Love is not a math test that can be scored according to fixed right and wrong answers.
Gu Weijing's brushwork is still a little immature, and the complex lines on the canvas weaved with brushstrokes appear green, like a fledgling bird learning to build a nest with fine branches and feathers for the first time.
It's not without its faults.
In the art museum, Katsuko Sakai has seen many famous paintings by masters whose brushstrokes are really close to flawless, but she really loves the painting in front of her.
Not only because the pictures are good, but also because she likes this sense of resonance, because she loves the person holding the brush to paint.
Love is an unreasonable liking.
Just like judging based on social class, wealth, resources at hand and other universal social standards for choosing a mate,
If there are professionals like bank asset credit appraisers, they can issue a carefully crafted "Ranking of Quality Lovers".
Everyone will think that Kosatsu Taro may be a boyfriend who can score 95 or even 98 points, while Gu Weijing may barely even score 60 points.
The long distance between potential stocks and blue chip stocks is the result of generations of wealth accumulation and countless lucky choices to seize opportunities.
At least there were thirty daily limit intervals in between.
In a place like East Asia, where kings are everywhere, genius is worthless.
There are eight billion people in this world, and there are close to one million people with the talent of one in ten thousand.
Talented art students may not be as bad as cabbage, but there will always be only a few art trendsetters who can turn their talents into money.
But the moment Ms. Sakai falls in love with the other person, all the ratings are meaningless.
Even if someone really photographed such a list in front of her, she begged like a bank manager selling insurance: "Miss, take a look, don't be stupid. After our evaluation, Kosatsu Taro is the best." It's suitable for you. Look, their paintings can sell tens of millions of dollars a year, and their assets are as strong as gold. If you marry him, you can have any art exhibition you want."
Sakai Katsuko would also tear this form to pieces without saying a word, because she didn't love Komatsu.
Like a koala, Miss Sakai hugged Gu Weijing's neck for a long time before letting go, her face still flushed with excitement.
"I want to turn part of this painting into my Instagram profile picture, is that okay?"
Sakai Katsuko covered the canvas with her left hand, and gestured with her mobile phone with the other hand to seek Gu Weijing's opinion.
She blocked the essence of the composition and one-third of the subject with her palms, retaining only the close-up and partial brush and ink details of the background image, as well as the outline of Uncle Alai's character.
What worries me about plagiarism in painting is composition and creativity.
Whether the details of pen and ink can be drawn or not depends entirely on the skill of the painter. Technique is something that cannot be stolen. There are paintings of a higher standard than this in art galleries, so I am not afraid to show them to others.
"You can take the photo if you want. There's no need to block it, right?"
Gu Weijing, a native of Yangon, is still thinking like a student and does not have as high-end copyright protection awareness as Miss Sakai.
"No, the stage where it makes its first complete appearance should not be on my INS." Sakai Katsuko said seriously, "I'm looking forward to the moment this summer when it attracts the world's attention."
Sakai Katsuko not only updated her homepage avatar on INS, but also synchronized this drawing to her photo wall with the text - [MY LOVER].
My dear love,
A pun.
The girl who just fell in love wants to announce to the world,
She is in love.
"In a few months, when I end the restrictions of this agency contract, I will put up our intimate group photo." Shengzi said to Gu Weijing with a little regret.
"Do you have an agency contract?"
Gu Weijing was not too surprised. With Sakai Katsuko’s ability and resources, it was strange that no gallery paid attention to her.
"Tokyo Gallery + BTAP's emerging artist agency contract lasts for six years. From the age of 12 to 18, including various subsidies and creative allowances, their foundation account will give me US$120,000 every year. There are no fixed requirements for creation, but there are some minor restrictions.”
Sakai Katsuko shook her head and explained: "To put it bluntly, it's actually like spending six years of money to buy a first-choice signing right after debut."
She now has an agency contract.
This contract is a reward for the winner of the All-Day Young Artist Competition organized by an Asian foundation.
There are many such activities in Japan, South Korea and Singapore.
The winner of the music string category will be awarded a five-year performance right to use an 1832 antique violin, while the winner of the fine art painting category will receive a new artist contract from the Tokyo Gallery, the oldest art gallery in Japan.
She is not officially an artist represented by Tokyo Gallery. It is similar to a youth training contract of a football team, but the amount is not "youth training" at all.
