The hills overlap and the golden light disappears, and the clouds on the temples want to reach the fragrant snow on the cheeks. Too lazy to draw eyebrows, too late to put on makeup and wash up. Looking at the flowers in the front and rear mirrors, the flowers reflect each other. Newly embroidered Luo Ru, twin golden partridges, Tang Wen Tingyun and Bodhisattva Man
Thousand-mile horses often come, but bole does not often come. Beautiful works of art and artists will be like pearls covered with dust. This is true.
Gold will always shine, and outstanding works of art will speak for themselves. This sentence is also true.
If you open a textbook on the evolution of art, you will find that the history of art throughout the ages is composed of these two contradictory narrative methods.
Half reality, half fairy tale.
The entire history of human art is a flower of hope growing in the gap between reality and fairy tales.
It is not as good as the romantic philosopher imagined, nor is it as desperate as the melancholy poet described it.
When Uncle Sakai calmly faced his paintings and his life with an indifferent attitude, he was eating rice balls and painting with peace of mind in the studio, and his belly was growing day by day.
Give life some time, and good luck will eventually knock on his door.
The exhibition of the painting was delayed many times.
Like most young painters who are initially screened by galleries, he was initially placed at a preview booth at the Tokyo Art Fair. After his agent’s hard lobbying, he was upgraded to a booth. Created a main exhibition stand for the coming year.
In the final preparation stage before the exhibition, the gallerist of Daejeon Gallery personally took it down.
This famous Japanese art dealer saw the potential of this painting and gave Uncle Sakai a chance.
It was brought to the 2006 London Art Fair three years later, and together with Yayoi Kusama, who was already famous at the time, it became part of the European touring exhibition that Ota Art Gallery spent a huge amount of money to create.
Three postponements became the third springboard of fate.
The sesame blossoms are growing higher and higher.
Three years later, this oil painting was sold to a Middle Eastern oil businessman for 270,000 pounds, making it the seventh most expensive work sold at the London Art Fair at that time. The spotlight of time is bright, and the name Kazunari Sakai is famous in Asia.
At that time.
Their first daughter, Katsuko Sakai, has been born.
“270,000 pounds, my father never thought this price was anything to be amazed about. He said that for Sakai Kazunari, who was not very famous at the time, 270,000 pounds was like a high price. A miracle. For the painting itself, this painting is too low."
Sakai Katsuko told Gu Weijing, "In the next ten years, my father's works sold for $500,000. , 1 million US dollars, 3 million US dollars. But none of these works can compare with this painting. That painting recorded the greatest transformation of his life, and it was the most awesome work he had ever painted in his life. ”
“This matter has nothing to do with technique, only loverelated to pain. ”
“I once asked my dad at the dinner table what it felt like to paint such a painting, and whether he was very excited. Isn’t it a very fulfilling thing to sell the first painting in your life that can be exchanged for an apartment in Tokyo for 5 million yen? "
Sakai Katsuko patted Gu Weijing's face.
"He answered me, Katsuko, that's not the case. When I painted this, I was just at peace. I know it is great. How could it not be great if I have put so much effort into it? I also know that it should be very expensive. But none of this matters at all. ”
“The important thing is that I know who this painting is for. My mind has settled down. For me at that time, it didn’t matter whether the painting could be sold for 300,000 pounds or 300,000 yen or 3,000 yen, or whether I could buy an apartment or have a bowl of ramen like this on hand. It doesn't even matter whether I can stay or not. I have an audience like your mother. Even if I am a street painter who only paints for her, I am very happy. "
"The media always said that that art fair was the most important turning point in my life. I got the opportunity to attend the London Art Fair, just like Monet decided to participate in the Impressionist Salon, and Dali was in He became famous at the Carnegie Art Exposition in 1928. Mr. Ota is the biggest confidant and noble person in my life. "
"No, my noble one will always be your mother. The turning point of my life was not the crowded Regent’s Park Exhibition Hall in London, but the unnamed unfinished building in Osaka. When your mother led me into the unfinished building, I was just a sad, low-self-esteem and pitiful helpless puppy. When we walked out of the unfinished building twenty minutes later, I had become the artist Issei Sakai I am today, a peaceful and happy person. "
Miss Sakai gently scratched Gu Weijing's ear.
