Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 893 Exhibited
Because this Van Gogh-style oil painting had a great impact on everyone, the whole salon was discussing this oil painting for the rest of the time.

And under everyone's kind invitation, Liang En also used the oil painting tools prepared by Marie Antoinette to start creating a new painting.

Considering the problem of time, Liang En did not paint a 98 x 69cm oil painting like this sunflower, but painted a sunflower on a 30x21cm canvas.

When he finished adjusting the paint and picked up the paintbrush, the scene suddenly fell silent, because they found that Liang En's temperament was completely different from before.

If Liang En was a gentle and elegant scholar before, then when he stood on the drawing board wall, a kind of fanatical artist temperament appeared in him.

Those present were also aware of this.Because they felt that they were facing a different person, and they also felt in their hearts that this was probably the reason why Liang En could truly appreciate the artistic level of Van Gogh.

In the next few hours, Liang En stood in front of the canvas and painted with his heart. As he waved the brush, a golden sunflower appeared on the canvas.

Like the sunflowers exhibited in the salon today, this golden sunflower oil painting shows vigorous vitality, which makes people feel a kind of surging vitality after seeing it.

It may seem to many people that it takes a long time to paint an oil painting, but if you just paint a small oil painting and don't need to consider a series of follow-up processing, a few hours is enough to complete this work.

So a few minutes before the salon was expected to end, Liang En also successfully painted the last stroke on the canvas, marking the smooth end of this painting.

"Yes, that's right, that's it." When Liang En put down his brush, the art critic from just now came over and said seriously.

"Although Van Gogh is a long time away from the age we live in, one thing I can confirm is that there is no living person who is closer to Van Gogh than you."

"Thank you for your compliment." After hearing what the critic said, Liang En nodded slightly to express his agreement with the other party's statement, then pointed to his own painting and said.

"It may take several months for this oil painting to be processed. During this period, the oil painting will be placed in this gallery. If you want to see it, you can come and see it."

After finding out that everyone wanted to squeeze to the front to see the painting, Liang En said to everyone that he actually welcomes these professionals to see his painting, because they can help him promote himself.

Although Liang En is not a professional painter, and he will definitely not take this profession as his main profession, it is always a good thing for his paintings to be appreciated by others.

It is true that after gaining Mucha's ability, he also drew many important pictures, but most of them are obviously commercial pictures.

So during this period of time, although Liang En can be called a minor celebrity in commercial illustration and poster painting, he is still an unknown in the art world.

That's right, Mucha is indeed a high-level artist, but he is more inclined to purely commercial paintings, so no matter how rich he is in business, his artistic status will not be high.

In particular, the art world itself has a chain of contempt, and this pen test chain can also be subdivided, and oil paintings are basically at the top of the chain of contempt.

In other words, in the eyes of many people, as long as a painter who does not paint oil paintings is basically difficult to be recognized as a famous painter, this is why Liang En was not recognized before.

Now that he has gained the power of Van Gogh, these oil paintings he painted will naturally change everyone's opinion, and he will be considered an important painter in the art world from then on.

"To be honest, the effect of this salon is even better than we imagined." After entertaining everyone for a lunch and watching everyone leave, Mary said seriously to Liang En.

"I believe that Ni's paintings can be recognized by everyone simply because of their artistic value, but I didn't expect to be recognized so quickly. Of course, I think this may also have something to do with the mainly classical artists who come today."

"Yes, according to the Chinese people, many things need to pay attention to the right time, location and harmony of people. Today, we have at least the right location and harmony of people, so the effect of promotion must be good."

Liang En tried his best to speak this common saying in French, and then explained the specific meaning of this common saying, and Mary also nodded repeatedly for the specific meaning of this saying.

"Yes, this is indeed an ancient wisdom. For example, in retrospect, the reason why we came to that step in the past is that we lost the right time, the right place, and the harmony of people."

The French Revolution was indeed caused by many factors, such as the famine in France at that time, the collapse of finances, the increasingly impoverished people, and so on.

If you summarize and make an analogy, for the French royal family at that time, the period at the end of the 18th century can indeed be regarded as facing the bad situation of losing everything at the right time and place.

Of course, during this period of time, Mary also reflected on her previous actions, and realized that she and the king also had unshirkable responsibilities for making the country like this, and she was relieved of many things.

For example, she also made a special trip to Madame Tussauds, and then seriously visited one of the earliest collections of the wax museum-the wax figure of her own head.

This kind of thing was made during the French Revolution in consideration of the fact that the head of a real person is easy to rot, so it was specially made in a one-to-one scale model for the convenience of publicity.

This head wax figure was also made by Madame Tussauds, formerly known as Marie Groschutz, who was born in Strabourg, France.Her mother was the housekeeper of Dr. Philip Goldsch, who was also a very famous wax figure craftsman, and later passed on the technique of wax figure making to Mary.

In 1770, Dr. Philip founded the wax museum in Paris, and eight years later, when Marie was 17 years old, she tailored Voltaire in Paris and made only one wax figure of him.

In 1780, she was employed by a French royal family as an art tutor, and in 1787 made wax figures of King Louis XVI and Queen Marie.

In 1789, after the start of the French Revolution, she was forced to make models of the dead heads of King Louis XVI and Queen Mary who were sent to the guillotine after being beheaded.

A year later Marie was imprisoned, but her sculptural skills saved her from the guillotine, she was released and a model of Robespierre's dead head was made.

In 1794, Mary inherited Dr. Philip's wax museum business, and married François Dussaud the following year and gave birth to 2 sons. Since then, the name Madame Tussaud has spread far and wide.

In 1802, at the age of 41, Madame Tussauds seized a new opportunity to start a career in London and never had the opportunity to return to France to meet her husband.In the 33 years since then, she has continued to develop her waxwork career.

Today, Madame Tussauds has become the benchmark of this type of wax museum, and has successively opened more than 20 branches in London, Amsterdam, Las Vegas, New York, Shanghai Washington, Berlin, Vienna, Tokyo and other places.

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