"It looks like it will cost a lot of money."
While scrolling through the girl's S homepage, Gu Weijing opened the small window using the front-end scheduling on the IAD, and casually sent an envious message Emoticons.
He is not a jewelry enthusiast,
but he has stayed in Myanmar for a long time and has some knowledge of jade.
Based on the quality of the jade bracelet and pendant in the photo, the cheapest one might cost $8,000, and the more expensive one, $100,000, may not be affordable.
"I don't like it. From noon to now, my mother has picked out six bracelets and three pairs of earrings for me and herself. This is not over yet. After returning to the hotel, there is still the installation process. There was a special publicity and tasting session for state-owned glass-grown jadeite in the VIP room on the top floor. When I thought about her dragging me to continue shopping at night, I felt so bored that I grew hairy."
Katsuko's tone was pitiful. said.
"Gu Jun, please accompany me to talk about the paper."
If other girls said this to the table full of strange pearls, they would be a little bit meaty. Suspect of showing off.
Not only Eastern Xia has Versailles literature.
Gu Weijing remembers that,
There was a time when rich girls in local schools also liked to post various brand-name bags on their social media after accidentally falling down. Scene, or update a photo of ys Yves Saint Laurent lipstick facing a table on Valentine's Day, with the text "I have so many of this color, and my boyfriend insists on buying it for me, I'm speechless." Such words to show affection .
However,
After getting along with Katsuko for a long time, he knew that Sakai Katsuko had always been a very straightforward person.
Miss Sakai has no need to show off.
For a family with the income level of a top Asian artist like Uncle Sakai, whose annual painting sales can easily reach tens of millions of dollars, buying a jade bracelet worth tens of thousands of dollars is more expensive than a monthly sale. Locals who earn $100 can easily eat a bowl of beef ramen on the roadside.
This level of money is already close to being insensitive.
Miss Sakai Katsuko, an artistic little princess who grew up in a golden house, has a natural nobility.
Whether you like it or not depends entirely on your heart.
If you like it, you can admire the shells on the beach for a long time. If you don't like it, even the best jade, which is as clear as water, will only be regarded as glass.
"Have you not contacted the email address of the Asian Art Journal for submission? The results are now available," Gu Weijing replied strangely.
This is too fast.
"Of course not so fast. The publisher of this kind of biannual journal works at a very slow pace. There are only a few old editors and they have to contact the reviewers and professors who are available. I mean, While writing the thesis, did Gu Jun feel the same as me? Whenever I admire and copy the paintings of the female painter Carroll, I always think about it."
On the screen, < /p>
Sakai Katsuko paused for more than ten seconds before typing quietly.
"I always think, you said, our papers, our copying, can awaken this old church in a thunderstorm and the afterlife of the female painter."
Afterlife
This unpopular description made Gu Weijing a little confused.
They have always communicated in English on the chat software, but Miss Katsuko specially changed the words "afterlife" into Chinese or maybe Japanese.
These two characters in Japanese have not been simplified by katakana, and are completely consistent with the writing method of Chinese characters. They are both Buddhist terms and represent the next life of reincarnation.
"I don't quite understand that paintings have an afterlife."
Gu Weijing has never heard of such a literary and mysterious statement.
He expressed a little puzzlement.
"This is a concept that Senior Takashi Murakami told me. You know Takashi Murakami."
"Of course, of course, Katsuko, you know Takashi Murakami, although it was expected , but it’s still really amazing.”
Gu Weijing still knows about this famous Asian painter.
This is Takashi Murakami,
Takashi Murakami was once known as the world’s number one Mesozoic artist.
At his peak, Takashi Murakami could sell just one cartoon doll for five million dollars.
In the art circles of Asia and the entire world, if we really want to rank the living artists in 12345 order.
The only people whose status can stabilize Murakami Takashi's head are Cao Lao from Eastern Xia, Gerhard Richter from Germany, and Yayoi Kusama from Japan, who are close to a hundred years old and are living fossils of modern art history. It’s magical.
Even if the market price of Murakami Takashi's paintings has dropped considerably, Professor Kazunari Sakai may still be slightly inferior to others.
