Almighty painter

Chapter 44 Berryman's Students
Thomas turned to the camera and said—

"The creative sketches made by all seven paintings will be printed on the new mugs launched on my personal shopping website."

"The specific shopping link will be at the top of the comment area below the video, and it will be shipped randomly after purchase. You only need to spend five dollars, and there is a one-in-seventh chance to get the same illustration worth $100 million, please remember Live, log in..."

When Thomas, as usual, read a long advertisement in front of the camera to bring goods to his personal shopping website.

The insurance specialist on one side has also opened the portable suitcase fixed to his belt by a locked handcuff behind him to prevent being robbed.

From it he took out seven illustrations wrapped in velvet cloth.

The area of ​​each illustration is small, only the size of a children's figure book.

The seven illustrations, no matter they are high or low, all use the most exquisite mahogany frame and thickened glass panel without discrimination.

In addition to uniform mounting.

In order to prevent accidental disclosure of information about the illustrator to Anna.

Only a few of the staff present knew the specific value of these illustrations, and even the insurance commissioner in charge did not know which of the seven paintings was the one worth $100 million.

Thomas finished the commercial and turned the frame over through the velvet cloth.

He pointed to a stickered area on the back of the frame of each of the seven paintings, which was the name of the artist of each painting.

After the comparison and evaluation of the seven illustrations, the real prices of these paintings will be announced to the audience at the end.

He took a few blank cards from the staff, divided them into four groups, kept one for himself, and distributed the rest with markers to everyone.

The rules are like this -

It is similar to the previous one-dollar to one-million-dollar challenge videos to select favorite water sports, favorite cars, and favorite special effects.

Anna as art critic and Thomas as collector.

The insurance commissioner of the insurance company and a black brother randomly selected from fans to participate in the video represent the perspectives of all ordinary viewers.

The four of them will act as judges to score each work together.

Among them, only Mr. Hyperion knows the real price of each work.

The full score is 10 points, the minimum is 0 points, and the person with the highest score will be the winner after the sum of 4 judges.

Thomas was not in a hurry to lift the flannelette covering the picture frame.

Not the same as a sports yacht.

He knows that many of his audience have no basic understanding of art, and they don't know what kind of paintings are valuable and what kind of paintings are not.

Therefore, he first pointed to the camera and said to Anna.

"Before the evaluation, can you tell our audience what kind of market the illustration market is as a professional?"

"In a popular sense, illustration is an art form that presents text content, stories, and ideas in a visual way. It can be drawn in a variety of forms, such as pen drawings, colored pencil drawings, marker strokes, and even oil paintings, but generally In terms of painting, the space is not too big, the colors..."

"How expensive is the most expensive illustration in the world?"

Knowing that his audience wasn't here for an art class, Thomas hurriedly asked a question that was more appealing to ordinary people.

"It's hard to say. Compared with oil painters, illustrators are not so [artistic] in the inherent impression of ordinary people. They have more works and lower unit prices, but the price of illustrations also fluctuates very much. Say the most expensive..."

Anna frowned in thought.

"What's not so 'art'?"

Thomas caught the other's words.

"How should I put it, it's like the content of your draft is Batman..."

"Batman and my joint name, to be precise, my personal surroundings, thank you." Thomas interjected.

"Whatever you want to say. I mean, it's hard to imagine that painters like Titian, Monet, and Van Gogh would paint popular novels in the society at that time, just like Picasso would not paint Sherlock Holmes and Watson. Portraiture. But illustrations are different, illustrations and manga are connected to pop culture from the day they were born.”

"For example, Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, the specific value of these cartoon images is difficult to estimate, if you include the value of IP, it should be more than one billion US dollars. One of the best-selling children's literature works in the world, "Wind in the Willows" In fact, the artist Sheppard’s illustration copyright fee is even higher than Graham’s copyright fee for the text story content. Even if you want to own the original published illustration manuscript of the first edition of Harry Potter novels, some people are willing to pay a high price for it. "

"If you don't consider IP, how much can you sell for a simple drawing? One dollar, ten dollars... all the way to one million dollars, what kind of illustrations can you buy in the art market?"

