Almighty painter

Chapter 81
No need to bother, Gu Weijing easily found the high-definition electronic version of the work "The Ball at the Pancake Mill" on the homepage of the Rio Art Museum in France.

"Pancake Mill Ball" is also called "Moulin Rouge Ball".

The Moulin Rouge is a landmark nightclub in France, where enchanting dancers perform unrestrained Cancan day and night, and the whole dance hall is full of joyful atmosphere. Many artists like to come here to observe and sketch. Ray Noir is one of them.

The length and width of this painting are close to one and a half meters. Although it is not comparable to the magnificent dome paintings of some old-fashioned churches, it is already considered a large-scale work in oil paintings.

Gu Weijing opened the high-definition album.

Although he has seen this picture of this famous painting countless times, when this masterpiece of Impressionism was laid out on the computer screen in front of him again this time, Gu Weijing felt a burst of tension in his heart.

It's like a diver facing an unknown vast sea.

He took a deep breath one last time and activated the skill.

This time it was not a famous painting that was decomposed in front of Gu Weijing——

but the whole world.

The world is shattered in the mind like a mirror, and Paris in the nineteenth century flows out from behind the lens.

In the dusk of the metropolis, the men and women spinning in the dance hall, the breath of spring is floating in the air, the men's talk and the girls' smile,
Light and darkness, light and shadow.

"The so-called Impressionism is nothing more than the pursuit of inner emotions and pure visual enjoyment. We don't portray gods, we just record sunlight and air. We don't follow old-fashioned dogma, because beautiful things will stay, and pain will eventually Gone."

A thick and powerful male voice said in French in Gu Weijing's ear like reciting poetry.

Bang!

In the next moment, it seemed that the painting and calligraphy identification technique could no longer maintain the entire illusory world, the mirror surface was healed again, and the world returned to normal.

"You have obtained the limited task of Impressionist..."

There was a sound of a new task in the ear.

But Gu Weijing has no time for him.

Tremendous mental anguish struck,
Two nosebleeds dripped down his face, and his whole body seemed to be hit by a boxer's heavy punch, and he fell over backwards.

He passed out.

……

"Miss, I think you need to see this. There's a paper about you."

Austria,
The butler knocked on the door of the study with a solemn expression, and put an electronic publication on the Ipad on Anna's desk.

"The Moon?"

Anna glanced at the title and frowned.

The Weekly Saturday News, which is owned by the famously provocative best-selling newspaper The Moon, went so far as to have a front page headline about Mr Hyperion's video.

Newspapers are of course important representatives of the right to supervise by public opinion, but some tabloid reporters are unrestricted scavengers.

If you do a random social survey on the streets of Europe and America, you can find a newspaper that satisfies all your negative impressions of the news industry.

Title party, vulgar, bloody, bad, no lower limit...

Then the Moon News is likely to rank first in this selection with a crushing advantage.

This newspaper giant itself is famous for all kinds of gossip and soft pornography...

And in fact, it may not be soft pornography.

It once spent an entire page comparing the shape of the breasts of Premier League rose Kelly Brook to actress Clancy's in a very obscene tone.

[...their billowy boobs are big enough to hold a pint of beer...].

The Moon also has a more famous tradition of featuring a topless girl on page three of each issue.

For a long time, the third-page girl of the British Moon newspaper and the cover girl of "Playboy" by her American relatives can be called the southern emperors and northern beggars of the old and new continents, and they are synonymous with vulgar newspapers and sexy butcher girls.

However, although this newspaper is notorious enough, there are quite a few people who like it.

It used to be one of the best-selling newspapers in the world, and its huge social audience also made it an object of curry favor for various political parties in the UK.

Social influence is great.

To be honest, black and red are also red, and ordinary Hollywood second-rate movie stars have no chance to make the headlines on the front page of the Moon Newspaper.

What can tear the front page of the Moon newspaper is not the divorce case of Caribbean captain Depp, or Prince Harry's gossip scandal, and the last one must be the sex scandal of an international star like Neymar.

