"Is this what the magazine's board of directors means, or Mr. Brown?"
The girl asked calmly.
“This is everyone’s decision.” Mr. Brown said slowly, “We are not the only art review magazine with a long history in Europe. Oil painting magazines also face a lot of market competition.”
< p>"Is that so?"Anna seemed to be in a trance.
Sir Brown thought he had persuaded Anna, and said in a persuasive tone, "In the past ten years, the profits of traditional media around the world have been declining rapidly. Although we are an old publication, times are different now. The newspapers founded by the Queen of Sweden all suffered losses and ceased publication. Who could have imagined this in the past? You have also seen the annual revenue schedule of the magazine."
"This is for the common good of our magazine. Profit." He licked his lips.
"Common Interests"
Anna looked at the brown walls of the quaintly furnished office.
There are portraits of the heads of oil painting magazines in the past dynasties hanging there. The elders of the Elena family have left their mark on it.
The frontmost position on the wall belongs to the old count, the founder of the magazine. The portrait of the count is wearing the uniform of a senior army officer, which is the uniform dress of the great nobles of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the portrait.
Different from the flamboyant French royal family, the Austro-Hungarian Empire has a military tradition, and even the emperor likes to dress himself up as a captain officer every day.
The old count in the portrait is neither holding a cavalry sword nor carrying a pistol on his waist. He is sitting sideways behind the long walnut table in the office, holding a small painting in his left hand. frame, holding a burning pipe between the fingers of his right hand.
Sir Brown noticed Anna’s gaze and used reason to seduce her. “The magazine is the hard work of generations of Elena’s family. You also hope that it can become better, right? It is true that we are an art magazine, but we are also a business magazine, and a business magazine must consider the impact on society."
"I understand." Anna nodded slightly.
"This is a necessary sacrifice." Sir Brown felt relieved, and his smile eased the tense atmosphere. "I know that you appreciate the Internet painter, and you also have your own persistence. But there are some In order to survive until the next spring, the violin had to be chopped into firewood to keep warm. Whether the detective cat is good at painting or has artistic attainments is of no importance in the future of the magazine. ”
"Go write a letter of apology. If you would like to make a call, I have Van Dorn's contact information."
Sir Brown picked up the landline phone on the table.
"No, I refuse." Anna shook her head.
Sir Brown froze, and the smile on his face disappeared little by little.
"Son, this is not only in the interests of the magazine, but also for your own good."
He became a little angry "If you accept Mr. Hyperion's video shooting invitation, inform him beforeI, I will never allow you to participate in this kind of program. Why are other critics unwilling to participate in such an offensive thing? Anna, haven't you ever thought about it?"
"Please stop your preaching, Mr. Levinson Brown. "
Anna stretched out her palm to stop Sir Brown from rambling.
She turned her head slightly and looked directly into the chairman's eyes.
"From me From the moment I stepped into this office, I have been enduring your humiliation all the time. Tea, coffee, Filipino preserves, what do you think this is? The principal is disciplining a disobedient female student."
Obviously she is a young girl, But there was a dignity in Anna's voice.
Her voice was cold and capable. Compared with Sir Brown, who had a white beard across from him, she seemed to be in a superior position at this moment in the wheelchair.
“I’ve had enough of you pretending to be a kindly priest leading a lost lamb. Chairman Brown, please at least observe some workplace courtesy. Call me Ms. Jelena, or Editor Jelena. I am neither your child nor have you ever allowed you to call me by my first name. "
"Besides, you seem to have misunderstood my purpose. I'm not here to beg your forgiveness, I'm just here to inform you of my dissatisfaction. I am an editor hired by a magazine. It is my right and part of my job to express my personal opinions on the field of art. If you don't want to, you can fire me, but I will not be coerced into changing any of my opinions. Good is good, and bad is bad. I love Detective Cat, I hate Van Dorn, that's it. ”
“It has nothing to do with art, only to do with reality. What a damn joke. The reason why Oil Painting Magazine can be passed down for two hundred years does not rely on financial reports and profitability, but only on persistence in art.” . "
Anna said coldly, "I have just been thinking that if my ancestor were here today, then he would definitely throw his pipe on your face and tell you"
< p>“Everything that happens in this building is only about art. ”Anna turned the wheelchair and left the conference room without any regrets.
