After making a wish, financial freedom

Chapter 355 530w
Of course, another reason is that Lin Fengmian's paintings are basically not super large. Among his handed down paintings, 4 square feet are relatively large.

And the paintings that his disciples can sell for hundreds of millions of Hong Kong dollars are all super large.

比如赵无极的那幅卖了5.1亿港币的《1985年6月至10月》，尺度是宽2.8米，长10米，这种篇幅规模自然很贵重。

Since Lin Fengmian has lived in Hong Kong since 77, his life is not rich, he has no money to create large-scale paintings, and he has been isolated from the domestic painting circle for a long time, which has also affected his own reputation.

Li Zhuo understood this, he smiled and said:
"I guess this painting is close to 5 square feet in size, so there should be a premium."

Zheng Heng still knew something about this painter, so he started chatting with Li Zhuo:

"It is said that Lin Fengmian burned more than 2000 paintings during the special period in China. I don't know if the rumor is true or not?"

"It should be true," Li Zhuo said. "Maybe there are not so many, but there must be such a thing. At that time, he had to do it for self-protection. There is a saying that he kept some of his oil paintings."

"It's a pity, otherwise, how much would these two thousand paintings be worth?" Zheng Heng said.

"...Then it's worth a lot of money. Just one of his paintings is now worth millions. No matter how you look at it, it's worth more than 20 billion yuan. It's a pity." Li Zhuo said.

He then added:
"In 72, his student Zao Wou-ki came back from France and said he wanted to see him. After seeing him, he knelt down and couldn't afford it, which shocked the people present, which made Lin Fengmian's situation improve a lot. Not much. So, having a great student can save lives at critical times."

"Du Niu, their paintings are very valuable now." Zheng Heng said.

He examined the picture again carefully, and said:

"Lin Fengmian's paintings of ladies are said to be based on her mother's face and appearance, which is why she is so beautiful, dignified and gentle. Looking at this painting now, I really feel that this woman has a quiet and elegant temperament."

Li Zhuo had also heard of it, nodded and said:

"Yes, one theory is that when he was five years old, he watched his mother wash her hair by the river. His mother's long black hair and beautiful face made him unforgettable all his life. I haven’t seen it either. Therefore, his paintings express his attachment and grief for his mother, so I think maybe he has been looking for his mother all his life.”

The fate of this painter was very rough. He separated from his mother at the age of 7. His first French wife died of dystocia. Later, he was forced to burn his paintings and was forbidden to see his wife and daughter abroad. In the warehouse, a lifetime of ups and downs.

In fact, his paintings are about his own life. In his paintings of beautiful women, he expresses his nostalgia and longing for his mother. In his landscape paintings, the scenery of his hometown, Meizhou, is often used as the theme. There is always a lingering sense of loneliness in his paintings.

Li Zhuo also looked at the painting carefully, and the more he looked at it, the more he felt that the level of the painting was extraordinary, and finally sighed:

"Aura visible to the naked eye, poetry visible to the naked eye, loneliness visible to the naked eye."

"Yes, it is true that the aesthetic feeling presented in the picture cannot be drawn without a solid foundation in Chinese and Western art, as well as rich social experience." Zheng Heng also said.

However, he still said:

"Lin Fengmian's works are relatively scattered. He never sorted out a picture album or published a complete set of works during his lifetime. As a result, there are many fakes of his paintings on the market. We still have to ask experts to appraise them, otherwise they will not be sold."

One of the reasons why the price of his works can't go up is because some works are difficult to distinguish the authenticity, and buyers are afraid to buy them because they are afraid of being deceived.

Li Zhuo also understood this, he nodded and said:

"Of course, I will trouble you to take it away for appraisal before finding a buyer."

"Okay, don't worry."

Zheng Heng carefully took the scroll away.

After Li Zhuo handed over the painting to Zheng Heng, he relaxed.

That afternoon, he felt bored, so he lay in the hotel room and played Douyin, and accidentally saw a long video introducing Guoman.

Li Zhuo was attracted because the knowledge blogger was talking about a domestic animation called "The Bridge of Wind and Rain".

