wants to avoid suspicion.

"Well, the texture of your fingers can be more flexible. Since you specially choose to use fingers instead of oil brushes, you need to have that flexible and romantic touch..."

Kazunari Sakai in the camera gave the first command.

He finally caught the childish and unskilled aspects of Gu Weijing and maintained his dignity as a teacher, then he rubbed his belly and thought about it.

"Fifty percent?"

Before Issei Sakai made the video call, he was very optimistic that Gu Weijing would have a [-]% to [-]% chance of winning.

Say something rather violent.

The competition for the real gold, silver and bronze awards was too fierce, so he didn't want to think about it.

In Uncle Sakai's mind, those two awards should be the only ones Gu Weijing has a chance to win at the art exhibition in August this year.

One is the Best Art Creativity Award at the Lion City Art Exhibition, and the other is the UBS Newcomer Painting Award.

As the name suggests.

The former is awarded to the artistic creativity in the entire Biennale that is most refreshing to the judges.

It can be an innovation in art theory or an innovation in painting methods.

Most of the works that have won this award in history are weird things, including nebulae composed of broken pixels that are intended to oppose mainstream culture, falsehood and kitsch.

There are also those who simply break away from traditional oil painting.

Alternative fusion paintings are collaged with various painting elements such as paper cutting, woodblock painting, and watercolor, and there are even plastic arts that combine three-dimensional space.

Ms. Anya of Zaohe Space has gained a reputation by relying on her mixed painting method of finger painting and knife painting. She won such artistic creative awards from several art exhibitions in Europe in her early years.

In principle, this award does not evaluate the artists' traditional painting techniques such as lines, colors, and structures.

Only the artistic creativity of the exhibited works will be discussed. The advantage is that the threshold is low.

Very friendly to young artists.

It should be the easiest award to win in the entire art exhibition.

The disadvantage is that Gu Weijing still follows the painting path of classical art that emphasizes techniques.

In this kind of award, you will face a lot of cross-professional competition from modern art and avant-garde art.

When it comes to pursuing novelty in painting methods, people are obviously more professional and relevant.

In addition, almost all art and creativity awards follow the same principle.

That is, the upper limit is as high as the lower limit for the difficulty of winning this kind of award.

Luck plays a huge role.

Can someone say "This? I'm going to go ahead and even this thing can win a grand prize. Is it someone related to the organizing committee? I'm a shady person? I can do it."

You can say "This! I'm done! This thing can't even win a grand prize! Is the organizing committee crazy? Is this a shady story? I'm a painter and I've already cried myself to death in the toilet!"

There are really less competitive years historically.

One lucky person won the Turner Prize, the highest award in the British art world, with his two minimalist incandescent lamp work "he lights going on and off 2000", and has since reached the pinnacle of his life.

The material cost of setting up the exhibition was less than ten pounds.

There will also be people like Hirst, who spent tens of millions of pounds on creating giant bronze sculptures, but ended up with nothing, and had to say sourly to the BBC documentary director, "Hey, hey, don't give it to me." The sad case emerged that awards are a loss for the Venice Biennale.

The more important the art exhibition is, the less you know what kind of monsters, ghosts, monsters, and ghosts you are competing with.

I don’t know how much it cost to organize the exhibition.

It's easy for a group of contestants to be fighting to the death over the easel.

Suddenly, this time I encountered a boss who was not short of money and used a big move. A Tathagata palm fell from the sky and knocked everyone flat.

The winner of the Best Creative Award at the last Lion City Biennale was an art team from Australia, which exhibited its conceptual work "Dream in Black and White".

They painted with specially customized pigments from the industry and placed the works in an empty room. When the lights were turned on and off, the entire space alternated between light and dark, and different wavelengths of the spectrum were sprinkled on the frame. Create different paintings, and finally these paintings can be connected together to form a complete story.

It has moved from art in the traditional sense to the fields of optics and chemistry.

Just customizing these paints cost the gallery behind him hundreds of thousands of dollars in subsidies. An art exhibition would encounter such an owner.

Gu Weijing's paintings are very suspenseful.

That’s not to say that traditional painting methods are uncompetitive.Art Exhibition Art Exhibition, no matter how much the organizing committee says, it does not value painting techniques.

But your painting is good enough to a certain extent.

Then you are not afraid of any opponent you face.

But as soon as the bonus points for fusion painting creativity are offset, the difficulty of winning the award will immediately rise straight up.

I picked this award because it is easy to win.

If you want to win the "Best Art Creativity Award" purely through skill, it is better to think about whether you can get a serious [-] bronze medal main award, which is more cost-effective.

Considering that the Lion City Art Exhibition has attracted a lot of attention, the "[-]%" rating is already giving Gu Weijing some face.

Another more valuable award is the Best Newcomer Award sponsored by UBS.

UBS is one of the world's largest wealth trusts and sponsors various concerts, art exhibitions and sporting events every year.

For the two largest cultural events in the Lion City in the second half of the year, the First Ocean Singapore and the Art Biennale, UBS is one of the main sponsors.

All contestants under the age of 35 compete for this prize.

and a personal sponsorship contract with UBS.

(End of this chapter)