Chapter 254 Boss, do you accept calligraphy and painting?!
Li Jinli is still very confident about this appraisal.
Others may not be able to do it, but for calligraphy and painting, his appraisal level is still quite good.
Cao Qingchun's expression changed. Can he still operate like this?
"What if someone is blindfolded? You know, not every boss in this antique shop has the boss's vision!"
This is what Li Jinli admires most about Chen Wenzhe. He is capable but not arrogant at all. This is so rare.
"Yeah, it doesn't cost much anyway. If you fool someone, you'll make a lot of money!"
Thinking of the cost of that oil painting, Cao Qingchun had to say that there are quite a lot of bold people nowadays.
"Boss, do you want to collect calligraphy and paintings? I see you've written on the outside that you want to collect antiques at a high price!"
"Take it!" Although I was hit a bit just now, I can't stop eating because of choking!
This time a young man came in, holding a scroll in his hand.
Seeing the scroll, Chen Wenzhe breathed a sigh of relief, as long as it wasn't an oil painting.
The scroll looks a bit old, I hope it's not a copy this time.
Opening the scroll carefully, I saw that the paper seemed to be old. Well, to be precise, it should be silk, not paper.
Chen Wenzhe was very happy when he saw the silk scroll. This must be a work before the Tang and Song Dynasties.
When he opened it, he saw a picture of a plump lady. Chen Wenzhe was very familiar with the painting method of this kind of beauty.
He has seen authentic works. For example, the two stone coffins in his hometown have a large number of murals of ladies from the Tang Dynasty.
As soon as he looked at the painting of a beautiful lady, Chen Wenzhe knew that the painting of a beautiful lady was quite satisfactory and there was nothing wrong with it at all.
Looking at the author, Zhou Fang, this is a famous person. If he really painted it, then this painting would be valuable.
Looking at the painting itself, it depicts two aristocratic women in gorgeous clothes.
There is no background in the painting, and the two ladies are painted with fine brushwork and heavy coloring. The main and secondary characters in the whole picture are arranged cleverly, and the background of the scenery is few but precise.
The half-covered and half-revealed transparent knitted sweater makes the figure look plump and luxurious.
However, the brushes and lines are delicate, dynamic and flowing.
The rich coloring, the hook dyeing of the hair, the halo of the ears, and the decoration of the clothes are all done with great skill.
All these better express the delicate and tender skin of aristocratic women and the patterns of silk fabrics.
It's just that the silk used for painting is a bit rough, and this is in line with the characteristics of that era.
In fact, the Tang Dynasty already had the habit of painting with paper, but paper corrodes easily, so most of the paintings that have been preserved are silk paintings.
The overall impression of this painting on Chen Wenzhe is very good, but Chen Wenzhe is a little dumbfounded when he looks at the details.
Why does he feel that this painting is so restrained?
Who is Zhou Fang? Zhou Fang was a famous painter in the Tang Dynasty and came from a noble family.
He was good at calligraphy and good at painting figures and Buddhist statues, especially aristocratic women. The ladies he painted were dignified in appearance, plump in body and soft in color, and were loved by the court literati at that time.
He was an important figure painter who emerged after Wu Daozi in the mid-Tang Dynasty.
He was a famous religious painter and figure painter at that time. He imitated Zhang Xuan in his early years, but later made changes and created a unique style.
Zhou Fang is definitely a master painter. The most famous Buddhist image he created is "Water Moon Guanyin".
His Buddhist paintings have become long-standing popular standards and are known as "Zhou Family Style".
His handed down works include "Lady with Hairpin Flowers", "Lady Waving Fan", "Tune the Qin and Sip Tea", etc.
It is impossible for any problem to arise in the paintings of such a master figure.
It was at this time that Chen Wenzhe calmed down. He was afraid that he had encountered a fake again.
Having doubts, when I look at this painting again, I feel even more strange.
There are no problems with the characters, image, or coloring, but the corners of the characters look unnatural.
"The color doesn't come out?"
“This picture of a beautiful lady always feels like I’ve seen it somewhere before!”
Suddenly, something moved in Chen Wenzhe's mind. He thought of Zhou Fang's "Pictures of Ladies with Hairpins". He seemed to have glanced at it somewhere.
Now that I think about it carefully, there are five or six figures in that painting, but there are only two in this one.
If you think about it more carefully, these two people are not the same ones in "Ladies with Hairpin Flowers", right?
Although he did not take out his mobile phone to search online, with Chen Wenzhe's memory at this time, as long as he found a problem, nothing could satisfy him.
This is a half-copy, or half-photocopy and half-hand-painted work.
The outlines are printed by machine and filled in manually later.
This method of fraud has been used for many years, so it’s not surprising.
It's just that Chen Wenzhe doesn't have many opportunities to come into contact with calligraphy and painting, so he was blinded for a while.
"No, other means should have been used. Could it be that they used a projector?"
Using a projector to project a painting onto the wall and copy it by hand is a unique skill!
I heard that many national exhibition works are produced in this way, and some teachers teach students this way.
"Boss, have you finished reading?"
The longer time goes by, the more guilty young people naturally become.
Once a problem is discovered, naturally everything looks suspicious.
"finish watching!"
"Haha, is it genuine? How much can you offer?"
"Well, half of "Lady with Hairpin Flowers" is pretty good. I'll give you fifty yuan. It's worth the price!"
"How much? Fifty? Are you crazy?" the young man said with a look of disbelief.
"If you don't believe me, search it on your mobile phone. This is a copy of "Ladies with Hairpins" by Zhou Fang of the Tang Dynasty. To save trouble, I copied the two main ladies."
"I think about it, it's really like this, no wonder it looks familiar!"
At this time, after being reminded by Chen Wenzhe, Li Jinli also suddenly realized.
"How did you do this? The painting is too regular!"
Li Jinli looked at the picture of a lady on his desk, and his eyes shone. This imitation was so good.
Chen Wenzhe's face trembled, he felt the same way at that time.
"The machine makes the outline, the projector projects it on the wall, and you fill in the drawings and colors on the wall. It's almost the same as a copy, and it's not as dull as a copy. Unfortunately, it's not your own work. When you fill in the drawings,
It’s hard to avoid being too formal.”
"Can you still do this? These painters really know how to play!" Cao Qingchun's eyes almost popped out of his head.
The corner of Chen Wenzhe's mouth showed a forced smile involuntarily.
He started out by making old things. Although he has never made any calligraphy or painting, it doesn't mean that he doesn't know how to do it.
His expert distressing technique is not only used to make old porcelain.
Although he is only at the professional level, not the master level, he does not know and is not proficient in many deceptive methods, but he knows it, and as long as he does this, it is enough.