"Oh, hello, Ms. Detective Cat, nice to meet you."
The assistant girl had a formal polite smile on her face: "It's a very high honor to get the same rating as a giant in the illustration industry in Mr. Hyperion's video, which is a big internet celebrity."
Her words were impeccable.
Although the assistant girl doesn't like Detective Cat, it's purely for job reasons, not because she has any objection to the internet celebrity painter himself.
Besides, she's Director Tonks' art assistant.
It is very unprofessional behavior to offend other painters because of their personal preferences.
"I know Mr. Tonks is the international independent curator of the Singapore Art Exhibition, and Ms. Detective Cat is very interested in the Singapore Art Exhibition, so..."
Ana was only halfway through what she said when the blonde assistant shook her head secretly in her mind.
They are all smart people,
She could understand Mr. Sloth's request for a "special guest artist" spot for Detective Cat.
As Tonks' assistant,
The blonde had seen too many requests like this.
Curators of international art exhibitions are like directors of Hollywood A-level commercial films that invest billions. Naturally, there are various economic companies who want to recruit their own actors.
A large-scale art exhibition is divided into two channels: invited painters and contributing painters.
Specially invited painters can be invited by the curator or the organizing committee and directly shortlisted for the main exhibition of the art exhibition, skipping the audition stage.
Being a featured artist is a recognized honor in itself.
Basically, those who can get this honor are internationally famous traditional artists, painters represented by some first-line galleries, and fixed quotas allocated to top art schools.
The blonde girl is the art assistant of Curator Tonks, and of course she also has the power to recommend special painters.
But in the eyes of the assistant girl, Internet celebrity illustrators like Detective Cat cannot meet this standard in terms of qualifications and reputation.
"Oh, Ms. Detective Cat, this is great. Participating in this kind of international art biennale is a milestone for anyone working in the painting industry."
The blond assistant mentally laughed at the detective cat Toad for wanting to eat swan meat, but he still had a polite smile on his face.
"The Singapore Art Exhibition welcomes submissions from international painters. I can send you the theme and submission website for this year's competition. If there is a need to participate, any painter can submit a submission to the organizing committee." The assistant girl pretended not to understand Anna. Meaning, doing Tai Chi smoothly.
"Can she get a place as a special guest at the exhibition? As you know, Detective Cat is very popular on the Internet."
Mr. Sloth asked.
"I'm sorry, the Singapore Art Exhibition is a professional international art exhibition. It may not be suitable for... this kind of... animation painters like Ms. Detective Cat."
The assistant girl declined implicitly.
If it was a normal matter and someone rejected her, Anna would never speak again.
But Detective Cat is different,
"Detective Cat's sketching skills are really good. Even if we only give her a chance to try out the draft, is it okay? To provide better opportunities for outstanding painters, isn't this the meaning of the existence of special invited painters?"
Anna's request was sincere.
The list of specially invited painters also includes some less famous painters.
The original meaning of this “special invitation” model is to give curators the opportunity to discover pearl artists who have been buried in the sea of sand.
The most classic example should be Mr. Fumio Nanjo, a Japanese curator.
When he was planning the Venice Art Exhibition in 1991, he uniquely discovered Cai Guoqiang, an Eastern Xia artist who was not very famous at the time.
Over the next thirty years, Mr. Cai became the most famous pyrotechnic stage artist in the world.
Dozens of famous art exhibitions and museums such as the Venice Biennale, Kassel Biennale, Center Pompadour, etc. now have his works in their collections.
He is also the recipient of the National Medal of Arts and the John D. Rockefeller III Medal.
The Pompeii Memorial Exhibition in Italy, the Winter Olympics in Beijing, and even the fireworks display at the Qatar World Cup were all designed by the Qatari government at the invitation of Mr. Cai.
Nanjo Fumio has also become one of the world's most renowned international curators.
This is a typical example of curators and artists achieving mutual success.
But the reason why this example is classic is that it is indeed rare.
Opportunities to be appreciated by curators are rare, but when given the opportunity, fewer artists seize it.
Many times, for some unknown little artists, they end up letting each other down.
This has led to the fact that these small painters who participate in exhibitions as specially invited painters are basically "special figures" left to the organizers to tell stories and to be used by the news media to write newsletters.
A black man in Brooklyn realizes his artistic dream by delivering newspapers by bicycle, becoming another example of pursuing the American dream, etc.
Hello, hello, hello to everyone.
