The Book of Appreciation

While looking at the picture with a smile, Wu Di wondered why the painting appeared here. Needless to say, the painting is too well preserved, and the collision with Lan Ying's masterpiece is the main reason. .However, it has been more than 500 years. How can this look like a new work?Could it be that he also misjudged?

He shook his head. The brush and ink in this painting are bold and unrestrained, powerful, full of strength and hardness.At first glance, it gives people a feeling of vastness and thickness, but if you savor it carefully, you can capture a magnificent and refreshing meaning from some details. The painter has painted the quiet and quiet picture with great force through his brushwork. The broad and peaceful artistic conception, isn't it Shen Zhou's handwriting? Whose is it?

"Boss, how much is this painting?"

"This painting?"

The boss gave Wu Di a thumbs up,

"Sir, you have a good eye! This painting is rigorous and beautiful. The brushwork is calm and steady. It has hidden muscles and bones. It is really the best imitation of Shen Zhou's works! It's a pity that I can't find the source, otherwise I would be reluctant to hang it here for sale!"

"Hehe, that's fine, I know this is a good work, but what I care about now is the price. Don't call it expensive, I can't afford it."

"It's not expensive, it's not expensive. An authentic painting by Shen Zhou costs hundreds of millions. Ours is a hundred times cheaper than his, only 80!"

"A piece of imitation is not imitated by a famous artist. You want 80?"

Wu Di shook his head, stretched out two fingers,

" Ten thousand."

"No way, the difference is too far, and the cost will not be recovered."

"Then add another 21, [-]."

The two bargained for a while, and finally settled the deal at 48 yuan, and everyone was happy.

After finishing the ink painting, Wu Di turned around to look at the oil painting, which surprised the boss who had been paying attention to him.Generally speaking, there are relatively few Orientals who like oil paintings, and even fewer who like both ink and wash paintings. He nodded and made a judgment in his heart. This young man is probably a student of painting The kind of student who is rich and willing to spend money.

"Sir, I still have a few fine works here, I wonder if you are interested in looking at them?"

When Wu Di finished the last picture and was about to turn around and leave, the boss stopped him.

Have a boutique?As long as the price is not particularly high-quality goods, I am certainly interested.

Wu Di smiled and nodded, and followed the boss into the office at the end of the gallery. The boss made them a few cups of tea, got up and went out to get the paintings.

Wu Di looked at the office with more than a dozen square meters, and found that there was nothing to see, so he sat down and concentrated on tea.After shopping for a long time, I was really thirsty.

After waiting for a while, the boss came in with a few works.Wu Di took a look at the material of the canvas, and guessed that it should be oil painting and ink painting.

The first one was an oil painting, but when he opened it, he was taken aback.Because this painting is not only scary, but also the person who painted it is even more scary. Is this Edward of Norway?Munch's work!

Edward?Munch was a great painter, the forerunner of modern expressionist painting.His paintings are strongly subjective and sad and depressive.Picasso and Matisse once absorbed his artistic nourishment, and some artists in Germany and France were also inspired by his works.His intense, evocative treatment of psychological distress was a major influence on the growth of German Expressionism at the turn of the century.

In Munch's paintings, lines and colors are endowed with a strong expressive force, and he tried to use them to draw real people.Munch has been working hard to discover various conditions in the human mind, trying to express diseases, death, despair, love and other themes through his brush.Therefore, his creation has the title of "realism of the soul".

His most famous painting, The Scream, is said to be worth more than $[-] million.

This painting is another masterpiece of his, should it be collected in Rasmus?The painting "Karl ?Evening on John Street".

The picture in this painting is very simple. It depicts a seemingly endless street and a seemingly endless flow of people. In the picture, a person is walking like a ghost, walking like a dead body, which strongly expresses the artist's loneliness. The pessimism and anxiety that the soul produces about life.

"This imitation is not bad, but I don't like Munch's style very much. People are painted as ghosts..."

Wu Di opened the second painting while talking. This painting showed a scene of a lone boat struggling in the storm. However, the surprise was far better than the first one, because it was Rembrandt's "The Storm on the Sea of ​​Galilee"!And it's authentic!

Rembrandt?Harmansson?Where?Rhein was one of the greatest painters in Europe in the 17th century and the greatest painter in Dutch history.His position in the history of painting—not only in Holland but in the history of painting in the whole of Europe—is comparable to that of the great masters of the Italian Renaissance.

Rembrandt is great because of a special technique, chiaroscuro.Once this term is associated with him, it has a special meaning.His light and shade have completely different meanings from those of Italian painters during the Renaissance.That's why Fromentin, a French painter and critic in the [-]th century, called him a "luminous insect", and some people said that he used darkness to paint light.

