Almighty painter

Chapter 500 Awards and Sir Brown’s Skills
Metropolitan Museum of Art.

The number one art museum in North America, with more than 300 million art collections. It was prepared for construction in 1870 under the leadership of John Morgan, heir to the famous Morgan consortium.

Since the day it was born, the Metropolitan Museum of Art has been the museum with the highest cultural status in New York.

Even looking at the United States and even the entire North American region, it is difficult to say that it is an opponent.

M&A has a strategic cooperation agreement with the Louvre Abu Dhabi, although it sounds like the name is also called the Louvre.

In fact, the breakdown is just a secondary exhibition hall of OEM co-branding.

Otherwise, Ma Shi Gallery would definitely not be qualified to form an art alliance with others.

The alliance between the UAE official and Mashi Gallery is quite similar to what was extremely fashionable in the early industrial era - the marriage between North American rubber plantation owners and railroad tycoons and the ladies of down-and-out European aristocrats.

Of course, the same goes for the tycoon's daughter who recruits a young earl as her "brother-in-law".

Who is the husband, who is the wife.

On average, each exhibition held here costs the museum about $1500 million in curatorial costs.

It is probably only the size of "Oil Painting", another behemoth in the art market, and the magazine's deep network of connections left by decades of hard work in the field of high-end art.

But being able to hold a personal exhibition in the Metropolitan Museum is still the highest honor that a painter can encounter in the entire Western art world in his life.

Only then can we achieve this - a strong alliance between the leading art criticism magazine and the leading art museum.

This is a qualification that even Gagosian desires but cannot achieve.

The Metropolitan Museum is also probably one of the most generous museums in the world in organizing exhibitions and sponsoring painters.

But as an artist, who is not a person who is not crazy and unable to survive?
Even if Chairman Brown is a scholar and has such a good attitude towards admitting his mistakes, it would be pointless to hold on to him any longer.

Last year alone,
The museum's financial expenditure alone reaches US$4.2 million, 60% of which is spent on the seventeen art exhibitions with different themes held throughout the year.

But New York's Metropolitan Museum is an exception.

The two parties got together and barely made a living together.

Real money, Kruger Brothers Bank also took out.

The American market is the craziest, hottest art market in the world, with the highest bubbles and the most hot money.

They had to pinch their noses to express that the descendants of the cowboys who crossed the ocean on the Mayflower were somewhat civilized... although most of the collections inside were not their own.

I would like to recommend a painter to be promoted to the Metropolitan Museum of Art every year.

It is equivalent to the Hohenzollern family, the Hanover family, or the Irina family in the past. They have their own huge industries and need money and fame.

therefore.

A little emotional.

It is not an exaggeration to compare it to the artistic princess and cultural hub of North America.

For Americans, there isn't even one.

Even though old Europeans still think Americans are stupid country bumpkins, they always smile arrogantly when talking about American culture.

Didn’t you see that even Miss Elena herself was photographed holding a champagne glass and whispering to Larry Gagosian who was pushing her at a reception organized by "Oil Painting"?
When Gu Weijing saw the news.

It’s not even as special a religious place as the Vatican Museums or the National Gallery of Florence.

even so.

But the Met’s ecological niche in the art industry is completely different from theirs.

It doesn't matter.

Arrogant Europeans who are still living in the fantasy of the past must admit that this is a good thing when they see the magnificent neo-Gothic-style exhibition hall of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Alex Williams, former editor of Art in America, once told reporters, “If you want to win the American market, you must first conquer the Metropolitan Museum.”

Anyway, the United Arab Emirates is rich, and Ma Shi Gallery has a big shelf as a first-tier gallery. One is responsible for providing funds, and the other is responsible for providing cultural influence.

But Lord Brown was brave and threw it on the ground.

From the moment it was born, the museum's board of directors became wealthy one after another.

Gu Weijing was really surprised that "Oil Painting" was willing to spend such a huge amount of resources to restore and enhance its authority.

Spending money on art is a way for them to show their personal taste.

The reward for such a quick response and being so willing to put on a show: the entire first phase of the "New Era Art Project" was preserved without breaking a sweat.

Even among the so-called three major museums in the world, the Metropolitan Museum is not as good as the British Museum and the Louvre in terms of cultural accumulation in the eyes of Europeans.

He is still too naive to understand the competition among high-level figures.