“The first time I heard this statement was probably around 2009. I was still a student who had just entered elementary school at that time. I can’t remember the specific time clearly.”< /p>
It seems that the private sale of jade on the treasure ship is really boring, and Katsuko Sakai is very talkative.
She mentioned stories from her childhood.
Sakai Katsuko recalled, “I just remember one day after school, my dad drove my brother and me to see Takashi Murakami’s art exhibition at the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum.
That It was a big exhibition. At that time, Time magazine wanted to write a special report on Mr. Murakami. All the European and American reporters and the wife of the U.S. ambassador to Japan were surrounded. Everyone wanted to be with him. A few words about a great and epoch-making artist.
At that time, my father was far less famous than he is now, so I had never seen such a scene. I was extremely envious and said loudly that I would become a great artist in the future. You are a great artist.”
“It’s so embarrassing to think about it now. I was so naive at that time that I was not afraid of tigers.”
< p>Sakai Katsuko made a shy expression."It's quite cute, and what did Murakami Takashi say?"
Although Gu Weijing hasn't figured it out yet, what does this have to do with the "afterlife of painting" they are discussing? relation.
But people who have grown up in high-end art circles like Katsuko Sakai cannot understand the precious stories surrounding such great artists.
So he still listened with interest.
The period around 2010 that Ms. Sakai mentioned was when Murakami was at his peak.
The Palace of Versailles in Paris held a special exhibition for him, and the New York Times wrote a personal column for him.
When it comes to fashion crossover,
Louis Vuitton, Chanel, Hermès, any top luxury goods company is eager to cooperate with Murakami. Works signed with "Takashi Murakami" represent a guarantee of artistry and are a model of the combination of elegance and fun.
When bags and shopping bags co-branded by Louis Vuitton and Takashi Murakami were selling like hotcakes among celebrities around the world, Van Doorn was still playing in the mud.
When Time magazine selected the 100 most influential people of our time, Murakami beat Taylor Swift, Buffett, Murdoch and other celebrities on the list. He is also the only visual artist on the list.
Unexpectedly, Katsuko Sakai would be lucky enough to have face-to-face contact with Takashi Murakami at that time.
Imagine,
At an exhibition of such a famous artist, a little girl of several years old said loudly that she wanted to become a great artist even better than Murakami. It really made people smile. of.
"You were laughed at by everyone" Gu Weijing was curious.
"That's not true. Great artists don't have the same experience as a little girl like me. The senior just stayed silent for a few seconds and asked me, in my heart, what kind of work is truly great? "
"I thought about it for a long time, but I couldn't tell it."
Miss Sakai typed, "Takashi Murakami seemed to know my name, so he walked out of the crowd. He squatted down and touched my hair."
"He told me, Miss Sakai, whether you become a so-called great artist or not is not important, and whether you become the next me is even less important. It’s not important, what’s important is to paint works that can defeat death.”
“Works that defeat death”
Gu Weijing thought about this statement.
“He told me that the works of truly powerful masters have an afterlife. Their works will never die, they will only reincarnate again and again in the long river of time. Whenever someone is in the long river of time, By chanting their names, the artist's soul will be reincarnated from the ashes of the past."
"Those who survive through time are immortal."
Miss Sakai slowly explained to Gu Weijing the art philosophy she had received.
When evaluating the artistic works of any painter, you canDivide his paintings into two stages: this world and the next.
When an artist's artistic life ends, the paintings he painted also end in this world.
There will be no new ones of the same kind, and the rest will be a long afterlife.
Art is a strange circle.
Picasso became famous during his lifetime, and there will always be a few lucky people who leave a name in the history of painting after his death.
Some people’s works are extremely splendid and simmering in the world, but no one cares about them after they die.
There are also some people whose works were not worth mentioning when they were alive, but they illuminated the entire history of art after their death.
The professors in charge of the Paris official salon who slandered the Impressionists went to the Louvre in fine clothes, dined with dignitaries, and decorated their works with frames inlaid with gold and silver threads.
When they were alive, their paintings were highly sought after by the trend and hard to find. However, a hundred years later, their names have been lost to time and no one cares about them.
Van Gogh only sold one cheap oil painting in his life, but now it is regarded as a treasure by major museums, and has even become a cultural symbol, more popular than the surname of the Dutch royal family. remembered.
