To put it bluntly,
The moment Hanks saw the picture pushed by Professor Sakai, the picture did not meet his expectations after hearing the name "Wu Guanzhong".
It can even be said that he felt quite disappointed.
It’s like the company boss announcing a dinner treat. You thought it was a Michelin three-star set meal, but when you arrived, you discovered that it suddenly turned into a KFC burger.
It’s not that it’s inedible, it doesn’t even taste bad.
It’s just that the gap between it and what Hanks hopes to see is a bit big.
What Ma Shi Gallery needs is a miracle, a trendsetter to attract the world's high-end art trends, the next Andy Warhol or Picasso.
If anyone can create an art genre that shocks the world like pop art, then the big boss Mas III is really willing to kneel down and kiss the artist’s ass without hesitation.
Even with Professor Kazunari Sakai’s current artistic status and illustrious reputation, the probability of achieving this goal is less than 10.
To put it bluntly,
The reason why Mashi Gallery sent Hanks is to use tens of millions of dollars in signing costs and tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of dollars in marketing costs to fight for A miracle with a success rate of less than one tenth.
Of course, old-school great painters like Sakai Kazunari are not like those avant-garde artists who are completely building cities on floating sand and playing with various concepts.
His exquisite painting techniques serve as a solid foundation for the value of his works.
In the past five years, the prices of Kazunari Sakai’s art works have been showing a steady to upward trend, and collectors are very confident.
As long as Mr. Sakai doesn’t fight for his own life like Kanye, it’s unlikely that the price of his works will suddenly collapse and hit him.
With Kazunari Sakai signed, there is a high probability that Mas Gallery will not lose money.
Master Sakai suggested that Hanks change his goal. The work in front of him was far inferior to Professor Kazunari Sakai’s paintings.
Not even a replacement.
"Do you have any inside information about who drew it?"
Hanks blinked his eyes and said with a helpless smile, "If you can give me a person as famous as Taylor Swift, name, then Ma Shi Gallery will be happy to work with her."
Hanks was joking, not kidding.
Artwork hype, either the work is hyped, or the speculator is.
It’s not about works. If the creator himself has articles that can be mined, he can still sell them at a reasonable price.
For example, it is the work of a celebrity politician, a student of Picasso, or a student of Leonardo da Vinci's student with accurate documentation.
Anyway, if there is a selling point that can appeal to collectors, the price will be high.
The paintings of German mustaches are relatively sensitive, but they are always bought by people. Paintings of famous people like Churchill may have special sales every few years, and there are quite a lot of them in the art market.
The Lisson Gallery in France started out by cooperating with rock star John Lennon and acting as an agent to sell the artworks of his wife Yoko Ono.
The business direction of Ma Shi Gallery does not involve the works of fashion stars, but it will not refuse such opportunities.
"For a star, this painting is a bit too good. Amateur painters don't have this skill."
He showed obvious disappointment when facing Hanks , Professor Sakai is still understatement.
“But if it is the work of a mature professional painter, this painting is obviously not bad, just not good enough.” Hanks told the truth, “This painting does not have the value to make the audience crazy. , and there is no reason why Ma Shi Gallery must sign it.”
What is the specific value of a piece of art?
For those who are not engaged in the art industry and are not involved in art investment-related fields. Outsiders often cannot understand or even find it unreasonable.
It is easy for people to accept that the works created by Leonardo da Vinci, Monet, Picasso, and Mondrian can sell for sky-high prices because they are indeed good paintings.
The audience can easily feel the intense emotions and outstanding techniques in the picture.
Why is it that Duchamp was praised as creating the greatest work of art of the century when he sent a urinal to an art exhibition?
Why did Dadaist artists just click on white paper? If you click, it can sell for hundreds of thousands of pounds, and it has been displayed grandly by the National Gallery of the Netherlands in the exhibition hall next to Van Gogh's works
Even now, in 2021, nft digital artworks are sold for one pixel After paying tens of millions of dollars, some people used tin cans to contain their feces, and collectors rushed to buy them
The reason for this is definitely not that Duchamp’s urinal has any special function when peeing, or that people put it in paper cans. The above points are extraordinarily round for these reasons.
In the eyes of professionals in the gallery industry, these artworks cannot be considered in the same category at all.
Even if they are both called works of art, the differences between them are huge.
There is a very simple and direct standard in the industry for judging the value of artworks. Classical art emphasizes technique, modern art emphasizes form, and avant-garde art emphasizes concept.
