Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 892 Salon
After seeing Liang En's oil painting, Marie Antoinette immediately decided to open a salon in three days and gather some artists to appreciate the painting.

According to her, the core of a famous art work is the quality of the work, but publicity is also very important, so she hopes to prove Liang En's oil painting level in this way.

What Liang En has to do is to participate in this salon when the time comes, and at the same time, he may need to perform an impromptu creation on the spot to show his artistic thinking and artistic level.

This is very common in salons of artists, for whom they tend to be sensual, and inspiration is very important to them.

Therefore, they often have a variety of creative supplies in this kind of gathering, so that everyone can express their inspiration and communicate with other people present.

Of course, this is also a practice with some history. Nowadays, there are more rich people and some poor artists in the salon, which basically becomes a place for art trading or socializing.

It's just that Mary's gallery has always positioned itself as the most high-end art gathering place, so it adopts this ancient practice.

When the salon was held three days later, Liang En keenly discovered that it was indeed a pure gathering of artists. At least through communicating with the participants, he realized that the participants here were all real artists.

The situation at the party was just as Mary imagined before. The sunflower that appeared as the finale caught the attention of everyone in the audience as soon as it was released. Everyone stood up from their seats and walked to the edge of the oil painting to observe.

As the people watching and observing the scene became more and more surprised, they thought it was an imitation drawn by some ignorant rookie at first.

After all, as a pure art salon, although the smell of copper is eliminated here, it does not mean that this is a high-cold party that only talks about art.

As long as people have the need to communicate, even the salon itself has a communicative nature, and Mary, who understands this very well, naturally makes this salon more suitable for everyone to communicate.

So under normal circumstances, some recommendation work will also be carried out in this salon. For example, the works of some newcomers will be brought here, and then they will become famous through the mouths of other people.

Of course, the premise of doing this is that those works do have merits, otherwise other artists would not blindly praise their own brands with their eyes closed.

So when they saw the sunflower for the first time, others thought it was just a young man who wanted to make a name for himself by imitating the works of those famous artists, and left some bad impressions.

Because ordinary people must use their own creations if they want to become famous on such occasions. After all, ordinary people are too far behind those masters. This kind of imitation works obviously has a feeling of being out of class.

But with in-depth observation, everyone was shocked, because apart from the fact that the painting was a bit new and excessive, they could see at first glance that the style of this painting was almost the same as those of the existing Van Gogh works. the difference.

Unlike most painters, Van Gogh hardly sold many oil paintings in his life, so his works are preserved in a few places.In other words, you only need to go to a few museums to see his works.

And these artists who can be invited by Mary are above average, so basically all of them have seen Van Gogh's works, and there are even admirers who have studied each of Van Gogh's works.

So in this case, when they started to study the work seriously, they quickly realized that this work was completely different from the imitations they had seen before.

To be honest, there are too many imitations of Van Gogh's works. For example, there are official imitations sold by commercial painters in front of the Van Gogh Museum in the Netherlands.

At first glance, these works are actually not very different from the original version, but if you look closely, you will find that there is a big difference in feeling between the two.

But Liang En's painting of sunflowers was completely different. Several people even pasted it on the painting from far to near, but they still couldn't see the difference between this painting and the original one.

"It's unbelievable——" A famous classical painter who can sell more than 2 euros for an oil painting now held a magnifying glass and looked at the oil paint on the canvas with a look of shock.

"If it didn't look so new, and some modern dyes are used today, I would even think that this painting was painted by Van Gogh himself."

"That's right—" another art critic said with the same shock. "This is not an imitation, because a pure imitation cannot achieve this situation at all. Only a painter who really understands Van Gogh can do this."

The appearance of this painting shocked everyone so much that when Mary introduced Liang En to everyone, most of them showed expressions of disbelief.

Because in their opinion, the person who can create such a work should be an experienced senior, not a young man like Liang En.

"I'm an archaeologist, a historian, and an art lover." Looking at everyone's questioning eyes, Liang En simply explained.

"And I also have some talent in oil painting, so I successfully imitated some styles of this great painter after synthesizing the research on Van Gogh."

"No—not just some, I can definitely tell you that in my more than 20 years of research, I have never seen a work so close to Van Gogh." The oldest art critic said.

As a well-known French art critic and a special writer for several important art magazines, this old man is also an avid Van Gogh fan, so it is absolutely impossible to admit mistakes in this respect.

"Although I don't know how you did it, what I can confirm is that since Van Gogh's death, many people have imitated his works, but no one can do what you do."

"Maybe it's because I'm not a pure artist." Faced with such a question, Liang En raised his head and thought for a few seconds before answering.

"Everyone should think about Van Gogh's works from a purely artistic point of view, but I have studied Van Gogh's life from the perspective of historical research and had an emotional resonance with him, and I think this may be what I can do. s reason."

This is obviously not very logically logical, but no one can offer other opinions on Liang En's statement, because sometimes art is completely unreasonable.

To give a simple example, many art masters may not have received much formal education, but the works they finally create will lead a trend.

"What you said is very possible, because none of us have considered issues from this perspective before." Although Liang En just said it casually, the art critic in front of him really thought about it.

Because Liang En showed his own work to prove his level, and when all the normal things couldn't be explained, his somewhat absurd explanation seemed the most reasonable.

(End of this chapter)