Huang Binhong, the master of traditional Chinese painting, once said that people will understand me only fifty years after my death.
In 2003, when Christie's auctioned a Chinese painting by this master whose artistic works had not been much valued during his lifetime for a sky-high price of 370 million, it would be fifty years since the old man's death.
What is successful is not necessarily great, and what is great is not necessarily successful.
Before the modern gallery system and the capital promoters of the art market formed a mature system, this was the portrayal of generations of modern painting masters.
"I can imagine that I will easily be a very successful and wealthy painter in the future."
It is no exaggeration to say this from Katsuko Sakai ingredients.
“But I don’t know whether my work will be able to defeat time. Whether it is good enough, and whether it will leave echoes in the history of art again and again in my next life. And the bumpy situation of those predecessors. In comparison, I even feel guilty and uneasy."
"I have always believed that having the courage to be the unknown Van Gogh is more valuable than the ambition to become a great artist in the secular sense. "
"So, when we were writing the paper, I always felt like making a pilgrimage to the senior female painter named Carroll, especially when I had a little dispute with you about the identity of the female painter. From now on, this feeling will be more obvious," Sakai Katsuko wrote softly.
“This is why even though finding celebrities is far-fetched and far-fetched, it has been a common practice in the art circle since ancient times, and it was also my father’s suggestion. But your insistence on Carol’s true identity still convinced me in the end, And the reason why I admire her. Although this may only increase the possibility by one hundred or one thousandth in vain."
"Her writing skills are brilliant, and no one cares about her name. Such an outstanding female painterHer name should not be lost in time, if we can find her story together and bring her dark-toned impressionistic style back to the world. This female painter can be reincarnated under our pen. This is the most memorable thing I can think of. ”
“Gu Jun, I want to share this expectation with you for a long time to come. ”
Sakai Katsuko typed slowly.
Perhaps the wireless signal at sea is not good, or maybe the girl was dragged by Mrs. Sakai to choose jade jewelry again.
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After sending this line,
Ms. Sakai said nothing and it was shown that she was offline.
Gu Weijing stared at the screen for a long time.
He closed the chat software and switched back to the photo of Shengzi standing on the sea shell that Shengzi had posted in the morning on the S photo wall.
Gu Weijing looked at the photo, Sakai Sheng. I can't help but express my heartfelt feelings about her elegant and noble appearance.
Miss Katsuko is really the kind of soft girl with an artistic temperament.
She is like a blooming flower. Lotus.
He remembered that
he once came across an emotional teaching video on YouTube by a rich second generation talking about girls’ personality preferences, which was viewed more than one million times. Quantity.
The guy above looks very playboy-like in his dress. He divided the girlfriends he had dated into several categories.
The easiest one to get. If you are a money-loving girl, you only need a limited-edition Dior perfume and a candlelight dinner at a Michelin restaurant to have a 90% chance of success.
This is the kind of artistic girl who is the most difficult to deal with and has the most sincere emotions.
p>What money can’t buy is the most expensive thing
If you want to get into the heart of this kind of girl, you don’t need luxury bags or Porsches. Car keys.
What I want is emotional communication, a perfect tacit understanding in the eyes, a heart-pounding brainwave connection, and a common language of ideals and aspirations.
She can do that. Because of a kiss under the stars and jumping into the sea with you, you can also throw the 999 customized blue roses worth five thousand US dollars you gave her into the trash can downstairs without any trace of memory.
That. In order to chase such a beautiful girl, a young man went to work as a volunteer with the girl in a Syrian refugee camp in Jordan for more than half a year. He almost died of malaria in the Middle East.
< p>A young lady like Sakai Katsuko is born with nothing.She has a pious and literary heart towards art, and her feelings towards people and objects are very pure.
Probably. That's why Sakai Katsuko is so persistent in copying Carroll's paintings.
Even Gu Weijing copied so many pictures of Thunderstorm's Old Church, and even more. Just for the utilitarian need to obtain the system treasure chest, instead of placing such great emotional expectations like Miss Katsuko
"The afterlife of the artwork. "
Gu Weijing thought about this very chewy statement in his mind. Please remember to collect it, the latest and fastest website is free to read without anti-theft