In the painting circle, as in all literary and artistic circles in the past ten years, stacking buffs to tell stories is always useful.
No matter what the work is,
At least there was news to write about and it also demonstrated the organizer’s philosophy of equal rights.
According to the evaluation criteria of the assistant girl.
Detective Cat's status as an online illustrator who takes orders on Fiverr - in terms of storytelling, is not a plus, but a minus.
Internet illustrators are a mixed bag;
Especially many part-timers on Fiverr give the art judges the biggest impression of being LOW and unprofessional.
The public impression is not very good either.
Sometimes these painters will also make erotic and bloody borderlines.
The assistant girl saw a news not long ago that Scotland Yard detectives raided and arrested two artists who took orders for erotic illustrations on Fiverr last week.
Europe and the United States have a very high tolerance for artistic nudity, but the erotic works commissioned by these two painters involve children, which has exceeded the bottom line of public morality.
It's basically a felony to start with.
"This is not a question of whether the painting is good or not. Inviting an artist is a right. Every invited artist should be an extension of the exhibition planner's concept of the exhibition. The risks of an online illustrator are uncontrollable. Ms. Detective Cat, I ask Have you...have you ever participated in large-scale art exhibitions in the past?"
The blonde asked knowingly.
"No." Gu Weijing shook his head.
"Have you ever held a personal art exhibition?"
"No."
"Have you graduated from a top art school and signed a contract with a large gallery?" The assistant girl pressed her step by step.
"No."
"So you are just an Internet painter, don't be angry, but for any specially invited painter in a professional art exhibition, we need to make sure that he or she has enough aesthetic creativity to understand the art trend and the core of art. This is related to the art exhibition. Reputation. Similarly...the art exhibition requires that the works must be original, which is not suitable for online animation cartoonists like you."
"Otherwise, you can use your advantage and try to participate in some online animation illustration competitions or something... The Singapore Art Exhibition is about serious art. Of course, no offense, I still like your paintings very much."
The assistant girl suggested with a smile.
…
It's exactly six o'clock in the evening London time.
Director Tonks approached her study.
He is in his early fifties, has a bald spot common among British men, and has a somewhat big belly.
"Good evening, Mr. Sloth, Ms. Cat. Wow, I really should give myself a code name, like Mr. Tiger, we just have a cat zoo."
He sat in front of the computer, shook his stomach, and started with a common British joke. Then he laughed to himself.
Old British men are famous internationally for their love of telling dirty jokes and jokes that no one understands.
Curator Tonks is a standard old British man.
Naturally, he can't tell dirty jokes while recording a podcast, but he doesn't mind showing off his sense of humor in public.
There was a brief silence in the online chat room.
"The sloth is not a cat, right? It seems to be a giant sloth." Gu Weijing replied doubtfully.
He didn't understand the point of the joke at all.
Anna did realize that Curator Tonks was telling a joke, but with her cold personality, she had no interest in making fun of the narcissistic old British man.
"Director Tonks, can we start recording the podcast?"
Anna asked.
"Okay... let's get started. By the way, the part just now was cut after the salon recording was completed."
Tonks waved.
Mr. Curator was a little unhappy.
He holds a high position, so no matter whether a joke is funny or not, at least there will be no shortage of people cheering for it.
For example, Goldilocks, as a personal assistant, is an expert at this.
If she had stayed in the study at this time, she would have laughed so hard that her branches would tremble wildly, and she would have given her a few words of flattery at the right time.
"Hello, listeners. Welcome to this special art salon program. The guests we invite in this issue are Mr. Micah Tonks, co-director of the Taylor National Gallery in the UK, and the famous illustrator Ms. Detective Cat... You can find the Kenote files about the five works of our program in this episode on Apple Podcasts or Mr. Sloth’s Art Commentary, and we recommend that you listen to them in conjunction with the painting files.”
Anna followed her usual practice and after reading a spoken word, she officially entered the theme of the salon.
"Director Tonks, everyone in the audience knows that you are a senior art curator who is very knowledgeable about art. For these works that fans of this show have contributed to, why don't you talk about your favorite ones first? Painting?”
Anna took the lead in sending an invitation to Curator Tonks.
After learning that Detective Cat's best oil painting was knife painting, she really had no confidence in Detective Cat's aesthetic ability.
Letting Curator Tonks talk about his views on the five works is an unmistakable choice.
Not only was Tonks the most senior guest among the three of them, but with his foundation, Detective Cat wouldn't be too wrong even if he didn't understand art.