As soon as she left the building and came to the street outside, her phone vibrated and she received the call. An email from the magazine’s human resources department.
“Miss, they won’t really dare to fire you. ”
The voice of the nurse aunt seemed a little nervous. She had been waiting at the door just now and heard the quarrel coming from the office.
This is the work that generations of Irina’s family have devoted their lives to.
"Vacation Notice"
Anna opened the phone, took a look, and pursed her lips.
No matter how angry Sir Brown was, After all, he still didn't have the courage to fire Anna directly.
He just informed the personnel department that Miss Elena was not suitable to continue to be responsible for the relevant magazine work in the field of visual arts due to her lack of social experience, so she was laid off. Indefinite leave
In the mail,
announced.Sir Lang also suggested to her in a polite but rather sinister tone that a little girl of this age is more suitable to stay in the ivory tower and continue to study for an aster master's degree or something.
I was ordered to take a vacation
It is also known as a garden vacation in the popular European and American legal sense.
In Western workplace culture, a company's management, core personnel or senior employees are judged to be unsuitable for their current positions due to scandals, non-competition restrictions, internal investigations, etc.
Officials will use compulsory leave reasons such as "traveling", "accompanying family members", "raising a pet" or "spending time to tidy up the garden at home" to make employees resign.
This is a euphemism for "You're suspended."
Sir Brown is using his actual actions to express that the magazine does not welcome her.
Anna thought for a moment, opened the official website of Oil Painting Magazine on her mobile phone, entered the information about Detective Cat, and clicked search.
Unfortunately, there are 0 pages and 0 search results under the current keyword, and this person is not found. Please check your keywords and try again.
Buyer recommendations about Detective Cat have been completely deleted from the website just as Sir Brown said.
This is a huge blow to the painter’s reputation.
It means that the painter himself has become useless in the eyes of professional art review organizations. Instead of lowering your rating, they will directly delete you.
Anna stared at the phone screen for a few seconds and opened the chat tool.
She sent a message to Detective Cat.
"If you really want to participate in the new art criticism salon, then come."
Faced with Detective Cat's previous request, the girl has not made up her mind. determination.
In her mind, Detective Cat is a master of sketching and illustration.
However, aesthetic attainments and painting skills have never been directly related.
It is normal for online illustrators to have inherent shortcomings. She wants to be the other person's agent, and she wants to lead and cultivate the other person's aesthetic accomplishment and aesthetic ability.
Now that I have the artistic endorsement from the Oil Painting Magazine, there is absolutely no need to risk embarrassment because of the dissatisfaction between myself and Van Dorn.
And many painters are naturally dull and not good at expressing themselves.
Now, with Chairman Brown withdrawing Detective Cat’s recommendation rating. This is worse than before I didn't give the other party a two-and-a-half-star rating.
It almost substantiates Van Dorn's theory that Detective Cat is a monkey with no aesthetic ability.
Anna, who has been suspended from her job, can no longer help the other party.
The only thing she can do is to give the other party a platform to prove herself.
The only one who can help Detective Cat is herself.
"Don't be brave." She was worried as she watched the message being sent out..
A few days later,
Dulwich College Yangon held its opening ceremony.
"As usual, this year's school party will be held on Rose Valentine's Day, May 14th. Students from grades 7 to 13 need to prepare formal attire for the party. The softball field on campus will be renovated, and restrictions on clubs will be suspended. Open. Students who want to open a new club should submit the application form to the student union office on the third floor of the north teaching building before 3 p.m. this Friday."
Wearing a black coat, Miss Mona, who is wearing a beige knitted shirt and a dark blue bow tie, is delivering the opening speech.
There was silence in the auditorium.
There are a total of eight international middle schools in Myanmar with good reputations, and Yangon accounts for five of them. Among them, the most famous for art education is this British-style private middle school.
