Almighty painter

Chapter 43 Art Princess
The chubby middle-aged nurse pushed Anna along the stone road on one side, like the open gate of the manor, and Thomas followed behind.

"Miss Anna, please let's talk in English. I only took a little German in high school, and English videos will reach a larger audience."

"This is the photographer. During this period of your identification of these paintings, he will shoot the whole process."

Thomas waved like a cameraman holding a stabilizer.

"The warm-up content of the new video is ready to be previewed on Twitter. According to the studio's process, the final product will be a short video of about 25 minutes, and it will most likely be posted on Youtube next week [Mr. Hyperion] A meeting between the channel and the audience.”

"According to the playback volume of previous [From One Dollar to One Million Challenge] videos, there is a high probability that 100 million to 8000 million people will watch this video in the next month. Of course, before the official launch, there will be A staff member will give you a copy of the video, and if you have any objections to the content of the video, we will consider it accordingly."

The care worker turned right along the shady stone path and came to the door of an old-fashioned glass building.

The building is also an ancient building, but the lighting is very good, and it has a transparent look, unlike many old-fashioned buildings in Europe that are gloomy and desolate. When you enter, you have the feeling of being in a ghost film set.

"Our family does not have the habit of building a ballet theater at home like the Russian nobles. But from a very early age, we have our own collection studio. My ancestors believed that art can last longer in this world than honor."

The nurse pushed open the door and walked into the collection room.

Austria was formerly the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

It is a multi-ethnic and multi-religious country with a complex structure that can be called chaotic.

This work in the studio shows such a style.

Greece, Turkey, Britain and the Balkans...

Hundreds of various oil paintings are enough to hold a luxurious art exhibition.

Some of these oil paintings are portraits of family members invited by painters, some are the artistic investment of generations, and some are simply the return of the painters to the generous art patrons.

Every generation in her family has been passionate about the arts.

Anna's grandmother's grandmother was a wealthy expatriate from Greece. She once went to London to study and was an important patron of the Pre-Raphaelites (the [-]th-century painting school). A few of the previous ones have been collected in the collection of oil paintings in the National Portrait Gallery in London.

"Wow, that's cool!"

Thomas gestured to the photographer to slide the camera over the famous paintings hanging on the collection studio, and let out an exclamation from his mouth.

He also rented an ancient castle to record a short video of hide-and-seek with fans. By chance, he learned that the hostess of the castle turned out to be a young student studying at the WYN Academy of Fine Arts, and he only met Anna.

After understanding,

The Anna he knew turned out to be an art critic.

Yes, a 22-year-old art critic.

In the field of painting, both painters and critics tend to age. Many post-70s practitioners are now 50 years old, so they can be regarded as Mesozoic.

And those who can use the words "master" or "someone" after their names are often the elderly after the age of 60.

For Uncle Sakai to gain such a reputation at his age, he is considered an outstanding talent.

And Anna can only be regarded as a monster.

God deprived her of the ability to walk, but gave her an outstanding talent for art appreciation.

She is the youngest contributor and column senior editor of the well-known art magazine "Oil Painting" since 1934.

Although critics don't need to hone their skills day by day like painters, the experience itself needs time to hone and polish, and there is no possibility of being brilliant and making a blockbuster like a painting genius.

It is true that Anna's success is inseparable from the support of family wealth.

When many people have never been to an art gallery in their entire lives, Anna grew up surrounded by famous paintings, which cultivated her innate artistic intuition.

But apart from this, the girl's resume is also excellent enough to make people amazed.

Anna was just 14 years old when she was wandering in a warehouse when she noticed that an old Victorian fraternity painting had the wrong color.

The Young Victorian Brotherhood is a group club of [-]th-century painters. Young painters gather together to discuss art trends and make progress together.

The club is mixed with good and bad people, and famous painters have been born, but most of the members are also unknown.

The painter of that ancient painting belongs to the unknown category.Otherwise, it would not be stored in the warehouse, and no one cares about it.

Anna keenly noticed that the peeling edges of the painting were covered with abnormal colors, while the entire gloomy and cool-toned oil painting was turning yellow.

Based on her discovery, the adults asked experts to uncover the canvas layer by layer, and found that this painting was covered by another orange landscape oil painting.

A canvas made of linen is expensive, even if it is a pure cotton canvas, not everyone could afford it in the 19th century.

In the past, when young painters couldn't afford new canvases, they would often pick up old works that others in the club didn't want and cover them with new ones.

That's the case with this one.

And according to the signature on the canvas below T·J.

The piece covered by this unknown artist was also a practice work of an unknown person at the time - his original artist's name was Tom Jane, who was later admitted to the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in London, and the current market value is as high as 70 US dollars.

Such a story is just a small microcosm of her career as a connoisseur.

Anna was the editor-in-chief of the WYN Campus Art Weekly during her school days.

The campus weekly of the University of the Arts with a long history is a very serious art magazine. It has its own special publishing house and distributes it to the public. It has a relatively fixed and highly sticky readership group. Some people have subscribed for 20 years.

The main writers of these campus weekly magazines are often young professors and older outstanding graduates in the school.