"100 million is already the top price of small-sized illustrations in the industry. The illustrations that can be sold at this price are all top artists in the industry. Not only the art style is mature, but also a certain historical story is required. For example, the most famous in modern times The best illustrator should be Norman Rockwell, a student of the anatomical painter George Berryman, and the German "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung" once commented that his illustration art has reached the [peak of the 20th century].

"Norman Rockwell, I think I heard that name in a middle school class?"

Thomas said.

"Of course you should have heard of it." The girl was not surprised.

"The pinnacle of Norman Rockwell's lifetime achievements was that, at the request of President Roosevelt, he drew a series of illustrations of the Four Freedoms during World War II to boost national morale. Some people compared the newspapers that published this series of illustrations with the independent newspapers printed in the Philadelphia Evening News. manifesto."

Anna shaved a strand of hair hanging down her head, and introduced: "He also received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from Congress for this. This is the highest honor that a citizen of the New World can receive in his lifetime."

"One million is the top painter?"

"The most top-notch brushstrokes, the most gimmicky stories, and the popularity of the market. So I say, since you are not the president, and it is not World War II, it is not a good choice for you to spend 100 million yuan to ask for a draft."

Anna nodded, and joked generously: "Unfortunately, the person in this room who most resembles Roosevelt is not you."

She is beautiful and also very cold, this smile actually has the feeling of the ice melting and a hundred flowers blooming.

(Note: Like Anna, President Roosevelt was a famously disabled leg.)
"U.S. $100 to $[-] million, this price can usually buy the works of top painters, but it doesn't need too much support from historical events. For example, an Indian painter depicting Hindu mythology that was auctioned at the recent Himalayan art sale of Christie's illustration work."

Anna took an IPAD from the nurse and clicked on an illustration, which featured gods and fairies with crowns in the jungle.

The above information shows that this exquisite illustration was once used as a model for printing in nineteenth-century French and British books on Indian religion.

"The original painting of this painting is very good."

Anna enlarged the picture and commented.

“The brush strokes are very detailed. Its starting price was $12, and the estimated transaction price is around $20 to $58. But the buyers on the day seemed to like the painting, and the auctioneer’s ability to mobilize the atmosphere was also good. The final transaction price was US$[-]. This figure exceeded market expectations by a lot.”

"From $[-] to $[-]. At this price, you can find very experienced second-tier painters. They may not be top-notch artists, but everyone has their own mature artistic style, which is also a common price for high-end drafts. These painters The biggest customers are film companies. Most of the exquisite art posters you see in the cinema before the release of new movies are the works of painters at this price.”

"For around $[-], you can hire a very good professional illustrator, except that you can't think too much about the artistic component. This is the daily price for a small painting studio."

"Around $[-], there are no extra requirements, but you can still make appointments with works that seem to be in the past. As for less than $[-], sorry, this is not my professional field."

Anna's lips pursed slightly in a mean-looking arc.

"What do you mean it's not your field of expertise?"

"Not absolutely, but generally speaking, it is a substandard artwork."

Anna thought about it, and still commented.

Art critics are not the same as auction house appraisers.

The latter needs to try to discover the advantages of a piece of work, which is related to the commission and the handling fee for unsold auctions.

Art critics are more vicious in daily life. They need to find out the shortcomings of a painting, and identify cheaters from the painter group to abuse them.

Don't look at Anna in a wheelchair as a cold and quiet little queen. Her writing in the art magazine has always been known for being mean and cruel. It's not that an old painter with no hair and beard is scolded by her. cried.

She is such a person who does her own way, otherwise she would not be willing to agree to Thomas' invitation.

Anna is not short of money, art is only her spiritual sustenance.

She doesn't have a good impression of the low-priced painters who work part-time online.She hopes to expose the mistakes and omissions of these painters to people.

In the field of art,

She has always thought that - even if you are an artist, you don't have confidence in yourself, how can you make others have confidence in you?How can you make the market have confidence in you?
Anna knows that this price is usually not a work of art.

Most of them are online work-study art students or amateur painting enthusiasts. It is very happy for them to be able to sell a commissioned illustration. It is possible to sell a painting for a month. Nice cost of living.

Otherwise, her evaluation would not be so polite as "unqualified".According to her personality, it would be nice not to call the other party trash.

"Okay, let's start with the first painting." Anna lifted the canvas from a painting.

(End of this chapter)