Chapter 6 The Second Exhibition Painting (Part 1)
Gu Weijing originally thought about asking Shengzi. He heard that her parents had come from Japan, so she wanted to go today. Good Luck Orphanage Painting.
"Let's go, we'll leave in a while. I've made an appointment with Kou Kou to paint."
The sky was just getting brighter.
He received a reply from Sakai Katsuko almost immediately.
"My mother brought us a gift specially."
A moment later.
The second message followed.
"Okay, I will pack my things for Singapore in the morning. I will arrive a little later, maybe around eight o'clock."
Gu Weijing typed.
He put down his cell phone, cleaned the room from top to bottom, and counted and packed all the items.
Gu Weijing walked out of the bedroom and washed himself briefly.
The home is very empty and messy.
All the glass display racks in the art shop have been emptied.
The half-packed suitcases, with their mouths half open, were stacked in the corner of the painting shop hall together with various crates covered with moisture-proof pads.
Everything they saw told them that they were about to travel far away.
The climate in Yangon is mild and humid.
After all, my calligraphy and painting shop has not been rented out.
If it is left unoccupied for many years and moisture-proofing is not done, many things will become moldy within a year or two.
Cousin Gu Lin applied to the University of Huddersfield in the UK.
Gu Lin actually wanted to go to college in the United States.
She longed for the kind of parties in campus romance movies that had parties every day. There would be handsome guys driving luxury convertibles through the long streets of the campus. Whenever there was a football or ice hockey game, the whole school would be in a frenzy. The romance and passion of an American college.
But I was held down by my aunt.
The family is moving to the UK anyway.
If Auntie is ready, she can go and read with her.
The uncle had already flown to London last Friday as the personal assistant of "Member of the National Painting Association, painter signed by Mashi Gallery, cultural person, great artist, Tong Xiang and Gu".
He first visited the front station, looked at the accommodation environment, and looked for a house.
Mashi Gallery’s foreign stipend is quite generous.
According to what my uncle said when he found the agency.
In the center of London, you may only be able to rent a small apartment for this amount of money, but if you don’t mind commuting by train for forty minutes to an hour every day, you can find it in the suburbs. Pretty good one-family house.
Enough to accommodate a large family.
Grandpa, aunt and cousin will fly together tomorrow afternoon.
Grandpa and aunt worked hard until late at night yesterday to pack things, and they haven’t gotten up yet.
The cousin realized that the university’s plan to let himself go was very likelyAfter being shattered by the shadow of his parents, he was immediately ready to seize the happy little tail of youth.
She was asked by her best friend to go out all night and didn't go home at all.
So the old house was very deserted.
Water droplets fell from the awning at the door of the old house.
Gu Weijing thought again of Uncle Alai and his description of the city’s temperament.
The other party said that Yangon was a stuffy furnace. The coal ash underneath was so hot that it could burn steel. But from the outside, it still looked foggy, wet, and filled with water vapor.
It is now the end of June.
Yangon has officially entered the rainy season, and rain during the rainy season is of course common.
Gu Weijing had the illusion that there seemed to be a lot of rain this year.
It’s like all the rain clouds in the world are chasing all the pedestrians in this city.
He stood under the eaves.
Looking at this foggy, wet and sultry city.
"I've almost finished the illustration collection for the exhibition, and the electronic version has been sent to your email. Let's see if there are any problems?"
Gu Weijing lowered his head.
He selected the electronic scans of the drawings he had created for "Cats" on his mobile phone and sent them to his agent, Mr. Sloth.
Then Gu Weijing opened his umbrella and walked into the rain in front of him.
In the wet misty rain.
The temperament of everything became slow and heavy, and even the cars that used to speed seemed to be shrouded in a misty air mass.
By the time he arrived at the Lucky Orphanage, it was already an hour later.
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In the golden sunshine.
The temperament of everything has become quiet and peaceful. Even the busy Elena Manor in the past seems to be shrouded in a relaxing golden gray.
