Chapter 460 The immortal masterpiece 'Map of Refugees'
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Chapter 460: The Immortal Masterpiece "Refugee Picture"
... There were two locks on the camphor wood box, but this was no hindrance to Liu Dong. He took out the frost tiger knife given to him by the cheap master and clicked it twice, and the lock fell with a sound. Liu Dong couldn't wait to wait.
After opening the box, he was very excited by the contents inside.⊙
"Sure enough, it is Jiang Zhaohe's immortal masterpiece "Pictures of Refugees"!" Liu Dong couldn't help but feel excited after opening several rolls of paper wrapped in oil paper.
Jiang Zhaohe is one of the most revolutionary artists since the May 4th Movement. He is a famous modern Chinese painter and art educator and a professor at the Central Academy of Fine Arts. He is an important figure in Xu Beihong's realism painting system. He is known as a modern Chinese ink painting figure in the 20th century.
He is a master of painting and a leading art master in modern Chinese painting circles. He is known as the "Surikov of the East" and the "Rembrandt of the East".
And his representative work "Refugee Picture", which combines both Chinese and Western knowledge, is unprecedentedly grand and tragic, and reveals the master's true and good human nature with powerful strokes, pouring out his anger against the war and expressing his love for justice and peace.
Calling for modern Chinese ink painting to establish a glorious position in the world art world.
Today, "Refugee Picture" is called a great picture of patriotic realism, and together with Picasso's "Cornica" and Maruki Mori and Maruki Shun's "Atomic Bomb Picture", it is also known as the anti-war love for the people during World War II.
Three classics!
"Sure enough, it's only half a roll!" Liu Dong thought to himself after taking out pieces of rice paper nearly one meter long and 80 centimeters wide from the wooden box and arranging them.
"Refugee Picture" has been troubled since its exhibition. On October 29, 1943, "Refugee Picture" was renamed "Group Portrait Picture" and was exhibited at the Imperial Ancestral Temple in Beijing. On the same day, it was inspected by the Japanese military police and banned from exhibition.
, the work was torn off the easel.
In 1944, Jiang Zhaohe tried every means to bring "Refugee Pictures" to Shanghai for exhibition. After the exhibition, the work was forcibly "borrowed" and its whereabouts are unknown.
It was not until 1953 when people were cleaning up an old warehouse that they discovered the first half of the "Refugee Pictures" that was in a state of mildew and incomplete. After it was finally repaired, it was criticized as a traitor during the "Cultural Revolution".
Traitor literature and art.
It was not until 1998 that the first half of "Refugee Picture", which is 2 meters high and 12 meters long, and is known as "a historical picture of realism in the history of modern Chinese painting", settled in the National Art Museum of China and stabilized.
However, the whereabouts of the second half of "Refugee Pictures" have been unknown. There has been no news for decades. Unexpectedly, it was hidden in the attic of this small villa. And by chance, it fell into Liu Dong's hands.
"This is really great luck!" Liu Dong said in surprise.
Although, due to the time of creation, "Refugee Picture" is not among the top ten famous paintings handed down from China. However, its preciousness is no less than any of them, and it is also an undisputed national treasure. Even if Liu Dong only has
The second half of the volume is the same as the 'Wuyongshi Volume' and 'The Remaining Mountain Picture' of "Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains". Even if it is only half of it, it is still a priceless treasure!
Moreover, the lower half of the volume in Liu Dong's hands is much more complete than the upper half of the volume in the National Art Museum of China. Although like all ancient paintings, it is also stained by insects and sweat, at least there is no obvious damage.
Due to the environment, Liu Dong did not open all the scrolls, but after admiring three of them, he put away the "Refugee Picture" with great care and planned to find the best framer to re-frame it.
Framing, but that’s definitely a thing for the future!
As for the surrounding cardboard boxes filled with sketches and color studies, there were so many that Liu Dong didn’t have the time to pick out the works he liked one by one and collect them, so he directly sent all the cardboard boxes to Mustard Seed Space.
I plan to talk about it later.
After finishing all this, Liu Dong took one last look at the attic, which was not too narrow, and made a plan to transform it into a studio in the future. Moreover, the two windows on the south side of the attic can also provide enough lighting, and the other seven windows can also provide enough lighting.
An area of more than ten square meters is large enough.
"It's just that it's a little inconvenient to go up and down!" Liu Dong thought to himself after putting away the ladder.
"Forget it, let's talk about it later, go home now!"
…
Early the next morning, after Liu Dong finished practicing, he drove to the largest department store in Quancheng, then pulled a cart full of sheets and quilts, as well as pots and pans and other daily necessities, and moved them into the villa! Then he worked for more than an hour
, it was not finished until noon.
Then, Liu Dong didn't bother to eat and drove straight to Xizhai.
Fortunately, the door was open when he arrived, otherwise Liu Dong would not have been able to get in.
"Huh?" Liu Dong frowned. As soon as he walked into the door, he clearly heard the quarrel upstairs.
"Qing Qing, please step aside. We are here to ask your mother for money. Since she has been discharged from the hospital, she should pay us back?"
