Chapter 96: Painting
The two of them finished their meal and took a short rest before setting off.
Chen Feng drove, and the two of them chatted and laughed all the way to the Provincial Museum first.
There are several museums in Xiuzhou City, and the Provincial Museum is undoubtedly the largest.
It was almost 1:30 in the afternoon, and there were not many people visiting the museum.
Today is not a holiday, and the museum is basically open during the day except Mondays. The tourists are spread out, so the number of tourists is naturally not very large.
Chen Feng originally had some expectations for the cultural relics put on display in the museum, but after looking around, none of the cultural relics gave him a similar feeling to the "Lanting Preface".
Many of the exhibits here are marked as replicas, that is, imitations, but most of them should be genuine. Some are thousands of years old, but none of them gave Chen Feng that feeling.
Chen Feng was a little disappointed with this.
Originally, he was a little optimistic. He felt that a living artist like Master Wang Yi could create an "authentic" work like "Lanting Preface" and bring gratifying changes to his body and mind. So, what would happen in history? Awesome artists, the works of art they create should have the same effect.
But now it seems that Chen Feng's idea is wrong.
Because he didn't find what he wanted after walking around, Chen Feng was not in a good mood, so that he just glanced at the next few exhibits and lacked interest.
Wu Mengting, who was with him, noticed something strange about him and asked with concern: "What's wrong with you? Are you feeling unwell?"
Chen Feng quickly shook his head: "No. I just think these things look bad. It's not interesting. Let's go to the art gallery and look at it. There seems to be a painting by some great painter there today. Exhibition."
Wu Mengting originally wanted to continue browsing in the museum, but after hearing what Chen Feng said, she had no choice but to nod and agree: "Okay, last time we went there just saw the painting and calligraphy exhibition of Master Wang Yi. We haven’t looked carefully at the artworks collected in the museum itself.”
"Yes. Let's go and have a good look this time."
So, the two of them quickly left the Provincial Museum and drove to the Provincial Art Museum. The two of them had gone to the calligraphy and painting exhibition of Master Wang Yi last time.
In Chen Feng’s view, since the artworks collected by the Provincial Museum are ineffective, the same should be true for the collections of other museums in Xiuzhou City.
Remembering that "Lanting Preface" is a calligraphy painting, Chen Feng felt that instead of wasting time going to other museums, it would be better to go to the Provincial Art Museum.
The distance between the two sides is not very far, only four or five kilometers, and it takes about ten minutes to get there.
The Provincial Art Museum has many exhibition halls.
After the two of them entered, they began to walk around the exhibition halls one by one.
What made Chen Feng depressed was that he visited three exhibition halls in a row and could not find the paintings, calligraphy or other works of art he wanted.
Then there is no one in the fourth exhibition hall, and there is no one in the fifth exhibition hall.
When he arrived at the sixth exhibition hall, Chen Feng had given up all hope. It turned out that a painter's painting exhibition happened to be held here.
It should be the one Chen Feng found online.
Looking at the introduction on the sign at the door, the painter’s name is Song Yi. He is an oil painter. He is fifty-eight years old this year. He graduated from a prestigious domestic art school. He then studied in France and then traveled in Europe, accumulating a certain amount of experience. fame.
Once an oil painting was sold at a Zurich auction house for US$1.6 million.
This time, he came to the exhibition here and brought out a total of fifty-two paintings. It can be said that every one of them is his masterpiece.
After reading the introduction for a while, the two went in to visit.
Chen Feng didn't have much hope at first, but after looking at each painting, he suddenly stopped in front of a painting in shock.
This is a painting called "Autumn Sky". The colors are bright, one layer after another, mainly golden and dark blue. It paints the autumn sky very abstractly, like a Layers of whirlpools.
Under this swirling sky, there is a winding abstract river and a dark forest.
The painting is very abstract, even a little distorted.
So, it is certain that Song Yi should be an abstract painter.
Chen Feng stood like this for more than ten minutes. It was not until Wu Mengting pushed him that he recovered from his dazed state.
"What's wrong with you? You're so fascinated that you don't even respond when I call you." Wu Mengting looked at Chen Feng in confusion.
"I'm fascinated by it." Chen Feng said with a smile in a good mood, "I like this painting very much and want to buy it. I just don't know if it is expensive. If it costs millions of dollars, I will definitely buy it. I'm sorry."