I don't know if it's luck or misfortune, but this week happened to have no major international news.

Therefore, with the help of Mr. Hyperion, the world's number one Internet celebrity, Detective Cat unexpectedly enjoys the treatment of a British prince for no reason.

Anna had already anticipated that she had always been unfavorable to the art circle, and the vulgar newspapers that focused on vulgarity would not have any positive reports on her.

But the headlines of the newspaper still made her frown.

[The fatal mistake of "Art Baby", has "Oil Painting" lost its credibility? 】

... Over the past century, "Oil Painting" magazine has been known for providing the most professional art reviews and collection guidance.And just recently, the 22-year-old art critic Anna Elena made a fatal mistake...

... In the new video shot by the famous Internet celebrity blogger [Mr. Hyperion Channel], she mistakenly evaluated a work worth only ten dollars as incredible excellence.

Ten dollars beats out works worth more than [-] times its worth in professional appraisals.This makes us question whether the so-called art market is just a complete scam...

... In this regard, the artist Van Dorn gave a different view.

"This is a complete farce," Mr. Van Dorn commented. "Cheap online painters have no artistic point of view at all. They are just ruthless copiers with no artistic point of view. A trained monkey can also play Doo on the piano." Lai Mi instigated Laxi, do they know music?"...

...Facing Miss Irina's criticism of his work, Mr. Van Dorn was very magnanimous.

"She's just too young. What else does she have besides a pretty face? Fine art requires experience," Van Doorn said. The art jury is ruining this historic magazine, and I think she'd qualify as a mannequin."

From here on, the contents of the newspaper began to become more obscene.

Van Dorn's previous controversial statement that "women are just a tool to stimulate my creative desire" is not without purpose.

He is French, influenced by the trend of body creation, and like many French artists, he likes to paint nude women.

With a cold face, Anna watched as the editor of the newspaper added several nude sketches painted by Van Dorn before her photo.

"Moon" called itself a vase role such as football baby and racing baby, and dubbed it "art baby", and spent a lot of space to imply that readers relied on the advantages of women's bodies to become "Oil Painting" magazine's senior writer.

Even more irritating,
The legal department of the Moon News apparently knows where the boundaries of defamation lie.

At the end of the article, he changed his mind and continued to tease him in an obscene tone.

"...Actually, we learned that Miss Elena's ancestor was the founder of the magazine "Oil Painting". It seems that it is self-evident how she became an art critic.

She was even a "countess".Such a noble lady, no matter how beautiful her face is, has nothing to do with ordinary people.Presumably, the budding spring hearts of bachelors can only be resolved alone in front of the photos in lonely nights.No need to be sorry though, because I guess, for obvious reasons, she'd be rather boring in bed too..."

……

"unacceptable!"

Yangon.

After reading the report, Gu Weijing put down his phone heavily with an unhappy face, and said in a hateful voice.

This caused the driver in the taxi to turn around and look at him curiously. "How are you?"

"fine."

Gu Weijing waved to the taxi driver to let him continue driving with peace of mind.

Today he is going to a local calligraphy and painting market in Myanmar.

After Gu Weijing passed out that day, his family did not find him until several hours later.

It is said that when he was discovered, Gu Weijing's face was pale, his teeth were clenched, blood was all over his clothes, and he was still trembling slightly.

This frightened Gu Tongxiang, thinking that his grandson was suffering from epilepsy, and he was sent to the hospital in Yangon City for two bottles of glucose before he recovered.

Brain CT and MRI were performed, and the doctor did not find any major problems. They only judged that it was a temporary lack of blood supply to the brain. They prescribed a few doses of medicine to cultivate nerves. After a night of observation in the emergency room, they were sent home.

However, Gu Weijing found that there was an extra task reminder on his task panel at this time.

