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Chapter 483: Father and son reveal the painting
...After watching Zhang Zhongjun leave, Liu Dong breathed a sigh of relief and turned around and said, "Uncle Ma, do you and this boss Zhang know my father?"
"You don't know?" Ma Zhengfang said in surprise.
"What do you know?" Liu Dong was confused by this question.
"What's the matter with your father?" Seeing Liu Dong still looking confused, Ma Zhengfang said simply, "Your father, Master Liu Jianqing, is a famous landscape master in Qingzhou, and he is also an expert in calligraphy and painting. Now his calligraphy and painting
The price per square foot has reached 80,000!... What all the galleries in Qingzhou want most is to sign your father into their employ! That old Zhang was the gallery owner just now!"
Hearing this, Liu Dong understood a lot. However, although his father was indeed good at landscapes and had powerful calligraphy skills, Liu Dong never knew that his father was so famous in the world of calligraphy and painting!
Seeing Liu Dong's surprised look, Ma Zhengfang said in surprise: "Don't you know anything about your father?"
"My dad is good at Chinese painting and calligraphy, I know that. People in our family used to often go to my dad to ask for paintings and calligraphy, but when did my dad become so famous?" Liu Dong said in surprise.
"Actually, your father has been very famous in our Qingzhou calligraphy and painting circles for a long time. However, your father is a bit old-fashioned. Except for friends and colleagues who come to ask for paintings and calligraphy, he does not sell out at all. Because there are few works and there is no communication.
.The reputation is limited, so the value of calligraphy and painting is not high. It was not until three years ago, three and a half years ago to be precise, that calligraphy and painting works began to be exposed to the market. Because the quality of the works was very high, the prices increased very quickly!... Could it be that these
Don’t you even know?”
Hearing this, Liu Dong shook his head with a complicated expression.
From Ma Zhengfang's narration just now, Liu Dong can roughly guess that it must be that he dropped out of school to work three years ago, which gave his father such a stimulus that he broke the principles he had adhered to for many years and began to choose
Selling paintings makes money. But from the fact that the home decoration remains unchanged, it can be seen that the father and mother have never been willing to spend the money earned from selling paintings, so they have saved it all.
Liu Dong didn't need to guess the purpose of saving. It was for him and his sister to buy a house, get married, or even have children in the future.
Farewell to Ma Zhengfang and Chang Fangtao's uncle and nephew. Liu Dong walked out of the calligraphy and painting city with a heavy heart. Even after learning from Ma Zhengfang that his mother's oil paintings were also popular in the market and were no less valuable than his father,
Liu Dong still can't let go! If possible, Liu Dong hopes that his parents can enjoy the joy of creating calligraphy and painting instead of using it to support the family!
What's more, now that his parents have passed the age of knowing their destiny, and they have reached old age in life, he, the son, should be the one to provide for his parents in their old age, instead of continuing to make them worry about him!
On the way, after buying the painting paper his father needed and the paints and canvases his mother wanted from the store next to the Painting and Calligraphy City, Liu Dong drove all the way home.
After returning home, Liu Dong did not mention what happened in the Painting and Calligraphy City, because after spending the past few days with his parents at home, he clearly felt that he dropped out of school to work three years ago because he did not want to increase the burden on his family.
It has always been a hurdle in the hearts of parents. Therefore, compared to verbal persuasion, Liu Dong is more willing to use practical actions to prove that their son has grown up, is able to support himself, and is living a good life!
Now, it’s time for their son to provide for them in their old age!
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"Dad, this is the paper you want! Mom, this is the paint and canvas you want!" He carried the things from the car into the house, and then helped his parents pack them one by one and put them away in the study.
"Xiaodong, don't buy so much next time. Your dad won't be able to use up this much paper in two years! And these paints will dry out and crack over time!" Song Xiangmei kept nagging.
"It's okay, Mom! I bought some more rights as a backup! By the way, Dad! When I went to the city this time, I even bought a good painting!"
"Oh, really?" Upon hearing his son's words, Liu Jianqing suddenly became interested.
Seriously speaking, the study room in Liu Dong's house has the most furniture. In addition to the desk by the window and the piano in the corner, there is also the big red desk that his father often uses for painting, his mother's easel, and two large
A bookshelf full of books!
After Liu Dong took out Fu Baoshi's "Sky Boat" and placed it on the desk where his father usually used to draw, Liu Jianqing and Song Xiangmei surrounded him at the same time.
"This is Mr. Boulder's "Sleeping in a Boat"!" After Liu Jianqing finished speaking in an excited tone, he immediately frowned and sighed after a long time!
"What's the matter, Lao Liu! Haven't you always liked Mr. Bouldering's paintings?" Looking at her husband's expression, Song Xiangmei said in surprise.
"Of course I like Mr. Bouldering's original work, but I didn't know before that it was that bastard who ruined this excellent work by Mr. Bouldering!" Liu Jianqing said angrily.
As both a calligrapher and painter, Liu Dong understands his father's love and protection of the original works of his predecessors. Perhaps it was also to prevent his own paintings from encountering such a vicious attack, so his father had always insisted not to sell the paintings! Of course, these are only Liu Dong's own.
Guess, but he didn't know exactly what it was! Moreover, there were too many unanswered questions about his parents, which confused him!
