"How to say"
"That boy painted a work, I think it is quite interesting."
Uncle Sakai became interested, and his wife has always been very picky. It’s not easy to make my wife talk about interesting paintings.
“Look at our daughter’s s.”
Uncle Sakai opened s and logged into the trumpet.
The official S and Twitter accounts of his own Sakai Kazunari Studio are currently operated by Ota Art Gallery.
High-end artists are often two extremes.
Otherwise, there are social horror types who completely stay away from social media and leave their accounts to agents. There are even many like Wehrlein who do not use modern network equipment at all.
Otherwise, you are a social guru, extremely keen on self-media marketing, and want to post more than a dozen tweets and various photos of your life a day.
Uncle Sakai found it troublesome, so the broker managed everything.
Datian Art Gallery has a team that specializes in Internet marketing for Uncle Sakai, responding to some fan messages and so on.
Another obvious advantage of having a dedicated person in charge is that
Artists will not be like the actor who played Captain America, who suddenly had a brain convulsion and shook his hands and took nude photos and bed photos. He uploaded photos or embarrassing private photos and woke up to find that the whole world was talking about his big baby.
It can also prevent fans from discovering that the artist makes random comments and likes on some sensitive topics that may involve political correctness.
These may sound inconspicuous, but they are all lessons learned from the blood of our predecessors.
"This kid."
Uncle Sakai snorted with a slightly complicated mood when he saw the text note written by his daughter Katsuko y.
He likes Gu Weijing, but he is still a little jealous of his daughter's bold show of love.
Soon,
his expression became solemn.
"Today's young people are becoming more and more ambitious." Uncle Sakai licked his lips, "They are rushing to be the next Wu Guanzhong."
"Mr. Wu Guanzhong"
Hearing this name, Hanks, who was originally a little depressed, suddenly stretched his neck like a seal taking a nap on the ice and suddenly smelled the fishy smell of salmon. His ears pricked up.
Professor Sakai and his wife mainly spoke in Japanese.
Hanks’ Japanese vocabulary is limited to simple words such as ordering food in a restaurant, and he can’t understand the other party’s conversation.
But he still keenly captured the syllables of the name that sounded like "Wu Guanzhong".
"Professor Sakai, you are talking about asteru"
Hanks blinked twice.
Excluding those antiques and famous paintings that have been exiled overseas, let’s just talk about modern Chinese paintings.
In the international art market, works by famous artists such as Zhang Daqian and Huang Binhong can also be sold at very high prices, but more of them are from overseas Chinese and Chinese.The ethnic circle is buying.
In terms of global influence,
Perhaps the pure traditional Chinese painting master most sought after by international friends in the art market is Qi Baishi. Mainly because Mr. Qi’s fans are very awesome.
Picasso has always loved Qi Baishi’s works.
It is said that Picasso’s classmate once said, “Oriental painters don’t have to come to Paris to seek a teacher, just go to Qi Baishi. That is a masterpiece that I will never be able to paint.”
This sentence can be called the most powerful statement of the century. From then on, almost no critics will question the level of Shiraishi.
Even if you don’t understand Chinese painting well and don’t have the cultural literacy to appreciate oriental art, collectors must believe in Picasso’s vision, so Qi Baishi’s paintings are also highly sought after.
As the last living master of traditional Chinese painting of his generation, Mr. Cao Xuan’s works have a gradually rising transaction price.
In terms of transaction price, he has already stepped into the threshold of the world's top painters.
The market predicts that after a hundred years, the old man’s works may truly enter the first-class field.
But trends are just trends.
There is no fixed number in the art market. Only time can tell whether it will be famous for a while, or for fifty years, a hundred years, or even centuries.
In terms of price,
Wu Guanzhong’s paintings are half a grade lower than those of Mr. Cao, but much higher than those of Mr. Cao’s second-generation disciples like Lin Tao and Tang Ning. Several works have sold for hundreds of millions of dollars in Dongxia Xiangjiang.
And what’s even more difficult is that
his painting style was first sought after in the French market and set off a craze among collectors in this traditional heart of European art, and then he returned. Eastern Xia.
International practice, in order to give collectors an intuitive impression, foreign art critics like to give great yellow painters nicknames such as "famous European artists from the East" to refer to this painter.
For example, Uncle Sakai was once called the Ingres of the East, Taro Komatsu's father Kenta Komatsu was called the Klimt of the East, and Wu Guanzhong has always been called the Van Gogh of the East.
The style of oil painting is ethereal and the colors are magnificent.
