The fat middle-aged nurse pushed Anna along the stone path on one side, like the open door of the manor, and Thomas followed behind.
"Miss Anna, please let us talk in English. I only took a little German as an elective in high school, and the audience for English videos will be larger."
"This is a photographer. He will take photos of the entire process while you are evaluating the quality of these paintings."
Thomas waved to the photographer who was holding a stabilizer.
"The warm-up content of the new video has been prepared to be previewed on Twitter. According to the studio's process, the final product will be a short video of about 25 minutes, which will most likely be posted on YouTube next week [Mr. Hyperion 】The channel meets the audience. "
"Based on the previous playback volume of [From One Dollar to One Million Challenge] videos, there is a high probability that 100 million to 180 million people will watch this video in the next month. Of course, before it is officially launched , a staff member will send you a copy of the finished video, and if you have any special objections to the content of the video, we will consider it as appropriate."
The caregiver turned right along the shady stone path and came to the door of an old glass building.
The building is also an ancient building, but the lighting is very good, and it has a transparent look. It is not like many old-fashioned buildings common in Europe that are gloomy and desolate. When you enter, you feel like you are on a ghost movie set.
"Our family does not have the habit of building a ballet theater at home like the Russian aristocracy. But from very early on, we have had our own collection of paintings. My ancestors believed that art can last longer in this world than honor."
The nurse opened the door and walked into the collection room.
Austria's predecessor was the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
It was a multi-ethnic and multi-religious country with a complex structure that could be described as chaotic.
This studio work exemplifies this style.
Greece, Turkey, Britain and the Balkans...
Hundreds of various oil paintings are enough to hold a luxurious art exhibition.
Some of these oil paintings are portraits of family members invited by painters, some represent artistic investments from past generations, and some are simply the artist's rewards for generous art patrons.
Each generation of her family has been passionate about the arts.
Anna's grandmother's grandmother was a wealthy expatriate from Greece. She once went to London to study, and was an important patron of the Pre-Raphaelites (19th-century painting school). This lady once appeared as a model. Several of them have been uploaded and are now collected among the oil paintings in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery in London.
"WOW, so cool!"
Thomas gestured to the photographer to slide the camera through the famous paintings hanging in the collection studio, and let out an exclamation.
He also rented an ancient castle to record a short video of hide-and-seek with fans. By chance, he learned that the lady of the castle was actually a young student studying at WYN Academy of Fine Arts, and he met Anna.
After understanding,
The Anna he knew turned out to be an art critic.
Yes, a twenty-two-year-old art critic.
In the field of painting, both painters and critics tend to age. Many practitioners born in the 1970s are now fifty years old and can be regarded as Mesozoic.
Those who can put the words "master" or "someone" after their names are often elderly people after the age of 60.
Uncle Sakai is considered an outstanding talent if he can gain such a reputation at his age.
And Anna can only be regarded as a monster.
God deprived her of the ability to walk, but gave her an outstanding talent for art appreciation.
She is the youngest writer and senior column editor of the well-known art magazine "Oil Painting" since 1934.
Although critics do not need to hone their skills day by day like painters, experience itself requires time to hone and polish, and there is no possibility of being as brilliant as a painting genius.
It is true that Anna's success is inseparable from the support of family wealth.
While many people have never been to an art museum in their lives, Anna grew up surrounded by famous paintings, which cultivated her innate artistic intuition.
But apart from this, the girl's resume is also amazing enough.
When Anna was fourteen, she was wandering through a warehouse when she discovered an old painting of a Victorian youth fraternity that had a color problem.
The Victoria Youth Brotherhood is a 19th-century painter group club where young painters gather together to discuss art trends and make progress together.
There is a mixed crowd in the club. Famous painters have been born, but most of its members are unknown.
The painter of that ancient painting belongs to the unknown category. Otherwise, it would not be stored in the warehouse and no one would care about it.
Anna keenly discovered that the peeling edges of the painting were abnormally covered with multiple colors, and the background of the entire gloomy and cold-toned oil painting was turning yellow.
Based on her findings, the adults asked experts to peel back the canvas layer by layer and found that this painting was covered with another orange landscape oil painting.
A canvas made of linen was expensive, and even a pure cotton canvas was not something everyone could afford in the 19th century.
In the past, when young painters couldn't afford new canvases to paint on, they would often pick up old paintings that others in the club didn't want and cover them with new ones.
This is the case.
And according to the signature on the canvas below, T.J.
The painting covered by this unknown artist was also a practice work by an unknown artist at the time - his original artist's name was Tom Jane, who was later admitted to the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in London and is now worth as much as $700,000 on the market.
Such a story is just a small microcosm of her career as a connoisseur.
Anna was the main writer of WYN Campus Art Weekly when she was in school.
The campus weekly of the art university with a long history is a very serious art magazine. It has its own dedicated publishing house and is distributed to the public. It has a relatively fixed and highly sticky readership group. Some people have subscribed to it for ten or twenty years.
The main writers of these campus weekly magazines are often young professors and older outstanding graduates in the school.
