Almighty painter

Chapter 654 Paper Publication (Part )

When a journal is published, it is customary to send a physical sample of the paper work, which can be used as original material for scholars to apply for projects and select professional titles in the future, or to be placed in a glass cabinet to show to other colleagues like Sir Brown.

The number of sample issues corresponds to the number of first authors of the paper.

If there is one first author, one copy will be sent; if there are two first authors, two copies will be sent; if there are three or more co-first authors...well, it is customary to also send two copies.

These overseas academic journals are usually quite stingy.

The mail bag in Gu Weijing's hand contained two thick copies of the 2023 first half issue of "Asian Art".

Gu Weijing handed one copy to Katsuko Sakai and kept one for himself. He held it in his hand but did not open it. He just stared at the cover of the paper in a daze.

Koko, gossiping, stuck her head out from beside Shengzi to watch together.

Although this kind of journal publisher is very stingy and charges very high page fees, it still deserves to be said that it received a "cover fee" of 5600 euros from Mrs. Sakai.

The printing quality of the magazine cover is really good.

Compared with the high-priced printing of fine art albums by large galleries and provided to customers and judges, the effect is slightly inferior.

But the layered dark black of the thunderclouds already showed some divine intent. The small candlelight in the window of the old church danced in the wind and rain, like a flowing rainbow.

"ARTIBUS ASIAE...what is this?"

Koko asked in a confused manner.

She recognized it as probably a magazine.

It's not the most beautiful magazine Koko has ever bought, but compared to those colorful beauty magazines and gossip magazines, the one in Katsuko Sakai's hand looks very high-end, from its printing, its paper, and its clean cover with no decoration except the title and date.

"I wrote the paper with Gu Weijing," Shengzi replied. "I transferred to Fitz this semester just for this."

"Wow, that's awesome, awesome." Koko clapped quietly.

Her praise came from the heart. The combination of the words "high school student" and "publishing papers" is definitely not something simple.

However, she hadn't yet realized how powerful this was.

after all.

If you want to ask Koko which lipstick looks good, which kind of clothes has a sexy collar, or how to style your hair to make your face more prominent, we are all girls, so I'm sure we can tell you something.

Koko can be Shengzi's teacher.

But what kind of publication is "Asian Art"? How difficult is it to publish a paper in it... If anyone asks Koko these questions, then Miss Koko can only go and ask the magical little conch.

In Miss Koko's opinion, although it is difficult for high school students to publish papers, it is not earth-shattering news in a place like an international school.

In order to get further education, everyone tries to show off their talents. Not all those who can go to Harvard have good grades. Those who should donate buildings donate buildings, and those who should research strange and tricky techniques research strange and tricky techniques.

What about social activities, making movies, doing charity projects... Every few years there will always be students who can occasionally take out one or two papers and tell the interviewer that these are the research results produced while working in a certain laboratory during the summer vacation, or "making full use of spare time and using the time when others are sleeping to study!"

Most of the papers here are on computers and information technology.

As to whether it was written by myself, by my father's hard-working graduate student, or by someone else, that is another matter.

Since Koko could think of a thesis that was worthy of Katsuko Sakai transferring here to complete, it was probably not a simple one.

What does it mean to be able to publish an article in "Asian Art"?
She doesn't know.

This is like holding Gu Weijing's painting "Good Luck Orphanage in the Sun" and asking Koko how it looks, and Koko blows the little conch shell.

"Hey, hey, so beautiful, so beautiful."

Holding Ms. Sakai's painting "Girl Reading Poems to Cats"——

"Hey, hey, so beautiful, so beautiful."

The Little Prince painted with a detective cat——

"Hey, hey, so beautiful, so beautiful."

She can only puff up her cheeks and give you a very spiritual interpretation.

To be honest, "Asian Art" is not the top-notch art magazine in the field.

If it were to be published in science journals, its status would certainly not be as high as that of NCS, a top journal where ordinary researchers would work hard all their lives to publish a single paper and live their life without regrets.

It can only be considered a "very good" type in a general sense.

And after taking into account the ages of the two first authors of the paper, the evaluation of this article immediately changes from "very good" to "surprising enough".