"That's right, we agreed at the beginning that we would repay the money within a year. How long has it been going on?"
"Qing Qing, I know it's not easy for you mother and daughter, but we are not a rich family. Your second aunt's family also has an elder and a younger one!"
…
As soon as Liu Dong walked up to the second floor, he saw at a glance ** middle-aged men and women, gathered around the door of Yan Qingqing's house and chatting. The voices basically sounded like they were asking for money.
The wide corridor was blocked with water.
When Liu Dong came closer, through the gap, he saw at a glance that he was holding the door handle with his small hands. His beautiful face was stained with tears, full of grievances, and his eyes were filled with stubbornness.
Yan Qingqing was stubborn and was pushed around by people around her, but she firmly blocked the door and prevented anyone from entering.
Liu Dong knew very well why she blocked the door, because she knew that her mother's current physical condition could not bear such a great stimulation.
Seeing his woman being wronged like this, Liu Dong was naturally very distressed!
"Shut up, everyone!"
Liu Dong suddenly shouted loudly, like thunder rolling across the sky. It suppressed all the noise. It also shocked relatives and friends like Yan Qingqing!
"Liu Dong!!" Seeing the familiar figure parting from the crowd and walking in, Yan Qingqing let out a 'whimper' and threw herself into her lover's arms like a swallow in the forest, and started crying.
"Who are you? What are you doing here?" The speaker was a middle-aged man in his early thirties. Looking at Yan Qingqing crying in Liu Dong's arms, the jealous look on his face could be seen by a blind person. It was obvious.
, this is another suitor of Yan Qingqing. Although he is a bit older.
"I'm her boyfriend. Naturally, I came here to pick her up and take her to my house!"
Liu Dong's words surprised the people around him. It was obvious that the answer was beyond their expectations. And judging from Yan Qingqing's acquiescence, it was obvious that this tall and imposing young man was not telling lies.
"Since you are Qingqing's boyfriend, then you will pay us back for her!" A middle-aged woman wearing a dark red top said quickly.
She is Yan Qingqing's second aunt. When she heard that her sister was discharged from the hospital, she was the first one to come over and ask for the account. She was afraid that after her sister passed away, her money would not be returned. But what she didn't expect was that the first person who got the news was not
Not just herself.
"It's no problem to pay you back. First bring me the IOU!" Liu Dong said calmly.
"Liu Dong...!"
Seeing Yan Qingqing hesitate to speak, Liu Dong smiled and patted her back, "It's okay, it's only tens of thousands of yuan!"
"Tens of thousands of dollars? Can you get tens of thousands of dollars?" At this time, the middle-aged man who looked jealous just now said sarcastically.
Hearing his words, the faces of the people around him also showed doubts. They are all ordinary people struggling at the bottom of society who are busy working all day long for three meals a day. Twenty to thirty thousand yuan is basically the family's annual income!
Seeing them like this, Liu Dong didn't even explain.
His left and right hands were put into his trouser pockets respectively. When he took his hands out, three piles in one hand, totaling 60,000 yuan, appeared in Liu Dong's hands! Of course, these money were all Liu Dong's pocket money stored in the mustard space.
"Sixty thousand is enough. If it's not enough, I still have some in my car!"
Liu Dong's arrogant performance immediately stunned everyone present. It was the first time for most of them to see what 60,000 yuan looked like together. The heart-pounding color and thickness immediately softened the mood of everyone present.
manner.
The woman who initially called herself Yan Qingqing's second aunt was the first to take out her IOU, "This is the IOU, look at it!"
"laugh……!"
After taking it over and taking a look, Liu Dong tore the IOU into pieces, then tore open a bunch of money, counted two thousand from it and handed it over, "Count it!"
"Hey!" The middle-aged woman took the money from Liu Dong's hand with a smile on her face, then dipped some saliva in her mouth and counted them carefully one by one.
"This is my IOU!"
“And mine!”…
At this time, when they saw the middle-aged woman getting the money, the others could not bear it and took out the IOUs from their pockets and handed them over, even the middle-aged people who were jealous just now were no exception.
However, Liu Dong obviously overestimated them. There were nine people in total, and the total amount of all the IOUs in his hands was only fifteen thousand yuan!
"Qing Qing, you have found a good man. Don't forget to treat your second aunt to a wedding banquet when you get married!" After getting the money, the middle-aged woman who claimed to be her second aunt immediately changed her attitude. The flattering look on her face made Liu
Dongya couldn't help but lament the harshness of the world!
"Okay, I've paid off all the money I owe you, and you can go!" Liu Dong didn't have any good impressions of so-called relatives and friends like Yan Qingqing who made things worse.
After listening to Liu Dong's words, the nine people who were suppressed by his wealthy aura wanted to say something to save the awkward atmosphere just now. However, facing the stern-looking Liu Dong and Yan Qingqing who didn't even look at them, they had no choice but to say something.
After smiling sarcastically, he went downstairs and left dejectedly. (My novel "Baotong" will have more fresh content on the official WeChat platform, and there will also be a 100% lucky draw gift for everyone! Start it now
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