"You want to buy it again?" Wu Mengting couldn't help but widen her eyes.
Chen Feng nodded affirmatively: "I will contact Director Huang now. Find the painter Song Yi."
Chen Feng was determined to get this "Autumn Sky". As long as the price was not too outrageous, he planned to buy it.
Just like the "Lanting Preface", he also felt that this painting should be of great collection value.
After buying it, as long as the price is not too outrageous, you should not lose money in the future.
Director Huang from the art museum exchanged contact information with Chen Feng last time.
Chen Feng left the exhibition hall and stood in the corridor to call. As soon as he told him, Director Huang immediately enthusiastically expressed his enthusiasm to contact Song Yi immediately.
A few minutes later, Director Huang personally brought Song Yi's person in charge, his manager, who turned out to be an old white man with a big nose.
Chen Feng's spoken English was average. After a brief exchange with the old white man, he found out that his name was Lehman and that he was the agent of the great painter Song Yi.
Then Chen Feng went straight to the point and asked about the price of the painting "Autumn Sky". The other party was unambiguous and directly quoted US$1.2 million.
Chen Feng was speechless when he heard the price. According to the current exchange rate, it costs more than 8 million in China.
This is too expensive!
Chen Feng shook his head three times: No! no! no!
Then, I awkwardly negotiated the price in English, up to 3 million RMB.
The other party also shook his head and said no! Then indicate a minimum of $1 million.
This is out of the question.
Wu Mengting was there to help negotiate the price in fluent English, but the effect was not great.
Seeing this, Chen Feng had no choice but to give up the purchase and said regretfully to him: "Your price is too expensive, I can't afford it."
Such sincere words left the other party speechless for a while.
"I'm sorry to trouble you. We can leave our contact information. If I have money in the future, or if you are willing to lower the price, we can contact each other."
The old foreign man saw this He had no choice but to exchange contact information with Chen Feng, and then left with a look of disappointment.
"Director Huang, I'm really sorry to trouble you again this time. I should have quoted a price directly on the phone first, and it would have been a waste of trouble for you."
Chen Feng felt a little embarrassed and apologized to Director Huang, the middleman.
Director Huang waved his hand and said with a smile: "This is nothing. It's just a matter of a few steps. Mr. Chen can often come to our museum to watch exhibitions and also pay for purchases, which is an affirmation of our museum's work. "It seems that Mr. Chen is very fond of calligraphy and painting." Chen Feng nodded: "Yes. I am very interested in calligraphy and painting, such as the "Lanting Preface" by Master Wang last time and "Autumn Sky" by Song Yi. , they are all my personal favorites . ”
“Mr. Chen, you are really an elegant person. I don’t know what kind of calligraphy and painting works Mr. Chen is more interested in. I know many calligraphers and painters, but I can give it to Mr. Chen. Please introduce me."
When Chen Feng heard what he said, his eyes lit up. Director Huang is responsible for connecting the art museum with those artist exhibitions. Of course, he knows many artists.
Chen Feng could use him to see the works of calligraphers and painters.
So, Chen Feng quickly thanked: "Thank you so much, I couldn't ask for more. I am interested in almost all calligraphy and painting, but of course the prerequisite is that it must suit my eyes. If it is convenient for Director Huang, you can introduce me Give me a few capable calligraphers and painters. I can visit you.”
Director Huang readily agreed: “Okay, let’s add a WeChat account first. I’ll sort it out after I go back and send it to you.”
Chen Feng quickly took out his phone and opened WeChat, added him as a friend, and thanked him again: “I’m really troublesome this time, Director Huang. I don’t know what to do tonight. If you have time, let’s have a meal together.”
Director Huang waved his hand and said, “I’m a little busy these days, let’s talk about it after dinner.”
Chen Feng smiled and nodded: "Okay. I'll owe it first."
Director Huang also smiled: "You're welcome. Let's get in touch again."
Director Huang did not exchange too many greetings with Chen Feng. , and then nodded to him and left.
“Brother Feng, why are you suddenly interested in art collection?”
Wu Mengting was confused. No matter how you look at it, Chen Feng has nothing to do with art.
It was because of her that I came to see the calligraphy and painting exhibition last time.
“I am only interested in paintings and calligraphy that suit my taste, and collecting them is just incidental.”
Chen Feng told the truth.
