The Serious Art Exhibition is unfamiliar territory that Detective Cat has never ventured into before.
The publishing house's "Writing and Art Award" and the Singapore Biennale both seem to select the most pleasing work from a bunch of candidate works and give it a prize or something. .
The appearance seems to be similar, but the actual core is completely different.
Just like the three-person football World Cup and the Qatar World Cup are both football, they are both called "World Cup". From tactics to rules to the audience groups who buy tickets, they are two completely separate systems.
The two awards follow completely different aesthetic concepts and have completely different award philosophies.
Illustrator.
No matter how well-known an illustrator is, he will always be acclimated when he first tries to enter the Art Biennale.
Norman Rockwell, Shepard, Jane Arnold, and even Stan Lee... these people have gained great reputation in the fields of commercial illustrations, political propaganda, and children's comics. But it has received almost no serious art awards.
To know.
Norman Rockwell has been regarded as a symbol of the American spirit for a long time. He was President Roosevelt's secret friend and the first person in the entire history of the United States. A painter who has a large art museum named after himself is much higher than Detective Cat's current status.
He has never achieved any outstanding results at the Biennale.
Unless you are the undisputed best at heart.
Subjectively speaking, the judges of the Art Biennale do not like to award awards to these "commercial painters".
Just like Leonardo DiCaprio's acting skills are obviously not bad, but the Oscar judges are not willing to vote for a "popular actress" like him for many years in a row.
Members of the society will feel that if a movie does too well at the box office and has too many fans, its "artistic" attributes will be weakened.
The Oscars are already the most commercial of all well-known film art awards.
In places like Cannes, Berlin, and especially the Venice Art Festival, David Lynch, Woody Allen, and Roman Polanski are the "godfathers of art gangs" types. Directors are the ones at the top of the chain of contempt, the ones who can truly dominate... Although there are often sarcastic comments from some audiences, the films of these people are all the same as those made while high on marijuana.
The principles for judging all visual arts awards are similar.
When a work is created, since it has chosen to lean towards the commercial field to gain more traffic and exposure, then from an artistic perspective, it wants to win awards and be recognized by the picky judges. , it will become more difficult.
It seems unfair to be subjective when judging awards.
But judging from the overall living conditions of painters, this principle is a manifestation of "fairness" in another sense.
As long as commercial illustrators don’t be too high-spirited, what are they holding on to all day long?The idea of becoming famous with just one painting, working honestly, regardless of whether you win awards or not, there is usually no problem in being a small middle class person.
Serious painters, on the other hand, often compete with each other for poverty.
If anyone thinks that the painter who is the head contracted by super galleries such as Gagosian, Pace, and Lisson Gallery rides on a private jet, drives a Ferrari, and goes to buy an island in the Pacific when he is happy, that is The common life portrait of serious artists is a typical one that only sees thieves eating meat and not seeing thieves being beaten.
These people are all rolled out from the tens of thousands of colleagues who eat relief bread on the streets, cannot afford medical insurance, and use a windbreaker as clothing during the day and as a quilt at night.
They either have excellent creativity that is one in a million, or they have good luck that is one in a million.
Sakai Kazunari is now a plump, fat, happy middle-aged man with his mouth full of oil.
Back then, he was still the melancholy Oriental Byron who was too hungry to eat, but he was not happy at all. It was all because his wife gave up her dream and worked hard as a clerk in an advertising company, working hard to invest. Feed him so he doesn't collapse.
Commercial painters will not starve if they don’t win awards.
As for those art students who wear ripped sweaters and drive fifth-hand Toyota Priuses, they have been waiting with red eyes all their lives for the opportunity to go to the Biennale and change their fate against the odds.
When most of the old art awards were established, they were more or less designed to compensate "those down-and-out artists who were not valued commercially and could not find buyers."
The bonuses of several hundred dollars and thousands of pounds that come with them at the beginning often have a bitter meaning of "Dear, take it and buy something to eat, don't starve to death!"
Today’s award itself means that the creator is about to achieve great commercial success. All those participating in the competition for the award are top painters, which is in line with the huge influence and increase in worth brought by the award. Compared with the current situation, the bonuses of hundreds and thousands of pounds have become completely worth mentioning. Instead, it is a change that only appeared in the later development and the founder's historical records have not been recorded.