Even the current public opinion environment in newspapers feels that Sir Brown's tone of expressing the problem is a bit extreme.

The transaction volume is almost the same as that of three-quarters of Europe.

He is a top-notch wealthy man with good financial condition.

This is already the configuration of the most top-notch and most luxurious super art exhibition.

The record-breaking prize of two million dollars became insignificant compared with the ultimate temptation of a solo exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Don't say that Ma Shi Gallery wants Peach.

Many times, political struggle is not about the ideal of me beating you to death in one fell swoop, or you knocking me down in one fell swoop.

Adult society is always accompanied by both parties constantly making concessions, compromises, and peace talks based on changes in the current situation.

Until one side completely loses power.

"Now, for the sake of scripture, let me tell you, don't look at it. It seems that the Elena family and the management of "Oil Painting" have reached a reconciliation. In the news, it seems that all the grudges have been put aside. You are good, I am good, everyone is good. But if you want me Tell me, this matter... is definitely not that easy!"

Gu Tongxiang touched his chin.

Old Man Gu is worthy of being an experienced veteran in a chaotic area who has witnessed Myanmar's turbulent political turmoil in the past half century.

Even though he is not like his grandson Gu Weijing, he understands and participates in the layers of this struggle to a certain extent.

But Mr. Gu still made his judgment firmly.

"Now the New Era Project is offering prizes and subsidies, just to win over potential painters like us! This is called buying people's hearts! You take the New Era Project's creative fund every month, and you can still say bad things about it. No! Look, this move was called 'Tian Shi Dai Qi' in ancient times, and it's clearly written in our history books!"

"Can you even get a creative subsidy from the New Era Project?"

Gu Weijing asked in surprise.

"No matter how much the organizing committee thinks about favoring young painters like Ms. K. who persist in creating when faced with creative resistance or family pressure, are determined and work hard. If you want to win over potential stocks, you have nothing to do with the New Era Grand Prize. Bar."

A butterfly flaps its wings in the Amazon rainforest.

Two weeks later.

A tornado struck the U.S. state of Alabama.

Gu Weijing vaguely remembered.

Mr. Sloth told him that in order to restore reputation or win people's hearts, after the opening ceremony of the European Art Annual Conference, the New Era Project published an explanatory statement in the newspaper and also increased the subsidies and incentives for the cooperating artists in the project. standard.

He originally thought.

Those who are subsidized are top-notch or at least first- and second-tier painters like Hunter Bull. did not expect.

Sir Brown actually included old painters like his grandfather who were just dawdling around.

The wings of this butterfly flap quite powerfully.

It rains from the sky, and some raindrops can hit remote old chrysanthemums like grandpa.

In terms of "Oil Painting", I can really spend a lot of money.

"Tch, what do you mean by even me? Why can't Grandpa You get a creative subsidy? Where am I not working hard? Where is my willpower? At the age of sixty, can't I be a potential stock that has been accumulated for a long time! What can I say? All of them. If you talk like this, be careful of getting beaten up when you go outside."

Old Man Gu heard the doubt in his grandson's tone about his level.

He kept humming in dissatisfaction.

"Hmph... that's right. You haven't officially signed with the gallery yet. Once you become the exclusive painter of Mashi Gallery, the agent will send you an internal announcement. The current revised New Era Plan will be based on the past year's results. Award-winning records, transaction prices, recommended stars in oil painting magazine buyer's guides, curatorial achievements, published papers... Anyway, it is a very complex series of data models. You can just look at the files when the time comes. It is for every art worker. A basic coefficient score was determined.”

"The subsidy is divided into four categories: A, B, C, and D. After each painter meets a certain coefficient score, he can send an email to the Oil Painting Foundation to apply for the corresponding creative subsidy in ascending order."

"The highest A-level is basically more than 50,000 dollars per year, and the ten artists with the highest coefficient scores in the A-level will be included in the additional S area, which is the Special list. Participate in the selection of the year-end K awards. As long as we sign with a few major galleries affiliated with New Era, we can directly receive D-level subsidies.”

Gu Tongxiang couldn't help but straighten his waist proudly.

Reminding his grandson that our man is a potential stock recognized by the New Era Project.

So that’s it!
Gu Weijing was a little stunned.

Sir Brown had the confidence to say in the newspaper that Detective Cat should be treated fairly and justly.

It's really not just a verbal article that is free of charge.

They have seriously set up a subsidy assessment and disclosure system.