This evaluation is different from the "amazing" that Koko said. It is amazing in a broad sense and is applicable to any evaluation context in any place and any conversation background.

It will not change due to the identity of the discussant.

This kind of thing was surprising to Gu Tongxiang.

This is surprising to top practitioners like Kazunari Sakai and Tang Ning.

Even if people like Mr. Cao, Sir Brown or Anna are already at the top of the art industry, it is still rare to see people like Gu Weijing and Shengzi publishing an AHCI article at their age in the environment they live and are exposed to.

The only difference is the degree of surprise.

Old Master Gu would be so happy that he seemed to pass out.

Uncle Sakai would pat his belly to show off to his wife.

As for Sir Brown or Miss Elena - even though this matter has nothing to do with them directly, they would probably not be able to help but glance sideways when they mention it in casual conversation in social occasions.

After all, in comparison, he is too young.

For example, the editors of Oil Painting magazine need to report on all the top art exhibitions in a year, meet countless exhibitors, and are surrounded by celebrities.

There are so many interviews with successful painters in the general sense that their threshold of sensitivity has been raised very high. When writing review articles, they just glance at the vast majority of names and are numb and have no interest in them.

However, if an eighteen-year-old contestant is among a group of uncles and aunts, white-bearded old men and grandmas with crutches, it would be like a great painter whose works have sold for $100 million, mixed in with a group of painters whose average price is $10. He can still be noticed by editors at a glance.

Special people will naturally attract more curious eyes.

Regardless of whether a painting costs millions or they are only 29 years old, they can be considered a minority within a minority at common international art festivals.

Both are quite uncommon.

Are special enough.

Gu Weijing stroked the thick cover of the journal with his palm.

This should be the greatest achievement he has achieved through his own efforts at this stage of his life.

I had an article published in Asian Art, received tickets to attend the International Biennale in Singapore, and won the "Writing and Art Master Award" from Scholastic Publishing Company.

Which one of these three is more difficult and more valuable is like Guan Gong fighting Qin Qiong.

One is the popular art route, one is the serious art route, and one is the route of art scholars.

They are not the same track and there is no way to compare them.

If we must compare.

Using the intensity of competition among thousands of people trying to squeeze through a single-plank bridge as a benchmark -

Consider the difficulty of competition for a cover article for a high-end journal, consider the difficulty of competition for a spot in an art exhibition, and then weigh the extent to which each implies an improvement in one's professional status.

It’s hard to say whether Gu Weijing can win an award at the Singapore Biennale.

Just for now.

Compare publishing an article as the first author in the journal Asian Art with being shortlisted for the main exhibition area of ​​an international biennial. The former may be the one with greater value.

With this one paper, Gu Weijing should be able to get admission to all the universities in the world.

Even if he did nothing from now on.

If you change to a lesser-known school, if the paper was published while in school (the source of the paper is the school), such as a paper published in "Asian Art", and the content is slightly more important, you might have lost half of your professorship position.

Don’t say anything else.

With this resume background, Gu Weijing looks more authoritative when he is older.

In fact, he and Shengzi are qualified to be invited to serve as judges at international biennials, and their status is similar to that of "scholar-teachers" who give advice at art festivals.

Gu Weijing flipped through the journal page by page.

His eyes lingered for a moment on the signatures "Wei jing Gu" and "Sakai Takakura", then he continued reading.

His eyes did not move very fast, one line after another, one word after another.

It's not just him.

Ms. Sakai also read very slowly.

They had gone over every word in the paper countless times, and were so familiar with it that they couldn't be more familiar.

However, the feeling of editing a paper on a computer screen or holding a thick journal in your hands and smelling the ink on the paper with your breath are completely different.

While Gu Weijing and Sakai Katsuko were quietly looking at their papers in the studio, people in other parts of the world were doing the same thing.

……

"—— Renoir is a painter who places great emphasis on shaping the momentary changes of light and shadow on the canvas to perfect the emotional atmosphere of his works and explore the creator's personal expression. This is one of the most notable characteristics of Impressionism. We can see the same characteristics in this painting "Old Church on a Thunderstorm"... In the 18th century, before the revolutionary ideas of Impressionism emerged... Carroll transitioned the correspondence between "virtue and beauty" in the Romantic style to the correspondence between "light and beauty" in the Impressionist style..."

