"It looks like it will cost a lot of money."
While Gu Weijing was scrolling through the girl's INS homepage, he opened a small window using the on-stage scheduler on his iPad, and casually sent an envious emoticon.
He is not a jewelry lover;
However, after staying in Myanmar for a long time, I am more or less familiar with jade.
Judging from the quality of the jadeite bracelet and pendant in the photo, the cheapest one might cost $8,000, and the more expensive one, $100,000, may not be affordable.
"I don't like it. From noon to now, my mother has picked out six bracelets and three pairs of earrings for me and herself. That's not all. After returning to the hotel, there is also a state-owned restaurant in the VIP room on the top floor of Aman. There was a special promotion and tasting of glass jadeite, and when I thought about her dragging me along to continue shopping at night, I was so bored that I grew hairy."
Katsuko said in a pitiful tone.
"Gu Jun, please accompany me to talk about the paper."
If other girls said this to the table full of strange pearls, it would be a bit of a show off.
Not only Eastern Xia has Versailles literature.
Gu Weijing remembered,
There was a time when rich girls from local schools also liked to post on Instagram scenes of various brand-name bags scattered on the floor after accidentally falling down, or update photos on Valentine's Day of facing a table of YSL Saint Laurent lipsticks. , accompanied by the text "I have a lot of this color, but my boyfriend still insists on buying it for me, I am really speechless." These words show affection.
However,
After getting along with Katsuko for a long time, he knew that Sakai Katsuko had always been a straightforward person.
Ms. Sakai has no need to show off.
For a family like Uncle Sakai, whose annual sales of paintings can easily reach tens of millions of dollars for a top Asian artist, buying a jade bracelet worth tens of thousands of dollars is more expensive than a local who earns $100 a month. It’s easy to eat a bowl of beef ramen on the roadside.
Money at this level is already close to being insensitive.
Miss Sakai Katsuko, an artistic little princess who grew up in a golden house, has a natural nobility.
Whether you like it or not is entirely up to you.
If you like it, you can admire the shells on the beach for a long time. If you don't like it, even the best jade, which is as clear as water, will only be regarded as glass.
"Thesis? Haven't you already contacted the email address of the journal "Asian Art" to submit your paper? Are the results out now?" Gu Weijing replied strangely.
This is too fast.
"Of course not so fast. The publisher of this kind of biannual journal works at a very slow pace. There are only a few old editors, and they have to contact the reviewers and professors who are available. I mean, during the period of writing the paper, Gu Do you have the same emotion as me? Whenever I appreciate and copy the paintings of the female painter Carroll, I always think..."
on the screen,
Sakai Katsuko paused for more than ten seconds before typing quietly.
"I always think, you said, our paper, our copying, can awaken this "Old Church on a Thunderstorm Day" and the afterlife of the female painter."
Afterlife?
This unpopular description made Gu Weijing a little confused.
They have always communicated in English on the chat software, but Miss Katsuko specially changed the words "afterlife" to Chinese... or maybe Japanese.
In Japanese, these two characters have not been simplified by katakana. They are completely consistent with the way they are written in Chinese characters. They are both Buddhist terms and represent the next life of reincarnation.
"Paintings have an afterlife? I don't quite understand."
Gu Weijing had never heard of such a literary and mysterious statement.
He expressed some confusion.
"This is a concept that senior Takashi Murakami told me. You know Takashi Murakami, right?"
"Of course, of course, wow! Katsuko, you know Murakami Takashi. Although it was expected, he is still really awesome."
Gu Weijing still knew about this famous Asian painter.
This is Takashi Murakami,
Takashi Murakami was once known as the world's first Mesozoic artist.
At his peak, Takashi Murakami could sell five million dollars for any cartoon doll he designed.
In the art circles of Asia and the entire world, if we really want to rank the living artists in 12345 order.
The only ones whose status can stabilize Murakami Takashi are Cao Lao from Eastern Xia, Gerhard Richter from Germany, and Yayoi Kusama from Japan, who are close to a hundred years old and are living fossils of modern art history.
Even though the market price of Murakami Takashi's paintings has dropped considerably, Professor Sakai Kazunari may still be slightly inferior to others.
"The first time I heard this statement was probably around 2009. I was still a student who had just entered elementary school at that time. I can't remember the specific time clearly."