When Miss Elena opened her eyes listening to the soothing sound of bells in the distance, it was already Glitz time, eight o'clock in the morning.
"Mr. Adlar said that you have been tired recently, so don't let me disturb you."
Anna pressed the call bell next to the bed.
After a while.
The head maid of the manor wearing a white hat opened the door, followed by a personal maid carrying a silver tray.
"I think it would be a good choice to have breakfast in bed once in a while." The fat butler blinked at the maple muffins and coffee pot on the tray and smiled. said.
Anna nodded.
Living in the manor is a very cumbersome thing.
The dining table is an important social occasion, and it is also the most common place for unmarried aristocratic ladies in the old days to meet after social dances.
Think about being invited as a guest at home for dinner.Younger peers are often the juniors of close friends of family elders who have close political connections, or young talents with bright futures in the military.
Compared to some random handsome guy with unknown origins whom he hooked up with at the dance, it is even more important.
So.
The process of eating often becomes very troublesome accordingly.
There is a morning dress for breakfast, a long dress for afternoon tea, and the dinner party is the most important place to show your style in the day. Even compared to women's clothing, the style and class distinction are far more sophisticated. For simple men's clothing, there are many differences such as large dresses, small dresses, blazers, jackets, tuxedos, etc. at different dinner parties.
It is also accompanied by various dining etiquette.
For example, unmarried daughters are obliged to hand the teacup to the older ladies present during meals.
Anyone who casually holds a donut in his mouth, sips coffee, puts on a shirt and goes out for a walk is considered suicide in the social world.
In the venomous comments made by the upper-class wives, he was basically no different from running naked on the street.
The clothes that Miss Elena changes at the dining table every day.
Excluding the matching headwear, earrings, brooches, watches, etc., just the clothes for daily wear are more expensive than what the carefree old man Gu wears in order to show off on various occasions. A bunch of three-piece suits add up to more money.
Many people don’t understand why in the novels written by Balzhaka and Jane Austen, a piece of clothing often gets wet from the rain, which can make those bankrupt aristocrats swollen and pretend to be fat. They are green-faced and want to fight God desperately.
Or why various robes, dresses, and bustles become an important part of the inheritance left to girls by people like mothers, aunts, and childless cousins.
This is because industrial production and the invention of chemical dyes have made clothes that people have daily access to very cheap.
Those truly haute couture garments.
It is still very expensive and extravagant to this day.
If you know that the various clothes in Miss Elena's cloakroom are worth more than two million euros at the most conservative estimate, then you can understand what this concept is.
After Louis XVI was dragged and beheaded.
European monarchs did not dare to go too far. All the upper-class men in Europe wore military uniforms to show their hard work and simplicity, but the girls were still quite generous in their expenses. of.
Go back one hundred and fifty years.
The women in Earl Elena’s family, such as Carla, are unmarried young ladies of the right age.
Theoretically.
For the social season, they stayed decent while drinking tea with some Bavarian prince or the Grand Duke of Saxony, and spent money on custom-made clothes in places like Printemps in one autumn.
You can easily buy an entire street in the French provinces.
Take all the pearls and use them like sand - this is the upper class aristocratic culture that is flashy, squandering and dissolute.
However, except for some very traditional families, social etiquette at the dinner table is no longer as strict as it was in the Victorian era.
Eating lazily in bed used to be the privilege of married women.
Young girls must dress up beautifully and calmly, like a flower in the boudoir waiting to be called, appearing on time at the seat at the dining table with a sweet smile.
This is decent.
Anna sat up from the bed and asked the maid to put the small coffee table in front of her.
The head butler placed a copy of the Austrian Newspaper, a magazine called Oil Painting, and a printed fax paper next to the coffee pot.
Elena’s family is from a military aristocracy, although that happened hundreds of years ago. During breakfast, the servants put the important information collected in a place where the master could read it easily, and this tradition still remains.
Contents on the coffee table.