If the road to fusion painting style were not difficult to follow, there were too few successors, and there were no successors of sufficient importance and a unified artistic school, it would almost be possible to establish a sect.
It is the supreme pursuit and dream of many artists and galleries to establish a sect.
As long as the painting industry still exists, your name will be immortal.
If Hanks was just flattering in front of Uncle Sakai, then any hunter agent would have no choice but to pounce in front of a master who is expected to establish a sect.
Even though this master has passed away for more than ten years.
When Hanks spoke, he was still respectful to this great artist who had received the highest honor in the art world awarded by the French government.Before the artist's surname, the honorific title "Master Aster" is added.
This is used to praise the other person’s works, which are like a mysterious alchemy master’s ability to blend the yin and yang of Eastern and Western artistic styles.
Uncle Sakai glanced at Hanks and said nothing.
He just said that.
The photo posted by Shengzi is just a base map. This painting can only be said to be designed in a painting style similar to Wu Guanzhong’s works.
In terms of final effect, it is far from worthy of being compared with that kind of top artist.
It's like the gap between the children's karting champion and the F1 world champion.
The problem is,
This rate of progress is really scary.
Every time Kazunari Sakai felt that he had taken a high look at this kid, but next time Gu Weijing would give him an unexpected surprise.
A master starts from a humble beginning, and Schumacher also came from a karting champion.
My wife is absolutely right. At Gu Weijing's age, his ability to control the style of writing is really surprising.
“Today’s young people are so awesome that I hate them.”
How talented are you?
It is still just the prototype of the road to becoming a master.
< p>What about five years from now or ten years from now?From the perspective of competition between artists, Uncle Sakai even feels a sense of crisis in replacing the old with a new generation.
There are only so many cakes that can be distributed in total, if your work is not meaningful enough.
The emergence of a new generation of supernovas means a reshuffle of the art market. Old artists will always become outdated and abandoned by collectors.
At his current age, Uncle Sakai can still be considered a Mesozoic artist.
He felt that he could still swim in the vast ocean of this market for more than ten or twenty years, and he did not want to be photographed to death by a young man on the beach so soon.
He then thought about the two most talented young people he had ever seen. One was his daughter, and the other was his daughter's sweetheart.
If you round it off, if the children are awesome, you are the same as if you are awesome.
Uncle Sakai became happy again.
"This painting already has an obvious personal style. It's pretty good and the future is formidable." Uncle Sakai put the receiver of the phone to his ear again and continued to flatter his wife. "Our daughter's vision It's true. Shengzi has 70% of her mother's skills."
"Humph, shameless, you didn't have this level of accomplishment when you were a student," Mrs. Sakai said with a smile. Still quite enjoyable.
"I think our Shengzi really likes him. In this case, this kid is lucky. I think so, we need noble people on the road of art. Please give me some advice when you have time, Gu Weijing , help him wherever you can," Mrs. Sakai ordered.
“What kind of ecstasy did that boy give you to make you willing?Help him like this"
Uncle Sakai was a little surprised at his wife's change in attitude.
"That little bastard deserves it too"
Mrs. Sakai gently "cut" After a moment, he still said helplessly, "It's not for our girl. "
"The more you help him, the more he will coax and pamper our daughter. Shengzi's position in Gu Weijing's heart became more and more important. ”
That’s how feelings are.
The more both parties give and give to their families after their death, the more rights and confidence they will have to do whatever they want. Those who are free-loaders have no capital to betray. .
On the contrary, seeing her daughter and each other falling in love, the mother-in-law was still unhappy with her son-in-law, and made all kinds of mistakes. In the end, it was her daughter who was hurt.
Mrs. In school, she never treated those students with disdain because their social status didn't even interest her in perfunctory matters.
As far as art is concerned, the gap between everyone's social status is probably greater than that. Both humans and dogs are big.
But she realized that her daughter might have liked Gu Weijing from the beginning.
Mrs. Sakai never really said anything bad about her. Instead, he held his nerve, patiently, and made a serious agreement with the other party.
“Our daughter is too soft-tempered. That little bastard must know that Shengzi's love is a blessing he has cultivated over several lifetimes. As long as he can make Shengzi happy, I am willing to give him a ladder to success. ”
Katsuko is not a naughty daughter who likes to show off,
but Mrs. Sakai doesn’t mind showing that little native of Yangon how wonderful it is to have a lover like Katsuko. Precious.
"What do you think?"
"I have no problem here. But with Lin Tao as his teacher, the ladder to success is already halfway up. There's no need for me to get involved. ”
Uncle Sakai smiled.