"Let Ms. Detective Cat speak first. Compared to me, I think many viewers are more curious about this recently famous Internet celebrity illustrator."
Curator Tonks curled her lips,
He had no ill intentions towards Detective Cat. As a senior curator, he could see the quality of Gu Weijing's sketch illustrations at a glance.
The painting is truly outstanding.
Otherwise, I wouldn’t have agreed to record a podcast with Detective Cat.
But as Van Dorn said, whether one can draw and whether one has artistic accomplishment are two closely related but completely different fields.
Monkeys can also play the piano after training.
He originally didn't mind chatting for a few words first, but...since he was unhappy now, he didn't mind making things difficult for the other party.
"How about... let me talk first?" Anna was not at ease.
"It's okay. Let me tell you first. It's just a good idea. If there are any shortcomings, please ask the two seniors to point out."
Gu Weijing is not afraid.
Instead, he wanted to test the gap between his calligraphy and painting appraisal skills and those of experts who had been immersed in the art criticism industry for many years.
“My favorite work is this oil painting called ‘White Lake Baikal’.”
Gu Weijing swiped the iPad screen next to him and called up a landscape painting.
[Title of work: "White Lake Baikal"]
[Sketch Technique: Lv.5 Professional Painter·Second Level]
[Oil Painting Technique: Lv.6 Professional Painter·Level 3]
[Mood: Simple work]
"Um?"
A layman looks at the excitement, an expert looks at the door.
Sometimes you can judge whether a person understands painting or not by listening to the first words the other person says.
Whether it was Curator Tonks or Anna, when Gu Weijing said these words, they all sighed softly in their hearts.
It’s just that one person is surprised and the other person is pleasantly surprised.
"I thought you'd like that sketch of The Rider."
Anna said softly: "Like me, do you think this painting "White Lake Baikal" is the best?"
They all thought that Detective Cat would start with the sketch of a man riding a horse.
She has shown herself to be an outstanding sketch artist.
Relatively speaking, it is definitely the easiest to evaluate sketches.
Admittedly, Anna also feels that purely from the perspective of professional painting skills, this "White Lake Baikal" is the best.
But art is inherently a subjective opinion.
People just like sketching, so there is no problem.
It was for this reason that Anna specially added an extra sketch to Tonks's original four selected works to avoid the dilemma of Detective Cat having nothing to say.
"That painting is not bad, but the composition and lines are still different from this one, "White Lake Baikal."
Gu Weijing replied.
"White Lake Baikal" is the only one among the five paintings that has reached the third level of professional painter in the system's rating.
Even if we compare the lines and shapes alone, they are not inferior to the "Horse Rider".
"Why is this painting good? What is good about this painting?"
Director Tonks became slightly serious.
He looked at the virtual avatar of Detective Cat, as if he was taking an exam for an art college student visiting an art museum.
It’s good to feel beauty.
But if you can really explain why, you can be called excellent.
"You might as well tell the audience what you think of this painting. I think the author of this painting should also be listening to your comments by then."
"The author of this painting has a little bit of Impressionism in his painting method. He depicts Lake Baikal in winter by depicting strong and subtle changes in light and shadow, and capturing the fleeting color style. The scenery he chose is good. He uses nature to set off the beauty, and to Light breeds color…”
"...We can see the initial position of the picture. The painter should start from the upper right corner of the picture to compose the picture and use a quick direct painting method to paint..."
"...the light of the sun falling on the grass and leaves, as well as the changes in the sky and water surface are all faithfully reflected in the painting..."
"...the painter uses jagged shapes and sharp brushstrokes to hint that it is a cold and biting winter... The small warm color spots on the left make the effect of the cold background more intense..."
Gu Weijing began to talk about his impressions of the painting "White Lake Baikal".
The large number of details provided by the calligraphy and painting appraisal technology gave him a very comprehensive understanding of the painting.
I have never eaten pork but I have always seen pigs running away.
The painting technique of this painting also has the shadow of Impressionism. After appreciating the two painters, Ray Noah and Carroll, I asked him to evaluate this oil painting.
Just like a student who has just taken the college entrance examination, even if he failed in the college entrance examination, it is still very easy to solve a sixth-grade elementary school math problem.
At first, Curator Tonks and Anna would interject a few words into Gu Weijing's words.
Later, everything gradually became quiet.
In the entire online conference room, only Gu Weijing's speech-like voice was left.
The remaining two guests were shocked when they heard this.
(End of chapter)