"This is the story of my parents, do you understand now?"
Be When your mother led me into the unfinished building, I was just a sad, inferior and pitiful helpless puppy. When we walked out of the unfinished building twenty minutes later, I had become the artist Sakai I am today. Mr. Yicheng has become a peaceful and happy person.
Gu Weijing was lost in thought about the scene when the fat and round artist said such words to his daughter.
There are no earth-shattering oaths, no shirtless men clenching their fists and shouting declarations of war in the comics.
In fact, except for some specific ones. Apart from gourmet cartoons, no manga artist would arrange for a man to say something about life while drinking ramen soup at the dinner table.
Probably, Professor Kazunari Sakai might not be able to do this while speaking. I'm still slurping ramen with some chopped onions on my lips
Even so
It's still so calm and the aftertaste is so long.
The Sakai Dai came to his mind at this time.Shu Sixi's round and fleshy face, like a meatball, was so peaceful that it actually seemed a bit Zen-like, like a calm-minded Maitreya Buddha.
After listening to this story, Gu Weijing finally understood.
Why does Uncle Sakai feel that he has become a Buddha?
This kind of "becoming a Buddha" has nothing to do with his fondness for chewing chicken legs, nor does it have anything to do with Uncle Sakai's career direction of often drawing young ladies with and without clothes.
Mrs. Sakai is Uncle Sakai’s Buddha, the Zen in his heart, and the anchor of his heart.
His eternal immobility.
It is for this reason that Uncle Sakai is in a top art circle where people are obsessed with money, materialistic, and can be as dissolute as they want. He is such a great painter who likes to draw girls.
In the past ten years, it has actually maintained a record of 0 scandals.
It is for this reason that regardless of success or failure, the ups and downs of the career, criticism and praise from critics are unpredictable.
As long as Mrs. Sakai is by his side.
He has never been afraid.
“My mother is the anchor in my father’s heart. This is the most romantic story we have seen and heard over the years. I hope that one day, when we have grown up, there will be When I had children, one day at the dinner table after I finished cooking, you could hold their hands and tell the same heartwarming story while watching TV."
"Even better. That's even better. The two of us have become each other's anchor. No matter what setbacks we go through, as long as we hold each other's hand, you will feel like you are holding the whole world."
"This. It will be our goal in the next few decades. If we achieve it, it will be a lifelong romance and the greatest achievement in my life."
"Today's story, Let’s encourage each other with Mr. Gu.”
On a small fishing boat in the middle of the lake in the Royal Botanic Gardens, the blue water is like a charming dream, and the ebony bowed harp with a phoenix head plays the melodious music of Balai mode.
In the fishing boat, an eighteen-year-old girl and an eighteen-year-old boy interlocked with each other, telling stories about their lives.
"No matter whether our inner lake is calm or turbulent, as long as the inner anchor is fixed, then all difficulties are just small corners and challenges in the journey of life. If the lake is calm, we can be together If it’s stormy like today, we will enjoy surfing.”
Sakai Katsuko lay her upper body on Gu Weijing’s naked body, with a thin layer of fabric separating the two of them. Touching each other, face to face, nose to nose, heartbeat to heartbeat.
“I am only eighteen years old this year. This is the first relationship in my life, and I hope it will also be the last one. At this age, I cannot guarantee that I will have the ability to jump from a building like my mother. Courage and determination, but I promise you that if you really fail, then" Shengzi kissed Gu Weijing's forehead tenderly again.
"I will support you."
Gu Weijing took a deep breath and exhaled slowly.
After a long breath that seemed to last for a century, he reached out and pulled off the blindfold.
The two people looked at each other.
He stared into his girlfriend's lilac eyes and said, "Sakai-san, I want to draw."
This time.
Sakai Katsuko did not see any anxiety or fear in Gu Weijing's pupils, nor did he see any excitement or eagerness to try.
