"Is this what the magazine's board of directors means, or is it what you mean, Mr. Brown?"
the girl asked calmly.
"This is... everyone's decision." Mr. Brown said slowly: "We are not the only art review magazine with a long history in Europe. Oil Painting magazine is also facing a lot of market competition."
"Is that so?"
Anna seemed to be in a trance.
Sir Brown thought he had persuaded Anna, and said in a persuasive tone: "In the past ten years, the profits of traditional media around the world have been declining rapidly. Although we are an old publication, times are different now. Even the newspaper founded by the Queen of Sweden has Who could have imagined losing money and ending publication in the past? You have also seen the magazine’s revenue schedule every year.”
"This is for the common interests of our magazine." He licked his lips.
"Common interests?"
Anna looked at the brown walls of the quaintly furnished office.
There are portraits of the leaders of the "Oil Painting" magazine in the past generations hanging there. The elders of the Elena family have left their mark on it.
The frontmost position on the wall belongs to the old count, the founder of the magazine. The portrait of the count is wearing the uniform of a senior army officer, which is the uniform dress of the great nobles of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the portrait.
Different from the flamboyant French royal family, the Austro-Hungarian Empire had a military tradition, and even the emperor liked to dress himself as a captain officer every day.
The old count in the portrait is neither holding a cavalry sword nor carrying a pistol on his waist. He is sitting sideways behind the long walnut table in the office, holding a small picture frame in his left hand and holding it between the fingers of his right hand. smoking a burning pipe.
Sir Brown noticed Anna's gaze and tried to seduce her with reason: "The magazine is the hard work of generations of Elena's family. You also hope that it can get better, right? We are indeed an art magazine. , but we are also a business magazine, and a business magazine must consider the impact on society."
"I understand." Anna nodded slightly.
"This is a necessary sacrifice." Sir Brown felt relieved, and his smile eased the tense atmosphere. "I know that you appreciate the online painter, and you also have your own persistence. But sometimes in order to survive until the next spring , the violin had to be chopped into firewood for warmth. Whether Detective Cat can draw well or has artistic attainments is even more insignificant in the future of the magazine."
"Go write a letter of apology. If you would like to make a call, I have Van Dorn's contact information."
Sir Brown picked up the landline phone from the table.
"No...I refuse." Anna shook her head.
Sir Brown froze, and the smile on his face faded little by little.
"Son! This is not only in the interests of the magazine, but also for your own good."
He became a little angry: "If you inform me before accepting Mr. Hyperion's video shooting invitation, I will never allow you to participate in this kind of program. Why are other critics not willing to do such an offensive thing? Participate, Anna, haven’t you ever thought about it?”
"Please stop your preaching, Mr. Levinson Brown."
Anna stretched out her palm to stop Sir Brown from rambling.
She turned her head slightly and looked directly into the chairman's eyes.
"Ever since I stepped into this office, I have been enduring your humiliation all the time. Tea, coffee, Filipino preserves, what kind of conversation do you think this is...a principal disciplining a disobedient female student?"
She was obviously a young girl, but there was a dignity in Anna's voice.
Her voice was cold and capable. Compared with Sir Brown, who was opposite him and had a white beard, she seemed to be in a superior position just now in the wheelchair.
"I've had enough of you pretending to be a kindly priest leading a lost lamb. Chairman Brown, please at least observe some workplace courtesy. Call me Ms. Elena, or Editor Elena. I'm neither your child, You were never allowed to call me by my first name."
"Moreover, you seem to have mistaken the purpose of my visit. I am not here to beg for your forgiveness, I am just here to inform you of my dissatisfaction. I am an editor hired by a magazine. It is my responsibility to express my personal views on the art field. rights and job content. If you don't want to, you can fire me, but I will not be coerced into changing any of my opinions. Good is good, bad is bad. I like Detective Cat, I hate Van Dorn, It's that simple."
"It has nothing to do with art, only reality? What kind of damn joke is this? The reason why "Oil Painting" magazine can be passed down for two hundred years does not rely on financial reports and profitability, but only on persistence in art."