Wu Mengting was still full of doubts and kindly persuaded: "The water in these works of art is very deep. You don't understand anything and you will be deceived. Like the painting "Autumn Sky" just now, I think it counts. There are no masterpieces, and the painter Song Yi is only slightly famous in Europe. Qi, he is not a big painter, and he is not well-known in our country. The other party actually quoted 1.2 million US dollars, which is really outrageous."
"Okay. Got it, I’ll remember what you said.”
On the surface, Chen Feng humbly accepted Wu Mengting's persuasion, but in his heart he thought: If I didn't have a lot of money now, the other party would have bought it when he still had $1 million.
He did not know the specific commercial price of this painting, let alone the artistic value of this painting. He only knew that this painting could bring him great enjoyment and changes both physically and mentally.
That's enough!
He still has tens of millions of dollars. If he is destined to only have a few months to live, he wants to spend most of it.
It’s not about meaningless squandering or doing meaningful charity.
He just wanted to avoid dying young without enjoying anything.
Buying "Lanting Preface" and "Autumn Sky" can bring him great physical and mental pleasure, and can even make his spirit and body better and stronger.
Of course he is willing to spend money.
As for not wanting to spend $1 million to buy "Autumn Sky" this time, the main reason was that the price offered by the other party seemed a bit outrageous to him.
Moreover, even without spending money to buy it, he can actually enjoy the benefits that "Autumn Sky" brings to his body and mind.
Song Yi's art exhibition will last for five days, and today is the first day of his personal art exhibition.
The worst thing is that starting from today, Chen Feng will come over every day to "paint".
“Let’s go in and look at the paintings.”
Chen Feng said and couldn’t wait to take the lead in first.
Song Yi has more than fifty paintings in this exhibition, and Chen Feng hopes that there are other works among these paintings that will surprise him.
Unfortunately, Chen Feng's expectations were doomed to fail.
There are fifty-two works in total. Looking at the whole process, except for "Autumn Sky", the other paintings did not bring any surprise to him.
Although he was a little disappointed, Chen Feng was satisfied. He immediately came back to the painting "Autumn Sky".
However, before "entering concentration", he warned Wu Mengting in advance that he would be fascinated by the paintings, and asked her not to wake him up and let him read the paintings in peace.
Although Wu Mengting was confused, she still agreed.
So, Chen Feng stood in front of the oil painting "Autumn Sky", looked at it with concentration, and soon entered a dizzy state of "tranquility".
After he woke up from this state, he suddenly realized that a dozen people had gathered around him, all staring at "Autumn Sky" like him.
Seeing this, Chen Feng guessed that maybe he was too absorbed and "obsessed" with the painting just now, which attracted these people to join in the fun.
But obviously, except for Chen Feng, no one else saw anything strange.
However, there were also a few who pretended to understand and talked in low voices about how awesome this "Autumn Sky" was, with shadows of Van Gogh's "Starry Night" and so on.
Chen Feng didn't want to look at paintings with this group of people who pretended not to understand, so he immediately picked up Wu Mengting, who had been accompanying him, and squeezed out of the crowd.
"How long has it been since I was looking at the painting?"
Out of the crowd, Chen Feng asked the question of time with concern.
Wu Mengting thought for a while and said: "About half an hour."
After that, she asked curiously: "Did this painting really fascinate you so much? Actually I stared at it motionless for half an hour. If I didn’t know the truth, I would have thought you were hired by Song Yi.”
When Chen Feng heard that it was only half an hour, he felt a little disappointed, but when he thought that he had come here in vain, he suddenly became happy again and said with a smile: "As the saying goes, Zifei Yuan knows the joy of fish. This is what I'm looking at now. This painting makes me feel very relaxed and comfortable. The previous painting "Lanting Preface" by Master Wang Yi gave me this feeling. Otherwise, why do you think I spent so much money on it?"
"Really? "Yes?" Wu Mengting still didn't believe it.
Chen Feng said seriously: "I won't lie to you. There is no need."
Wu Mengting nodded doubtfully: "Okay. I believe you."
>Chen Feng smiled: "Speaking of which, it's all thanks to you. If you hadn't brought me to the art museum last time, I wouldn't have known that I was related to these two calligraphy and paintings."
Wu Mengting said with some worry: "I'm afraid that you will be cheated by others if you spend money to buy calligraphy and painting in the future. If that happens, it will be my fault."
Chen Feng said quickly: "You don't have to worry about this. The other party sold it to me for US$1 million, but I didn’t buy it either.”
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