She only saw eyes as quiet and deep as the lake beneath her.
So.
Sakai Katsuko nodded without hesitation, "Go and paint. You don't have to dock. I brought brushes and paints in my backpack."
She knew this boy I'm finally ready to write.
Her father’s transformation in his life originated from that seventeen-story cobweb-covered, dusty, unfinished building in Osaka.
Her boyfriend's transformation happened in front of her eyes on this little fishing boat.
Before Gu Weijing put on the blindfold, he was a little boy with a sensitive heart and outstanding skills.
After Gu Weijing took off his blindfold.
He is ready to become a truly great painter.
The small fishing boat has a flat bottom and a shallow draft. It is a typical still water boat. The lowest part of the boat side is only slightly higher than a dozen centimeters above the lake surface.
Awang wears an inflatable orange life-saving collar around his neck.
There are many foreign tourists in the park who do not forget to bring their cats and dogs with them when traveling, so the park management office here actually has simple pet lifebuoys for rent.
When they got on the boat, Ms. Sakai put a pet air bag on the cat, making it look like a little lion with a mane on its front neck.
Mao Mao is very satisfied with her new equipment.
Especially since she got on the boat, she has been lying on the side of the boat, staring at her reflection in the water, and from time to time she would tentatively stretch out her paws to lift the equally handsome one underwater. Fish out the beautiful cats.
Cats are born to swim just like dogs.
Awang was a little afraid of water. He leaned out half of his body a few times and just touched the water with his flesh claws. He immediately retracted his body in fright and looked at the reflection on the water that was broken into ripples. There, I was puzzled and winked.
Even when Gu Weijing was looking for painting supplies in the backpack next to him, he just rolled his eyes with disdain at this couple who were obsessed with rubbing their ears and temples together and ignored the feelings of cats and cats.
Continue to meditate on the water like a philosopher.
Gu Weijing was happy that no light bulb disturbed their world. He glanced at the extension cord of Awang's pet carrier that Miss Sakai tied to the boat tent, limiting its range of activities to the boat string. On the edge, Awang would not really fight silentlyAfter slipping off the boat.
He concentrated on rummaging around in his backpack.
He found a slender drawing brush and a small box of rouge.
"There seems to be no rice paper, Shengzi, have you put it in the compartment of your schoolbag?" Gu Weijing turned over and over, but couldn't see any trace of rice paper.
"No, I didn't bring it. I don't think rice paper is needed for drawing on the boat."
Sakai Katsuko bit her lower lip lightly.
"No need for rice paper"
Gu Weijing blinked.
Painting on a boat does not require water mixed with paint. It is easy to understand. Without rice paper, where would the painting go?
“I can’t paint on the board of the boat.”
Gu Weijing asked without knowing why.
It is not impossible to paint on the ship board. Some artists are like dogs that follow the ground to urinate and defecate. They will leave their "calligraphy treasures" in various places anytime and anywhere.
On napkins, on billboards, on taxi headrests, on hotel walls.
It is quite common for artists to have this habit of painting wherever they go, especially represented by some gangster street spray-paint graffiti painters.
If you think about it, according to records in the Shiqu Baoji of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Qing Dynasty, Emperor Qianlong stamped seals, inscribed poems, and wrote his own name on more than 17,000 paintings and calligraphy works in his lifetime, and you can probably understand some of these artists. What does the enclosure-style Liumo mentality look like?
Do not evaluate the right or wrong of this behavior itself.
For such a commemorative painting, Gu Weijing did not want to just paint it on the board of an unknown boat in the park. He also wanted to take this painting home and collect it
< p>"Me."Sakai Katsuko said softly. She closed her eyes and lay flat on the bamboo mat in the boat canopy.
"Yeah"
Gu Weijing looked at his girlfriend confused, not understanding what she meant.
"Okay, I take back my previous comment. In some ways, Gu Jun is ready to become a great painter, and in some ways, he is still a little boy."
Miss Sakai They all lay down and closed their eyes. They saw that their boyfriend did seem a bit confused in some aspects of his mood.
She could only complain helplessly in her heart and opened her eyes again.