Almighty painter

Chapter 417 Don’t admit defeat

"Ladies and gentlemen, it is my honor to introduce to you, the leading artist of the Muse Project - Hunter Bull, our superstar."

Sir Brown pointed his palm towards the audience.

"Now, I invite him to come on stage, stand with me, and unveil the veil to the future."

At the same moment, all the photographers' lenses were directed towards the center of the first row of seats, following the direction of Sir Brown's palm.

Spotlights came from all directions at the same time, illuminating the gray shadow in the center of the crowd to every detail.

Hunter Bull was silent for a moment.

Stand up slowly.

The next few seconds were the most disastrous or the most dramatic live broadcast scene that many on-site reporters have ever witnessed in their careers.

Because the scene is really too bizarre.

Whether it's a disaster or a drama, it just depends on how you're willing to interpret it.

Bull stood up, in front of hundreds of thousands of viewers around the world, put the cigarette holder in his mouth, took a long puff of cigarette, and sprayed the harmful smoke on the shiny head of the founder of CDX Gallery next to him.

A person who has smoked like this all his life has not yet developed emphysema.

Lung capacity remains strong and powerful.

It’s also something that’s very surprising and confusing.

Reporter William, who was watching this scene, swore that it was the heartiest, most perfect, and roundest smoke ring he had ever seen in his life.

"Moo!"

Then Mr. Bull seemed to be choking on his cigarette, and it seemed like the Tantric master on the snowy land had uttered some kind of mantra with mysterious power.

From his hoarse and phlegm-laden vocal cords, he spit out a mysterious sigh that seemed to be made by friction between thorns and mire.

then.

Bull sat back on his chair, leaving aside the master artists who were waiting for him to speak.

He continued to play with the nozzle of the electronic cigarette in his hand.

The whole audience was shocked.

"I'm drunk. What the hell is this? He must have taken it before coming here today."

Lao Yang looked with admiration at this man who didn't know which nerve in his brain circuit was wrong.

When he was taking Western literature and art history at CAFA, he had seen it in extracurricular materials.

Legend has it that Gogol was a super sociopath. Once, all the upper class nobles in Tsarist Russia came to the theater to watch the premiere of his play "The Imperial Envoy". In order to show his magnanimity and not mind the writer's biting sarcasm, the Tsar decided to personally go on stage to award him the award during the intermission.

result.

With much anticipation, the audience cheered and applauded.

Gogol was so frightened that he stood up and rushed out of the theater without looking back, jumped into a carriage, and walked directly home.

It made everyone very embarrassed.

Lao Yang had only read this kind of story in textbooks before, but today it was the first time that the eldest girl got on the sedan chair and witnessed it with her own eyes.

He just watched Bull playing with the nozzle of the cigarette cartridge in his hand as if no one else was watching, treating the gallery owners and the audience as if they were nothing but air.

Lao Yang didn't even know if this was social terrorism or a social terrorist.

"Is Picasso also that crazy?" Lao Yang asked curiously.

"The Pablo in my impression is not so neurotic." Mr. Cao looked directly at what was happening next to him. "After several contacts, I found that he is actually a very shrewd and intelligent man, enthusiastic and powerful. In this situation, he will He wished that the entire spotlight would be on him. As for Buell, his whole person was like an incomprehensible mystery, an unsolvable dream."

The audience at the live broadcast was also confused.

"OMG, what's going on?"

"Can anyone explain what is happening now? The BGM of crows flying over is already ringing in my mind. To be fair, this must be a live broadcast accident."

"Please ask for the psychological shadow area of ​​the guests present..."

Some viewers found this scene very interesting.

"Wow, Elvis Presley, he is so cool, it's like walking performance art. This scene will definitely make the headlines of many newspapers."

"Who is this guy? I want to buy his paintings. This is an artist with real character."

"Wake up, you can't afford it. One of his paintings is more expensive than your house."

"If this scene was planned before, then the guy who created it is definitely a genius. It's so effective."

Even the guest speaker on stage was embarrassed.

For a moment.

Gu Weijing swore.

In the real live broadcast, I saw a flash of helplessness and annoyance on the face of the implacable old gentleman with a bright smile on the stage.

"Oil Painting" gave Bull a copy of the planning book and speech about the "Muse Project" in advance.

According to the annual meeting schedule.

Now it’s time for Hunter Bull to step onto the stage and join him in cutting the ribbon on this pivotal moment in art history.

Become the artistic leader of the next era.

Sir Brown will crown the other party as king as the pope of art.

As a result, the king was holding the crown high on the stage, and the king was smoking directly off the stage and couldn't come up.

