After listening to Zheng Xiaopeng's words, Fang Yi felt a little bitter on his face. Qu Gu very clearly rejected the olive branch extended by Jin Peng. After thinking about it for a moment, Fang Yi opened his mouth and said, "I can help you find an agreement, but no.
It would be too in-depth! You have to know that I can’t even convince them to use mine! Don’t put too much hope in this matter!”
Although the four of them are close friends, they have their own differences in art. Fang Yi is not qualified to force his friend to sign with any gallery, and this is not something a friend should do.
"Just help me make peace! Being able to sign Wei Jin and Tao Yong is already a gain for us," Zheng Xiaopeng said with a smile after hearing Fang Yi's words.
Fang Yi thought for a moment and asked: "How are you going to push Tao Yong and Wei Jin?".
"Sheng Lin is responsible for the specific matters. The current stage is to allow the two of them to create with peace of mind. Tao Yong is of course a freehand Chinese painting, and Wei Jin is mainly promoting his watercolors. Once the works are put into production,
We will prepare an exhibition in about half a year, and organize a three-person touring joint exhibition of Wei Jin and Tao Yong's works with Zhou Tong's works! Let's see how the market responds and then decide what to do next!" Zheng Xiaopeng said: "Of course.
This is the early arrangement, there may be some adjustments later!”
Having said this, he looked at Fang Yi and asked jokingly: "What do you think of Zhu Zheng? We saw that his skills and colors are very good, a bit like Xiao Fang Yi!".
Fang Yi thought for a while and said: "Zhu Zheng is good, and his talent is good! But he has been copying my techniques. At this point, it seems that it is difficult to surpass me! This is a big taboo!".
Fang Yi has said this before, if you imitate someone, then it will be meaningful unless you can surpass that person! Just like Titian imitated Giorgione and surpassed him, if you can't surpass him, it means nothing.
Fang Yi asserted without humility that it was completely hopeless for Zhu Zheng to surpass himself in this life. This kid could not become Titian, and he was not even Giorgione.
This is Fang Yi's inner thought, but Zheng Xiaopeng doesn't see it that way. Zheng Xiaopeng and Chen Shenglin have been running galleries for so many years, so they have a good vision and their operation methods are naturally somewhat sophisticated.
In the eyes of these two people, copying Fang Yi's works is not entirely a bad thing. When Fang Yi returns from abroad for two or three years, he not only has the support of Liu Hongshuo, but also has friends like his senior brother Yan Daqi and Lu Qikun.
When the time comes, these two people and Fang Yi himself will gather together to hold a joint exhibition, which will have a great response in the market! There is a high probability that Bei Yan Nan Lu will be followed by someone like Shi Cheng Fang.
When Fang Yi became famous, even if Zhu Zheng kept copying Fang Yi at that time, he might not be able to get a share of the pie by relying on Fang Yi's fame! Even if he changed his painting style, he could still use his previous paintings
, plus Fang Yi’s reputation at that time and standing in front of others! Maybe the operation will be smoother than that of Wei Jin and others!
Zheng Xiaopeng looked at Fang Yi and asked: "We are very interested in Zhu Zheng now. Let's take a front-line position first, and then we will sign him when the time is right! What do you think?".
Fang Yi listened and said with a smile: "You signed him, I didn't sign him. Just look at it and it's fine!" Zhu Zheng is half of his students and friends, Fang Yi can't say that this person is not good, you guys
Don't sign this.
Zheng Xiaopeng smiled and nodded. Then he opened his mouth and asked, "I think your two paintings will cause quite a controversy this time!".
After hearing this, Fang Yi naturally knew which two paintings, one was definitely "July 10th". The picture of tearing the book apart made some Taoists definitely unhappy! And the other one was "The Nightingale"
, it depicts women who have lost their feet. It not only depicts women who have lost their feet.
Not only does it have a fairy spirit, but it also dances happily. Fang Yi didn't think that these critics couldn't see that the characters he painted were delinquent women. If they couldn't see it, why would they criticize people? It's better to just directly
Go home and hold the baby!
"Criticize if you want, scold if you want to scold" Fang Yi said with a slight smile: "I borrowed a sentence from Mr. Jin's book: Let him be strong and let him be strong, and the gentle breeze will caress the mountain! I will treat it as this mountain!".
"That's right! But there's no need to pay attention to these people! Many people write soft articles for a small amount of money," Zheng Xiaopeng said: "Whether they comment or not, just turn a deaf ear!".
The two chatted for a few words and then walked out from the corner.