The school is located in the suburbs of the city, covering an area of about 80,000 square meters.
In addition to ordinary general education, there are also three additional art courses: classical music, sculpture, and painting.
Miss Mona is the president of the girls' student union in the school.
In international middle schools, the student union has great power and is responsible for arranging all aspects of social activities in the school.
When applying to an excellent foreign university, in addition to hard scores, extracurricular activities, letters of recommendation, interviews and even daily social services are very important.
Gu Weijing, who was sitting in the corner seat at the back of the senior group, breathed a sigh of relief.
He was very familiar with the content that Miss Mona gave at the beginning of each school year. After listening for a while, when no one was paying attention, he quietly took out his IAD from his school bag.
Whether it’s tuning, painting or modeling.
Art students often use professional software on tablet computers, so the use of electronic products is not prohibited in schools.
Gu Weijing opened Apple's official podcast and clicked on the private radio station artistsreviebyrfoivora in his favorites
The page jumped and entered Mr. Sloth's podcast channel.
The channel's homepage background poster is Van Gogh's famous painting Starry Night, and the host's photo column is a fat sloth with palm-like hair.
Below is the podcast rating.
Currently, it shows that there are a total of 190,000 people subscribing, and more than 407,600 people have rated it. The overall score is 48 points.
In the field of arts podcasts, this rating and popularity are already very good, and even surpassed NBC’s National Radio’s Voice of the Arts in this week’s category rankings.
The podcast homepage has been updated with the ninth issue of the new Radio Poster Art Salon series. When classical meets modern, we will chat with Mr. Tonks, Director of the Tyler National Gallery of Art, and Internet illustrator Detective Cat. Light and Shadow in the Art of Painting will be online on time next Tuesday at 8pm
Like previous art salons, below the title is a keynote for fans to download similar to Apple Tdocument.
The file contains a total of five artworks.
These works were selected by the director of the Taylor Art Museum from submissions by fans of the podcast and were works that he found good.
Originally there were only four paintings, one of which was a watercolor painting and three were oil painting submissions.
After Anna decided to add another guest, she was worried that the detective cat would not be able to understand the paintings, so she specially selected an extra sketch, for a total of five paintings.
The format of this salon is centered around these five drawings. Everyone chats with each other and expresses their personal views and opinions.
The total duration is about forty minutes.
The post-production of audio files is not complicated. For this kind of chat-style salon with three guests, just make a timeline after recording.
The podcast will be launched next Tuesday, and the recording time will be this weekend.
Anna sent Gu Weijing a link to an online conference room. Calculating the time difference, it should be late at night this Friday, Yangon time.
There is still one week left,
Gu Weijing has already started intensive preparations.
First, he needs to deal with his voice.
Online voice changers that convert male voices into female voices are everywhere on the Internet.
To be on the safe side, he bought a voice-changing sound card on Amazon that could be used for a long time to adjust the thickness of the voice line.
After trying the effect, he was quite satisfied with the gentle female voice.
Then there is the preparation for the salon content.
Fan submissions for high-quality art podcasts include Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, and even some famous professional painters.
The works that the curator of the Taylor National Gallery of Art in the UK can express interest in are all of a very high degree of completion.
Several paintings can bring a certain degree of mental impact to Gu Weijing when he appreciates them. In order to make a clear and accurate judgment on these works, some of them even require him to reuse them more than once. Learned the art of calligraphy and painting appraisal.
Gu Weijing has consumed almost all the free experience points he has accumulated in the past few days, and he looks very tired.
If you want to leave a deep enough impression on the audience in the art salon and certify the names of Detective Cat and the art critic named Miss Irina,
This is undoubtedly Necessary efforts.
The people I talk to are all big names in the art circle.
Needless to say, Mr. Sloth, another Mr. Tonks is the curator of the Taylor National Gallery in the UK.