It also changed from the king's secret letter sealed with fire paint, and the preparations for military mobilization for the Austro-Prussian War, to newspapers and the magazine "Oil Painting".
Anna adjusted her hair.
Her eyes quickly passed the "Austrian Newspaper" and picked up the "Oil Painting" magazine next to it.
Oil Painting magazine is published every two weeks.
Special issues will be published when encountering large-scale biennales or important celebrity interviews.
This issue of "Oil Painting" magazine was just released last week.
Anna is now the head of the visual arts department of the magazine, and all editorial comments and art appreciations are reviewed and finalized by her.
Therefore.
When she flipped through the magazine, she basically only looked at the buyer’s guide and the section that summarized the week’s art news.
"Damian Hirst announced his entry into the NFT field. It is no secret that the famous artist Hirst has a strong interest in NFT encryption art transactions. This time the bold British has brought new opportunities to the industry. Here comes a different way of playing. Hearst announced that whenever one of his NFT encrypted artworks is purchased, he will burn the physical painting corresponding to the NFT artwork to ensure the unique attributes of the work..."< /p>
"This autumn, the Singapore International Art Biennale is about to open. Quoting from the "Lianhe Zaobao" report, international curator Mika Tonks was interviewed by the newspaper earlier last week. Said that he is "full of confidence" in this art exhibition. He believes that unlike the past, this Singapore Biennale will more profoundly show the style of the times...During the exhibition, "Oil Painting" magazine will follow up Report..."
Anna took a bite of the muffin.
My eyes quickly scanned the most popular news in these circles.
The Singapore BiennaleThe time is getting closer. At the turn of summer and autumn, this year’s New York Art Fair was held almost simultaneously with the Singapore Biennale.
The Lion City Biennale is an art competition.
The New York Art Fair is an art fair.
In terms of specifications, the latter is even stronger.
New York is the center of modern art and one of the most important markets for art transactions.
Almost all the world-famous super galleries will participate.
The International Biennale is academic and confrontational. It is a place where painters compete with each other to win reputation and applause for themselves from professional judges.
Art fairs tend to be commercial in nature. Although there is no lack of competition and confrontation, they also have the opportunity to become famous with one painting. For example, the turning point of Uncle Sakai’s net worth was that the painting sold at the art fair for nearly 30 The high price of 10,000 pounds has caught the attention of senior critics.
But overall, the art fair is a place where the big painters who have already earned the respect of the industry can turn the fame and applause they received at the Biennale into money.
The magazines will send teams to follow up on these two art events.
A deputy editor-in-chief of the Visual Arts Department is also a very important commentator on the voting jury for this year's Singapore Biennale.
The organizing committee of the Biennale originally invited Anna.
Anna refused.
No one is surprised.
The judges of the International Biennale look so high-class... Well, they are indeed very high-class. Even Kazunari Sakai would be happy to join the jury if his daughter had not participated in the exhibition to avoid suspicion. Check out your resume and meet friends.
There are probably too many invitations of a similar level in Anna’s work mailbox to be overlooked, but unless she can divide herself into several parts, it is definitely impossible to go to them all.
She is now the manager of the visual section and director of art direction at Oil Painting magazine.
Very busy.
Just like Jane Arnold, he couldn't get a big contract that would normally be out of reach for an illustrator in his lifetime, so he had to drag the detective cat along to join him.
Different identities.
For some people, it is a precious opportunity that can change their lives and is worth risking their lives for.
For some people, it is just an ordinary thing.
The staff at the magazine all thought that Miss Irina would focus her work during this period on the New York Art Fair.
It’s not like I asked her to be the chairperson of the Venice Biennale. She just declined.
Even for gold medal works at the Singapore Biennale, generally speaking, the market value is often difficult to exceed US$500,000, or even no more than US$300,000.
The New York Art Fair is Gagosian’s home venue.
The "Biard King" works of each session can be worth millions of dollars, and there is a small chance that there will be tens of millions of dollars.Super work.
Compare.
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