Fang Yi waited for his parents, sister, father, and aunt Liu Tingzhi. He greeted them and showed them around the paintings, and then explained the ideas for the creation of some works with his family. But it was Fang Yi who explained that his family
People can only tell what they look like. A typical example is Fang Yi's mother Yu Qin, who kept nodding her head after seeing every picture of her son.
"The painting is great! It's so similar! The girls are so pretty too," Yu Qin said while looking at "The Nightingale" and nodded. After speaking, she turned to her son and whispered: "Look for it as soon as you look for it.
So many girls naked?”.
After listening to his mother's words, Fang Yi almost had a few black lines on his forehead: "It's such an ugly thing to say! She is a model, don't say anything about being naked!".
"Model, model!" Yu Qin nodded and repeated twice, then looked at the painting and whispered: "You don't even wear clothes when you dance! If it's the turn of the 1980s when the crackdown comes, everyone will be shot!".
The aunt next to her, Liu Tingzhi, heard this and said, "What are you talking about? Xiaoyi will be in danger by then!"
"It's none of our Xiaoyi's business, he didn't jump up naked." Yu Qin stopped talking about her son being shot.
After hearing this, Fang Yi said directly to his father Fang Guohua and his brother-in-law Chu Suiliang: "Dad, brother-in-law! You can take my mother and aunt and continue walking around. Don't let them talk nonsense. It's not good for others to hear you!". Looking at his father and brother-in-law, he said:
Chu Suiliang smiled and nodded, and Fang Yi left his family.
After saying hello to some people, Fang Yi felt his cell phone ringing in his pocket. He took it out and saw that it was from Xu Hang, another senior brother of his in Beijing. He walked out of the exhibition hall and walked into the aisle.
Called back again.
"Senior Brother Xu! Why didn't you come to this art exhibition? I wanted to take you to have a good time," Fang Yi said with a smile as he listened to the call from the other end of the power station.
Xu Hang smiled on the other end and said: "I don't have enough weight to go on behalf of my father! Only Senior Brother Yan can go! How about the art exhibition?".
"Today is the first day. Anyway, I have a lot of tricks!" Fang Yi replied with a smile after hearing this.
After hearing this, Xu Hang said: "Of course!" After speaking, he changed the topic and said: "I heard that you want to sell Gregory's paintings?".
"Yes!" Fang Yi opened his mouth and said: "I'm going to see what the market price is in two months. I'll sell it to calculate the living expenses for studying abroad!".
Xu Hang opened his mouth and asked, "Are you sure it's authentic?"
"Of course! You can't be wrong!" Fang Yi opened his mouth and said. Can he still miss the original work?
"You can't sell this painting at a good price just because you say it will! If you are planning to sell it, I suggest you go to the autumn auction! Send it to the auction house now!"
"Send it to auction?" Fang Yi only plans to sell one piece. It's still early and he hasn't thought about how to sell it.
Xu Hang said on the other end: "Of course it has to be auctioned! If this painting were not sold in China, how much would it fetch? Now these rich idiots are just like the rich people in our country, desperately chasing after things from their own country.
! Just like chasing animal heads in China, a
Easter eggs can reach sky-high prices! The painting in your hand can only be sold for this price. How many people in the country are willing to pay for it! Now that it is being auctioned, the auction company must be given more time to publicize! To attract Russian tycoons or commission or
It’s only right to bid on site!”.
"Thank you, senior brother. I'll go to a big photography studio in a few days." When Fang Yi heard this, he said thank you.
Xu Hang listened and smiled and said: "It's okay! But your future little life in Paris must be too comfortable! As the old saying goes, if you have a hundred thousand dollars in your pocket, you can ride a crane to Yangzhou! You have a hundred thousand dollars in your pocket?
Ten thousand dollars. Take a flight to Paris! People all over the world now say that we Chinese are rich, and that’s the impression people like you leave on others!" As he spoke, Xu Hang joked about his junior brother on the phone.
Come.
Fang Yi smiled and said: "If you have money, why should you be in trouble with yourself?".
"Okay! Go and do your work! I just heard that Senior Brother Daqi said this yesterday, so I called you to remind you that it is much more expensive to leave it to the auction house than to find someone to buy it. It saves worry and effort." Xu Hang said
Said the other end of the phone.
The two junior brothers chatted for a while and then hung up the phone.
In the afternoon, his uncle Fang Guozhong arrived at the exhibition hall. Fang Yi took his uncle around for thirty minutes. Fang Guozhong then took the car back.
The entire art exhibition lasted for a month and a half. Fang Yi followed the teacher to three or four cities, and this was the official ending.