"Destroyed? Isn't this great?" Song Xiangmei studied oil painting, and although she also had some understanding of Chinese painting, she was not good enough to recognize that this was a revelation painting.
Moreover, this unveiling did not reveal six or seven sheets, because the original painting paper of this painting was not multi-layered with propaganda, but double-layered with propaganda. Only two layers were revealed. If you can find another layer, you can
Make this painting whole again!
"Mom, this is a revealing picture!"
As soon as Liu Dong said this, Song Xiangmei immediately understood what was going on!
"Dad, I have learned a lot of methods of appraising calligraphy and paintings in Quancheng in the past three years. This painting is not as simple as it seems!" After finishing speaking, Liu Dong took a cleaner bowl and poured some water into it.
Then use a clean brush, dip it in water, and wipe it little by little on the blank space in the upper right corner of the scroll. After Liu Dong finished wiping a piece as big as a child's fist, a trace of ink appeared from the bottom!
"Xiaodong, bring the tweezers and magnifying glass!" After asking Liu Dong to stop, Liu Jianqing quickly ordered with a serious expression and excited eyes.
At this time, even Song Xiangmei, who did not understand Chinese painting, knew that this painting was not simple!
After agreeing, Liu Dong quickly found tweezers and a magnifying glass, and then assisted his father in removing the two pillars of heaven and earth and the back cover of the painting, leaving only the core paper!
Then Liu Jianqing found the corners of the center of the painting. After completely soaking it with water, he looked at it with a magnifying glass, and then used tweezers to try to peel it off one by one. Unexpectedly, the center of the painting was less than one millimeter thick.
On paper, Liu Jianqing actually counted eight levels!
"Xiaodong, go get the watering can and fill it with clean water. Remember to keep it warm! Xiangmei, go get a towel. It must be a clean white towel!" Liu Jianqing continued to give instructions.
Liu Dong knew that his father knew how to frame. So after hearing the instructions, he immediately took all the things he needed.
After a while, my mother also brought a towel.
Next, Liu Jianqing began to spray the water from the watering can evenly on the drawing paper. In mounting, this process is called "muffled painting", which usually takes more than an hour, in order to be able to put the drawing paper and supporting paper together.
The 'pulp' between them is restored, so that the heart paper can be peeled off intact!
Of course, there must be some places between the drawing paper and the support paper that are firmly adhered, and some places that are easier to peel off. The function of the towel is to allow the pulp to be restored in these firmly adhered places for a longer time!
Of course, the longer you spray water to restore the painting, the better. At this time, you have to grasp a certain degree.
This time, Liu Jianqing spent a little more than an hour on the restoration, and basically took off the first painting intact! After taking off the first painting, the father and son worked together to turn it over as quickly as possible, level it, and remove the support.
paper; trim the center of the painting, and then put the center on the wall.
When I returned to the original painting, a piece of thicker drawing paper appeared. It was obviously a layer between the two paintings. It was to block the large-scale color bleeding of the second painting!
After Liu Jianqing carefully removed the drawing paper, an old and yellowed scroll about 150 centimeters long and 40 centimeters wide appeared in front of a family of three.
""Thousands of Peaks Competing with Snow"!" Looking at the four huge regular characters on the right side of the screen, Liu Dong couldn't help but read it out softly.
And Liu Jianqing couldn't help his curiosity long ago, and rushed to study it with a magnifying glass!
"This is the authentic work of Huang Gongwang!!" After a long time, Liu Jianqing straightened up and took two deep breaths, but he still couldn't help but said excitedly.
Huang Gongwang is the head of the "Four Yuan Schools" and a master of southern landscape painting. His handed down work "Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains" is one of China's top ten famous paintings handed down from generation to generation! I won't go into detail here about his life and achievements. I believe that almost everyone
Everyone in the country knows it!
"Old Liu, calm down! You are such a big man, why are you still acting like a child!" As a pillow person, although Song Xiangmei said this, she understood her husband's admiration for Dong Yuan, Ju Ran and Huang Gongwang best!
However, Liu Jianqing's excited look made Song Xiangmei instinctively worry about his health.
"Dad, from now on Huang Gongwang's original painting "Thousands of Peaks Racing with Snow" will be kept at home. You can take your time and look at it! Let's take it off and reframe it first!"
It's now eight o'clock in the evening. If you don't hurry up, you may not be finished until midnight. Liu Dong doesn't care, but his parents are old and can't stay up late with him.
Listening to his son's words, Liu Jianqing nodded, looking at the seal with "Huang Gongwang Seal" Zhu Wen Seal, "Yifeng Taoist" Zhu Wen Seal, "Huang Shi Zijiu" Bai Wen Seal, and the seal "Xiang Yuan Bian Seal",
"Xiang Molin Appreciation Medal", "An Yi Zhou Family Collection" and other authentic national treasures with 146 square seals were recovered. Cooperating with Liu Dong, the two of them carefully peeled off the national treasure scroll.
Then, after going through the steps of turning over, arranging, removing the support paper, trimming the center of the painting, and mounting the center on the wall, the father and son did not have time to wipe off the sweat, so they continued to press the center paper underneath!
After peeling off the second piece of drawing paper used to make each layer, what appeared surprised Liu Jianqing and Song Xiangmei who was helping on the side. (To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature, the novel will be better and updated faster!