It is a great honor to be the chief writer of Campus Weekly as a student.

Not to mention being able to become a contributor to a weekly art magazine like "Oil Painting" magazine, it is not only because of the fact that my great-grandfather is the founder of this magazine.

She even has her own anonymous private podcast station - [Artists Review By Mr. Folivora (Mr. Sloth's artist review)]

This is a popular art salon radio show.

For an art critic, being young is a big disadvantage, and one is born to be questioned by others.

So in the podcast, Anna will use a hoarse voice of a virtual middle-aged uncle [Mr. Sloth] to comment on the current art style of painting and various original painters.

She started the podcast anonymously from the ground up with no family resources, and in three years it has 17 followers.

Last year, it was also on the list of Apple Podcasts, No.1 in the annual list of new stars in the art column.

There is no comparison with Thomas, a popular Internet celebrity with hundreds of millions of fans, but in the niche field of art criticism, this mysterious sloth of unknown origin has attracted a lot of attention.

In just three years, this Mr. Sloth has been able to influence the market prices and creative trends of some young painters on a small scale.

There is no doubt that in the field of art criticism, under the influence of the artistic atmosphere from childhood to adulthood, Anna is a real princess and a real monster.

However, Thomas' original first choice for this video was not Anna.

Although she is very professional, but...

The general public has the same impression of critics as Eastern Xia people have of Chinese medicine.

Thomas actually hopes that he can invite older and more experienced professors and artists who are engaged in illustration-related work to participate in this program.

At least in the eyes of the viewers of the video, an old professor with a beard and gray hair visually looks more knowledgeable than a little girl.

It is a pity that when he invited invitations from well-known oil painting studios, galleries and museums, he was rejected.

It was suggested to him that such comparisons risked offending.

As Anna said, the value of small-scale illustrations lies in three points: storytelling, historical value and artistic value.

If the subject matter is specified.

When evaluating the value of art alone, it is difficult for you to say that a world-renowned artist is much more skilled than an old painter who has been drawing ordinary comic illustrations for 20 years in this line of work.

For example, one of the most famous illustrations in the world comes from the "Paris Peace Sign" painted by the great illustrator Jean Julian after the terrorist attacks in 2015,
This symbol is used again and again in all parts of France, in the United Nations, in all anti-terrorism activities, and has become the national memory of Europeans.

The whole illustration is to draw the shape of the Eiffel Tower with four pens on a circular ink ring with brush-like strokes.

Elementary school students can draw in 30 seconds with a nine-point resemblance.

But it is hard to say how much this unique illustration is worth.

If the original painting is auctioned, it is worth $100 million, $1000 million is it, and someone is willing to pay [-] million, then it is worth [-] million.

After all, it has become an integral part of national culture.

The hundreds of printed newspapers that had the "Philadelphia Declaration of Independence" posted on bulletin boards in the early days have an approximate market circulation price of between 150 million and 300 million US dollars each.

What is important is not the newspaper, but the historical significance, that is the reason.

If this kind of thing is an ordinary TV variety show routine, it is estimated that they will communicate with the critics behind their backs, and secretly tell the other party which painting was drawn by a master and which painting was drawn by an unknown person. It doesn’t matter if it’s a script anyway. .

But Thomas couldn't do that.

This is the difference between traditional TV stations and emerging self-media.

Foreign YouTube UP owners can win attention, and don’t need to consider all kinds of gossip about social influence. Fans may think that you are very "keep real".

He has come to this day by throwing coins regardless of the cost in the video. As long as he has eyeballs, no matter how much money he spends on the video, he can double it back.

But if there is a script in the process of fraud, or the tens of millions of yachts promised to fans are finally exposed, the winner is my second aunt or something.

Then his channel is worthless.

He tentatively extended an invitation to Anna, who had only a few faces. Maybe it was the confidence of the old-school art collector family, or maybe it was just the girl's maverick, but the other party agreed to his invitation.

"Although Ms. Anna already knew my purpose of coming, I still introduced the recording rules and procedures of the program."

The nurse pushed Anna towards the interior of the manor, and Thomas followed behind while introducing.

"This is the commissioner of the Danube Art Factoring Company."

He gestured to a burly bearded man with a big black bag on his back.

The bearded man nodded to Anna in the wheelchair.

"Wearing on his back is a portable safe for moving small valuable works of art."

Thomas pointed to the precipitated black suitcase and said.

"There are seven small-scale illustrations in this box, worth one dollar, ten dollars, one hundred dollars, one thousand dollars, ten thousand dollars, one hundred thousand dollars and one million dollars."

He took out his phone and showed the camera a screenshot of a $100 million check that had been cashed.

"No hype, no money laundering, this is the real deal that cost me $100 million."

He emphasized every single word.

"ONE! MILLION! DOLLARS!"

"Some people say that the art market is just hype. As long as there are suitable promoters, air can sell at high prices."

"Some people say that the appeal contained in the master's works is enough to shock an era."

"Today we reveal the answer."

"Miss Anna, your task is to tell me, as an art critic, which painting is better without knowing the identity of the artist."

(End of this chapter)