The Taylor National Gallery of Art is one of the most popular art galleries in the world. It is located on the east bank of the Thames River in the UK. It was built with funding from the sugar tycoon Taylor Henry. There are four more in Liverpool, Scotland and other places. The branch is the largest non-state art gallery in the UK run by a private foundation.
The aaaahci publication Taylor Art that Uncle Sakai once mentioned is their subordinate professional journal.
Being able to talk to such a powerful person is a rare opportunity. At the same time, it is also secretly full of danger.
As the classic French proverb goes, a salon can make a knowledgeable person famous overnight, but it can also make an ignorant person infamous for a long time.
There is a saying in the entertainment industry of "stressing the drama".
A young actor acting opposite an old movie star may not be able to say more than two lines before being overwhelmed by the opponent's momentum. Open your mouth, otherwise you will be submissive, or you will become exaggerated and uncoordinated.
This is the crushing of acting skills.
The final effect is the show. The better the veteran actor performs, the worse the young actor's performance becomes.
A more classic example is that in The Wolf of Wall Street, a natural actor like Leonardo DiCaprio was somewhat overpowered by the veteran actor Matthew McConaughey when he was opposite him.
The same is true for conversational salon podcasts. As soon as the expert opens his mouth, he will know if there is one.
Several experts who have been immersed in the industry for many years talked with each other. The in-depth collision of ideas and hearty brainstorming naturally made the audience mesmerized.
But if one person is an obviously weak layman.
When someone talks to you about lines, colors, and emotions in a painting, but you don’t even know which painting they are talking about, then the audience will still criticize you without discussing it.
This is especially obvious in niche fields like art. There are so many capable professionals in the audience, and there is no way to get by just by pretending.
Mr. Tonks may not have the highest academic status among the guests Mr. Sloth invited in the past.
But as a detective cat, I am definitely the painter with the weakest "resume" who has appeared on this podcast in the past year.
It was so thin that even Gu Weijing was a little surprised. This Mr. Sloth, whom he had never met before, was actually willing to agree to be a guest on his podcast.
Many senior fans of the show at the bottom of the poster also expressed their incomprehension about Mr. Sloth's decision.
"Who is Detective Cat?"
"A very popular online illustrator some time ago, the first online illustrator in history to appear in an oil painting magazine. But Kazuki Mr. Lazy seems to be a bit unqualified for conversation."
"I read the report of Theoon, an online artist who makes a living by drawing animation illustrations, and it seems that she doesn't think highly of her."
"There is no need to report news from third-rate newspapers like Theoon here. Their words are simply disgusting. But in fact, having said that, I am indeed a little worried about the quality of this podcast. Detective Cat He and the other two guests are not from the same world at all, how can they talk together?"
"It is said that the artist Van Dorn questioned the professionalism of the oil painting magazine, thinking that he and the detective There can only be one cat left, I don’t know if this news is true or not, but it seems that the oil painting has indeed deleted the page about the detective cat. Do you think this participation in the art salon will be an opportunity for the detective cat to fight back?"
"Fight back,Just don't be embarrassed. She is like a broom star. I heard that Miss Elena from Oil Painting Magazine was also affected. Mr. Sloth shouldn’t have invited him as a guest.”
The professional art circle is so big, any gossip spreads very fast.
Soon enough, someone posted the gossip in the comments below The grievances between Van Dorn, Anna and Detective Cat were revealed.
The relevant page of the online illustrator who had just appeared in the oil painting magazine for a few weeks was discovered and removed from the official oil painting website a few days ago. disappeared from the recommendation page.
Also disappeared from the visual arts column, the new editor whose initials was ae.
Someone spread the news to Van Dorn.
The other party only replied with a photo of a circus clown with the text "thereisnosuchern can't find this person"
I don't know whether he was mocking Anna or the detective cat. Of course, it is more likely that they are both clowns.
Many artists who are familiar with Van Dorn have forwarded the message.
At least to the vast majority of fans of the podcast. In the eyes, in this kind of salon show that professionally tests aesthetic ability, Detective Cat is still just an insignificant joke. Please remember to save it, the latest and fastest free reading without anti-theft