The Pentium Era - South to North

After Zhang Chen and the others visited the Museum of Modern Art, they sat in the Rockefeller Sculpture Park on the first floor, looking at the sculptures around them. There were works by Miro and Henry Moore, as well as Picasso's famous "Ewe" sculpture.

Xiaofang took Liu Qing and Zhao Xin. They first went to the Metropolitan Museum, then to the Guggenheim Museum, and finally returned to the Museum of Modern Art. At this moment, they were sitting in the office of the director of the Museum of Modern Art. .

The reason why they chose to go far away from the near and almost went in the opposite direction to Zhang Chen and the others was because Xiaofang said that The Modern French restaurant in the Museum of Modern Art was good. When they returned to this place after visiting the other two museums, , Zhang Chen and the others may also be optimistic about Zhan, and they happened to have lunch together.

The Modern restaurant is located inside the Museum of Modern Art, separated from the Rockefeller Sculpture Park by a glass wall. Sitting in the park, Zhang Chen and the others can see the gourmets in the restaurant. Of course, people in the restaurant can also see them from outside. They are Chinese.

The restaurant's business is very good and it seems to be full. Zhang Xiangbei and Xiaofang come here often. Xiaofang comes here to see the exhibition, and Zhang Xiangbei likes the food here.

When they walked to the entrance of the restaurant, Zhang Xiangbei said to Zhang Chen and others in an old-fashioned manner, "You go to the park to see Picasso, and I will queue up to get a seat."

Zhang Chen and the others felt that time was almost up, so they stood up from their chairs and walked back to the door of the restaurant. Xiaofang, Liu Qing, and Zhao Xin also came out. The three of them laughed when they saw Zhang Chen, especially Zhao Xin, who laughed very happily. I can't even close my mouth.

Zhang Chen asked her what happened? What's good?

Zhao Xin smiled playfully: "Boss, do you know what just happened?"

Zhang Chen looked at Xiaofang and Liu Qing. They were standing there, smiling but silent, as if they were waiting for Zhao Xin to tell Zhang Chen.

Zhao Xin said: "As soon as I took out the information from our art museum, the curator here knew that many of Andy Warhol's works were loaned from here last time. They looked at the photos they brought back. At that time, the curator was very curious, saying what kind of art museum in China this was, it was so beautiful, and he didn’t expect us to come here.”

Zhang Chen was also very happy when he heard it. He said yes, that's great!

"Yes, it's great. After I go back, I will continue to communicate with them. They are interested in co-organizing a biennale. They will send us the works of American artists, and we will send the Chinese ones. Both parties will do it at the same time. Carry out." Zhao Xin said.

"Great!" Zhang Chen exclaimed, thinking in his mind, how awesome it would be to co-organize an exhibition with the New York Museum of Modern Art, and its impact would be no less than that of the "Andy Warhol Works Exhibition" .

Zhang Chen then asked Liu Qing, have all the procedures been completed? went well?

Liu Qing smiled and said: "It seems that the whole world is the same, the God of Wealth is the most eloquent in speaking."

When Zhang Chen heard this, he knew that everything had been done.

Xiaofang greeted everyone: "Come in, I'm hungry."

Everyone walked into the restaurant together and saw Zhang Xiangbei occupying one of the only two round tables in the restaurant, standing up and waving to them.

Everyone walked over and sat down. When they turned around and looked around, they could see the Rockefeller Sculpture Park outside the glass. Unfortunately, the row near the glass was for two people, and their table was in the second row.

Zhang Xiangbei told them that his meal had been ordered. Then he raised his hand and a waiter came over. Zhang Xiangbei told him in English that the food was ready to be served.

Liu Qing asked Zhang Chen: "Brother Zhang, after reading this, do you have any idea?"

Zhang Chen said there was——

"Here I would like to introduce Matisse's "Dance", Picasso's "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon", and Dali's "The Eternity of Memory." From "The Eternity of Memory" we can talk about Feng Guodong, one of the protagonists of the Stars Art Exhibition, who participated in The painting "Untitled" in the Stars Art Exhibition was influenced by Dali's painting. Feng Guodong was very miserable. He worked as a street sweeper for the Beijing Sanitation Company in 2007 or 2006 and died very young.

"What can be mentioned here are the works of Chagall, Rousseau and Modigliani, Pop Art, Andy Warhol. You have already done a special topic, but I will not do it. I want to do Mondrian, Da Darism, I would like to introduce Duchamp.”

"Won't you introduce Van Gogh and Gauguin?" Zhao Xin asked from the side.

Zhang Chen said: "Of course I have to introduce Gauguin, Cézanne and Monet. The Met also has many of their works. I want to combine them and introduce them together. Van Gogh, I want to focus on his painting "Apricot Blossoms in Bloom". ", you can start with the introduction from his relationship with his brother Theo, and explain why this painting given to his nephew will be so heart-warming that it makes people cry.

"Of course, I can also introduce his "Starry Moon Night" by the way. When I go to the Museum of Modern Art, I introduce Van Gogh without introducing "Starry Moon Night". It always makes sense. After all, it is Van Gogh's worst work. At least let everyone know about it. The original is here, in New York.”

Liu Qing said yes.

The dishes were served, and the first appetizer was served. Zhang Xiangbei ordered cabernet sauvignon grape foie gras and truffle pasta for everyone. When the yellow cream pasta came, two waiters held two large white spoons. Truffle, followed over and shaved truffles onto each of their pasta.

Everyone tasted it and thought it was delicious. Zhang Chen said that this American really looked like a nouveau riche.

"What's wrong?" Xiaofang asked.

"No matter how rich they are, they can't make delicious food. Delicious food is either Chinese food, French food, or Spanish and Portuguese restaurants." Zhang Chen said.