"The illustration draft of "Cats" is the kind of purely commercial and purely traffic-oriented work that the judges don't like."
Anna knows this answer very well.
No complicated calculations are required.
Put this matter in front of any editor of an oil painting magazine or any art critic who analyzes fields related to the Biennale, and they will be able to do it in less than a second. Got the same answer.
It's as obvious as red lipstick on a white shirt.
An artist who is an illustrator; commercial illustrations that are co-operated with Xuanfa Company; spin-offs from children's musicals... None of these things are liked by the Biennale jury. thing.
If there is two years, one year, or even three months of preparation time. Anna will always give Detective Cat other suggestions for participating in exhibitions. She believes that she will definitelyIt is possible to find an exhibition style that is in line with the current Singapore Biennale, in line with the aesthetic preferences of the jury, and at the same time, it can fully highlight the creative direction of Detective Cat's best knife painting.
But this time the preparation time was only one and a half months.
So Anna must choose between marketing resources and pleasing the judges.
One and a half months.
It is almost impossible to come up with any high-concept drawing ideas. Instead of handing in a completely different answer sheet, it is better to directly choose an illustration draft with the musical "Cats" behind it as an endorsement.
There is no way around this.
"What is required is a purely realistic style... Even if it is replaced by a knife painting like "The Little Prince", it may be more advantageous."
The Biennale. There has always been a point of view in the field of painting -
There is no point in pursuing realism in the field of painting.
Paintings depict the world from a purely objective perspective and record the properties of light and shadow. They came to an end the moment the camera was invented in 1839. All realistic painting schools in modern art are wrong paths in the development of art. Only painting methods that focus on capturing the painter's subjective and perceptual emotional expression are the only broad avenues for contemporary art.
This view is of course a bit extreme.
But the undeniable fact is that the works exhibited in biennales and art festivals today are either traditional paintings in classical forms such as Impressionism and Neoclassicism, or else each one is more abstract and pure than the other. Paintings that feature "realism" and "truth" as selling points have become very rare.
They are outside the mainstream painting schools and have a somewhat self-contained meaning.
Realistic style painting has extremely high technical requirements.
Take watercolor as an example.
The focus of realistic watercolor is on the absolute restoration of objective objects.
A naturally curved and slender grass blade may need to consider the different textures on the veins, stems, and leaves. The way to express brushwork takes into account different glosses, different color combinations, and the diffusion and fusion of pigments on wet paper. The difficulty is self-evident.
When every art student learns painting, the first thing they come into contact with is realism.
Anyway, as long as the painting method focuses on the expression of the objective shape of the object, it can be called realistic. How it can be expressed, whether the beauty will be painted like Zhang Fei, or Zhang Fei will be painted like a willow tree, is another matter.
If you want to push this painting method to the extreme, truly draw a real space on a flat paper, and draw a real soul, then it may be the most skillful way to use a pen among all painting methods. The one with the highest degree requirements and the most complex writing techniques.
Miss Elena herself is the kind of person who has no energy in painting, and it is not to the point where people can’t tell whether the person in the picture is Lin Daiyu or Meng Zhangfei, but Anna herself understands——< /p>
No matter how hard she works, the paintings she draws will always beLike "painting".
She cannot capture any dynamic qualities in her works. This is the problem, dooming her to be just a mediocre painter.
For commercial illustrations, the portrait may be enough.
But it is the vivid qualities of the painting that can really impress the Biennale judges.
So.
Anna can also best understand the difficulty of using the realistic illustrations of "Cats" as exhibits at the Singapore Biennale.
“The Muse Project Foundation announced the first list of 21 painters shortlisted for the project’s A-level subsidy. These painters have all done work in art festivals or major art exhibitions in the past year. After achieving outstanding results, they will jointly share a total of 2 million US dollars in creative subsidies. Sir Brown declared-"
"..."
Anna was a little upset thinking about the art exhibition. .
She simply scanned the remaining sections and saw that they were all about famous painters holding solo exhibitions or some academic art research results.
Anna stopped reading and put the "Oil Painting" magazine back on the small coffee table.
She didn't notice.