"How much money can I get for the D-level subsidy?"

"Fifty dollars."

"Every day? Quite a lot."

"Uh...every month. The notice says it's six hundred dollars a year."

Gu Tongxiang paused and corrected.

"This is just the price of adding a sweet orange after every meal. Isn't "Oil Painting" very rich?"

Gu Weijing was stunned.

"But there are many people who can get it, not only artists, but also employees of museum exhibition halls and top students in well-known art university departments. There may be tens of thousands of people in the D-level subsidy list! Higher-level subsidy levels, money It’s more, ranging from several thousand to tens of thousands. Besides, eating an orange every day is money. Besides, the meaning of eating this orange is different!”

Gu Tongxiang did not get the sincere admiration he expected from his grandson when he learned that he was actually involved in the New Era Project.

Very dissatisfied.

"This is the orange that was sent to me by Oil Painting magazine! Rounded up, it is equivalent to the orange that Sir Brown peeled for me! It tastes the same as the oranges you bought in the supermarket."

Old Man Gu patted his chest, his eyes radiant.

It seemed that it was not an orange, but a panacea that would make him ten years younger and regrow hair on his bald head.

"I have never had the opportunity to see the general trend of the Cubism era in my life. I have only longed for the vigorous new art trend in books and stories. The myth of wealth creation brought by Pop Art is just an invisible thing to your grandfather and me. An intangible shadow.”

He spoke in a deep tone: "But this time, I personally participated in the New Era Movement. If this artistic revolution led by "Oil Painting" really becomes the most important art revolution in the next eighty years of the 21st century If there is a tsunami, then I will become a drop of water in the first ripple of the tsunami.”

"This is a story that can be told to future generations. When my great-grandson is born, I will also tell him that your grandfather and I are a part of this great art project."

"understood."

Gu Weijing nodded.

He stared at his grandfather's energetic expression for two seconds, his mind turned, and he finally understood Sir Brown's full plan.

What do young painters lack most?
Short of money?
Of course there is a lack of money.

But even "Oil Painting" magazine and Kruger Bank cannot afford to support tens of thousands of people in vain.

Even if you can afford it, you can't raise it.

Then they are no longer capitalists. They mobilized troops and mobilized people to create such a big scene, and they really turned into opening charity halls and running almshouses for down-and-out painters.

But they can't give big money, but they can give another thing that even small painters lack - a sense of participation and respect.

Most of the art trends that have swept the West in the history of art have nothing to do with lower-level painters.

This refers to the "general" lower-level painters.

Perhaps the rise of a new school of painting can turn a few small painters into dignitaries in the painting world, and become multi-millionaires and billionaires.

But for most ordinary painters, it is still just a fairy tale that happens around them.

in the end.

They are still just low-level painters who are yelled at.

However, the New Era Project decided to scatter money.

Even if it is only fifty dollars a month, it is the money for a student from the Academy of Fine Arts to enjoy a candlelight dinner with his girlfriend at a high-end restaurant after finishing the exam, or for Gu Tongxiang to buy an orange for his family at the dinner table.

But the meaning is completely different.

From the day they received the subsidy from the "Oil Painting" Foundation in their account, they were clearly linked to this top-level art activity.

They gained a great sense of participation.

On one end is the little painter, on the other is Sir Brown, and in the middle is the emotional bond formed by fifty dollars.

And if your status is higher enough and your achievements are greater, you will naturally be able to hold more.

The three categories A, B, and C are the big cakes that are really distributed to a few people.

Level A starts at US$50,000 per year, which may not be enough for a master of Tangning’s level.

But for those at the bottom of the art rich list, or for tenured professors in ordinary art schools like Professor Boggs, it is still a very attractive amount.

You, the Irina family, are not the only ones who can claim to be on the side of a little painter like Detective Cat.

You did it.

Why can't "Oil Painting" be done?

to be honest.

Ordinary art workers may not care whether there is another top art museum in the world, whether it is called "Detective Cat Art Museum" or "Elena Family Art Center."

Miss Elena donated 50 billion dollars, but that was still just a number in the newspaper.

And Sir Brown gave fifty dollars to each of the tens of thousands of people who formed the cornerstone of the art industry, and the total expenditure may not be more than eighteen million.

But it was actually held in the palm of my hand.

You can say Sir Brown is bad, but he is indeed quite skillful.

(End of this chapter)