The art industry is dying of drought and flooding.
It is not uncommon for people to have high annual salaries of one million, tens of millions or even fixed annual salaries of tens of millions.
But an annual salary of 120,000 US dollars has already fully entered the threshold of international artists.
At present, most middle-level painters fall within this income range.
Because Sakai Katsuko has a good image and her father is famous, Tokyo Gallery is willing to take a gamble. This also includes the remuneration of hiring Sakai Katsuko as their young artist image promotion ambassador.
A normal six-year rookie contract in previous Golden Awards would have a total price of only US$100,000.
After all, there is no requirement for creation and submission, and the gallery side is completely investing in it.
When dealing with underage painters, it is not convenient for galleries to require them to submit a certain number of works on a quarterly basis in the same way as an artist under a formal contract.
If you draw someone's child to look depressed, even if the court doesn't sentence you to child labor, the media will still blast you until you die.
As Katsuko Sakai said, the main purpose of Tokyo galleries is to buy the right to sign contracts at a high price.
The biggest purpose of spending this small million dollars is to make her official debut at an art exhibition as an adult.
Under the same bidding conditions, Tokyo Gallery has the right to first win the first official agency contract of Sakai Katsuko’s artistic career. That is when the investment will truly reap the rewards.
"The additional terms include that I cannot do anything that damages my public image. There is a detailed clause that states that at least during this contract, I cannot announce my relationship on social media."
21st century,
Artists are becoming more and more popular stars. After the concept of trendy artists emerged in the 10s, this characteristic became even more obvious.
Fashion artists such as KAWS and Takashi Murakami have transformed art from an exclusive product of the upper class into a darling that attracts the attention of the whole society.
Network traffic is the only true god of the modern media industry.
No matter how high-spirited the artists are, they are not immune to vulgarity, and works that are highbrow and melodramatic cannot be sold at a good price.
Speculating on scandals, walking on red carpets, running paparazzi gossips, issuing NFT digital artworks, male painters and female celebrities falling in love, everyone began to use the spotlight to gain traffic.
Young artists are not strictly prohibited from falling in love like the idol trainees of K-pop entertainment companies, but the gallery does not want Miss Katsuko, who has excellent appearance, to announce her relationship to the public prematurely.
Such things as "boyfriend fans" and "girlfriend fans" can be found everywhere as long as they are related to fashion media.
after all,
You may not be able to understand the paintings when you look at them, but beautiful girls are appreciated by both refined and popular people.
Many beautiful independent female artists hate judging people by their appearance, believing that appearance overshadows their hard work and talent.
However,
Whether you admit it or not, the objective fact is that from ancient times to the present, single female painters with good looks have always had a smoother journey.
Beauty was the initial ticket for many Western female painters in the old society to enter the upper-class art society.
There were only a few named female painters in Russia, France, Germany and Italy in the 18th and 19th centuries. Most of them were the beautiful wives of wealthy businessmen or the lover models of great painters.
Many of the young customers who paid tribute to Marie Xart, the first female Impressionist master, in the Paris gallery back then regarded her as the goddess of art and the object of their pursuit.
Even though Ms. Sakai had no objection to marrying Taro Kosomatsu, she had almost no photos showing any intimacy with him on her Instagram.
In fact, not announcing the relationship, having an underground relationship or even a hidden marriage is the best choice for Sakai Katsuko.
"I don't care. When the time comes, I'm willing to tell the whole world that I like you." Sakai Shengzi whispered softly to Gu Weijing.
…
"Housekeeper? Prepare a car for me. I'll use it right away."
Mrs. Sakai was quite annoyed and hung up the phone in the guest room. She glanced at the clock on the wall and stood up bitterly to open the closet.
It's almost midnight.
At this point, Sakai Katsuko hadn't come back yet, and Katsuko's mother finally couldn't sit still.
When she thought about the fact that some local pigs were racking their brains to get the flowery cabbage in their house, Mrs. Sakai felt so unhappy that she felt like breathing fire out of her nostrils.
Countries and regions along the Mediterranean Sea, such as Spain and Sicily, Italy, are regions with relatively conservative relationships between men and women in European culture.
Traditional chaste Roman Catholic families account for more than half of the population.
She was even dubbed a European nun.
