The Pentium Era - South to North

Xiaofang arranged for Liu Qing and the others to stay at the Langham Hotel on Fifth Avenue. The hotel is next to the Rockefeller Center and the New York Museum of Modern Art. It is also next to the Rockefeller Center and the Langham Hotel is separated from the Rockefeller Center.

Walk north along Fifth Avenue next to Central Park. In ten minutes, you can walk to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. If you continue north, you will reach the Guggenheim Museum.

Xiaofang made an appointment with Liu Qing and Zhao Xin to pick them up at ten o'clock tomorrow morning. Xiaofang will take them to meet with the curators of these three museums. Liu Qing needs to confirm the shooting arrangements with them and handle the necessary matters. For the formalities, Zhao Xin wanted to establish exchanges and liaisons with them between the museums.

The others followed Zhang Xiangbei, as he said, to visit as tourists, and then meet Liu Qing and Zhao Xin again after their affairs were settled.

Everyone said goodbye in the lobby of the Langham Hotel, and Zhang Chen followed Xiaofang and Zhang Xiangbei home.

After returning home, Zhang Chen opened the trolley case he brought. It was full of food, including bacon and sausages. Zhang Chen and Xiaofang said, "This is made by your mother. I don't think so." It is impossible to bring it.

Xiaofang smiled and said, "That's right. I finished the food I brought last time in two days. It was very unsatisfactory."

Xiaofang said and looked at Zhang Xiangbei, and the three of them laughed.

The so-called last time, I asked Zhang Xiangbei to bring it. Unexpectedly, when Zhang Xiangbei arrived in Shanghai, he even gave the box to Xiaomi. Later, when we talked on the phone, Xiao Zhao’s mother kept asking Xiao Fang whether the bacon was delicious. Xiaofang could only lie and say that it was delicious and we finished it in two days.

Xiaofang was puzzled and said, "Brother-in-law, why did you bring these things out?"

Zhang Chen said: "Being with Liu Qing and the others, CCTV is still a bit of a deterrent in the country."

"The old beauty is blind, so she will let you enter the customs?" Zhang Xiangbei asked.

Zhang Chen said: "Liu Qing took this box. We thought about it and gave it to them if they found out. It turns out that Liu Qing is probably a yellow woman and belongs to a low-risk group. She is also a media reporter and there was no customs inspection." It was released after inspection.”

"Maybe they don't even know what it is." Zhang Xiangbei said.

Xiaofang smiled and said, "So, it's not surprising that terrorists can sneak into the United States on a large scale."

Xiaofang stood up and shouted: "No, no, or I haven't seen it. If I see it, I won't be able to get over this addiction."

Zhang Chen said: "I'll steam it for you."

"Let Beibei go, Beibei will do this." Xiaofang said, Zhang Chen also shouted: "Yes, Zhang Xiangbei, don't you want me to stew beef?"

Zhang Xiangbei asked: "Do you want to eat? If you want to eat, I will honor you now?"

Zhang Chen smiled and said: "Forget it, I just had dinner, this is what I will eat today."

Zhang Xiangbei went to the kitchen with bacon and sausages, and Xiaofang also stood up. She went to the wine cabinet and got a bottle of wine and three glasses, and put them on the dining table. She said to Zhang Chen:

"Great, we can have reunion dinner today."

After saying this, I felt that this was a bit wrong, so I quickly said: "It turns out that there are only two of us at most, Beibei and I. We haven't experienced the scene of many family members eating together for a long time."

Zhang Chen said: "This time Zhang Xiangbei will go back with us, will you leave too?"

Xiaofang shook her head and said to Zhang Chen: "I am not so fast. I am leading people now. If these people can take over, it will be September at the earliest. I thought, this is fine, I will wait for Beibei to go After college, I can return to China in October.”

Zhang Chen said yes, this is fine.

"Brother-in-law, don't worry, I can still take care of Beibei. When I return to China this time, some of the funds I bring back are from the Yale Foundation, so I will still return to the United States often and to Yale." Xiaofang emphasized. .

"I don't worry, Zhang Xiangbei is so old, what should I worry about?" Zhang Chen said with a smile, "You are the one who is worried about him, right?"

Xiaofang giggled and said, "I'm not worried, I'm worried."

"worry about what?"

"I'm worried that if something happens to Beibei, I won't be able to explain it to my sister when I go back," Xiaofang said.

"Don't worry, nothing will happen to you. As a girl, you have already made it in the United States. Zhang Xiangbei stands taller than me. He is already a young man. There is nothing to worry about." Zhang Chen said .

Xiaofang sighed: "That being said, it's not too difficult to think about what I've been through all the way, but when I really think about going back to China and leaving Beibei alone in the United States, I still feel sad."

Zhang Chen said it was okay. He could also go back to China during the winter and summer vacations. Also, didn't you say you would go back to the United States often? You can see this often. Four years have passed in a flash, so fast.

Xiaofang nodded.

