Exhibition,
Always a must for any painter.
A painter, at least a relatively successful painter, cannot escape the market and recognition from others in his life.
A life like Van Gogh cannot be called happiness.
If you ask Van Gogh's acquaintances during his lifetime to comment on the Van Gogh they knew, it would be difficult to connect that crazy, down-and-out painter with a great painter.
Of course, real masters may not care about this.
But we use ordinary people's world view to measure it. Success and fame, and being sought after by thousands of people must be everyone's expectation in life.
Even if it is not vulgar to equate art with market price.
This sense of gain and satisfaction of being recognized by others and appreciated by the audience is irreplaceable by all beautiful women.
The Biennial is one such art form that can make painters famous.
As the name suggests, "bien-nial" (biennial), the Art Biennale is an art exhibition held every two years.
Internationally, many biennales are hosted by cities or even countries, which cost a lot of money and are held regularly.
It is not only a grand event in the art world, but also an important activity that enhances the image of the country and the status of the city. Like the Olympic Games and the F1 Grand Prix, it is an art business card of the city to the outside world.
Regardless of whether he wins or not, being able to participate in any category of any international art biennale is a life milestone worth remembering forever for a painter.
To evaluate whether a painter's work is valuable, a very important rigid criterion is whether he has participated in art exhibitions.
Art exhibitions can be divided into personal exhibitions belonging to individual painters and themed unit exhibitions that everyone can participate in.
Biennial art exhibitions are the most awesome category of the latter.
Being able to participate in a serious international biennale is much better than opening a small personal exhibition in an unknown place.
Almost all contemporary well-known painters with a net worth of billions have won awards at various biennales. As long as you can participate in a well-known biennale, your paintings will have a certain collection value. This standard can be found everywhere on the five continents. Universal.
Singapore Lion City Biennale,
Although it is not as good as those century-old exhibitions in Europe, it is also a very important exhibition in Asia in recent years.
It is as famous as RB’s Yokohama Triennale and Shanghai Biennale, and many of its award-winning works have sold for millions of dollars.
Each Art Biennale has a special curator and a special theme. The exhibition is basically divided into two categories: "Master (Professional) Group" and "Amateur Group". Each category is divided into first, second and third prizes.
The amateur group is just called the amateur group, but it is not a work for ordinary painting amateurs.
It is not amateur at all, on the contrary, the difficulty of participating is already daunting.
The amateur group is sometimes called the student group or the young artist group.
Those who can participate in this group are generally outstanding students from major art academies and outstanding young artists under the age of 28.
In school days, only the most outstanding art students could get the chance to participate in the amateur category.
For famous schools such as Tsinghua University and CAFA, which have many opportunities for international cooperation, the Lion City Biennale will allocate no more than one or two places to them.
Mr. Cao calls Gu Weijing a young genius, but every young painter who can participate in the student group is a young genius.
This is like the imperial examination in ancient times. A young scholar who won the exam is already a famous little prodigy from all over the country. Unfortunately, he wants to be an official and participate in an art exhibition. There are government examinations, general examinations, palace examinations... he passes all the tests and encounters people. In addition to being a genius, he is an even more talented opponent.
The 57-year-old late-blooming famous painter Olga Aiticica is a contract artist of the French gallery L'art De Peindre. Last year, a work sold for $6.9 million.
This kind of painter still failed in the campus selection when he was a junior at the Ecole Internationale des Beaux-Arts in Lyon. As a result, he was not allowed to participate in the student group of the Paris Art Biennale at that time. He still worried about this until he later became famous.
In the Gu family's calligraphy and painting shop on the Yangon River, the biggest sale made in the past few years was a student group work that participated in the Brewster Biennale (France).
The theme of that exhibition was "Drama". In terms of scale and popularity, it was far inferior to the Biennale in the Lion City. It was only the least influential category of biennales.
The oil painting "Joker" inspired by Gotham clown actor Heath Ledger was finally sold for US$22,700, which was already a huge deal for a small gallery like theirs.
Professor Lin Tao believes that if you take your age and level into account and polish your work, by your junior and senior years, you may have the opportunity to produce works that are of sufficient quality to participate in a major exhibition such as the Lion City Art Exhibition.
If he could be lucky enough to win the second or third prize in the amateur category, even a teacher like him would be proud.
As for the more difficult master group, that is already the domain of professional painters.
"Oh, let's forget it."
Lin Tao shook his head.
For a seventeen-year-old painter to win an award in the master category, even if it is a competition, the level of shock may not be much less than that of the closed disciple that Mr. Cao wants to accept.
That is to say, only a master like Mr. Cao, who becomes more childish as he gets older, can say such things.
Let a child like Gu Weijing participate in the Lion City Art Exhibition and win an award. If it were an ordinary person saying that he was overestimating his abilities, he would laugh out loud.
Professor Lin Tao was a little worried that the teacher would first give Gu Weijing unrealistic fantasies and hopes, and then cruelly crush those hopes with an unattainable request.
This approach may hurt Gu Weijing's confidence and vigor in his painting path.
He turned his head and comforted Gu Weijing warmly.
"Xiao Gu, Mr. Cao is motivating you. When the time comes, just come to my studio with peace of mind and don't think too much. Although I am not comparable to the teacher, it is still very popular when I put it out. Signboard. Most children of wealthy businessmen pay hundreds of thousands or hundreds of thousands to ask me to give them advice, but I’m still not happy about it!”
"well?"
Lin Tao turned around and realized.
Gu Weijing was not frustrated because Mr. Cao made an embarrassing request that seemed to ask him to climb into the sky and pick off the moon.
He looked at Mr. Cao, seeming to be thinking about something.
Lion City Art Exhibition…Lion City Art Exhibition…
If you want to participate in the International Art Biennale, your current panel will definitely be useless. It is the most basic to reach a professional level or above, and not only the sketch basics must reach LV.4.
Chinese painting and even oil painting must reach the professional level of LV.4.
"No, if you want to win the prize, maybe Level 4 is not enough, it needs to be higher."
In addition, inspiration and knowledge that fit the theme of the art exhibition are also essential.
Considering the latest registration time for exhibitions, I only have a few months to prepare.
It's difficult, but not necessarily impossible to do with the help of a painting panel.
Gu Weijing was not discouraged at this time.
After seeing Mr. Cao's unique skills, he not only looked forward to learning painting from him, but also had an urge in his heart to go to the outside world and compete with real masters.
"How about it, Mr. Gu, are you confident?"
Mr. Cao asked with interest as he saw Gu Weijing thinking intently.
"Confidence I don't know, but I want to give it a try."
Gu Weijing raised his head, his eyes were frighteningly bright.
"Okay, the boy I like should have such drive and ambition to compete with God."
Mr. Cao laughed and stretched out his hand: "Gu Weijing, I'm waiting for you to kowtow to me and become my master, and clap your hands to confirm."
"Clap your hands and it's settled."
in the sun,
The palms of an old man and a young man clapped their hands together, making a crisp sound.
Lin Tao felt helpless when he saw this scene.
"How childish."