Anna said coldly: "I have just been thinking that if my ancestor were here today, then he would definitely throw his pipe on your face and tell you--"
“——Everything that happens in this building has nothing to do with art.”
Anna turned the wheelchair and left the conference room without any regrets.
As soon as she left the building and came to the street outside, her phone vibrated and she received an email from the magazine's human resources department.
"Miss, they won't really dare to fire you."
The nurse's voice sounded a little nervous. She had been waiting at the door and heard the quarrel coming from the office.
This is a magazine that has been devoted to several generations of Elena’s family.
"Vacation notice?"
Ana opened the phone, took a look at it, and pursed her lips.
No matter how angry Sir Brown was, he still didn't have the courage to fire Anna directly.
He just informed the human resources department that Miss Elena was not suitable to continue working in a magazine related to the visual arts column due to her lack of social experience, so she took an indefinite leave of absence.
In the mail,
Sir Brown also suggested to her in a polite but rather sinister tone that a little girl of this age is more suitable to stay in the ivory tower and continue to study for a Master's degree or something.
I was ordered to take a vacation!
That is the popular legal saying in Europe and America - "Garden Holiday".
In Western workplace culture, a company's management, core personnel or senior employees are judged to be unsuitable for their current positions due to scandals, non-compete restrictions, internal investigations, etc.
Officials will use mandatory leave reasons such as "traveling", "accompanying family", "raising a pet" or "spending time to tidy up the garden at home" to make employees leave.
This is a euphemism for "You're suspended."
Sir Brown was using his actual actions to show that the magazine did not welcome her.
Anna thought for a moment, opened the official website of "Oil Painting" magazine on her mobile phone, entered the information about Detective Cat, and clicked search.
[Unfortunately, there are 0 pages and 0 search results under the current keyword, and this person is not found. Please check your keywords and try again. 】
Buyer recommendations about Detective Cat have been completely deleted from the website as Sir Brown said.
This was a huge blow to the artist's reputation.
It means that the painter himself has become useless in the eyes of professional art criticism organizations. Instead of lowering your rating, they will directly delete you.
Anna stared at the phone screen for a few seconds and opened the Whatsapp chat tool.
She sent a message to Detective Cat.
"If you really want to participate in the new Art Criticism Salon, then come."
Faced with Detective Cat's previous request, the girl has never made up her mind.
In her mind, Detective Cat is a master of sketching and illustration.
However, aesthetic attainments and painting skills have never been directly related.
It is normal for online illustrators to have inherent shortcomings. She wants to be the other person's agent, which is why she wants to guide and cultivate the other person's aesthetic accomplishment and aesthetic ability.
Now that he has the artistic endorsement from the Oil Painting Magazine, there is absolutely no need for him to risk embarrassment because of the dissatisfaction between himself and Van Dorn.
Moreover, many painters are naturally dull and not good at expressing themselves.
Now, with Chairman Brown withdrawing Detective Cat's recommendation rating. This is worse than before I didn't give the other party a two-and-a-half-star rating.
It almost substantiates Van Dorn's theory that Detective Cat is a monkey with no aesthetic ability.
Anna, who was suspended from her job, could no longer help the other party.
The only thing she can do is provide the other party with a platform to prove herself.
And what can help the detective cat,
Only herself.
"Don't be brave." She was worried as she watched the message being sent out.
**
A few days later,
Dulwich College Yangon, opening ceremony.
"...According to tradition, this year's school sorority party will be held on Rose Valentine's Day, May 14th. Students from grades 7 to 13 need to prepare formal attire for the party. The softball field on campus will be renovated and will be temporarily closed to clubs. Anyone who wants to Students who intend to open a new club should also submit the application form to the student union office on the third floor of the north teaching building before 3 pm this Friday..."
Miss Mona, who was meticulously wearing a black coat, beige knitted shirt, and dark blue bow tie, was delivering the opening speech.
There was silence in the auditorium.
