Almighty painter

Chapter 71 Not happy with things
Gu Weijing knew that sooner or later someone would wonder about this question.

If I've been only taking the simplest illustration assignments online, it won't be long before someone gets weird and confused.

Since Thomas's video went live, his Fiverr store has been continuously receiving invitations to sign contracts from various galleries.

Even the Komatsu Gallery in the home of the very annoying Komatsu Taro sent Gu Weijing an invitation.

Although these contracts currently have relatively high draws, they are not contracts that do not appear to be sincere.

For example, a headhunter at a medium-sized gallery on Chelsea Street, a famous art district in New York, sent Gu Weijing an invitation to join the other gallery.

After a brief chat with Gu Weijing, he found that the other party was quite sincere.

The other party has very low requirements for themselves, and the commission is only 35%, which includes a series of cooperation fees such as insurance premiums, publicity fees, service fees, and tax deductions for future paintings. Very friendly.

It's not that he doesn't want to sign these contracts.

It is a great thing for an art master like Mr. Sloth to want to be his own agent.

However, the time he can activate Menzel's skills is limited, and the limitations of painting are very large, so he can't afford these contracts for the time being.

Professional illustrators belong to the type that you must draw whatever the employer asks you to draw, and there is no room for choice like oil painters.

People have self-knowledge.

I am Mr. Nan Guo who only has an artist experience card for half an hour a day.

If he is required by the schedule of a professional painter, at least for now, he is still unqualified.

If he only paints for half an hour every day, there is really no need for Gu Weijing to tie himself to a certain contract.

"It's good for others to know my paintings, there is no need to know me."

Gu Weijing thought for a moment and replied.

"Although joining a gallery is considered a debut for a painter. But after all, a painter is not a pop singer, and he won't have too many social arrangements."

Anna wants to persuade this stubborn painter to embrace the modern art system.

"I want to keep a quiet life, and the identity of the detective cat is fine."

“Then use detective cat to find galleries anonymously. This kind of thing is not without precedent. Mystery is sometimes a good thing.”

In the circle of literary works, this style of anonymous creation also has a historical tradition.

In the classical period, there was an event that painters of the same school of painting shared the same author's name.

As for the apprentices writing under the name of the master, no matter in China or in the West, those great painters have caught a lot of them.

Many literary and art workers like to keep secrets.

Cases like Detective Cat, in the past ten years, the most famous case in the literary and artistic circles should be Elena Ferrante.

She is the author of the "Naples Quartet", nominated for the Booker Prize, the highest award in English literature, and selected as one of the 100 most influential contemporary figures selected by Time Magazine, among which "My Brilliant Girlfriend" It was also adapted into a best-selling American TV series.

But to this day, hundreds of millions of fans all over the world only know that Ferrante is a pseudonym. No one knows who her real name is, who she is, or even whether she is male or female.

In short, the works speak for themselves. If you do not draw well, you will be laughed at. If you draw well, you will become a good story.

Ana doesn't think the Detective Cat is incapable of those complicated painting tasks.

"But I don't want to be bound by a contract. If I sign a gallery, I may be asked to paint a lot of things I don't want to paint... Money is just a tool for me to improve my painting skills."

Gu Weijing replied.

The first half of the sentence is the truth to him, and the second half... is actually the truth.

Anna was silent.

Shakespeare once wrote in "King Lear" that the love of money is the greatest enemy of art.

How many masters or geniuses have been burdened by fame all their lives. Those who are not popular want to be popular, and those who are popular want to be more popular.

Countless aura-filled artists have exhausted their inspiration in the pursuit of fame and fortune, and have become mediocre.

There were many examples she could think of.

But the master in front of him really did this.

If it is said that Miss Anna's love for the other party before was more of a kind of love and strange possessiveness that she discovered.

So now, she respects her more from the bottom of her heart.

Anna thought of the fact that the other party was willing to sell an illustration for ten dollars online despite having the same skills as an artist, and felt relieved and felt a little pity in the blink of an eye.

It seems normal for such a master not to be a slave to money and contracts.

Thinking of it this way, she was even a little ashamed when she was happy.

She felt that the price tag of 500 euros per hour full of money smell that she proposed was disrespectful to the master.

"Miss Anna Elena, when did you become like those art dealers, with money in your mind?"

She reflected in her mind.

Anna typed on the keyboard: "Admirable self-cultivation."

“But if you do turn down all the gallery offers. Some dealers can’t sign you and want to discredit your art style instead.

You originally won Mr. Hyperion's $100 to $[-] million challenge as an online illustrator.This matter is very controversial.

Have you considered these upcoming doubts? "

Anna was afraid that the other party would be called autistic by those trolls on the Internet.

"What can I do?"

Gu Weijing shook his head.

In his Fiverr mailbox alone, in the past few days, there have been countless trolls who questioned the shady scene, as well as artisans who thought that they would only paint without emotion.

He is only good at sketching, and he cannot be compared with the master at all.

After all, Detective Cat is just an online illustrator, which is fundamentally different from painters in the mainstream painting and calligraphy circles.

"Illustrators have always been questioned as not belonging to the category of painting art, and I don't care about being scolded."

Gu Weijing replied.

Illustration itself is the most ingenious type in the painting world.

Public opinion generally believes that art needs freedom and independence, and illustration is just an extension of the will of the employer, which is even worse than comics.

I also adopted the traditional painting style of realism.

This kind of photographic precision would be considered opportunistic and crooked in today's painting and calligraphy circles.

Being sprayed on the Internet, Gu Weijing himself will not feel comfortable, but he has nothing to do.

This is the current state of the industry.

Even Leng Jun, a legendary painter in the painting and calligraphy circle of Eastern Xia, a super painter who can easily sell for millions of dollars, has been questioned constantly because of his surrealist style over the years.

For columns such as the Singapore International Art Biennale, there may be unpopular sections such as spray painting, but there is no illustration section.

Besides, people scolded Detective Cat for going crooked. What does it have to do with Gu Weijing, an orthodox painter who is about to become a disciple of Mr. Cao?
"No... there is a solution."

Anna made up her mind in the blink of an eye.

"If one day you find that you need a painting agent, please definitely consider contacting me."

"I won't bother you to create art in peace now."

……

Austria,
Elena estate.

Anna closed the computer, she picked up the phone on the desk and started dialing.

"Hi, is this the Oil Painting Magazine? This is the senior editor of the magazine's visual art section, Anna Elena."

"I want to update the news of an illustrator on the website, yes, you heard me right, it is an illustrator... Of course I know that generally we don't write investment advice for illustrators, and illustrations are not accepted by the mainstream art of painting. "

"But I still stand by my point of view."

(End of this chapter)