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When they went out the next morning, Xiaofang wanted Zhang Xiangbei to drive too, and the two cars went out together, so that she could accompany Zhao Xin and Liu Qing to finish their errands. After going to the company, if Zhang Chen and the others wanted to go somewhere, Zhang Xiangbei You can take them there.

Zhang Chen said no, we will be in the Fifth Avenue area today, just walk here and there. In the evening, you can come over after get off work and have dinner with us, and we will come back together.

Xiaofang thought about it and said yes, get in the car.

Zhang Chen and Zhang Xiangbei got in the car, and when they arrived at the Langham Hotel, Liu Qing and the others were ready and could not wait for them in the lobby of the hotel. Seeing them arriving, Liu Qing and Zhao Xin got into Xiaofang's car, and the others People followed Zhang Xiangbei, and they first went to the nearest modern art museum.

The Museum of Modern Art is located on Fifty-third Street in Manhattan, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. Together with the Tate Museum in the United Kingdom and the Pompidou Center in France, it is ranked as the most important modern and contemporary art exhibition hall. The collection includes everything from paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, films, photographs to architectural models and industrial designs.

The works of these modern and contemporary artists range from Van Gogh, Matisse, Gauguin, Miro and Picasso to Andy Warhol, who has just been exhibited at Zhang Chen's "Riverside Oil Painting Gallery". , to the latest helicopters and multimedia artworks, its collection reaches more than 150,000 pieces, which is richer than the Tate and Pompidou, and has the most complete collection of modern and contemporary art in the world.

This is also related to the rapid economic development of the United States in modern times. Not only have many artists gone to the United States, but it has also given consortiums like Rockefeller more funds to search for the works of well-known artists around the world.

Like the Pompidou Center, the new building of the Museum of Modern Art has a very modern architectural design. It was designed by Japanese designer Yoshio Taniguchi. It is difficult for Westerners to understand several stacked squares at random, but Chinese and Japanese people can easily think of tofu when they look at it. I wonder if this designer was inspired by the stacked tofu cubes.

Zhang Chen and the others entered the museum. The first, second and third floors were mostly filled with films, furniture and photography works, including the design works of the French architect Le Corbusier, the "father of functionalism". However, these works were not among them. Within the scope of this shooting, Zhang Chen still defined the scope of their shooting as easel painting.

They walked through these exhibition halls and arrived at the fourth floor. The highlight of the fourth floor was Pop Art and Andy Warhol. Andy Warhol is to the United States just like Andrew Wyeth and Sartorius. Like Gent, he is an "American hero" and deserves such a status in the Museum of Modern Art.

Zhang Chen saw here the "Campbell's Soup Cans" neatly arranged in rows on the wall, and the "Marilyn Monroe" also arranged neatly in rows, colorful and extremely enchanting.

On the fifth floor, this is the real highlight of the Museum of Modern Art. Almost all their important collections are on display here, including Gauguin's "The Seed of the Areoi", Picasso's "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon", Leonardo da Vinci's Leigh's "The Persistence of Memory", Modigliani's "The Reclining Lady" and Chagall's "I and The Village".

The most famous one is, of course, Van Gogh's "Starry Moon Night". The Modern Art Museum has a special Van Gogh exhibition hall, which displays more than a dozen of Van Gogh's paintings. What pleased Zhang Chen the most was not seeing "Starry Moon Night" here. ", but saw Van Gogh's "Almond Blossoms in Bloom" here.

This cold-toned work has a pure blue sky in the background, flying branches, and white apricot blossoms. It is extremely charming. It reminds Zhang Chen of the tallow tree on Gaofang of Yongcheng Wu Opera Troupe. Spring When the leaves are in full bloom.

Zhang Chen believes that this is the gentlest painting among all Van Gogh's paintings. If you don't look at the author's name, it would be difficult to believe that this was created by Van Gogh, who had a somewhat violent personality and could cut off his own ears.

This painting was a baptismal gift from Van Gogh to his nephew, Theo's son. Zhang Chen felt that the title of this painting should not be called "Apricot Blossoms in Bloom", but "Dear Nephew" .

Here, Zhang Chen also saw the famous numberless watch that American artist Nathan George Howitt was invited by the Movado brand to design for them.

When designing the watch, Horwitt believed that the essence of time is that the earth revolves around the sun along its orbit. Therefore, he simplified the complexity and removed all the common digital scales in traditional watch dial designs, leaving only the 12 o'clock position. There is a golden dot, symbolizing the sun at noon, and a pointer symbolizing the movement of the earth.

When Einstein received Horwitt's initial design draft, he immediately wrote back to express his love:

“When I received the sketch of your brand new clock invention, I was impressed by the simplicity and clarity of the idea.”

This watch was permanently collected by the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1960, becoming the first watch in history to win this honor. It is still regarded as an unprecedented simple design in the history of watches.

Zhang Chen returned to the first floor and saw the souvenir shop selling this watch. He immediately bought twenty of them and gave them to his colleagues as souvenirs. He also planned to take them back to other people in the company.

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