Classical art does not specifically refer to the two art philosophies of classicism and neoclassicism, but generally refers to the works of all painters who pursue artistic techniques.
It is the traditional painting art work in the impression of ordinary people.
They pursue to impress the audience with the beauty of the work itself.
Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Aestheticism, Realism, Symbolism and all art schools before the 20th century, including traditional Chinese painting, are included in this category.
The most significant difference between classical art, modern art and avant-garde art is whether the "focus" of appreciation is on the work itself.
“From a traditional perspective of appreciating classical works of art, and judging from the photos, I think the painting itself may not be qualified enough to be called your masterpiece.The master among them. "
Hanks enlarged the photo, looked at it inch by inch with a hawk-like gaze, and said, "From what I can see, I can't see any flowers that can be interpreted in terms of artistic concepts. ”
In traditional painting, the value is all reflected in the canvas and paper.
Good technique is better than poor technique, and works with rich emotions are paler than emotion. Empty paintings are more valuable.
When people appreciate paintings, they appreciate the brushwork and skills that the painter has devoted to his works.
This is why they are expensive.
However, modern and avant-garde art schools focus more on interpretations other than the works.
For example, Duchamp named the urinal after a spring, which was a satire on Ann. Geer's famous nude painting fountain
"Why is the naked body of a beautiful girl art, but my urinal is not art"
He hopes to use it to arouse the audience's disapproval of art. Everyone can be an artist by sticking to perfect brushwork and profound techniques.
The focus is on society’s thinking about aesthetic concepts, not on the urinal.
The value of shit in a tin can lies in the "ruthless criticism of consumerism" that critics can interpret from it, rather than the shit in the can.
The two artistic concepts are not superior. Both can be sold for sky-high prices at certain times, and hundreds of millions of dollars are just ordinary.
But the price of the former is more stable and can withstand the test of time.
Excellent skills and passionate emotions are always as rare and precious as shining gold.
Since the Neolithic Age, people began to collect beautiful stones and shells, and the desire to collect beautiful objects has been hidden in human genes. Impulse.
Since it was created, no one needs to interpret it, no one needs to understand art, and even an illiterate farmer knows that it is a great painting.
Whether it is 1856, 1956 or 2156, as long as the human social structure does not change, its extremely high aesthetic value is the same and it can be sold very expensive.
But shit in a tin can is a work of art when the trend comes, and it becomes shit after the trend passes and loses attention.
To put it more simply,
In terms of investment. Look,
Classical art is like gold, and avant-garde art is like virtual currency that can make people rich overnight. Their ability to resist risks is different.
Traditional painters like Uncle Sakai are influenced by it. Welcome is welcome. In the eyes of gallery owners, painters with excellent skills are always high-quality assets that can steadily increase in value.
In Hanks's eyes, the skills of this painting are far inferior.
"So, you don't want to sign this painter"
Uncle Sakai didn't seem to be in a hurry to promote Gu Weijing, he just asked casually
"No. Don't want to sign. ”
HankThat's not what Si meant.
The painting in front of me also has shining points.
“This picture is a bit like Castiglione. This painting style itself is very distinctive. Based on this alone, Ma Shi Gallery is somewhat interested in this painter. The technical level is also enough to participate in some small The painting is on display. ”
Hunter agents only make a living by appreciating art and judging the quality of artists.
They are very discerning.
Nowadays, driven by top galleries such as Gagosian, the art industry is much more prosperous than it was in the days of Van Gogh and even Picasso.
The ingredients of artificially high bubbles exist.
But the objective fact is that even after deducting inflation factors, the average price of high-end art products has increased dozens of times in the past half century.
In 1940, buying a Monet painting in Europe cost only the price of a Beetle, which was already very expensive at the time. Nowadays, you may have to hold funds that can be exchanged for half a dozen Rolls-Royces before you can be qualified to consider a great painter like Monet, and his works must be very unpopular.
Tens of billions of dollars of funds are circulating in this field every year, driving many professional hunters and agents like Hanks to search for talented painters with red eyes.
Thousand-mile horses are not often found, but there are more Bole who have sufficient art appreciation ability.
As long as you don’t live in a remote place, the chances of being like Van Gogh and not being recognized are much less.
As long as he scans ordinary works, he can understand the art genre, composition design, emotional expression, and symbolic metaphors.