It is a high honor to be the main writer of a campus weekly as a student.
Not to mention that being able to become a contributor to a weekly art magazine like "Oil Painting", which is an art devil, was not just because my great-grandfather was the founder of this magazine.
She even has her own anonymous private podcast station - [Artists Review By Mr. Folivora (Mr. Sloth's Artist Review)]
This is a popular art salon radio program.
For art critics, being young is a big disadvantage, and you will naturally be questioned by others.
Therefore, in the podcast, Anna will use the hoarse voice of a virtual middle-aged uncle [Mr. Sloth] to comment on the current painting art trend and various original painters.
She started the podcast anonymously from scratch without using any family resources. After three years, it now has 170,000 fans.
Last year, it also ranked first on the Apple Podcasts list and the annual rising stars list in the arts column.
There is no comparison with Thomas, a popular Internet celebrity with hundreds of millions of fans, but in the niche art criticism field, this mysterious sloth with unknown origins has attracted a lot of attention.
In just three years, Mr. Sloth has been able to influence the market prices and creative trends of some young painters on a small scale.
There is no doubt that in the field of art criticism and influenced by the artistic atmosphere since childhood, Anna is a real princess and a real monster.
However, Thomas’s original first choice for this video was not Anna.
Although she is very professional,...
The public's impression of critics is the same as the Eastern Xia people's impression of Chinese medicine.
Thomas actually hopes that he can invite older and more experienced professors and artists who are engaged in illustration-related work to participate in this program.
At least to the viewers of the video, an old professor with a gray beard visually looks more knowledgeable than a little girl.
Unfortunately, his invitations to famous oil painting studios, galleries and museums were all rejected.
It was suggested to him that such comparisons risked offending.
As Anna said, the value of small-size illustrations lies in three points: storytelling, historical value and artistic value.
If the subject matter is specified.
When evaluating the value of art alone, it is difficult to say that a world-renowned artist is any more skilled than an old painter who has been drawing ordinary comic illustrations in this field for 20 years.
For example, one of the most famous illustrations in the world comes from the "Paris Peace Sign" painted by the great illustrator Jean Julien after the terrorist attacks in 2015.
This symbol has been used again and again throughout France, at the United Nations, and in all anti-terrorism activities, and has become the national memory of Europeans.
The entire illustration uses brush-like strokes to outline the shape of the Eiffel Tower on a circular ink ring with four strokes.
Even if a primary school student draws in 30 seconds, the result will be ninety percent similar.
But it’s hard to say how much this unique illustration is worth.
If the original painting is put up for auction, it costs one million US dollars, or it costs 10 million US dollars. If someone is willing to pay 100 million US dollars, then it is worth 100 million US dollars.
After all, it has become an integral part of the national culture.
The approximate market price of hundreds of printed newspapers with the "Philadelphia Declaration of Independence" posted on notice boards in the early days was between $1.5 million and $3 million per copy.
What's important is not the newspaper, but the historical significance. That's the truth.
If this kind of thing were a normal TV variety show routine, I would probably communicate with the critics secretly and secretly tell them which painting was painted by a master and which painting was painted by an unknown person. It is a script anyway, so it doesn’t matter. .
But Thomas couldn't do that.
This is the difference between traditional TV stations and emerging self-media.
Foreign YouTubers can attract attention and gossip without considering the social impact. Fans may think you are "keep real".
He got to where he is today by throwing coins at any cost in the video. As long as he has eyeballs, no matter how much money he spent on the video, he can get it back twice as much.
But if there is a script for fraud in this process, or the million-dollar yacht promised to be given to fans is finally revealed to be the winner of the prize, it is his second aunt or something.
Then his channel is worthless.
He tentatively extended an invitation to Anna, whom he had only met a few times. Perhaps it was the confidence of an old-school art collecting family, or perhaps it was just the girl's uniqueness, but the other party actually agreed to his invitation.
"Although Miss Anna already knew my purpose, I still introduced the rules and procedures for the recording of the show."
The caregiver pushed Anna toward the interior of the manor, and Thomas followed behind, introducing her.
"This is the commissioner of the Danube Art Factoring Company."
He gestured towards the burly bearded man behind him who was carrying a large black bag.
The bearded man nodded to Anna in the wheelchair.
"What he was carrying on his back was a portable safe used to move small, valuable works of art."
Thomas pointed to the black suitcase that had settled.
"The box contains seven small illustrations, worth one dollar, ten dollars, one hundred dollars, one thousand dollars, ten thousand dollars, one hundred thousand dollars and one million dollars."
He pulled out his phone and showed the camera a screenshot of a $1 million check that had been cashed.
"No hype, no money laundering, this is the real thing that cost me a million dollars."
He emphasized every word.
"ONE! MILLION! DOLLARS!"
"Some people say that the art market is just speculation. As long as there are the right promoters, air can sell at high prices."
"Some people say that the appeal contained in the master's works is enough to shock an era."
"Today we reveal the answer."
"Miss Anna, your mission is to tell me, as an art critic, without knowing the identity of the artist, which painting is better."
