Almighty painter

Chapter 421 The Voice of Art

"Please. I'll give you one hundred thousand dollars, no, no, no, I'll give you one million dollars. Uh... I don't know if I still have that much money in my bank account. I'll give it to you." Right now, right now, come on, let's go. That's great! That's great! You are the model of my dreams."

"This is really beautiful. Drawing board, where is the drawing board, why didn't anyone find me a drawing board?"

That brainless guy stood up, spread his arms, and the skirt of his windbreaker swayed greatly with his movements.

Like a crazy duck quacking and waving its wings.

He also seemed like a fan who was conquered after watching the most outstanding drama in the world. He wanted to rush up and kiss the boots of the heroine on the rostrum.

Just shouting "Bravo!" with tears in his eyes.

Everyone focused on this person.

Everyone's lips couldn't help but twitch at the same time.

Unexpected, reasonable characters.

The lead artist of the Muse Project - Hunter Bull.

After Miss Elena said those words, everything was like a Rubik's Cube that she couldn't remember the order of restoration, everything was completely messed up.

hard to imagine.

"An ignorant rich second generation who doesn't understand what art is, juxtaposes the Muse Project with Germany during World War II. How convincing is it?" Someone next to him chuckled and said, "This is a naked political frame-up. Sir Brown will Let all the public be aware of this."

As for whether it will become the most classic, greatest, and most talked about annual meeting in history.

It must be admitted that this level of neurosis that goes deep into the bone marrow is really not something that normal people can perform casually.

"Young kid, if you want to engage in a debate on art theory, you have no chance at all. Come back in fifty years."

"What is art? What counts as art? What is not art? Is there an enduring gold standard that can be tempered by time and that can accurately distinguish the difference between elegance and vulgarity?"

Fortunately.

After all, Bull didn't really rush to the stage to pester. After being rejected, he looked for a seat next to him and sat down with a frown on his face.

still is……

Elvis Presley sighed softly.

Ok.

"Don't you know, gentlemen, where is the so-called order that can be maintained now?"

When it comes to academic disputes over the definition of "art," no one in the world can terrify him.

I really think the Pope of Art is making trouble with you.

one day.

He was simply replying that the so-called art is just a bunch of shit?

"Go back and don't cause any more trouble. Let them do whatever they like."

The director of the New Art Center waved his hand playfully from the sidelines and drove away the security personnel who ran over and didn't know whether they should grab Hunter Bull's shoulders and ask him to leave the venue for disturbing the normal order of the venue.

The poor part-time host shook his head and said in great confusion.

How dare she make trouble in Sir Brown's most core academic field.

It still became a big scandal and a laughing stock, bringing an extremely disgraceful end to the academic tradition of holding artist seminars in turns in various European countries for fifty years.

"Thank you for your compliment. However, I have more important things to talk about now. What is art? Since Sir Brown raised this question, I think I should have my own answer here. "

The influence of this annual meeting is really explosive.

Sir Brown couldn't help but sneer.

It is no longer up to the organizer he represents to decide.

I continued to smoke puff after puff.

This guy is really crazy.

Yingying smiled.

Faced with this chaotic scene of demons dancing in the entire venue, the curator chose to give up treatment completely.

His tone was calm, and it was unclear whether his eyes were profoundly clear or innocent and unreasonably stupid.

Throw the question to everyone in the venue again.

Anna smiled lightly at Mr. Elvis and nodded to express her gratitude.

Is this guy angry because his request was rejected?

I feel that there is obviously a greater artistic work nearby, but Miss Irina is obsessed with giving lectures on such vulgar things and curses.

"It is the shit. (Is it a ball of shit?)"

Hear this.

From any angle.

When a homeless-looking man in a dusty trench coat said the word SHIT, it was as refreshing and natural as the Buddhist verses of an enlightened old monk reciting "Amitabha". It was fresh, natural, and profound.

Many people don't even know the difference.

He was only in such embarrassment because Anna, who acted out of common sense, directly blamed the "Nazi" on his head.

"This is your strength. When you say this in front of Sir Brown, she wants to teach fish how to learn to swim." The gallery owner of CDX said angrily from the side, "She has completely picked the wrong battlefield. She is too naive. .Does she really think it’s still the time when her great-grandfather was all-out in the art field? First, the art media criticized her as useless, and then we defeated her from the mainstream media. This is our counterattack."

Anna tilted her head.