The painting style that fuses the East and the West has always been a pearl in the field of art in the past. Castiglione's paintings have a large number of surviving paintings, and they are also considered "Chinese paintings that foreigners can understand."
Hanks knows.
Although the screen is just a draft.
He still saw the shadow of Castiglione in the picture, which in itself was a good selling point.
“Again, this painting is not bad, it’s just not good enough.”
“In the field of classical art, what Mashi Gallery hopes to see is something so outstanding that it makes people tremble. A beautiful technique that gives rise to goosebumps, a truly masterful work."
Hank scratched his head, looked at Kazunari Sakai aside and said, "Professor, you understand what I mean, if you are Su. Sophie Marceau, this painting may only be regarded as my cheerleader when I was in school. She is as beautiful as jade, but not charming enough to kill all living beings."
He weighs about two and a half times as much as Sophie Marceau's fat uncle. Knowing that this guy was flattering me, he still smiled at being licked.
"Indeed, this technique seems a bit green and immature. It still needs time to settle."
"Oh, how can it be so easy to settle down?" Hanks Shaking his head slightly, he expressed that he disagreed with Professor Sakai's point of view: "The art style and technical level of most professional painters are almost finalized, and they would have to improve long ago."Improved. "
"Are you going to sign or not?" Kazunari Sakai asked.
Hanks touched his chin and looked at Uncle Sakai.
The agent suddenly showed a sly smile, "If Mr. Sakai needs Mashi Gallery to sign him, I will be happy to help you. ”
The implication of his words is very simple.
Mashi Gallery can sign him, but it is for the sake of Professor Sakai, and it is regarded as a favor to Uncle Sakai.< /p>
This is also the case
It is only natural that a stunning beauty like Sophie Marceau should be the heroine, but there are cheerleaders everywhere who want to rely on their appearance to appear in big productions. It’s hard to look good.
If you want to be a third or fourth female lead with lines, you have to be a great dad or a great godfather.
Only. Judging from this photo,
Hanks estimates that the painter's painting skills can only be regarded as the middle and lower reaches among the 193 artists represented by Mashi Gallery, which is inferior to some of the artists who are not needed in the first place. The skills of the creators of avant-garde paintings are better.
It’s okay to sign or not to sign.
But the art style is very eye-catching.
Taken together,
In fact, Hanks actually wanted to sign it.
Anyway, there are too many works of this caliber endorsed by Mashi Gallery. , but if he sells it for a few thousand dollars, there will always be someone interested, and it can fill the low-end market for the urban middle class.
But,
He is not an idiot, he can do it. It sounds like this guy has a close personal relationship with Uncle Sakai. It would be stupid not to do a favor.
Hanks thought it was just a matter of smooth flow.
Who knows. , Professor Kazunari Sakai actually refused.
“No, I can introduce this painter to you, but it’s not that I owe you a favor, it’s that you owe me a favor. ”
Uncle Sakai shook his head and said with a serious face, “I’m not begging you to sign for someone else, you’re begging me to sign for someone else. Let me make this clear.” ”
Then I won’t sign
As soon as these words came to his lips, Hanks calmed down and did not dare to speak to the artist Professor Sakai in such an aggressive tone.< /p>
“Oh, then I’ll think about it when I go back. ”
He changed his words to something more euphemistic, but the meaning of rejection was already obvious.
Hanks was very unhappy.
I have the same feeling. Dignified, okay?
Although he is a professional licking dog, the ones he licks are all serious artists.
Hanks flatters Uncle Sakai
If it were the vast majority of middle-level painters, the other party would lick them cautiously.
No matter how poor Mashi Gallery is, it is still a top first-tier gallery. It is the kind of international art gallery that receives cooperation offers. A scene where outstanding art students from the four major art academies fainted with excitementgallery.
It’s not shameful to beg to sign Sakai, but what’s the point of begging to sign a little painter with no background?
Wait
Hank Si suddenly thought of a possibility.
He raised his head and stared at Uncle Sakai for a few seconds, and the expression on his face suddenly switched to a smile mode again.
And it is more sincere and brilliant.
"Professor Sakai, the cooperation between your wife and the Tokyo Gallery is not going well. If so, Mas Gallery is very, no, extremely interested in collaborating with such a young genius Toshihiko. Millions of dollars We will be honored to pay the liquidated damages for you."
"She is not yet eighteen years old, this technique is really amazing"
Hanks said. There was a little hesitation in the enthusiasm.
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