[Impressionist limited mission - Ray Noah's legacy]

[Current task: Choose to copy a piece of Impressionist oil painting technique lv.7 master level [-] or above works]

【mission rewards】

[1. Reach a copying similarity of more than 20%, and get a primary treasure box. 】

[2. Reach a copying similarity of more than 60%, and get an intermediate treasure chest. 】

[3. Reaching a similarity of more than 90% to obtain a limited reward: Ray Noah - Fragment of a ghost in the world, this reward can only be obtained once. 】

"This mission..."

That day he appraised the famous painting "The Ball at the Pancake Mill", and passed out halfway through the appraisal.

Gu Weijing didn't even look at the numbers on the virtual panel floating above the computer screen at that time.

Now he recalled carefully, the last glance before he passed out.

Gu Weijing vaguely remembered that the vague floating on the data column of the painting was not the level of experience level, but two words.

...Painting saint?
After paying so much, and even going to the hospital to lie down all night, the limited task triggered by his thoughts finally arrived long ago.

This is a copying task, requiring Gu Weijing to copy an impressionist work that has reached the first level of lv.7 master.

Impressionist works, this is not easy to find.

Modern painters pay attention to a variety of flowers blooming, and are not too rigid about a specific art style.And even if it is a painting dedicated to Impressionism, it will not be cheap if it can reach the level of a master.

He is going to try his luck in the Myanmar calligraphy and painting market first.

Calligraphy and painting are different from antiques. As long as it is Yuan blue and white, the price is sky-high. However, in the calligraphy and painting market, the quality of the painting and whether it is valuable are not necessarily the same.

There are many cheap old paintings in Myanmar.

Not only are there works of art in the Eastern Xia style in the past dynasties, but there are also many Western ones.

Especially in the [-]th century, it used to be a trade transfer station for the British colonies, and even one of the most prosperous cities in Asia.

In terms of prosperity, it is comparable to contemporary Tokyo and Shanghai, and it is also a famous resort in Southeast Asia.

Many famous British artists and literati have been to Myanmar.

There are also a large number of colonial civil servants, senior priests and their families. When they immigrated to Myanmar, a large number of European artworks also flowed in.

Some works with unclear origin and no signature, because the market is not interested at all, are actually very cheap, ranging from a few hundred dollars to a thousand dollars.

Gu Weijing's grandfather started his career by painting old paintings.

Of course, Gu Weijing himself didn't have too much hope, he just tried his luck, if he couldn't find a good copy of the original work, then he could only make do with copying the electronic album.

Gu Weijing happened to see the news report of "The Moon" on his way to the painting and calligraphy market in a taxi.

This kind of newspaper that went down the three roads made Gu Weijing feel very uncomfortable, and even a little nauseated.

Especially making dirty jokes about Miss Yi Lianna's physical defects. This kind of British hooligan style made Gu Weijing feel angry.

Ordinary little painters endured this kind of bullying.

Like it or not, Van Doorn is a long-established veteran of the art world.

The other party calls you, an online illustrator, a monkey with no art skills, so what can you do?

Scold back?
Then you really have a vendetta.

To be honest, people are now more targeting the judge lady, scolding Gu Weijing is just incidental.

The smartest way is undoubtedly to ignore it.

After a while, people will forget about you.

In the painting circle, it is very irrational to offend the predecessors, especially to offend such a big name trendy person who is active in the two fields of fashion and art.

As long as the other party lets go, you may lose many opportunities to sign contracts with well-known galleries.

But Gu Weijing didn't like this,

I am not going to show people the face of a detective cat. If I am still a wimp and hesitate in doing things, the breath that Cao Lao said was held in the painter's chest will dissipate.

Moreover, although he felt that the female art critic named Yi Lianna had a bit of an unearthly young lady's temper, but after all, she caused this mess because she spoke for herself.

Gu Weijing wanted to do something.

Do it when you think of it.

Gu Weijing opened Twitter. After Detective Cat became famous, he registered his own Twitter account and marked it as his only real Twitter on the Fiverr store.

For nothing else, if I don't sign up for his official tweet, it won't be long.There will be a bunch of high imitation accounts pretending to be Detective Cat popping up on the Internet to bluff and deceive.

