Almighty painter

Chapter 439 Printmaking and Katsuko are back

It goes without saying how much help his last legendary skill brought him.

Strictly speaking, Hua Dao Hua is just the first initial branch of the "Miscellaneous Hundred Arts Tree".

The potential of this legendary skill is far from being fully developed by Gu Weijing.

As long as he is willing to keep watering the Baiyi tree.

In theory.

He can develop many skills that are not inferior to those of drawing, knife and painting.

Gu Weijing didn't have enough free experience points at hand, and Baiyishu didn't even have a guaranteed explosion rate. He really couldn't afford such a high-end card drawing skill that cost one thousand points.

And now.

The second legendary skill appeared.

"Printmaking techniques? Not bad, either."

Printmaking is not very popular in the entire field of modern painting.

Everyone may still be smiling, but in their hearts they will definitely scold you for being stupid [beep~].

Japan in Asia is a big country of printmaking. The early ukiyo-e masters were also famous printmakers, which can be traced back to the shogunate era. Therefore, printmakers in Japan have a high status and are regarded as high-level craftsmen respected by the whole society.

The west is not bright but the east is bright.

Even though printmaking was considered a second-class citizen in art exhibitions in the early years, it was unique in its ability to attract money.

He almost never came into contact with this professional category again.

Menzel is one of the few great all-round painters in modern times. Apart from being unable to paint traditional Chinese paintings, this old man knew and was proficient in oil paintings, watercolors, prints, and sketches.

You take a print to an auction company or pawn shop and say it is a work by Dürer, Rembrandt, or Gurdji Hokusai. Everyone laughs and bids, but no one takes you seriously.

If you have any choice.

If you print a famous painting with a copy machine, it's not even worth it.

It is obviously more beneficial for participating in art exhibitions and so on.

Printmaking is a serious work of art.

No matter how unpopular printmaking is, it is still one of the five major categories of serious painting with a long history. There are special printmaking sections in art exhibitions.

Relying on the little rain and dew brought by the upgrading of other techniques, his skill level broke through the lowest amateur level.

I don’t learn much in school either.

Although printmaking is probably not the best way to express art, it should be the most profitable painting technique.

Do you get a craft item?

The painting method has its shortcomings and strong points.

But he's not picky about food either.

A cheeky European art shop or antique art store.

A sign saying [Author: (German) Menzel] can be hung below a print by Menzel.

It’s even more profitable than oil painting and Chinese painting.

Menzel's family just ran a printmaking shop and were quite wealthy.

An original printing plate made in the hands of a well-known great painter is a real money printing machine.

Many famous Western painters are more or less exposed to some printmaking techniques.

A small difference between handicrafts and works of art can make a big difference in level.

Just look at the "Legendary" note.

Gu Weijing felt satisfied and expected from the bottom of his heart.

If the imitation product is not labeled as imitation, it is an obvious fraud.

Also.

Printmaking pays attention to quantity.

In addition to wearing carrot stamps when wearing crotchless pants, Gu Weijing also carved rubber stamps in a DIY handicraft class in seventh grade, which is barely considered a kind of printmaking for children in a broad sense.

There is no such thing as "fantastic skills" such as drawing, knife and painting that can touch porcelain.

Not as many as the Federal Reserve prints, but each denomination is definitely larger than the $100 Franklin.

Even the finely crafted replicas jointly signed by the Palace Museum and the Louvre that cost a thousand dollars each can only be regarded as exquisite modern handicrafts.

youth version.

Gu Weijing actually wanted to acquire skills in the three art categories of traditional Chinese painting, oil painting, and watercolor.

The most intuitive difference.

Moreover, printmaking is very special.

We must regard the village chief as a cadre and the bean bags as dry food.

In a sense, you can completely regard printmaking works as original works...

The original plates for printmaking are extremely quickly expendable.

The best effect of the dry engraving method can only be printed ten times before the plate pattern will be damaged. The etching method can print about seventy-five sheets.

The engraving method is the most solid and can only print about 200 sheets.

Dry plate, etching, engraving.

They are the three main categories of traditional printmaking.

In modern times, screen printing has also been added.

Exquisite limited edition prints signed by the artist can be sold for up to about 80% of the original price.

In the late 19th century, some sketch masters might sell a character sketch for $100 to $150.

US$1890 in 150 was quite valuable, and few people could save that kind of money in their lifetime as those cowboys firing guns in Western movies.

An engraved and signed print can sell for seventy or eighty dollars.