At this time when everyone's morale is low.

They really need some exciting news to cheer themselves up and save the endangered art alliance.

Even if you want to drag them to death together.

Considering Miss Elena's situation of being alone, it is not that easy.

She had just made a stunning and unreasonable move on the chessboard that killed her enemy.

It seems that he unwisely picked the wrong battlefield and hit the hardest iron plate. This is good news that seems to be in line with everyone's expectations.

"Ah."

Sir Brown also sneered.

"Don't worry, I can eat breakfast while watching the TV news, silently writing Picasso's full name on a napkin, and scolding ten people who have more experience than she does when putting maple syrup on blueberry pancakes. ’s arts editor. She’s nothing.”

(Note, Picasso’s full name is very long, nearly a hundred words.)

"I will never write a single word wrong during this period." Gagosian said.

Everyone smiled softly.

The depressed atmosphere, which had reached its peak, immediately became much more relaxed under the adjustment of this little joke.

Turn this matter into a purely artistic battle.

It's the best outcome they can expect now.

No matter how many examples Anna gives, no one can prove that Detective Cat's works are of superb style and outstanding technique.

They can immediately cite ten times the number of examples to prove that Detective Cat's works are not "artistic" enough.

Sir Brown is full of confidence.

He knew that Anna's academic quality was far from as bad as he described. On the contrary, while the surname "Elena" brings glory, it also largely obscures her own excellence and hard work.

so what?

Art wars and celebrity quarrels are somewhat similar to each other.

To put it bluntly.

What is art?

This is a question that has no right answer at all.

The essence is not necessarily to compare who is right, but to compare which side has a louder voice and can confuse more fans.

"Impressionism is the aesthetics of recording sunlight and air." - This motto makes Vandoorne as clown-like as a clown, because it is compared to Mr. Sloth and Tonks, the chief curator of the Taylor Art Museum.

Fan Dorn just doesn't have the right to speak.

And a large group of big guys like Sir Brown sit together, do they hold the right to speak about art in their hands? No, they are the embodiment of the concept of art!

How Anna talks like a lotus flower.

When she chose to argue with the referee, it was already impossible for her to win.

"When Sir Brown was speaking just now, I thought about it in the audience for a long time, and finally came to a conclusion in my heart." Miss Elena waited for a few seconds before asking and answering herself.

"The answer is... I don't know."

She said bluntly.

Oh shit.

The old men in the audience were red-eyed, ready to give a fierce blow as an academic authority, but they were stunned by this more ferocious god's turn.

"Okay. Now I can really understand why Hunter Bull likes her. These two are innocent and mentally ill. They are really the same kind of people." Gao Guxuan wiped the sweat from his temples, "This can be considered You must be self-aware."

"No, on such a serious occasion, did she come here specifically to tell cold jokes?"

Lao Yang couldn't straighten out his breath, almost choked and coughed, and joked with Lao Cao with a smile.

"Quiet, listen carefully, and learn."

Mr. Cao didn't laugh.

He clicked the piece of paper in his hand that Tang Ning handed to him through his assistant, glanced at Lao Yang playfully, ignored him, and returned to the podium.

The little old man said quietly: "Even if it's a favor incident, in the field where you feel you are most interested in playing, the other person's position is much higher than yours."

cough cough.

Lao Yang sat up straight in an instant and broke into a cold sweat.

this time.

He was really choked.
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Among the senior executives of the Muse Project group who had gathered in the seating area, there were several big names who were not smiling. Including Sir Brown himself.

When Anna said she didn't know the answer, the chairman stopped laughing.

He frowned slightly and stared intensely at the young woman on the stage.

At this time, there is no way to win but there is a way.

No matter what kind of rhetoric Anna comes up with, Brown is confident that he can break it easily.

But if Miss Elena doesn’t take any action at all.

How can he break it?

But if you want to use retreat to advance with a beautiful hand, saying "I don't know" is not enough.

It's not enough.

"When I started working at Oil Painting magazine when I was 20 years old, Professor Sergey Ivanovich, the original senior editor of the visual arts section and a tenured professor at the Repin Academy of Fine Arts, retired. During the handover , Professor Ivanovich only left me two things. The key to the drawer in his office, and a book."

"That is a book that the professor has carried with him for so many years. It is not the Bible, nor is it a precious and weathered out-of-print art illustrated book. It is a Russian version introduced by the Soviet Academy of Sciences Press in 1983. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.”