Mrs. Sakai doesn’t necessarily treat her daughter like a celibate nun, but when it comes to falling in love, girls often don’t know how to protect themselves.
As for the boys…
snort,
Mrs. Sakai doesn’t know what those bullshit bastards have in mind when they fall in love!
What she was talking about was beauty, art, and the sensual color of the nude women painted by Caravaggio, Renoir, and Rubens. What she was thinking about was turning the girl in front of her into a model for the painting.
All of them are experts at seducing innocent and ignorant girls into bed.
Mrs. Sakai had heard a lot of these routines when she was in art college.
"We made an appointment to go painting together. Hahaha, you can deceive an innocent girl. But you are still too young to do this with me, kid."
Mrs. Sakai twisted her neck and sneered.
She didn't believe in the hormone-driven self-control of these little bastards.
Maybe the real starting point is that the painting is true.
But the moon is dark and the wind is high, and the love affair is passionate. Faced with such an alluring cabbage of his own girl, can the other party really be able to control it.
Three chapters of the agreement or something,
It’s not like everything has been thrown out of the window.
If the other party really has "bad" intentions, my daughter may not refuse, and even with Shengzi's gentle personality, she may not refuse.
no,
She was willing to give the girl some personal space, but if she kept waiting like this, she would be irresponsible as a parent.
Mrs. Sakai opened the family shared map on her iPhone and took a look at the location of her husband Kazunari Sakai.
Uncle Sakai was busy with work and could not stay in Myanmar for a long time, so he returned to his studio in Japan long ago.
His current location is neither at home nor in the studio. His mobile phone position is at a yakiniku restaurant that sells barbecue late night snacks in Chiyoda District, Tokyo.
"Huh, everyone is so disobedient. They have high blood sugar, high blood fat, and fatty liver. They have turned into takoyakis themselves, and they are still eating hazelnuts. Watch me take care of you when I get back."
Mrs. Sakai showed a smile that would make any middle-aged husband break into a cold sweat.
She had no time to pay attention to her husband, who continued to develop into a sumo wrestler's body shape, and saw Katsuko's avatar in a welfare orphanage called "Good Luck" in Layada District, Yangon.
Seeing that luckily it was not located in a certain hotel, Mrs. Sakai was relieved.
But in the middle of the night, there are always unstable factors when staying with this guy Gu Weijing.
Mrs. Sakai put on her high heels and opened the door to the suite. She was not going to call Katsuko in advance and give her daughter a chance to run away.
The noble lady decided that it was time to go straight over and drag Katsuko back.
Ding~
A new message of [Katsuko]’s INSTAGRAM update was uploaded on the mobile phone.
Before the picture was loaded, Mrs. Sakai saw the text caption "My Beloved".
When these four characters came into view, her face immediately twisted and she almost threw her phone away in anger.
If we really want to accurately describe Mrs. Sakai’s inner feelings at this time,
It is probably equivalent to the mood of most mothers when they see their precious daughter quit her decent job, go home to meet her parents with a big belly and a bosozou boyfriend with dyed yellow hair.
So ignorant!
It’s not a matter of losing followers, it’s a matter of breach of contract.
Mrs. Sakai doesn't care about a contract for a young painter, nor does she care about the million-dollar liquidated damages.
Mainly a breach of trust.
The last thing an artist can offend is a gallery. Just like a star doesn't want to offend an entertainment company, no one likes to sign an artist with a record of breach of trust.
Even if this is just a rookie contract, a signing is a signing.
For the sake of Professor Sakai, Tokyo Gallery may not even be willing to hold Katsuko responsible for such a small matter, but it cannot be done like this.
"She's talking about love, she's stupid... Huh?"
The picture was loaded, and when she saw that the one updated on the photo wall was not the stupid face of Gu Weijing as she thought, Mrs. Sakai's anger dissipated a lot in an instant.
She stopped slightly and glanced at the photo that was partially blocked by her palm.
Mrs. Sakai noticed that the painting was not bad at first sight, and then she realized that it was not her daughter’s painting.
Sakai Katsuko had never painted anything of this style.
Not Katsuko’s?
Is that Gu Weijing’s?
"Hey, there's something interesting about it."
Mrs. Sakai slowly stopped rushing out.
(End of chapter)