This coquettish movement almost caused his "Pope" waist to break.

If only others were so willful.

Sir Brown must give him little shoes to wear until he dies.

Don't want to go on stage?

Don't even think about being on the artistic stage in your whole life. Go play in the mud, silly dog.

But that was Elvis Presley. What could he do except curse in his heart?

Sir Brown was also helpless.

Could he expect that the other person's mind would be like a normal person's?

Tell the truth.

If it weren't for Cao Xuan, Yayoi Kusama and other old gangsters who set prices too harshly, one of them would be chasing Sir Brown's life with a black heart.

Otherwise, he would really rather spend hundreds of millions of dollars more to sign them than throw this lunatic out of the dirt of the Romanian countryside.

Cao Xuan has a black heart, but the old guy is a normal person after all.

As long as you find the right method, normal people can control it.

But Sir Brown, a super member of the mental hospital with an annual card like Bull, really couldn't figure out the other party's approach. He couldn't even figure out what the other party wanted.

pity.

He didn't have any more substantial options.

Fortunately, Sir Brown is also a big man who has weathered many storms.

He was scolding her like crazy in his heart. After being stunned for a moment, he regained his composure and clapped vigorously with admiration on his face.

"Three seconds...Mr. Bull, it only took three seconds..."

Sir Brown shook his head slightly and said loudly: "It only took him three seconds to express everything about the word 'art' better than my long speech on the stage, right? It's so outstanding. It’s so outstanding, I swear, this is not a rehearsal. Let’s give Hunter Bull another round of applause. Salute to his return!”

The whole audience burst into loud applause.

Sir Brown breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the rescue was successful.

He quickly exposed this big thing, and in a deep voice he began to introduce the [2023 New Era Muse Project] that was about to be launched led by "Oil Painting".

A few minutes into his story.

Almost all the audience, including Gu Weijing, had forgotten the embarrassing episode just now.

Everyone was fascinated by a plan that Sir Brown said was "almost impossible to accurately imagine."

The entire huge plan includes many components including gallery owners, artists, well-known art academies, art summer camps, youth art competitions, art biennials, and personal art exhibitions. The development direction includes traditional painting and sculpture. Fashion design, luxury goods co-branding, plastic arts, installation art...

In short.

Even if so many words are fully included, it is difficult to fully summarize the overall ambition of the plan.

Sir Brown said in his speech that every artist and enthusiast is a proud minority.

But his plan clearly covers everything that the mainstream of society can imagine in the field of art.

For all those who join the Muse Project.

Sir Brown and Kruger Brothers Bank both offered an offer that was hard to refuse in return.

Creative bonuses for various artists, sponsorship of gallery exhibitions, special scholarships at the Academy of Fine Arts, signing bonuses for art competitions, advanced training camps for artists... By the fall of 2026, a total of more than 20 billion US dollars in cash will have been invested in the bonus pool.

No wonder.

Gallerists like Gagosian smiled so happily when they announced that they would join the Muse Project.

They have the best head artist resources in the world at their disposal.

No matter how huge the reward fund is, the majority must belong to them.

Who doesn’t want a free pie?

It wasn't money raining from the sky, it was a waterfall composed of a green ocean of Franklin that fell on their heads.

It sounds like Sir Brown is just throwing away money like a money-spreading boy.

No.

Quite the opposite.

Countless upper-class people attending the meeting knew in their hearts that in the entire chain of interests, Chairman Brown's side was actually the one making the most money.

The first two tranches of the entire plan were financed by Kruger Brothers Bank.

Once the project is fully operational, the art private equity fund issued by "Oil Painting" will be fully responsible for the operation and financing, as a feedback to the art world and a philanthropic counterbalance.

Once Sir Brown completely relied on the "Muse Project" to integrate all aspects and all key nodes of the Western art market.

He has the power to rank the value of works in the entire art world.

If you are said to be valuable, you are valuable; if you are said to be rubbish, you are rubbish.

There may not even be any objections.

Who can stop such a private equity fund from making huge profits in the market? They started the Federal Reserve to print money right there!

Faced with such a return on investment, Buffett could only look beyond it and exclaimed that it was really a dark game.

The reward funds of the Muse Project are just to prevent others from becoming jealous and rebelling, so they set aside a little money to give everyone a consolation prize and wait in line to share the prize.

Every big gallery that cooperates with them has a few apples that they take home and chew on.

The returns and profits earned by the management of "Oil Painting" and Kruger Brothers Bank will be more than ten times that of a mere US$20 billion.