Even if you only sell 120 copies, you can easily sell it for $1000.

If the sales are good, some businessmen will even spend a lot of money to buy the original abandoned engraving plates from the master, repair them and print them again.

Every restoration, whether it is copper plate painting, wood board painting or slate painting, will inevitably leave traces, such as the hair of the characters and the folds of clothes.

And reflected on the paper when the next batch of printing.

Therefore, appraisers will divide prints into signed editions, edited editions, original editions, reprints, restored editions, restored editions of restored editions, severely restored editions... and many other distinctions.

As the quantity increases, the market price will decrease.

Until the carved hard plate finally reaches the hard end of its life.

Anyway, art always follows the hard market rule that rare things are more valuable.

If you print too much and you are too greedy, you will begin to infinitely dilute the difference between art and crafts.

Modern screen printing is because there is no physical restriction on the number of prints. If you are willing, you can print 10 million copies.

Compared with traditional plate making methods, the most important step in the modern screen printing production process is called "plate selling".

After printing to the desired number, 15, 30 or 50 sheets, the artist will destroy all the extra pictures and masters in full view of the public to ensure the sale value of these works.

Under normal circumstances, these boss paintings are quite valuable.

Prints are the best alternative for collectors who cannot afford a "1 of 1" autographed original.

What everyone buys is not the painting, but the reputation of the painter.

Give a very inappropriate example.

Autographed works are positioned as luxury goods for the rich, while prints are positioned as light luxury goods that "fool" the petty bourgeoisie to pay for them.

Many young people can't afford Omega's 3000-yuan luxury watch, so they buy the -yuan fast-selling model launched by Omega & Swatch to get the Omega name.

As a result, because the target group is much larger than the traditional wealthy group, the co-branded model has sold millions of dollars in several quarters and has become a cash cow for the group. One watch may exceed Omega's total sales for the whole year.

There is such a special relationship between prints and original works.

At an auction or in an art boutique, a Rembrandt print that has been repaired so badly that even the mother who repaired it does not recognize it sells for one to two thousand dollars, which is not a big problem. And it’s easy to shoot.

But if you are willing to increase your budget by one or two orders of magnitude, to around $20,000 to $30,000, you will find that you can actually buy original sketches by people like Matisse.

Low prices, high sales, this has been the way for artists to make a lot of money from printmaking since ancient times.

It was not until the emergence of Pop Art and Andy Warhol in the last century that this situation changed.

They successfully upgraded from making money to "stealing money".

He is the most expensive printmaker and artist with the highest market price in human history. Because it is impossible for things like "Mona Lisa" and "Along the River During the Qingming Festival" to be sold, there is not one of them.

The first man in human history to sell printed reproductions of silk screen prints for US$70, 80, or even hundreds of millions of dollars per unit.

Even Da Vinci had to kneel down when he came.

The total estimated value of his surviving works alone exceeds 100 billion US dollars.

Top two Miss Elena's family collections.

Some people say that he is the product of a group of art tycoons such as Gagosian who collectively created gods and speculated on the market. Others say that printed matter will always be an avenue for speculation. Every year, scholars say that the prices of his works are full of bubbles.

But at its peak.

Among the top ten astronomical transaction prices in history, Leonardo da Vinci, Monet, Van Gogh... these people together account for 6, and Andy Warhol, the printmaker, alone accounts for four.

The biggest miracle in the history of art business was not created by Chinese painting or oil painting.

But it was created by a printmaking artist.

Gu Weijing was still heartbroken just now because the system skills were burning money too hard.

The next moment, the system thoughtfully sends you money-making skills.

Look at the panel.

The sound of money seemed to be ringing in his ears, and he couldn't help but praise the system in his heart.

sensible!

"It's just six drawings...it doesn't look like a lot."

The question is, where is he going to catch apprentices?

Since the system has marked the rose as a gift, my hands are still fragrant and I want to help other art practitioners.

It just eliminates the possibility of him drawing a row of bases himself first, and then using his skills to light up all the clouds, which is an opportunistic way to complete the tasks in the assembly line.

Gu Weijing took a look at the 900 seconds of free use left on the panel today.

His eyes glanced around casually.

He then moved his gaze to the pile of Museum Island landscape paintings hung in watercolor frames on the wall by Professor Wattel.
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Kansai International Airport.

On the endless sea, a double-runway airport shaped like an H-shaped structure is located here.

It is the largest airport built on reclaimed land in Japan and one of the busiest airports in the airspace.

