Antique Dealer

Chapter 117 Praise
"The Heart Sutra" only has more than 100 words, and it didn't take long for Fang Hao to make the last stroke.

The scene was completely silent, and everyone was reluctant to take their eyes off the paper, and they all admired Fang Hao's calligraphy works fascinatedly.

After a while, Lao Wang was the first to come back to his senses, with a shocked expression on his face: "This character is stretched and broad, and the strokes are exquisite. The exquisite workmanship reveals the tranquility, and the spirit of agility is revealed in the stability. Straight, the details of the brushwork, such as the heavy and tapered vertical strokes, can all show the learning of the Tang Dynasty regular script style, which is obviously different from the free and elegant pre-Tang regular script of Wang Xizhi and Zhi Yong."

Fang Hao said with a smile: "Teacher Wang has good eyesight. I have indeed integrated the writing style of the regular script of the Tang Dynasty. There are still some shortcomings, and I need to learn more."

"Don't be modest, your level can be called a master of regular script!"

Lao Wang praised again, then glared at Liu Ze: "Don't introduce us to this teacher!"

Liu Ze said with a smile: "Didn't Ouyang say that this is Lao Nan's apprentice!"

"Believe it or not, I'll beat you up!" Lao Wang stared at Tong Ling's big eyes and raised his fist.

Ouyang Qing with beards pointed at Liu Ze and said, "Old Liu, I didn't expect you to be so good at deceiving people. If he is Lao Nan's apprentice, I will immediately worship Lao Nan as my teacher!"

Liu Ze laughed, and then introduced to everyone: "This is what I mentioned earlier, Teacher Fang Haofang!"

Just now, Liu Ze told everyone about what happened at the salon last week, and praised Fang Hao, who had suddenly emerged from a new force. With his regular script, he deserves Liu Ze's praise, not to mention, Fang Hao is still young.

Ouyang Qing smiled and stretched out his hand: "I didn't expect Teacher Fang to come, it really makes the small shop flourish!"

Fang Hao shook hands with him and spoke politely.

Liu Ze continued to introduce, and everyone exchanged a few words of courtesy.

Ouyang Qing turned his eyes to the calligraphy works on the table again, and asked: "Mr. Fang, I don't know this calligraphy, can you let me collect it?"

Immediately, Liu Ze and the others became unhappy. They all expressed their interest in the meeting, and they refused to give up lightly. They didn't let go until Ouyang Qing bowed and promised various benefits.

Seeing Ouyang Qing looking at him eagerly, Fang Hao said with a smile: "This work was completed by accident, and I took this opportunity to get to know you guys, so I will give this work to Boss Ouyang! "

Ouyang Qing quickly waved his hand: "How embarrassing!"

"Okay, go look in the mirror by yourself, your face is almost distorted from smiling, so why be embarrassed!" Lao Wang was very envious, and his words were sour.

"Old Wang, don't be like this. Didn't you always want Xie Jin's cursive script "The End of Xiaowen Changle", today I will give you [-]% off!"

Ouyang Qing said to the others: "Don't worry, everyone has the benefits, Mr. Fang, please wait a moment, I will go get a painting."

Ouyang Qing's words immediately made everyone smile, and they all said that it was all thanks to Fang Hao.Fang Hao also took advantage of Ouyang Qing's departure, and wrote the signature on his calligraphy, but he hasn't engraved it yet, so he can't seal it.

After a while, Ouyang Qing brought over a painting and asked Fang Hao to appreciate it.

This is an ink and wash landscape painting, depicting mountains and rivers, tall and straight green pines, lush vegetation, Gao Shiyin reading, the author's level is very high, if it was in the Qing Dynasty, he could be regarded as a well-known painter based on his painting skills.

It's just that the author Fang Hao has never heard of it before, and there is no auction data in his memory either.

Ouyang Qing asked with a smile: "Teacher Fang, what do you think of this painting?"

Fang Hao said: "The ink color of this work is moist and plump, dry but not dry, light but thick, and a kind of quiet and cool air hits people's brows. In the artistic conception, there is a sense of forgetting the dust. I infer that the author is a Monk, I don’t know if I guessed right?.”

Ouyang Qing gave a thumbs up: "Good eyesight, this author has indeed become a monk now."

The artist of this painting is named Cai Gui. His family was poor and his parents were disabled, so he didn’t study much. He went out to work to earn money to support his family when he was 15 years old. However, he was talented and intelligent. He fell in love with Chinese painting when he came across it by chance. After that, he relied on self-study to become a talent, but he didn't want to make money from it at the beginning, he only regarded it as his hobby.

Later, Cai Gui moved to the capital, and by chance, he happened to enter Ouyang Qing's newly opened gallery.

At that time, Ouyang Qing noticed that Cai Gui was dressed like a migrant worker, but the love he showed when appreciating the paintings did not look like a fake. Out of curiosity, he went up to chat and unexpectedly learned that Cai Gui taught himself to paint.

Later, he learned that Cai Gui's family was not well off, so out of good intentions, he asked Cai Gui to sell some of his paintings here, and he could also subsidize his family.

At first, Cai Gui didn't have that confidence. Ouyang Qing told him, if you don't try it first, how do you know you won't sell it?
Cai Gui was moved, and after returning home, he drew two landscape paintings. Ouyang Qing saw them and praised them greatly, and told Cai Gui that such works would definitely be sold. As expected, they were sold within a few days after they were released. .

This brought confidence to Cai Gui, and after that several paintings were sold, so he simply sold paintings as the main source of income. In 15 years, his annual income was about 100 million.

At that time, he was over 40 years old. Because of his family background, he was not married. When he had money, he married a woman who was less than 30 years old. But he didn't expect that woman to fancy his money. Not long after marriage , and took most of the money and ran away.

Ouyang Qing let out a long sigh: "I also met that woman at the time, she didn't look like a responsible person, and I tried to persuade him in private, but he was in love at the time, so he didn't listen. This matter hit him hard, Not long after, he became a monk, and his paintings were no longer sold. This painting was given to me when I was a guest at his place last year, and his painting skills have improved by leaps and bounds compared with before, perhaps because Previous experience."

Lao Wang also felt sorry for Cai Gui: "Perhaps as some articles say, many artists are tragic characters."

Fang Hao shook his head secretly, he didn't agree with this sentence, it was just a common trick to grab people's attention, a typical error of the unfortunate.

In fact, many artists were recognized during their lifetime and enjoyed a very high reputation.The three masters of the Renaissance all made friends with powerful people such as the Pope and nobles.Their best-known books were commissions from the rich and powerful, rather than mere merchandise in stores.Musically, Mozart and Beethoven also became famous very early on.

There is also Tang Bohu, who just complained about being poor in his poems and essays. He must have made money selling calligraphy and painting, but he squandered a large part of it to the brothel.As for why he did this, I won't go into details here.

(End of this chapter)