Sir Brown was able to launch this super profit-making machine to the public at this critical time in a compassionate tone in the name of declaring war on vulgar art and promoting the development of contemporary art into the future.

He is indeed a seasoned politician.

The entire comment section has been filled with admiration and praise for Sir Brown at this moment.

"$2... Someone come and help me count how many zeros there are."

"Declaring war on the world, Sir Brown not only pretended to be enthusiastic and generous, but at first I thought he was talking about 6000 euros of luxury shoes, which was a bit too pretentious. I was wrong, I I have to pay tribute to this gentleman, a man who can spend $20 billion and ask for nothing. No matter what he says, it is worthy of my careful listening."

"Compared to the green tea bitch from Irina's family who can only stand on the highest moral point and talk arrogantly and talk beautifully, it is clear to everyone who is the master and who is the villain. Before you blame me, watch the board vote on YouTube When I was watching the video, I thought the little girl had some ideas."

"With this scholarship from the Muse Project, it should be possible for many children who cannot afford to go to art colleges to continue pursuing their original artistic dreams."

A netizen noticed the private equity fund that Chairman Brown briefly mentioned during his speech.

He was keenly aware of its potential.

"That private equity fund looks promising. It looks like a highway to making a lot of money. Does anyone know how to invest? Could you contact the investment manager at Kruger Brothers?"

"Stop dreaming, man. I have heard some rumors about this fund on the Internet. It is a private equity fund. It is said that if you want to participate in this fund, you need to go through a background check. Your personal assets cannot be less than 8000 million US dollars, and the starting investment cannot be low. The threshold is US$1000 million. Of course, if you are a well-known painter, you can relax the threshold appropriately and just pretend that I didn’t say that.”

Brown read on stage a five-minute list of the Muse Project's first participants.

Even the bright stars are not enough to sum up the gold content of this list.

Gu Weijing also heard some familiar names among them.

For example, M&A is included in the list of intercontinental galleries led by Gagosian.

Also for example.

Downing, Van Dorn among the big list of artists, led by Hunter Buell.

"M&S Gallery is one of the first participants of the Muse Project. Well, it makes sense. So, in other words, I am actually now a member of Sir Brown's Little Transparent? What is this, an undercover? Or is it? The number one rebel became a member of the team that eats the royal food."

Gu Weijing had no choice but to enjoy the hardship and made a joke with himself in his heart.

He just wants to take care of the scriptures.

Joining the Muse Project for Cha Cha Fan is really a good thing.

No matter how much money Sir Brown makes, the $20 billion prize pool is real.

The prize money for various major awards in the art world is not high, and the main prize is fame.

The Turner Prize is only less than 100,000 pounds, and it needs to be divided among several stingy people.

It is almost 100 times the total personal prize money of all art awards in the world.

This courage.

It is indeed a battle that can swallow up the whole world.

Unfortunately, he also happens to be Sir Brown's most unhappy detective cat.

No matter how splendid Chairman Brown's palace is, inlaid with gold and silver and piled with wealth, and how majestic his plans for the future are.

Neither will have its own ring.

What he is most fortunate about now is that when he signed the contract with Marsh Gallery, he deliberately concealed and anonymously divided the part that belonged to Detective Cat.

"Let's finally go back to the very beginning, the question I asked before I stepped on stage. What is art."

"The Muse Project—this is the answer I bring to you."

"Art will not be killed. Whether it is a camera or AI. Because only art is art. At the same time, having artistry and having the vision to capture the pulse of the times is the privilege of a few professional thinkers. Muse Project, This is the cradle of thinkers..."

Sir Brown concluded and concluded his speech.

"I won't say ignorantly that the Muse Project is the only solution to future art. It may not be the optimal solution, but it is the best satisfactory solution I can think of and it is our first step towards the future. Try. An attempt that will not fall from the sky and bow to vulgarity and kitsch."

"Let me, the proud few, boldly step into the future hand in hand. Because the worst attempt is better than not trying at all."

“Please let us remember that only by continuously stacking satisfactory solutions can we get closer to the edge of the optimal solution.”

"Of course, if Detective Cat wants to know everything about how to be a real artist, the artist training camp of the Muse Project is also open to her and all amateur art lovers."

Sir Brown bowed slightly to everyone in the audience.

"The above is the entire content of my speech."

applause.

I don’t feel the continuous applause.

All the guests in the audience stood up spontaneously and gave Sir Brown a thunderous applause. The camera lens swept over the faces of these masters.

Everyone's face was filled with sincere admiration and praise.

They admire Sir Brown for actually being able to accomplish this unprecedented grand plan, and they are delighted that they themselves can become an important part of this money road.