On the last page of the art section, in the "Research News" section of the week, there is a space the size of a tofu block, and a piece of academic research news from Asia is being published in the magazine.
"The forgotten female painter, is it a gimmick or the truth, will art history be rewritten? The official website of the famous academic journal "Asian Art" was updated on the "nesandvies" news guide module last Saturday A major research newsletter——
In the semi-annual journal released this week, young scholars from Asia "Gu Weijing" & "Sakai Katsuko" jointly communicated (Gu Weijing The article ""Thefealeartistscarolfottenbyti:thecolorentaandvisualdinsionofdarktoneipressionistorks"" published by Sakai Katsuko (both the first author of this paper) was published in the journal..."
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The door of the room is light Knocked lightly.
"Miss Elliot is already on the way, accompanied by Sir Brown. They will arrive at the manor in 20 minutes."
Anna sat in front of the mirror and raised her feet , so that the maid can put the stockings on her legs.
The head butler walked out of the room and talked to the butler who was waiting outside the door for a while. Then he came back, bent down and whispered in her ear.
"I understand, take them to the lawn, I will meet them there."
Anna said calmly.
When we had breakfast before, the schedule memo that the butler placed on the coffee table had already marked the meeting time that Sir Brown had scheduled in the morning.
She knows the other person’sIntention.
In front of the "Oil Painting" headquarters building, the removal of the sculpture of the magazine's founder, the old count, is already a certainty.
The adult world is full of helplessness and compromise.
Sir Brown gently invited Anna to return to the magazine and published an apology statement in the newspaper. On the other hand, he was still trying his best to downplay the traces of Elena's family in the magazine and promote his " Project Muse.”
The former is his compromise.
The latter is his attitude.
There cannot be two popes in the world.
Pope Gregory VII, who once forced the European hero Henry IV to stand in the snow for three days and three nights to show respect and apology, boasted that the power of the Pope comes from the believers and from the Omnipotent God, not from kings.
The power of the Pope of Art should also come from the great Muse, not a family with one surname.
Sir Brown does not mind temporarily handing over the power to determine the artistic direction of the magazine to Anna.
He believes Anna will only be a transitional character.
So using Miss Anna’s personal imprint to replace the traditional imprint left by the Elena family on the magazine is Sir Brown’s strategy, and it is also a concession made by Sir Brown that cannot be changed. the final bottom line.
By the way.
From this point of view, Anna now needs exposure in every formal occasion to increase her "sense of presence", so going to the New York Art Fair is a more rational choice.
Sir Brown is here today to discuss the relocation of the sculpture.
Anna did not refuse.
Secretary Elliot cannot always organize some residents to walk in front of Sir Brown to protest, and she must also make corresponding concessions.
You have to face what you have to face.
Anna was not scared, she was just a little annoyed.
"Miss, do you want to wear this blue tiara or this small gauze crown?" The maid fixed Anna's hair and showed her the two tiaras in her hand.
"Put them all on the table, we'll talk later. You all go out now, I want to be alone for a while..."
Anna shook her head.
The maid put the tiara aside and left with the head servant.
Follow the family motto of the Elena family.
When she was agitated or faced with a choice she didn’t know she should make or decide, she would go to Melk Abbey and pray silently under the mural of "Athena Riding the Lion Chariot".
Bathe in the gaze of God and wait for the omnipotent Heavenly Father to give you courage and faith.
Be honest.
Miss Elena is not a very devout Catholic.
European old-school aristocratic families often like to "serve God devoutly" to demonstrate their moral superiority over common people.
Er'anNa rarely even went to church to attend services.
The only reason she went to church was often to visit Grandma Karazu.
Today.
When Anna was upset, she was reluctant to drive to Melk Abbey. She had works that gave her more courage and strength than "Athena Rides the Lion's Chariot".
The "Queen" by Detective Cat Sister.
She hopes that she can truly become as brave and strong as the other person writes.
Anna took out a special mobile phone placed on the bedside table. She wanted to open the photo album, but she noticed a new message sent on the phone a few hours ago——
"I've almost finished the illustration collection for the art exhibition. The electronic version has been sent to your email. Are there any problems?" The transcoding has been serious recently, which makes us more motivated and updates faster. Please use your little hands to quit reading. model. Thank you