However, his greatness will not frighten Wu Di, and the fact that this painting is authentic is not the reason for his shock. What really frightens Wu Di is the hidden things behind this painting, because it is a world famous painting that has been stolen!It is currently at the top of the police bounty list, with a bounty of up to $500 million!

In March 1990, Isabella in Boston, USA?Stewart?The Gardner Museum was ransacked by two unidentified thieves. The rampant thieves took away world-class paintings worth more than 3 million U.S. dollars in about an hour and a half, including Rembrandt's "Sea of ​​Galilee". The Storm!

The case was the largest art theft in history, and none of the stolen art was insured.So many years have passed, even if the police offer a reward of 500 million US dollars to arrest the murderer, there is still no clue about the mysterious thief and the famous paintings that were stolen.

Wu Di wiped his chin, glanced at the usual boss, and thought:

"This guy should regard it as a fake, right? ***, aren't you giving me a problem?"

For a moment, he hesitated, should he just ignore it and let it go, or be an immoral collector?It's a pity, if there is no problem with this painting, if you get it and find a big Dutch collector, how many treasures of the ancestors can you exchange for it!

Change baby?Suddenly, his heart moved, shit, what is morality and immorality, the things you robbed openly can be made public after more than 100 years, and it becomes immoral for me to buy things openly and go back?Isn't this still the robber logic back then?Damn, afraid of gasping, buy it!

Wu Di looked at the next three paintings very quickly, mainly because they were nothing to look at, they were all imitations of famous paintings, but the last painting made his eyes widen again.

This is a giant ink painting on silk, signed "Early Spring, Renzi Guo Xibi", and engraved with the seal of "Guo Xibi".

"Early Spring" is the work of Guo Xi, a Chinese painter in the Northern Song Dynasty. It has always been regarded as a monumental landscape painting that can be compared with Fan Kuan's "Traveling in Streams and Mountains" and Li Tang's "Wind in Pines in Ten Thousand Valleys". Collected in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, Taiwan.But to Wu Di's surprise, this one looks very much like an authentic one!

Guo Xi was a famous painter, painting theorist, and landscape engineer in the Northern Song Dynasty.He mostly uses cirrus clouds or grimaces to paint mountains and rocks, and he paints trees like crab claws drooping, with strong brushwork, bright and clean ink, and unique layout.He has also made achievements in painting theory. He observed the landscapes of the four seasons, and he felt that "the mountains in spring are as light as smiles, the mountains in summer are green as drops, the mountains in autumn are as bright as makeup, and the mountains in winter are as bleak as sleeping". The composition method of "three distances", namely, deep, far and flat.

Wu Di went through the painting bit by bit, and finally confirmed that this painting is not the same as the one in the National Palace Museum in Taipei, but it is definitely the authentic work of Guo Xi!

Covering up the last painting, Wu Di used the heavenly script to appraise it again, and the result surprised him. The first painting of Munch's "Carl?Evening on John Street" is actually an authentic work!

He shook his head in disbelief, and looked at the smiling boss.In an instant, the ordinary image of the boss became great in his eyes. Three of the six collections are works of masters. What a blessing it must be to be able to do this!

"Boss, let's make sure of one thing first. Are these six pictures all high imitations?"

The boss gave an unpredictable smile and said:

"It's up to you what you say, sir. After you've finished reading, don't you know if these paintings can still catch your eyes?"

"Well, although they are all imitations, the imitations are very good. Please ask for a price, one by one."

"Hehe, you don't need to come one by one. Regardless of whether these paintings are good or bad, or whether they are true or false, they will be packaged and sold together for 0... US dollars!"

Sell ​​it in a package and pay $0?Wu Di looked at the boss's mysterious smile, and his heart sank directly.This amount of money is very common for antique transactions, but few fakes dare to fetch this price.Listening to the boss's tone, and looking at his determined expression, Wu Di is sure that this guy at least knows that one of them is an authentic one!

However, even if only one piece is authentic, it should not be at this price.Then, the authentic works that can be sold at this price can only be things of unknown origin and invisible!

your sister!This is a scam!There was a huge question mark in Wu Di's heart, he wished he could call the police now, and forget about earning the 500 million reward!

No, no!A thought suddenly crossed his mind. Since he runs a gallery, there is no reason why he does not know the story of this painting. Then, since he dared to show it publicly to a stranger like him, he probably didn't recognize it.However, this price... Could it be that there is something wrong with those two paintings? (To be continued.)