After this speech.

Sir Brown has been crowned the undisputed pope in the art market, and these first batch of masters who participated in the project have become the powerful cardinals under the pope.

"Hey, Sir Brown actually invited me to join his Muse Project in the end! What kind of artist training camp is it? Is it a charity and an insult? But to be honest, it sounds quite tempting. After being selected from that artist training camp , there seems to be a very high bonus.”

Gu Weijing joked with Mr. Sloth half-seriously.

Unexpected again.

Sir Brown stomped on him all over the stage.

Who knew that in the end, there seemed to be another tail left behind, giving himself... something that seemed like an olive branch.

"Don't believe him. Such a person is very bad. He wants to completely wash away the aura of the Elena family from you, completely drag you into an environment where he has complete control over the voice and evaluation system, and then completely destroy you. "

Anna was typing at the meeting.

ding ding...

While typing.

On the information bar of her mobile phone, various news apps kept sending push updates about the European Art Annual Conference.

In the era of self-media and the Internet.

The concept of time is money is more vividly reflected in the traditional news industry.

Professional media people must use various UP owners, celebrity Twitter and INS to spread gossip faster in order to grab public attention and traffic.

After Chairman Brown announced the end of his speech, even before he was disclosing the details of the Muse Project.

The news flashes with the fastest response have been sent out from the scene.

["Her voice was full of money." Fitzgerald used this very famous metaphor in the opening chapter of "The Great Gatsby" to introduce the heroine Daisy. If you have ever been in a high school grammar class, like me, you were worried about the metaphorical image analysis of this reading comprehension question. Then please turn on the TV immediately and watch the live broadcast of the speech at this annual meeting. 】

"Harvard Business Review" wrote - [I guarantee you, Sir Levinson Brown's voice at this moment is full of the jingle of money. 】

[When you buy Van Gogh's Sunflowers for seventeen crowns. When you feel upset about missing a hundred francs to get Monet to paint an autographed portrait for you, or missing $300 to buy a Picasso abstract painting, you might as well listen to what Sir Brown is saying. The future, he said, is already here. 】——This is the headline news in the arts section of The Guardian.

The commentary tendency of "Art Perspective" is even more naked and undisguised.

[Fandorn can smile today. After suffering unknown injustice for several months, the Elena family and Detective Cat were finally photographed dead together on the beach of the times. There will no longer be any place for them in the temple of the Muses. 】

[Detective Cat is very good at drawing, but that is not art]

【…】

Countless different art media and commercial media are updating their homepage websites and APP news pages at this moment.

Of course, there are many of them who are affiliated with the "Oil Painting" magazine, or who pay people to write soft articles.

But most.

It is indeed the real voice made by the media before the power of the Muse Project.

"It's a pity. I guess it won't be easy to get a contract from a publishing house in the future. If it's too difficult, forget it. It's really unfair. We didn't do anything wrong from beginning to end."

Gu Weijing considered the situation of Mr. Sloth, the "senior" of Scholastic Group, and sent a thoughtful message.

The plan to take advantage of Sir Brown's cold treatment and use "Blazing World" to win prizes is basically out of the question.

The name "Detective Cat" has become as unpopular as the plague in the hearts of any art exhibition organizing committee.

It’s hard to say whether I will be able to continue to get contracts from Scholastic Group in the future.

There are many outstanding illustrators in the world.

The leading publishing company can completely ignore Van Dorn.

As long as the sales are good enough, it can even withstand the personal pressure from Sir Brown.

but now.

If the entire art world is on the opposite side, it's a completely different story.

If one or two people attack you, they may be bribed and have ulterior motives.

If there are ten or eight articles in the newspaper saying that you have done something wrong, then it may be a dispute of ideas, and you have offended a certain interest group.

If all the newspapers and public opinions in the world are badmouthing you.

Then it means that people are against you, and the wheels of the times are going to run over you tyrannically, and you can't resist it, and there is no way to resist it.

pity.

Gu Weijing once thought that he was very close to success.

As long as Detective Cat can win a few awards in the illustration industry, the situation may be very different.

At least he can be regarded as a generally recognized artist and is not worried about Sir Brown's nonsense.

They did everything they could, made no mistakes, and still failed.

How can a person be an enemy of the whole world?

Just like Miao Aung Win's father, he has been driving a taxi conscientiously and has not made any mistakes. He said he was replaced by UBER, and he was replaced by UBER.

Fate is never fair.

Even Gu Weijing himself began to consider giving up.

Miss Elena.

she,

But he didn't admit defeat.

(End of this chapter)