The last picture frame, with its back to the audience, was also turned over by Anna at this moment.
"Jane Arnold, right?"
This time she didn't even mean to ask Thomas who the author of this work was, so she said in a very determined tone.
"Of course, in the world of illustration, besides this well-known old artist, who else's works are worth millions of dollars?"
Anna looked at the illustration in the frame.
Anna, who was merciless in her criticism of Van Doorn, became gentler when describing this old artist whose life experience was legendary.
"Mr. Jane Arnold is respected as the [Warm Christmas Tree] in the painting world. His works have warmed generations of children."
"There is nothing left for art critics to evaluate about this painting. Everything the painter wanted to convey to people has been expressed through painting."
The last painting that appeared in people's eyes turned out to be a pastel painting.
If colored pencils are viewed by viewers as novice graffiti for primary school students, then crayons are considered toys for kindergartens.
But what this painting presents to people is not childish.
But childlike.
Warmth - is the theme of this painting.
The entire Batman series of stories, except for the power of money, follows a dark and gloomy adult fairy tale style.
Just like the literal translation of Gotham City in English, this is a city of fools and a city of sin.
This crayon painting is of a completely different style.
The writing style is gentle and delicate, and the horizon behind him is a red sun solidified on the sea level, which looks like the sun at dusk and the dawn before dawn.
Although the sky will be dark or bright, the tone of the entire illustration is not gloomy at all.
There was a brilliant halo that drove away the darkness, and what illuminated the city was Batman, or rather Mr. Hyperion wearing a bat cape.
Jane Arnold subtly replaced the tacky Franklin bill waving in Thomas's hand with a burning fire.
Only a half-burnt banknote remains in the corner of the picture.
The flame in Batman's hand in the picture is rendered with various warm-toned crayons, giving off a warm and dreamy luster. People can't help but think of the burning hope in the hand of the little match girl written by Andersen many years ago. matches.
someone commented in the comment section.
"Although I don't understand art, this painting makes me feel warm in my heart."
"Compared to the same colored pencil drawing as in the previous photo, which one do you like better?"
"They are almost the same, but if I were Mr. Hyperion, I would definitely like this painting more. The concept and concept of this painting are really great."
"For illustrations, this painting is perfect, I hope-" Anna looked at Thomas on the side.
"Of course, in addition to the one million US dollars I gave to the Children's Foundation under the name of Mr. Jane Arnold, I will also spend another 10 million US dollars in charity to establish my own children's charity foundation."
Before Anna could finish speaking, Thomas directly intervened.
He really liked the illustration.
The moment he received this painting, Thomas not only liked it, but was also extremely surprised.
Art or whatever is not important.
The main reason is that this painting is too suitable for his program.
After he became famous, there were many people who accused him of relying on eyeball effect and being a wealthy person who started his career by spending money without thinking. Of course, this is actually a fact.
Now, the composition and concept of this painting alone are a perfect interpretation of the value of my video.
Not only does it cleverly fit the theme of Batman, but it also perfectly fits the slogan of Thomas’s channel [Sharing the interesting world with everyone].
At least for Thomas himself, spending millions of dollars to buy such a painting. But compared to spending tens of millions of dollars to buy Gauguin, Monet, Van Gogh, or Picasso, it is much more meaningful and worthwhile.
He planned to use this illustration as his homepage avatar on YouTube and Twitter after a while.
The comment section suddenly exploded again.
Mr. Hyperion has always been known for his generosity, but after seeing a painting, he suddenly decided to donate $10 million. This was the first time.
"Shocking, this is the charm of great artists."
"Mr. Hyperion is great!"
"Come on!!! I support you."
"This is no better than those idiots on Twich (the largest game live broadcast platform in Europe and the United States) next door who hold spinach ads and live broadcast gambling in front of millions of fans."
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"I think this is what old artists expect from you."
Anna stared at the crayon drawing for a few seconds.
"The value of an illustration lies in its background story. Although you are not Roosevelt, if you keep going, I think one day this painting may be worth a million dollars in the market."