In a hotel suite.

Kazunari Sakai lay on a sun lounger by the swimming pool, secretly putting the special fried dough sticks provided by the concierge into his mouth and chewing them, while happily listening to his wife reading their daughter's thesis.

His head swayed in a rhythmic manner.

Every time my wife read a word, the soft flesh on Uncle Sakai's chin trembled.

The fat seal was twisting its body on the sun lounger, shaking its head and moving with the dance of the dried fish in the trainer's hands.

The waves are rough.

The blonde auntie, who was leaning on another sun lounger nearby, raised an eyebrow.

She seemed to hear the chewing sound, paused, and turned her head to glance at her husband.

Kazunari Sakai twitched his ears, glanced at his wife out of the corner of his eye, tried to tighten his stomach, and acted as if nothing had happened.

"cut."

Mrs. Sakai was too lazy to expose her husband who was performing the disappearing fried dough stick trick nearby.

She stretched out her finger and pushed the snack tray towards her husband, thought for a moment, pulled it back and took two pieces from it, then pushed the whole tray over.

Huh?
Uncle Sakai turned his head in surprise.

His eyes rolled around for several times, wondering if this was a trap set by his wife.

"Well, the rest is yours."

Mrs. Sakai smiled.

She was in a good mood today, so she didn't bother with her husband and continued to read the paper in her hand happily.

There are only two free sample copies of the magazine.

However, when paying the layout fee, there is an option to purchase it for a fee.

One book costs 70 Euros.

Art magazines that are published only once every six months are more expensive. For journals like Nature, if you subscribe to the original publication through some import companies, the cost for an individual to subscribe for a year starts at five figures.

The price of "Asian Art" is 70 Euros, which is not too bad.

Mrs. Sakai waved her hand and ordered... 50 copies directly. The maximum number of copies allowed for additional purchase was only 50.

This is the first paper written by my children in their lives.

As soon as Mrs. Sakai saw that the paper had been approved, she already thought about auctioning off Shengzi's signed magazines in the future.

Even if the auction is too tacky.

It would be nice to give one book to each of your relatives and friends during festivals.

"When the art exhibition starts next month, you go to meet the judges and attend the cocktail party. You must carry a copy with you every day and flip through it from time to time."

The woman read two sentences, paused, raised her chin towards her husband and gave instructions.

Kazunari Sakai was stunned for a moment.

He imagined himself like a human bookshelf, walking around in the exhibition with a copy of "Asian Art" and posing everywhere.

Kazunari Sakai stretched his neck, swallowed the small dough stick in his mouth with force, and asked, "Wife, wife, doesn't it seem a little too deliberate?"

"Deliberate? What's so deliberate about that? Our kids are just that good. If they want to point fingers and criticize others, think about whether they have the level to do that."

This is of course blatant show-off.

But what's wrong with blonde aunts wanting to show off? If others are jealous, they should give birth to one themselves!

Mrs. Sakai has been walking with a breeze these past two days.

……

Connecticut, United States.

Yale University.

An elderly man with high cheekbones, wearing tinted glasses and a white beard walked hurriedly through the Gothic campus buildings with yellow bricks and red roofs.

Under his arm was a copy of Oil Painting magazine, which had just been published last week.

Yale is one of the oldest universities in the United States.

It was founded half a century earlier than the American Revolutionary War, but most of the school buildings and teaching buildings on campus were built in the years after World War I.

Those were America’s golden years.

Countless European scholars, writers, and artists traveled across the ocean to the New World to escape the war.

To provide these scholars with the same sense of historical vicissitudes as those of the old European classical schools.

When Yale was building its school building, it deliberately adopted a medieval-style architectural structure and splashed acid on the stone walls to make them look old.

Many vacant pavilions and niches were also built on campus, making the campus look like a Roman temple where sculptures and exhibits had been lost and damaged in the long history.

Nowadays, those buildings that have been deliberately made to look old are already centenarians.

And those once empty campus galleries are now filled with works by Monet, Van Gogh, Picasso, Renoir, Cézanne, and Gauguin.

Through donations from generations of collectors, it is now home to one of the richest Impressionist collections in the United States.

(End of this chapter)