“Mexican restaurants are also delicious,” Zhang Xiangbei said.

Xiaofang smiled and said: "Americans deserve to be ridiculed like this by you. What Americans can cook is hamburgers and even roast turkey. I guarantee that you will not want to eat it again after you have eaten it once."

After the appetizer, came the main course. Zhang Xiangbei considered that no one else had eaten the dishes here except him and Xiaofang, so he ordered the same dishes for everyone without asking for opinions.

Xiaofang laughed when the first main dish was served. She said, "Guess what Beibei calls this dish?"

Zhang Chen looked at the plate in front of him. The bottom was fried rice, the top was covered with what seemed to be lobster meat, and the top was a layer of black truffle.

Zhang Chen said: "Lobster fried rice?"

Xiaofang said: "It's almost like lobster with black truffle crispy rice. This is the name given by Beibei."

Everyone laughed, Zhang Chen said, you are really straightforward, and you can understand it immediately, but where did this crispy rice come from?

Zhang Xiangbei said: "Try it, this rice really tastes like crispy rice."

Zhang Chen tasted it. The rice was stir-fried with lobster juice. It was very stir-fried, and it was almost crispy. The lobster meat on top was stewed slowly over low heat and was extremely tender. With the addition of black truffle, it’s a perfect combination.

Several people nodded together and agreed with Zhang Xiangbei's statement about crispy rice.

The second main course is slow-braised sea bass. The original sea bass has no fishy smell at all. It is served with green celery roots. Take a bite of the sea bass and then another bite of celery. Your mouth will be filled with a rich fragrance. .

Even people like Zhang Chen, who usually would not touch fish without red chili sauce, not only ate it, but also had to admit that the fish was delicious.

The last dessert served was Chocolate Marquise. The shape of the dessert was very unique, like an exquisite sculpture. There was a thin layer of cream cake on one side, and a cylindrical chocolate mousse cake on the cake. It is a round Earl Grey-flavored ice cream, and on top of the cake and ice cream are two curly chocolate strands of different thicknesses.

Zhao Xin sighed: "It looks so good, I can't even bear to eat it."

Liu Qing smiled and said, I feel the same way.

While they were still admiring it, several men started to eat it. The cameraman said to Liu Qing, "It's delicious. It's delicious. Try it quickly."

After lunch, it was already past two o'clock, and Xiaofang wanted to go back to the company. She told Zhang Chen and the others that we would go to Street 39 in the evening, just next to the Langham Hotel. There is a good Chinese restaurant there.

"Is this Huizhen Restaurant?" Zhang Xiangbei asked.

Xiaofang said yes, Beibei, you have been there before. After you visit, you can go directly there or go back to the hotel. I will go there directly after get off work.

Zhang Chen and Zhang Xiangbei both agreed.

Xiaofang said goodbye to them and left. Liu Qing asked Zhang Xiangbei: "Beibei, what are our arrangements next?"

"We will walk from here to the Guggenheim Museum and stroll around Fifth Avenue. It only takes 20 minutes. We will be in the Metropolis all day tomorrow."

Zhang Xiangbei said, Zhang Chen, Liu Qing and others nodded.

The group of people walked north along Fifth Avenue. After walking for more than ten minutes, they saw the Metropolitan Museum. It was on the opposite side of the road, next to Central Park. There were many people at the door.

Tourists from all over the world, just like when you arrive in Paris, you must go to the Louvre Museum, and when you arrive in Beijing, you must visit the Forbidden City. When you arrive in New York, even if you know nothing about art, your tour guide or your New York friends will guide you there. Come to the Metropolitan Museum.

They followed Zhang Xiangbei's arrangement and did not stop at the entrance of the Metropolitan Museum, but continued walking north.

Not far away, I saw a white building on the corner of the street in front of me, resembling a conch, and also like a Simmons spring that was thin in the middle and thick at the ends. Needless to say, everyone knew that this was the famous Guggenheim. museum.

The Guggenheim Museum building itself is a work of art, designed by American architectural design master Frank Lloyd Wright.

In his design, Wright tried to use a three-dimensional spiral structure instead of a circular plane structure to contain a space so that people can truly experience movement in the space. He believed that people walked along the spiral ramp. At this time, the surrounding space is continuous and gradual, rather than fragmentary and folded.

Wright summed up his Guggenheim design philosophy in one sentence: "a continuous curve that never breaks."

The main exhibition hall of the Guggenheim is six stories high. It does not have the layered design of ordinary exhibition halls. The hollow hall is an inverted spiral space 30 meters high, with a petal-shaped glass roof on top, which makes the entire exhibition The lighting in the hall is very good.

Surrounding the hall, there is a corridor formed by an ever-increasing spiral slope. The ground rises slowly at a slope of 3%. People will not feel tired at all when walking on such a slope. One side of the corridor is a hollow hall, and the other side is a hollow hall. On the wall on one side are hanging exhibits.

There is an ear hall on each floor of the cloister. As a special exhibition hall, special exhibition halls have been systematically set up for famous painters such as Kandinsky, Monet, Gauguin, etc. Sitting on a stool in the center of the exhibition hall, staring blankly It is a great pleasure to read the works of these masters.

The visitor walked forward while looking at the exhibits. He could not feel it himself. He was also rising at the same time. When he turned around to look at all the exhibits, he suddenly realized that he had arrived at the exhibition area without knowing it. The highest point has reached the sixth floor, and the petal-shaped glass ceiling is right in front of you.

When visitors come in, they can also take the elevator directly to the sixth floor, and then walk down while admiring the works on the cloister wall, which is even easier.

The collection of the Guggenheim Museum is not large, but every piece is priceless. When Zhang Chen and others came in, the first thing they saw was what Zhang Xiangbei said, the work made by Cai Guoqiang, a Fujianese, using gunpowder.

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