The animation is only 20 minutes long, with calm and cruel images, it interprets the ugly human nature and the chivalry of the world in troubled times.

The style is close to a silent film, with rough pictures, cold painting style, restrained sound effects, chilling atmosphere, and a gloomy story.

The effect exploded, causing Li Zhuo to sit up directly from the sofa.

Interestingly, he looked for the producer of this animation, called Weichen Stop Motion Animation Studio.

This is a small animation company in Shenyang. It is really rare to be able to do this kind of stop-motion animation that does not make money at all and is time-consuming and laborious.

Li Zhuo remembered the name of the company established in 18 years.

He became curious, and searched Sou Guoman on Douyin again.

Douyin's big data algorithm can push interesting content according to the interests of users, so Li Zhuo quickly found various commentaries of Chinese comics.

One of them, "Five Elements in the Fog Mountain", also impressed Li Zhuo deeply. The Chinese ink painting style, plus the bloody martial arts fights are very sharp, which also aroused his curiosity.

This animation was produced by Liudao Wuyu Studio located in Quzhou, Zhejiang Province. It took six people four years to make it, and it didn't make any money at all.

Interestingly, Li Zhuo then searched Douban and found that "The Bridge of Wind and Rain" scored 8.6, and "Five Elements in the Fog Mountain" scored 8.8, which should be considered quite high in domestic animation.

He then searched the current status of Guoman and found that the current market size of Guoman is between 300 billion and 400 billion yuan.

In contrast, the market size of online literature is almost 380 billion.

However, relatively speaking, the growth potential of animation is obviously greater.

Influenced and encouraged by the continuous success of animated films such as "Nezha: The Devil Boy Comes into the World", "Luo Xiaohei's Battle" and "Bear Infested", a lot of capital has poured into this market since the beginning of the year.

This must be a good thing, because without the influx of hot money, it will be difficult for an industry to develop rapidly.

Although capital will bring impetuous and short-sighted quick success, it will also give birth to more good works.

Li Zhuo hopes that Guoman can rise rapidly and seize the domestic market.

Games, animation, and film and television are all harmful things in the eyes of many people. They think that their development should be restricted, star salaries should be reduced, and scientists' treatment should be improved.

This statement cannot be said to be unreasonable, but there is one thing they obviously didn't understand, that is, when a society's economy develops to a certain level, the demand for culture and entertainment will be born.

The demand for entertainment cannot be eliminated. If we do not develop our own games, film and television entertainment, and animation, then animation from Japan, Korean film and television dramas, idol culture, and Western games and movies will carve up and seize China. The entertainment market will eventually reap most of the profits in this segment.

It is tantamount to making people cheaper in vain.

Therefore, we should not consider the problem one-sidedly. We must see that the demand already exists. If we do not develop related industries, we can only become a cash machine for others.

Li Zhuo also intends to go in and have fun. Anyway, these two animation studios are doing things that are thankless and can't make money. I guess big capital doesn't like it, so go in and play by yourself, and support these ambitious people. Another studio with perseverance.

Maybe it can produce more high-quality goods....

The next morning, Li Zhuo checked out the room and returned to Hangzhou from Shanghai.

Not long after returning to Sunshine Coast, Zheng Heng called:
"Brother Li, I asked two experts to show it to me yesterday, and they all said it was a genuine piece, a painting by Lin Fengmian in his later years. Quotations have been made one after another this morning, and the lowest one so far is 300 million yuan, the highest Close to 500 million."

"The price gap is quite large." Li Zhuo said.

Zheng Heng replied:

"The price of our painting is relatively clear, because Lin Fengmian once painted a painting with a similar theme. It was sold in Hong Kong for 560 million Hong Kong dollars a few years ago, and the price of 300 million is a fart... I have contacted a total of There are five or six collectors, and there are still people who have not made an offer, and we will wait to see if there is a higher price."

In the afternoon, he called again:

"...Among the quotations received so far, the highest one is from a collector in the imperial capital with an quotation of 530 million RMB. What do you think of this price?"

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(End of this chapter)