It seems that the private sale of jade on the treasure ship is indeed quite boring, and Katsuko Sakai is very sexy.
She brought up stories from her childhood.
Katsuko Sakai recalled: “I just remember one day after school, my dad drove my brother and me to see Takashi Murakami’s painting exhibition at the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum.
It was a big exhibition. At that time, Time Magazine wanted to write a special report on Mr. Murakami, and all the European and American reporters and the wife of the U.S. Ambassador to Japan came. Takashi Murakami was surrounded, and everyone wanted to say a few words to this great, epoch-making artist.
At that time, my father was far less famous than he is now, so I had never seen such a scene. I was extremely envious and said loudly that I would become a greater artist than you in the future. "
"It's so embarrassing to think about it now. Saying such words in front of such seniors, I was a newborn calf who was not afraid of tigers. It was really childish to death."
Sakai Katsuko made a shy expression.
"It's quite cute. What next? What did Murakami Takashi say?"
Although Gu Weijing hasn't figured out yet, what does this have to do with the "afterlife of painting" they are discussing.
However, people who have grown up in high-end art circles like Katsuko Sakai cannot understand the precious stories surrounding such great artists.
So he still listened with interest.
The year around 2010 that Ms. Sakai mentioned was when Murakami was at his peak.
The Palace of Versailles in Paris held a special exhibition for him, and the New York Times wrote a personal column for him.
When it comes to fashion crossover,
Louis Vuitton, Chanel, Hermès, any top luxury goods company are eager to cooperate with Murakami. Works signed with "Takashi Murakami" represent a guarantee of artistry and are a model of the combination of elegance and fun.
When bags and shopping bags co-branded by Louis Vuitton and Takashi Murakami were selling like hotcakes among socialites around the world, Van Doorn was still playing in the mud.
Even when Time Magazine wanted to select the 100 most influential people of our time, Murakami was on the list, beating out celebrities such as Taylor Swift, Buffett, and Rupert Murdoch, and was also on the list. The only visual artist.
Unexpectedly, Katsuko Sakai would be lucky enough to have face-to-face contact with Takashi Murakami at that time.
Imagine,
At an exhibition of such a famous artist, a little girl of several years old said loudly that she wanted to become a greater artist than Murakami, which really made people smile.
"Are you being laughed at by everyone?" Gu Weijing was curious.
"That's not true. Great artists don't have the same experience as a little girl like me. The senior just kept silent for a few seconds and asked me, in my heart, what kind of work is truly great."
"I thought about it for a long time and couldn't express it."
Ms. Sakai typed and said: "Takashi Murakami seemed to know my name, so he walked out of the crowd and squatted down and touched my hair."
"He told me, Ms. Sakai, whether you become a so-called great artist is not important, and whether you become the next me is even less important. Worldly success is not important. What is important is to paint works that can defeat death. "
"A work that conquers death?"
Gu Weijing thought about this statement.
"He told me that the works of truly powerful masters all have an afterlife. Their works will never die, they will only reincarnate again and again in the long river of time. Whenever someone recites their works in the long river of time, With the name, the artist’s soul will be reincarnated from the ashes of the past.”
"Those who permeate through time are immortal and immortal, and that is how great they are."
Miss Sakai slowly explained to Gu Weijing the art philosophy she had received.
When evaluating the artistic works of any painter, his paintings can be divided into two stages: [this world] and [the next life].
When an artist's artistic life ends, the paintings he painted will also end.
There will be no new ones of the same kind, and the rest will be a long [afterlife].
Art is a strange circle,
Picasso became famous during his lifetime and left a mark in the history of painting after his death. There are always only a few lucky ones.
Some people's works are extremely splendid and simmering in the world, but no one cares about them after their death.
There are also some people whose works were not worth mentioning when they were alive, but they illuminated the entire history of art after their death.
The professors in charge of the Paris official salon who slandered the Impressionists went to the Louvre in fine clothes, dined with dignitaries, and decorated their works with frames inlaid with gold and silver threads.
When they were alive, their paintings were highly sought after by the trend and hard to find. However, a hundred years later, their names have been lost to time and no one cares about them.