Ocean-going planes in various paintings flew out of the blue sea and sky one after another and disappeared into the clouds in the distance.

"DH6723, Kansai ground, parking space 206, requesting to push out."

"Kansai ground, DH6723, parking space 206, agreed to launch."

"Kansai ground, DH6723, due to conflict, expected delay of 3 minutes. Please wait on the taxiway, please enter the runway by mistake."

"..."

Inside the cabin of a Boeing 767-300 cargo plane belonging to the DHL Express Company, with two colors of yellow and white, and the classic livery of three red letters of DHL sprayed on the tail fin.

The first officer hammered the folder holding the flight checklist angrily.

"Idiot tower, we've already been delayed for 45 minutes, do we have to wait any longer?"

The gray-haired captain is not as fiery-tempered as his deputy, who used to fly fighter jets and has just transferred from the military to civilians. He is already a very good old man like him.

He pushed the left and right engines into the idle position in tandem and put his sunglasses into his chest pocket.

He glanced at the co-pilot.

"John, why are you so anxious? Anyway, for safety reasons, our fuel-saving awards and on-time awards have been cancelled." The old captain shrugged and comforted him like a senior, "Just wait a minute, big airports are like this, all kinds of There are a lot of VVIPs who have priority protection, including politicians and celebrities. Those who fly cargo flights have no human rights. The most time I waited in Los Angeles was three hours."

"Maybe the president of a major Japanese party is sitting on the plane taking off in front of us?" he joked.

Chat room.

A small business jet slowly inserted into the runway from another taxiway fifty meters away from the cargo plane.

It was a "Honda Jet", a lightweight player among business jets that was loved by young wealthy people in Japan and North America.

Compared with the Boeing 767, which is nearly fifty meters long, it is not much higher than the opponent's landing gear. It is like an elf arrogantly inserting itself in front of the burly giant.

Private jets enjoy higher VIP status within the airport.

In order to prevent the wing vortices of a large aircraft like the 767 when taking off from causing safety hazards and turbulence to the VIPs following behind.

Even if DHL applies for launch first.

When the private jet applied to take off, the giant behind him could only squat on the taxiway next to it and wait.

The business jet stayed on the runway for a few seconds before turning on its full power.

Two vortexes of water vapor were gently stirred up between the wings of the aircraft and flew away in the sky, leaving only the two pilots of the large cargo plane behind them enviously guessing the identity of the VIPs in the cabin.

The passengers in the cabin were neither senior politicians nor the president of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries.

Sakai Katsuko leaned on the backrest, took a sip of passion juice from the cup, connected to the WIFI on the plane, and started sending a message to Gu Weijing.

[Gu Jun, I’ll be back today. I’ll see you at school tomorrow. 】

Mrs. Sakai waited for the plane to take off and then loosened her seat belt.

He put the armchair to its farthest position, crossed his legs together, and read an art and design magazine.

"Detective Cat Museum, hum, this girl has made a lot of money. How proud. When will we also have a Sakai Family Museum in our house?"

Mrs. Sakai sniffed, her tone full of yearning.

"I'm not greedy either, Katsuko. If you or Issei can have an exhibition named after you in the National Museum of Art or the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Art in Ueno Park, I would be satisfied..."

Mrs. Sakai said nothing when she saw her daughter.

He put down the magazine in his hand and turned his head to see her sending a message.

Mrs. Sakai puffed her cheeks in dissatisfaction.

"Katsuko? Mom is talking to you."

"Ah."

Only then did Shengzi raise his head and look at his mother.

"Sending a message to that guy again?" Mrs. Sakai sneered.

The blonde aunt hummed and taught her daughter.

"Humph. Listen to what mom said, you are so good. When the time is right, you have to catch him, so that he can feel your importance. Look, your dad is so well-behaved now that I have trained him!"

Mrs. Sakai was unhappy.

She used to think that girls were good at everything, they were her little cotton-padded jackets that were close to hers, so cute and soft.

just now.

The blond aunt suddenly felt that it was not good for her daughter to be too good.

The personality is too good.

What a powerful person she is! I flattened and rounded Uncle Sakai, and told my husband to go east, but he didn’t dare to go west. He was told not to eat donuts, but he only dared to secretly nibble on cookies!

Humph.

As a result, such excellent genetic genes did not show up in my precious daughter.

The way Katsuko was so obedient to that kid made Mrs. Sakai angry just looking at her.

"I promised Gu Jun that I would go back to see him this week. Keep your word."

Shengzi smiled charmingly.

(End of this chapter)