It's a little better in Shicheng, which is considered Liu Hongshuo's home base, and most of the art critics have praised it.
"Stone City Art" commented: "The joint exhibition between Liu Hongshuo and his disciple Fang Yi is of a very high standard. Regarding Fang Yi's evaluation, the author believes that the young are better than the old. If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes! I really couldn't believe a twenty-year-old.
A child in his early teens can handle the details of the picture so well! The characters are so
Beautiful and handsome. Mr. Liu Hongshuo's paintings are as solemn, rigorous and dignified as ever! Fang Yi's painting style seems not to have been influenced by many teachers. The pictures are more beautiful and soft. The brushstrokes are brighter and the colors are bolder and brighter!
It is foreseeable that there will be another master figure in the Shicheng painting circle in the future!".
Mingzhu's "Contemporary Art" commented: "Fang Yi's painting skills are superb. It is surprising for a person of his age! Some of the contents of the paintings are still open to discussion, such as placing a fallen woman under a sacred arch.
This is a very inappropriate thing. But he is still young and has plenty of time to experience his artistic life!".
"Avant-garde Art" in Beijing: "The author does not deny Fang Yi's technique, but art is not just about your technique, but also focuses on reflecting the artist's own intuitive feelings and thinking about people and society! Looking at the entire exhibition, Fang Yi's
The painting is full of so-called softness and beauty! In the author’s opinion, it is no different from artificiality.
Young people may think that they are Raphael! But they forget that they can never be Raphael. Beauty is not something you can play with anymore. Study classicism with your teacher honestly! Don’t be immovable.
I want to impress the public by tearing up textbooks and drawing a naked woman who has stumbled! A down-to-earth attitude is the most important!"
Lingang's "Art Times": "Techniques are not the foundation. This young man under the protection of the teacher has not understood this at all! The author feels that this child does not understand what painting is at all! Let alone art!"
In the work "Nightingale", the thin gauze covering the woman's body is hung with thick lines.
, or long oval points, the author can see that this indicates the physiological organs of both sexes! And this painting is also full of praise for these delinquent women! I don’t know why this young man would praise and sympathize with these people, and
Beautify them. Maybe this young man likes this tone...".
After the whole exhibition, some well-known art magazines immediately divided into two groups. Even in one magazine, there would be two completely different evaluations. One was to praise Fang Yi's paintings, and the other was to say that Fang Yi's paintings were worthless.
It was quite lively with everyone coming and going, and there were definitely far more scoldings than praises. Except for the Shicheng critics who were very supportive, and the Mingzhu critics who were half neutral and half disdainful, the other places were far more ridiculed than praised!
After passing this incident, Fang Yicai had an intuitive understanding of how many people his teacher had offended. It can be described as being surrounded by enemies on all sides. He also had works for him, especially "July 10" and "Nightingale".
》There are not four-fifths but three-fifths of the people in the country who lash out at me!
However, these people are all so-called critics. Some artists have indeed given great and positive recognition to Fang Yi's works! For example, Xu Shize from Beijing, Huang Qibai, Huang Qisong and other master-level figures.
Some people may be doing it out of their own heart, but a large part of those who scolded Fang Yi did not think so. Without exception, these people were criticized by Liu Hongshuo. For example, the magazine "Avant-garde Art" was criticized by Liu Hongshuo.
What it is, is a piece of rotten stuff!
Now that Liu Hongshuo, an old man, has jumped out with his disciples, and he is so vindictive for revenge, some people who were unhappy with the old man in the past also took this opportunity to mock both Fang Yi and find a balance with the younger ones.
From the beginning to the end of the exhibition, the trend has not passed, and this time Liu Hongshuo exceeded everyone's expectations. He did not follow his original temper and jumped out to yell at a group of people, but remained calm uncharacteristically. From the beginning
At that time, there was no sound in art publications or magazines.
The people who objected worked even harder to bully Fang Yi, a newcomer in the painting world, and in the end the matter became more and more lively!
Opposition is objection, the word Fang Yi has indeed been officially known and familiar to people. Regardless of whether it is a good name or a bad name, Fang Yi is so famous! Fang Yi's name has been used from time to time within two months.
It appeared in various art magazines. It was either criticized or ridiculed!
As a disciple of Liu Hongshuo, Fang Yi's reputation for this exhibition, whether good or bad, was very loud! Far beyond the expectations of people like Fang Yi and Jin Peng.
Fang Yi, a disciple of Liu Hongshuo, is a name that probably all the students at the Academy of Fine Arts know about.