There are a total of eight international middle schools with good reputations in Myanmar, five of which are in Yangon. Among them, the most famous for art education is this British-style private middle school.
The school is located on the outskirts of the city, covering an area of approximately 80,000 square meters.
In addition to ordinary general education, it also provides three additional art courses: classical music, sculpture, and painting.
Miss Mona is the president of the school's student union.
In international middle schools, the student union has great power and is responsible for arranging all aspects of social activities in the school.
When applying to an excellent foreign university, in addition to hard scores, extracurricular activities, letters of recommendation, interviews and even daily social services are very important.
Gu Weijing, who was sitting in the corner seat at the back of the senior group, breathed a sigh of relief.
He was very familiar with the content that Miss Mona gave every year at the beginning of school. After listening for a while, when no one was paying attention, he quietly took out his IPAD from his school bag.
Whether it's tuning, painting or modeling.
Art students often use professional software on tablet computers, so the use of electronic products is not prohibited in schools.
Gu Weijing opened Apple's official podcast and clicked on the private radio station in his favorites - [Artists Review By Mr. Folivora]
The page jumps to Mr. Sloth's podcast channel.
The channel's homepage background poster is Van Gogh's famous painting "Starry Night", and the host's photo column is a fat sloth with palm-colored hair.
Below is the podcast rating.
It currently shows that a total of 190,000 people have subscribed, and more than 407,600 people have rated it. The overall score is 4.8.
In the field of arts podcasts, the ratings and popularity are already very good, even surpassing NBC's "Voice of the Arts" in this week's category rankings.
The podcast homepage has been updated with a new radio poster - [Art Salon Series No. 9: When Classical Meets Modern, let’s talk about the art of painting with Mr. Tonks, Director of the Tyler National Gallery of Art, and Internet Illustrator Detective Cat Light and Shadow (online on time at 8pm next Tuesday)]
Like previous art salons, below the title is a Keynote (similar to Apple PPT) file for fans to download.
A total of five artworks are included in the file.
These works were selected by the director of the Taylor Art Gallery from submissions from fans of the podcast that he found interesting.
Originally there were only four paintings, one of which was a watercolor and three were oil paintings.
After Anna decided to add another guest, she was worried that the detective cat would not be able to understand the paintings, so she specially selected an extra sketch, making a total of five paintings.
The format of this salon is centered around these five drawings. Everyone chats with each other and expresses their personal views and opinions.
The total duration is about forty minutes.
The post-production of audio files is not complicated. For this kind of chat-style salon with three guests, just make a timeline after recording.
The podcast will go live next Tuesday, and the recording will be this weekend.
Anna sent Gu Weijing a link to an online conference room. Calculating the time difference, it should be late at night on Friday, Yangon time.
There's still one week left,
Gu Weijing has already begun intensive preparations.
First, he needed to work on his voice.
Online voice changers for changing male voices into female voices are everywhere on the Internet.
To be on the safe side, he bought a voice-changing sound card on Amazon that could be used for a long time to adjust the thickness of the voice line.
After trying the effect, he was quite satisfied with the gentle female voice.
Then there is the preparation for the content of the salon.
Fans of the premium arts podcast Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon have even included some famous professional painters.
And the works that can make the director of the Taylor National Gallery of Art in the UK interested in commenting have a very high degree of completion.
The appreciation of several paintings can bring a certain degree of mental impact to Gu Weijing. In order to make a clear and accurate judgment on these works, some of them even required him to repeatedly use calligraphy and painting appraisal techniques more than once.
Gu Weijing had consumed almost all the free experience points he had accumulated in the past few days, and he looked very tired.
I want to leave a deep enough impression on the audience in the art salon and certify the names of Detective Cat and the art critic named Miss Irina,
This is undoubtedly a necessary payment.
The people I talk to are all big shots in the art world.
Needless to say, Mr. Sloth, the other Mr. Tonks is the curator of the Taylor National Gallery in the UK.