Van Gogh only sold one cheap oil painting in his life, but now it is regarded as a treasure by major museums, and has even become a cultural symbol, more remembered by mankind than the surname of the Dutch royal family.
Huang Binhong, a master of traditional Chinese painting, once said that people will not understand me until fifty years after my death.
In 2003, when Christie's auctioned a Chinese painting by this master whose artistic works had not been much valued during his lifetime for a sky-high price of 370 million, it would be fifty years since the old man's death.
What is successful is not necessarily great, and what is great is not necessarily successful.
Before the modern gallery system and the capital promoters of the art market formed a mature system, this was the portrayal of generations of modern painting masters.
"I can imagine that I will easily be a very successful and wealthy painter in the future."
There is no exaggeration in what Katsuko Sakai said.
"But I don't know whether my work will be able to defeat time. Whether it is good enough, and whether my [next life] can leave echoes in the history of art again and again. Compared with the bumpy situations of those predecessors, I even There’s a guilty unease.”
"I have always believed that having the courage to be the Van Gogh that no one cares about is more valuable than the ambition to become a great artist in the secular sense."
"So, when we were writing the thesis, I always had the feeling of making a pilgrimage to the senior female painter named Carroll. This feeling became more obvious especially after my little dispute with you about the identity of the female painter." Katsuko Sakai wrote softly.
"This is why even though finding celebrities is far-fetched and far-fetched, it has been a common practice in the art circle since ancient times, and it was also my father's advice. But your insistence on Carol's true identity still convinced me in the end and made me admire you. Although this may only increase the probability by one percent or one thousandth in vain."
"Her brushwork is brilliant, but no one cares about her name. The name of such an outstanding female painter should not disappear in time. If we can find her story together, we can bring her dark-toned Impressionist style back to the world. This A female painter can be reincarnated under our brush, which is the most memorable thing I can think of."
"Gu Jun, I want to share this expectation with you for a long time to come."
Sakai Katsuko typed slowly and said.
Maybe the wireless signal at sea was not good, or maybe the girl was dragged by Mrs. Sakai to pick out jade jewelry.
After sending this line of text.
Ms. Sakai didn't speak anymore, and it showed that she was offline.
Gu Weijing stared at the screen, lost in thought for a long time.
He closed the Whatsapp chat software and switched back to the photo on the Instagram photo wall that Shengzi had posted that morning, of standing on a sea shell.
Gu Weijing looked at the elegant and noble appearance of Katsuko Sakai in the photo and couldn't help but sigh from the bottom of his heart.
Miss Katsuko is really the kind of soft girl with a strong artistic temperament.
Like a blooming lotus.
He remembers,
I once saw an emotional teaching video on YouTube by a rich second generation talking about girls’ personality preferences. It has been viewed more than one million times.
There was a guy who looked like a playboy in his clothes. He divided the girlfriends he had dated into several categories.
The easiest thing to deal with is a girl who worships money. All you need is a limited edition Dior perfume + a candlelight dinner at a Michelin restaurant, and the probability of success in confessing your love is almost 90%.
The most difficult to deal with and the most sincere emotions are this kind of artistic girls.
What money can't buy is the most expensive.
If you want to get into the heart of this kind of girl,
What is needed is not a luxury bag or a Porsche car key.
What people want is emotional communication, a just-right tacit understanding in the eyes, a heart-pounding brainwave connection, and a common language of ideals and aspirations.
She can jump into the sea with you because of a kiss under the stars, or she can throw the 999 custom-made blue roses you gave her worth US$5,000 into the trash can downstairs without a trace.
In order to pursue such a beautiful girl, that guy once went to work as a volunteer with the girl in a Syrian refugee camp affiliated with an NGO in Jordan for more than half a year. He almost died of diarrhea due to malaria in the Middle East.
A young lady like Sakai Katsuko is born with nothing lacking.
She treats art with a pious and literary heart, and her feelings towards people and objects are very pure.
That's probably it,
It was Katsuko Sakai who was so persistent in copying Carroll's paintings.
Even Gu Weijing copied so many copies of "The Old Church on a Thunderstorm" more for the utilitarian need of obtaining the system's treasure chest, rather than having such great emotional expectations like Miss Shengzi.
“The Afterlife of Artworks.”
Gu Weijing thought about this very chewy statement in his mind.
(End of chapter)