He @Fan Duoen's Twitter, and wrote back: "It seems that monkeys know what is beautiful, but unfortunately you don't. Hooligans can only be mixed with gangster magazines, which really complement each other."

After writing this tweet, Gu Weijing still felt puzzled.

Things in the art circle still need to use art to speak.

After thinking about it, he opened WhatsApp again and contacted Mr. Sloth.

"Mr. Sloth, I would like to participate in your next online art salon, is that okay?"

He is typing in a taxi.

There is a famous saying in old European social circles - "If you want to meet a real master, go to the salon. Here is the paradise of the learned, here is the hell of the ignorant, here will make you famous overnight, and you will be infamous forever .”

A salon is an old-fashioned literary club.

People here discuss the scandals of the royal family, read Byron's poems here, study porcelain from the East together, and discuss trends in the painting world.

The salon on literature and art topics is equivalent to a small art appreciation meeting.

From painters to novelists, from Monet to Flaubert, every figure in the literary and artistic circles is proud to be able to talk in high-end salons.

When listening to podcasts in the past, Gu Weijing felt that Mr. Sloth was a very old-fashioned gentleman, and the old-fashioned one still regularly holds online art salons.

The so-called art salon is an old-fashioned art appreciation meeting held online by Mr. Sloth.

Fans of Mr. Sloth often post some electronic photos of their works under the official Twitter of the podcast, hoping to get comments from the masters.

Mr. Sloth will select a program every two months to appreciate these works.

Sometimes Mr. Sloth appreciates it himself.More often, some well-known art connoisseurs and art exhibition curators will be invited to comment on the painting skills and shortcomings of the paintings.

This kind of opportunity for masters to comment on their own works is very rare for fans of podcasts.

With the blessing of calligraphy and painting appraisal, Gu Weijing felt that this was a good opportunity to show his aesthetic attainments.

A monkey may rigidly tap the keys of a piano, but it is absolutely incapable of judging whether the music is good or bad.

"The guest judge of this month's Art Salon should be the curator of the Taylor National Art Gallery."

Unexpectedly, within a few minutes of Gu Weijing's message, Mr. Sloth replied to his message.

He originally thought it was a polite refusal.

This is also normal.

Although Mr. Sloth is very concerned about himself, all the people who can go to other people's podcasts as guests are famous art circle bigwigs, and his rank is still a bit far behind.

Unexpectedly, Mr. Sloth continued to type and wrote: "It's not that it is impossible to add another guest as a judge, but why do you suddenly want to participate in my art salon this issue?"

Anna on the other side of the ocean also saw Gu Weijing's new tweet just now, and pursed her lips: "I saw the new tweet you just posted, it's because of "The Moon", that report is not against you."

"I don't like the dirty tone of the newspapers. Miss Irene got into trouble for complimenting me, and I should do something about it."

Seeing this reply, Anna was a little happy, but more worried.

"Vulgar newspapers are like this, she won't care anymore. Delete it, offending people like Van Dorn will do you no good."

"No girl would not care about being slandered so obscenely in the newspaper." Detective Cat replied very stubbornly.

Anna shook her head helplessly.

Foreign countries have very strict regulations on sexual harassment, but they are also divided into individuals.

If a politician talks like that, he'll have to step down tomorrow.

However, the society has relatively low moral requirements for art workers, especially those in the art and fashion circle.

The owner of the trendy brand manufacturer who made the Bai Minggui T-shirt that caused big trouble for Kanye before was involved in a series of sex scandal lawsuits, and even sexually harassed female reporters in public during the interview, and he was still doing well .

Calling him an old rascal would be a misnomer at best for Van Dorn.

As for The Moon.

The newspaper just put a few portraits of naked models next to her photo, because it is a work of art, which is not even considered a restricted subject in the publication review standard.

"I want to see who is the real monkey."

After Gu Weijing finished typing, the taxi stopped in front of a calligraphy and painting warehouse in Yangon.

(End of this chapter)