"Miss Elena, how do you want to rate the three paintings? I think the audience is looking forward to your evaluation."
Thomas asked.
"Seven points, ten points"
"The first colored pencil drawing I pulled out has obvious muscle deformation and pen errors compared to the second one, but it is still a good enough illustration. I can give it seven points.
As for Jane Arnold's work, I can hardly imagine a better pastel drawing than this one, both in terms of conception and composition. It's almost perfect, so I give it ten points. "
Anna tapped her fingers on the first colored pencil drawing and on Jane Arnold's crayon drawing.
"As for this work..."
She looked at this painting for a long time.
"Would you also give it another perfect 10?"
Thomas asked.
He didn't know why, but he could feel that Anna had always shown a special preference for the illustration in her hand.
But now when he was grading, just like when he was appreciating the painting, the other party seemed to end up feeling inexplicably unhappy?
"No... I can say clearly that I love this work, but this painter does not deserve my full marks." She sneered.
"Why?"
Many viewers who watched the video remembered that scene at this moment——
When the other party looked at the painting with a magnifying glass, the expression he showed at the end seemed to be somewhere between looking at a boyfriend who had been in trouble and giving up, or an unreasonable madman.
And the final comment of this judge lady - "a hopeless fool."
This makes it difficult for everyone to understand whether the other person likes or dislikes the illustration.
But during the subsequent recording process, didn't the judge lady in the wheelchair always show appreciation and praise?
"First of all, I deducted points for emotion. Apart from seriousness, I can't see any other emotion in this painting. But for illustrations, emotion is not the key. People are used to calling illustrators "transporting passengers" The driver going to the destination, the driver doesn’t need a lot of extra emotion.”
Anna placed the colored pencil illustration she had been holding back on the table.
"Actually, compared to the other five works, the mood of this painting is not bad. Even if it is simple and serious, it is better than Mr. Van Dorn's scene where he clearly has no emotion but behaves like the ravings of a madman. better."
"Its emotion is only lacking compared to Jane Arnold's crayon illustrations, which can make people feel warm in their hearts when they look at it."
Anna's tone suddenly became colder: "What really makes me unacceptable, incomprehensible, and intolerable is this artist's treatment of this painting."
"This painter showed masterful skills in all the most difficult details, but he did things that anyone else could easily do, and he did it so well that it drove me crazy."
"In order to achieve the best results for water-soluble colored pencil drawings, painters generally use special fine-grained watercolor paper. Even cheaper ordinary watercolor paper is not unacceptable."
Anna pointed at another colored pencil drawing. "For example, this painting was painted on very professional water-soluble colored pencil paper. This is professionalism."
"Ordinary watercolor paper is not expensive. Even the best thickened watercolor cotton core paper produced in England only costs about 80 euros for a pack of ten. On average, each paper is less expensive than a hamburger."
"And what about this painter? He actually used the most common sketch paper for students. Damn it, why didn't he just use printer paper to draw on the cheap?"
"Although sketch paper has almost no ability to hold lead like ordinary printing paper, its paper quality is very poor. In addition to the advantage of being cheap, it is not suitable for professional colored pencil painting. This artist painted very well. But this does not prevent the final image from having a lot of avoidable white noise.”
Ana pinched her fingers together carefully.
She has artistic compulsion. Looking at this drawing paper is like looking at a beautiful lady with a few spots of mole artificially added to her face.
“What’s even more outrageous is, what kind of irresponsible fool artist would abandon this masterpiece of art after painting it?
I didn’t see that he took any trouble to protect the painting. Not only was it not covered with a protective film, but it was mailed away without even spraying the most basic fixative. "
"Just like this - naked, naked, naked things were put in envelopes by the artist and irresponsibly mailed away!!! When I looked with a magnifying glass, I saw at least five places where pencils and Defacement caused by external friction.”
"What kind of irresponsible fool is he?"
The more Anna spoke, the more angry she became. She could not tolerate this kind of blasphemy against art. The iceberg lady almost turned into a volcano.
She was even gritting her silver teeth when she finally spoke.
"Nine points, don't blame me, that fool brought this on himself."