The Taylor National Gallery of Art is one of the most popular art galleries in the world. It is located on the east bank of the Thames River in the UK. It was funded by the sugar tycoon Taylor Henry. It has four branches in Liverpool, Scotland and other places. It is the largest in the UK. of non-state art museums run by private foundations.
The A&HCI publication "Taylor Art" that Uncle Sakai once mentioned is their subordinate professional journal.
Being able to talk to such a powerful person is a rare opportunity, but it is also secretly full of danger.
As the classic French proverb goes, a salon can make a knowledgeable person famous overnight, but it can also make an ignorant person infamous for a long time.
There is a saying in the entertainment industry of "pressing the show".
When a young actor plays against an old movie star, he may not be able to say more than two lines before being overwhelmed by the opponent's aura and unable to open his mouth. Otherwise, he may be submissive, or he may become exaggerated and uncoordinated.
This is the crushing of acting skills,
In the end, the effect of the show is that the better the veteran actors perform, the worse the young actors perform.
A classic example is that in "The Wolf of Wall Street", a natural actor like Leonardo DiCaprio was somewhat suppressed by the veteran actor Matthew McConaughey when he was opposite him.
The same is true for conversational salon podcasts. As soon as an expert opens his mouth, he will know if there is one.
Several experts who have been immersed in the industry for many years talked with each other. The in-depth collision of ideas and hearty brainstorming naturally made the audience fascinated.
But if one person is an obviously weak layman.
When someone talks to you about lines, colors, and the emotions of a painting, but you don’t even know which painting they are talking about, the audience will still criticize you without discussing it.
This is especially true in niche fields like art. There are so many capable professionals in the audience, and there is no way to get by just by pretending.
Mr. Tonks may not be the one with the highest academic status among the guests Mr. Sloth has invited in the past.
But as a detective cat, I am definitely the painter with the weakest "resume" who has appeared on this podcast in the past year.
It was so thin that even Gu Weijing was a little surprised that this Mr. Sloth, whom he had never met before, was actually willing to agree to be a guest on his podcast.
At the bottom of the poster, many senior fans of the show also expressed their incomprehension about Mr. Sloth's decision.
"Detective Cat? Who is Detective Cat..."
"A very popular online illustrator some time ago, the first online illustrator in history to be featured in Oil Painting magazine. However, it seems that he is not qualified to talk to Mr. Sloth."
"That internet artist who draws animation illustrations for a living? I read the report on "The Moon" and it seems that she doesn't think highly of her."
"There is no need to report news from third-rate newspapers like "THE Moon" here. Their words are simply disgusting... But having said that, I am indeed a little worried about the quality of this podcast. Detective Cat and the other two guests are not from the same world at all, how can they talk together?"
"It is said that the artist Van Dorn questioned the professionalism of the "Oil Painting" magazine, thinking that he and Detective Cat can only have one. I don't know whether this news is true or false. But "Oil Painting" seems to have indeed deleted the article about Detective Cat Page. Do you think that participating in the Art Salon this time will be an opportunity for Detective Cat to fight back? "
"Just fight back and don't embarrass yourself. She is like a broom star. I heard that Miss Elena from Oil Painting magazine was also affected. Mr. Sloth shouldn't have invited him as a guest..."
The professional art circle is so big, any gossip spreads quickly.
Soon someone in the comments below started gossiping about Van Dorn’s feud with Anna and Detective Cat.
The online illustrator who had just appeared in the "Oil Painting" magazine for a few weeks - his related page was discovered a few days ago and disappeared from the recommendation page on the "Oil Painting" official website.
Also disappearing is the new editor of the visual arts section whose initials is .
Someone @vandoorn this news.
The other party only replied with a photo of a circus clown with the text "There is no such person! (No such person found)"
I don’t know if he was mocking Anna or Detective Cat. Of course, it was more likely that he was saying that both of them were clowns.
Many artists who are familiar with Van Doorn forwarded the message.
At least in the eyes of most podcast fans, Detective Cat is still just an insignificant joke in this kind of salon show that professionally tests aesthetic ability.
(End of chapter)
