Chapter 327 "Returning Hometown"
"I realize you are really thoughtful." When Liu Yushu saw Zhou Zhi treating her husband like this, her words became intimate and casual.
"Where are you, Auntie?" Zhou Zhi said with a smile: "The harder Uncle Fei works, the more Auntie will keep. This is called 'the husband and wife work together, and they can cut through the metal'."
< br> "Thirty pieces of porcelain is not a small amount." Liu Yushu asked her husband, who is an art manager, and he is half an expert in daily transfers and transactions, at least in terms of price.
“It’s not much bigger. Didn’t you hear what Uncle Fei said? When I bought porcelain from the third generation of the Qing Dynasty a few years ago, this was just an added bonus.”
"This time I brought beautiful ones such as plum green, shadow green, doucai, and pastel. I hope I can exchange them for a better price."
Nowadays, let alone the differences between urban and rural areas, even the differences between cities are very big. , in Jiachuan, there are still many families with an income of one hundred yuan a month, but in Shudu, the situation is very different.
So Zhou Zhi spent 20 yuan in Jiachuan to buy a Xuantong imitation Qianlong doucai ink-pad box. He was afraid that his mother would slap him on the face, but if he wanted to put it in the capital of Shu, it would take a month. Salary, two to three hundred yuan to buy a man who is happy, it is not a big deal.
These have a lot to do with consumption levels, consumption levels and consumption habits.
“The contact has been made, let’s see the newspaper together tomorrow!” Manager Fei came back happily: “The advertisement will still be run for three days, and the face of Lao Qin from the advertising department of the Commercial Daily must still be given.”
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After saying that, he looked at Zhou Zhi eagerly: "I have done everything I can for you. Now it's up to you, my aunt, to take care of my uncle."
"How I will take care of my uncle, that depends on my aunt." Zhou Zhi continued to tease.
“I’m still saying the same thing, for elbows, buy them with less money; for Lao Fei, give the best discount for elbows. Leave as much as you can for the sales department, that’s all.” Liu Yushu was also very happy. atmosphere.
"We have a famous painter named Jiang Zhaohe in Manzhou. Do you have any of his works?" The godfather had not spoken much before, but now he suddenly asked.
"Oh, that's right! These are all of you from Manzhou!" Fei Guan slapped his thigh and stood up: "Really reminded me, I remember a few big paintings. Wait a minute. Wait..."
"Godfather, who is Jiang Zhaohe?"
"You don't know the name, but you must know one thing." Godfather said: ""Refugee Picture", do you know?"
"This is very familiar. Zheng Xia painted the trigger that led to Wang Anshi's downfall after being sent to the palace through illegal channels."
"In addition to the "Picture of Refugees", there is another one. "The godfather said Said: "From 1941 to 1943, Jiang Zhaohe, a painter from Manzhou, spent two years using a piece of rubble as the background to depict a scroll that was two meters high and 27 meters wide. More than a hundred images of refugees who suffered from the disaster of war.”
The age, scroll, subject matter, background, and duration need not be mentioned by Godfather. Zhou Zhi can already imagine the artist’s sorrow and pain at the time of creation. Sad and angry.
"During the creative process, Jiang Zhaohe invited many friends and students to be models. It is said that there are two women hugging and crying in the painting, who are the painter's students. The donkey in the painting was also borrowed from the street and pulled to Painting in the studio. "Shanghai had been occupied at that time, in order to prevent enemy interference. , Mr. Jiang always paints part of the picture and immediately hides the other part. No one knows what he is creating.
“In order to avoid detection, the name of "Refugee Pictures" was specially changed when the exhibition was held. "Group Portrait" caused a sensation on the day it was launched, attracting a large number of viewers and having a great impact. It was immediately attacked by the Japanese military police, and then received a ban, never to be exhibited. "
"But the picture scroll has been photographed by the reporters who arrived at the first time, and then made into photos and albums, which were distributed across the country. It has become a depiction of the tragic situation of the displaced people during the war and a record of the invasion. The true record and great propaganda of the serious disasters brought by the terrorists to the Chinese nation have further inspired the patriotic enthusiasm of those who share the same hatred with the enemy. "
"I remembered. "Zhou Zhi nodded: "Last year's "Chinese Art" color pictorial included a painting called "Returning Home." At that time, I thought it was painted by a modern painter, because it contained Western anatomy, perspective, block surface and other realistic techniques, which were more traditional than traditional ones. The Shanghai School also wants the works of the Shanghai School. ”
"Later I found out that it was created by an old painter in 1945. At that time, I was still thinking that this painter was quite a 'pioneer', but I actually forgot his name. It was Jiang Zhao and Mr. Jiang. It turned out that they were our fellow villagers!"
Although it was a picture album, the painting "Returning Home" also shocked Zhou Zhi greatly at the time.
The painter brought Western perspective techniques into Chinese painting, which greatly enriched the expressive power of Chinese painting characters. It not only depicts the external image of the characters, but also pays attention to the delicate exploration of the desolate inner feelings of the grandfather and grandson, creating an atmosphere of sadness and helplessness, venting the author's sympathy and grief, and using strong artistic appeal to convey Zhou Zhi's perspective. The reader was suddenly pulled into that era of poverty and weakness, and the people were miserable and displaced.
"It's a pity that "Refugee Pictures" was forcibly borrowed after it was exhibited in Shanghai for a short period of time, and there was no news from it. It wasn't until 1953 that a painter from the Shanghai Artists Association came from a basement This painting "Refugees" was found in the garbage dump of "There was only half of the picture left, which was still damaged and moldy."
"So it was reframed and given to Jiang Zhaohe's widow Xiao Qiong for collection. It was not until 1988 that Ms. Xiao Qiong donated it to China. Museum collection.”
"Come on, come on." Fei Guan came back with two scrolls of paintings between his hands, and a few more pairs of white gloves on his hands.
Everyone cleared out the large nanmu table in the exhibition hall and then unfolded the scroll.
Zhou Zhi was stunned when he saw it: ""Returning Home" is actually stored in Gongmei?"
"I found that your knowledge system is really fragmented." Fei Guan Some are speechless: "I know "Returning Home", but I don't know "Refugee Pictures", and I don't know how to write it. The author is Jiang Zhaohe, and I don’t even know that "Returning Home" is in Gongmei."
"Every line is like a mountain. Looking at my knowledge system from the perspective of art, it is indeed the case. I accept criticism and accept criticism..." Zhou Zhi murmured. He muttered to himself while staring straight at the two scrolls in front of him.
Both scrolls are 1.8 meters by 1 meter. One is "Returning Hometown" which Zhou Zhi is already familiar with, and the other is "Second Brother Leaving Sichuan" which Zhou Zhi has never seen before.
Fei Guanzhi saw that Zhouzhi was entranced and started to introduce directly: "According to statistics, after the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, more than 42 million working people were forced to flee their homes to avoid the war. After the victory, three thousand The refugees in the rear areas are eager to return to their homeland and rebuild their homes.”
“Tens of millions of refugees have returned to their homeland from west to east, forming an unprecedented mass movement in our country’s modern history. The Great Migration. With food, medicine, and transportation all in short supply, they moved forward slowly, fearing for their lives, hoping to return to their hometowns and reunite with their separated relatives. They lived in poverty and poverty. , the pain did not end with the end of the war, but continued to exert a destructive influence."
(End of this chapter)