"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is one of the best-selling science fiction novels in the world. It is written in a witty and humorous style. Most of you here should have read it. It tells the story of people from all over the universe who gather their strength to get the answer to the ultimate great question of the universe. . So we built an unprecedented supercomputer called Deep Thought, which ran calculations for a full 7.5 million years. Finally, we got an answer."

"42, a simple number."

Anna spoke calmly and calmly.

"Thinking deeply tells people that 42 is the final solution to the ultimate great question of the universe. It represents everything and everything. But at this moment, people are confused and discover, what is everything and everything? What is the 'ultimate great question itself'? People discover that they don’t know. Even deep thinking can’t calculate the result.”

"Professor Ivanovich told me that this is the most humorous and charming story he has ever read in his life. This book, which seems to have nothing to do with art, is a book that covers the entire world of art scholars. An allegorical metaphor for the industry.”

"The old gentleman told me that if decades of work have allowed him to get anything close to the truth, then there is only one thing. That is, the question itself may sometimes be bigger and more complicated than the answer."

Anna said softly.

“The essence of the profession of art scholar is to ask the right questions, not to give your own answers.”

"Everyone's talents are limited, and no one is an omniscient and omnipotent God. Therefore, finding a question that is deep enough, insightful, and confronting the source may even be more important than trying to answer the question."

"He said, when you want to try to answer a certain question, as an editor of a magazine, you might as well ask yourself, do you really understand this question?"

“I have benefited a lot from the old gentleman’s teachings.”

Anna's clear voice traveled leisurely through the huge cavity in the museum venue, passing through the blue transparent glass and the neon strips that flashed and changed the works of Gustav Klimt.

Floating towards the sky.

Drifting far away in the fiber optics of the Internet.

From all corners of the world, there are ethereal echoes.

"What is art? This question is too vague and empty. Instead of asking what art is? It is better to ask whose art is it."

"Art, whose art is it? Is the art of gladiator battles painted on ancient Roman murals the art of shackled slaves, or the art of slave owners cheering in the theater? The Athenians once made a statue of Meletos , worshiping him as a hero for his act of accusing the godless Socrates to death. Meletus won, he forever won the debate with the hated Socrates. His marble statue stands tall in the city-state of Athens a hundred years."

"But one thousand years later, two thousand years later. In the famous painting "The Death of Socrates" in the Louvre, the loser has become the winner who will be remembered forever."

"A ray of sunlight shines on Socrates' face and body. Underneath his naked and thin body is a strong willpower and a lack of fear in the face of death."

The stage lights hit the young woman's face.

It illuminated her like a gleaming marble sculpture.

"Who is elegant, the sculpture praising Meletus, or the painting praising Socrates, which is vulgar? The Athenians in 400 BC knew that they had been so proud of the banishment of pottery tablets, and they would be Is it a symbol of the mob? What about Impressionism and Academicism? In 1897, Gustave wanted to donate 947 Impressionist masterpieces to the French National Gallery of Art. However, he was denounced by the academic master Jérôme as saying that if the government accepted These vulgar dregs will be a huge moral loss."

"The tone is the same as Sir Brown's vow to declare war on vulgar art today. So what about today a hundred years later? Those 947 works are scattered in the largest art gallery in the world, the most brightly lit and crowded with people. How many non-professionals in the showcase still remember Jérôme’s name.”

"But is Gérôme really an artist with poor technique? If it weren't for the stain of suppressing Impressionism, his brilliant artistic achievements might even have a chance to lie in the Pantheon."

"So, it seems that in the struggle between Impressionism and Academicism, time has finally come to the side of Impressionism, and it has become the mainstream of the art world. But this mainstream is thousands of kilometers away, and at the same time, it is the Great Game between Britain, Russia, and Central Asia. What does the destroyed Khiva Khanate have to do with it?”

“Are the beautiful mosaic paintings and reliefs on the honey-colored masonry of the minarets that were smashed like heavy hammers under the artillery fire not considered the people’s artistic creations?”

“In the Grand Palace in the plains of Bohemia, there are murals of Apollo and the Nymphs (note) having an affair in spring sleep; and on the banks of the Thames where smoke and sewage flow across the river, night shift workers use cinders to paint on the walls of the lower town. A sketch of a secret love for a bakery maid. Who is elegant and who is vulgar, who represents the voice of the times and who is a proud minority?"