He thought that oil painting was better than Lin Tao’s, but Professor Lin Tao was already very good at teaching children at Gu Weijing’s level. , there will be no qualitative difference in his teaching.
"An artist as big as you can always do something, otherwise I will contact him for sponsorship scholarships from several international art foundations." Sakai My wife suggested.
“Sponsorship scholarship, well, it’s only seven or eight thousand dollars a year at most, plus reimbursement of air tickets and so on. It’s not that big of a deal. And many scholarships from this kind of foundation have additional requirements. , there are many tricks. Say it's a scholarship. Maybe he would have to take a commission from the money he makes from selling the paintings in the future, which is unnecessary. "
Uncle Sakai shook his head, "Since we want to provide help in times of need, we should give a big one. ”
“Well, that’s it. I have an idea, and someone happened to come up to me recently."
He suddenly turned his head and looked at Hanks aside, squinting his eyes, like a shark that had seen the ice and was looking for food.
Hanks, who was trying hard to eavesdrop on Uncle Sakai’s conversation, Mo.There are some famous hairs on the neck that are tight.
He turned his head and saw Professor Sakai, who had put down the phone, smiling at him.
Hanks panicked at being laughed at and quickly smiled back.
"Professor, think about it. For $50 million, it would be difficult to find a more sincere offer than ours." Hanks thought that Uncle Sakai was a little moved.
"No, no, no."
Sakai Kazunari shook his fat fingers like carrot sticks and said softly, "With all due respect, if you give me this contract, It’s Gagosian or Leeson, but Mashi Gallery is much less attractive.”
“In fact, I don’t mind telling you that Gagosian is also willing to talk to me. Working with an agency under the consignment model, I share the sales 50/50. OFA’s renewal offer for me is also four years, almost 48 million US dollars. If the difference is only 2 million US dollars, why don’t I continue to cooperate with my old club?”
The smile on Hanks' face was a little forced.
He knew that Professor Sakai was telling the truth.
Ofa is no worse than M&A, and Gagosian is the industry leader.
50/50 split, with Gagosian’s channels, the total amount of Uncle Sakai’s works may not exceed US$100 million in the next few years, or even more, but the repayment from consignment will be slower.
"I believe that your desire to change galleries is not just a matter of money."
Hanks hesitated for a moment before saying, "At Ota Gallery, as long as Yayoi Kusama is alive , you will never be a leading artist, and Larry Gagosian may not be willing to make you the next Damien Hirst, but if you are at M&A, everything is possible.”
It is impossible for Ota Art Gallery to give up its full efforts to promote Yayoi Kusama, who is still creating art, for the sake of Professor Sakai.
Gagosian is even more famous. There are at least five or six painters of the same level as Sakai Kazunari. Uncle Sakai is just an ordinary one among them.
"I admit that I had such concerns about changing galleries. No offense, but does Mashi Gallery have the confidence to market me as the next Kusama-senpai?"
Sakai The uncle asked, "It's useless to talk verbally. How many artists do you have, more than 190, and how many of them are successful?"
This sentence hit Hank Si’s pain points.
Mashi Gallery currently has a total of 193 represented artists around the world, the oldest is 81 years old, and the youngest is 23 years old. This number is already a lot in the gallery business, and it ranks among the first-tier galleries. First.
This is actually not a glorious ranking.
The art industry is one of the industries with the most serious Matthew effect. A high-level artist is better than a basket full of smelly fish and rotten shrimps.
Tiger walks alone, cattle and sheep flock together.
The rich are not stupid. Oil tycoons and Arab princes can spend hundreds of millions of pounds to pay for works signed with Hirst’s name without frowning.payment. For unknown little painters, they are not willing to pay a hundred dollars.
Really awesome boutique galleries can easily sell hundreds of millions of dollars of paintings a year, but they only have a few painters.
The kings of the gallery world, including super galleries such as Gagosian, Hauser & Wirth, and ace, each have only a few dozen contracted artists on average.
Gagosian is the largest and has the most employees. It has represented a total of 122 painters in history, but it only promoted about a dozen painters during the same period.
If you pick two of these dozen painters at random and add up their net worth, you can kill all the more than 100 painters in Ma Shi Gallery in an instant.
The total sales of Ma Shi Gallery last year were only about 40 million US dollars.
"Instead of wanting to sign me, I recommend you to change your goal. Turning an unknown person into a master is more proof of Mashi's success than pushing up the worth of a master by one or two million dollars. The ability of the gallery, isn't it?"
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