Gu Weijing saw the [0\1000] progress bar on the skill panel.
This skill has no cooldown time, but activating the skill requires free experience points, and it's not cheap.
Fifty free experience points.
Activating the skill once is equivalent to throwing out one million Burmese coins.
Although his current business on Fiverr is much better than before, after he upgraded his Chinese paintings to the level of a professional painter, the remaining free experience points were only a little over a few hundred.
If he fed this skill to the required level of 1,000 times, he would need 50,000 free experience points, which would be enough to upgrade his first-level painting skill to the full 10 times, which is half a million US dollars.
But Gu Weijing knew,
The appraisal and appreciation of paintings and calligraphy has always been a very professional matter, and asking someone to look at paintings and talk about them is like asking a treasure connoisseur to look at antiques, which is always not cheap.
When facing a painter who is not as good as yourself, it is not difficult to find out where the other person falls short.
Just like there is no need for calligraphy and painting appraisal skills, Gu Weijing can also analyze based on his own painting experience that Sakai Tsunamasa's sketching level is probably around the mid-level level of L3 semi-professional level.
But when it came to Professor Lin Tao, he knew that the other party's sketches were good.
No matter how good the painting is, Gu Weijing can only express a vague feeling.
Aesthetics is an abstract concept, and everyone has the instinct to feel beauty.
However, to be able to accurately evaluate and understand beauty requires a vision and sufficient artistic accomplishment developed by appreciating and observing famous paintings.
Many people don't have this ability,
Even Gu Weijing didn't dare to say that he had it.
For those works that were too far above his own level, even he could only express meaningful sighs in shock.
Just like in Mr. Cao's "Picture of Worshiping the Buddha and Protecting the Dharma", he painted the moment when the Bodhisattva opens his eyes.
Gu Weijing felt a tremor in his soul.
This kind of shock is the contagious power of the master.
But from a professional perspective on painting, does he really understand this painting?
He understood what kind of skill Mr. Cao's light strokes revealed, and how turbulent the emotions in the other party's heart were.
This is difficult to capture accurately.
This is why professional curators and art critics are so important to the calligraphy and painting industry.
The influence of these people on the trend of painting art is even greater than that of the painter himself.
Even many of the godfathers of the art world and directors of museums, portrait galleries, and art galleries were not born as painters, but as professional art critics or curators.
They don't need to know how to draw, they just need to know how to appreciate paintings.
Want to invite these people to see the painting?
Five hundred dollars?
Sorry, who are you looking down on?
Please at least add two zeros at the end, and you can't get it.
To give a more intuitive example, a work of art is like a smooth drop of water in the Three-Body Problem or the lunar monument described by science fiction writer Clark, whose ratio is always 1:4:9.
The eyes through which everyone observes beauty are the microscopes in the hands of scientists.
Everyone's natural magnification is slightly different, and with the improvement of acquired art courses and artistic accomplishment, your magnification will become larger and larger, and your observation ability will become more and more refined.
There is no perfect work in the world. If a painting seems incredibly beautiful to you, it means that the painter's level is far beyond yours.
Of course, if your magnification is too small, it is easy to see that all paintings are similar, and you will not be able to understand some art forms that are too advanced.
This is why some unlucky masters disappear into the dust.
Although Gu Weijing is not rich, if fifty experience points can dismantle a work from beginning to end, from lines to colors, it is undoubtedly very worthwhile.
It's like following a top art teacher to guide you and make progress.
He walked around the calligraphy and painting shop and pressed his finger on a painting called "Kingfisher Singing Bamboo" in the gallery.
This is a work collected by my uncle.
Gu Weijing had always thought this painting was a bit strange before, but he couldn't explain why.
He threw a calligraphy and painting appraisal technique.
The next second,
The whole painting changed.
The painting hanging on the wall quickly disintegrated before his eyes.
The kingfisher's beak, cheeks, and silk feathers are rouge-dyed with claws and hundreds of clear tail feathers...
All the elements on the rice paper are like spring silkworms being pulled out and decomposed little by little by the dexterous hands of the peasant woman.
A screen of light seemed to appear in Gu Weijing's mind.
The paint on the entire painting is made of brushes and lines, like crystal being broken by a hammer, exploding into countless colorful and beautiful fragments in an instant.
It merged again in a very short period of time.
A new panel appeared in front of Gu Weijing.
[Title of work: "Kingfisher Singing Bamboo"]
[Chinese painting techniques: Level 1 of lv.4 profession (3968/5000)]
[Mood: Perfunctory]
Gu Weijing blinked. The painting in front of him was still the same painting, but a new feeling of enlightenment appeared in his heart.
When he once again laid his eyes on the kingfisher picture hanging in front of the gallery, he could almost clearly feel the artist's brushwork and thoughts when painting.