……

[Gu Jun——]

[Are you watching the current European Art Annual Conference? Super exciting! 】

[Our whole family is watching it on YouTube. 】

The other side of the world.

Gu Weijing's cell phone vibrated.

I do not know why.

Mr. Sloth suddenly lost contact as if his cell phone suddenly ran out of battery.

No matter what, I can't get a reply from the other party.

But Katsuko Sakai sent it, asking him to hurry up and watch the live broadcast of this European Art Annual Conference.

It’s not just Katsuko.

The accident at the annual meeting was like the collision of atoms, triggering a violent chain reaction.

It has been wildly forwarded by relevant practitioners around the world.

The live broadcast room where he is located has exceeded 30,000 people in just one or two minutes, and now the number of people watching in real time has exceeded 50,000.

Lian Gu Weijing was among the classmates of Dulwich College.

now.

The news is also flying all over the sky.

Dulwich's class counselors, like many Dongxia class teachers, will regularly throw in all kinds of messy consultations in large class-related groups.

It's just thrown in by ordinary classes, usually some beautifully written prose, mock test papers, tutoring materials, or English model essays.

In a class group of art students.

More about fine art painting related stuff, as well as the latest news consultation from the art field around the world.

Yangon has never been a frontier for fine arts.

Broadening students' horizons is also the responsibility of the curriculum consultants in each class at Dulwich College.

Graduation is approaching recently.

The students' discussions focused more on university application guides, campus recruitment fair notes and other areas.

but.

Some people in the classmate group still noticed the big news of the annual meeting.

"Wow, great painter, I seem to have seen your gallery's name on the signing list just announced by Sir Brown!"

Scroll forward and there will be well-informed people posting messages in the group@.

The one who was @ was naturally not Gu Weijing, but Miao Angwen.

“The 3D Universe Center for Modern Art in Seoul is a well-known and important gallery in Asia. It is not surprising that Sir Brown invited him to join the Muse Project.”

Miao Angwin replied coolly.

Reading between the lines, it seems that with the reputation of the Korean gallery, it is natural for it to appear in this newly established art alliance.

Although the Three-dimensional Universe Gallery is just a name hanging at the end of a world-famous gallery that goes through nearly a hundred galleries. Just like the national football team and the French team, both can have a name in the World Cup qualifiers.

In terms of scale, it is not even one-tenth of the size of the leading super galleries, which often make hundreds of millions of euros in profit.

But a tail hair of a phoenix.

If placed among the pheasants everywhere in the mortal world, it would be a jaw-dropping artifact.

Korean galleries can join the “Muse Project”.

Rounding things off a bit, Miu Unwin himself is equivalent to being on the list of great collaborative artists that Sir Brown has read out to the world.

Round again.

Miao Angwin's name is indirectly listed with top artists such as Hunter Bull and Tang Ning, who are super famous kings and queens.

How has the entire Dulwich school ever produced such an awesome student?

For the first time in their lives, the students in the group felt more personally involved in the top historical events in the world of beauty.

There is even some self-consciousness and vanity of the natal family.

"Brother Miao. Doesn't this mean that you also have a share of the US$20 billion bonus? If you get even a little bit, you will show off your lobster pizza until you die. No matter how rich you are, you will never forget it."

"Look at your potential. Brother Miao, please don't invite a big one. Let's have another party! We still had more fun last time."

"I heard from my agent that our Three-dimensional Universe Gallery should be able to get a total of one million US dollars in basic bonuses from Asia's special creative incentive fund pool. The remaining coefficient share depends on the artist's own efforts. .Being included in it is in itself a high honor and a symbol of artistic status.”

Miao Angwen explained lightly.

"I heard that if you can get the qualification to participate in the Venice Biennale, no matter what your grades are, as long as you are on the Muse Project's big list and enter the main exhibition area. The starting point is a creative allowance of US$10 per person. And it’s not capped.”

Needless to say in the class group.

There was another burst of praise shouting "666".

Even at a private school like Dewey, US$10 is higher than the annual income of many students' parents.

And money comes second.

Just hearing the words "my agent" can directly make these older children who are dreaming of professional painters and have reached the age to admit in their hearts that it will only be an illusory dream after all. .

Envy makes my liver tremble.

Some teachers from Dulwich even posted thumbs-up emoticons in the group.

Who hasn’t dreamed of living a life as a true artist?

(End of this chapter)