The sky is high and the clouds are clear, and the kingfisher fluttering its wings lands on the lotus on the river...
Huh?
Lotus? River water?
He knew why he found the painting strange.
The kingfisher is also called the kingfisher and the fisherman in the Chinese painting tradition.
Because kingfishers are good at fishing, they are often paired with scenes such as lotus and rivers in the artistic conception of traditional Chinese paintings.
But this picture is called "Kingfisher Singing Bamboo". It wants to show the mountain forest scene, and there is not a drop of water in the whole picture.
"Why do you think of lotus flowers?"
He felt that the mood of the painting was strange, as if it had been deliberately cut in the middle.
Gu Weijing's eyes fell on a spot on the bamboo joint that was particularly thick and seemed to be splashed with ink.
"So...that's it."
He held his chin in thought.
Gu Weijing saw that there were no customers in the store at this time, and there were guards standing at the door, so there shouldn't be any trouble. He took the picture "Kingfisher Singing Bamboo" off the wall of the gallery and brought it into the house.
He had already guessed what was going on with the painting.
If his guess was correct, this should be a scrap.
It is quite normal for an artist to have unexpected variables when painting.
Sometimes it's a change in painting ideas, and sometimes it's just a mistake.
For example, if the color is not adjusted well, the brush accidentally touches the paper, or the dried work falls to the ground and someone leaves a black footprint in the blank space...
Many art students have encountered this situation.
If it is an oil painting, you can use a painting knife and spatula, or you can simply cover it with other colors when painting the next layer, but rice paper cannot be treated like this.
If you don’t want the entire painting to be scrapped, you can only repaint it from scratch.
There is some ridicule in the traditional cross talk of the Eastern Xia Dynasty. When the painter paints the fan, if he makes a mistake in painting the beauty, he can change it to Zhang Fei;
Although it is an exaggeration, this situation is not uncommon.
Gu Weijing wanted to verify his conjecture. He felt that the bamboo in this painting should have been modified later.
"Grandpa, do you think there is something wrong with this painting?"
"What is the problem?"
Hearing Gu Weijing's question, before his grandfather Gu Tongxiang said anything, his aunt had already frowned.
"There is something wrong with the drawing paper, and the picture is damaged or stained. It's impossible. Our customer checked it when we bought it. Did you not pay attention when you visited the store a few years ago and the painting was stained? If you don’t know how to do business, forget it, and it will cause trouble for your family..."
She began to rattle off accusations.
This painting was not a work by Gu Tongxiang, but was sent by an art agent who was familiar with the uncle who was in charge of the store management.
In the calligraphy and painting market, there are big fish, small fish, and shrimps underneath the small fish.
Gu's Calligraphy and Painting Shop and Komatsu Gallery are as shabby as street stalls, but in Yangon, they are already considered big business among galleries.
Yangon's high-end galleries are mainly concentrated in a few areas in two areas.
One is the bank of the Yangon River where cruise ships come and go every day. There are also several similar calligraphy and painting shops scattered in several streets of Golden Valley (Golden Village), a wealthy area in the north and where diplomats gather.
The main customers of these galleries are foreign tourists.
The rest are scattered in various shopping streets, snack streets, alleys selling tourist souvenirs and other calligraphy and painting night markets with a large flow of people.
Most of the works sold here are painted by students studying at the Academy of Fine Arts. They are hung on horizontal wires or spread on the ground like drying rags.
There is a certain industrial gap between the finely decorated small museum-style art galleries like Gu's calligraphy and painting shop and the small street stalls that cannot be mounted on the countertop.
In the small stalls on the street, even if there are occasional high-quality products, they cannot be sold at high prices.
The business of Gu's calligraphy and painting shop is not big enough to have a complete set of lower-level contract brokers and agent artists like those large galleries to continuously provide paintings.
Basically the only regular "signed" artist is the old man Gu Tongxiang.
In recent years, the old man has gotten older, and Gu Weijing is too young and not well-known, so he often needs small art agents and second-hand dealers to purchase goods.
These agents have some connections. They will collect good art works and ancient paintings in the corners of various cities, or through various relationships, they can get a few works from local painters they are familiar with.
If you can find a buyer, sell it yourself.
If you can't find a painting for sale, send it to a secondary market like Gu's Painting and Calligraphy Shop, and ask if the painting and calligraphy shop is willing to sell it on your behalf or take it away directly.
This has formed an industrial chain.
This picture of "Kingfisher Singing Bamboo" was bought by Gu Weijing's uncle from an art dealer for more than two million kyats.
It costs about a thousand dollars, which is not cheap for a calligraphy and painting shop of their size.
When her nephew said there was something wrong with the painting, her aunt immediately became unhappy.
