God-level Golden Hand

Chapter 1510 The Art Family
Because of the pleasing style of painting, although Zou Yigui's production is low and the stock of his works is not very high, the market price is still good, which is very attractive to those collectors who have financial resources and a certain appreciation ability.

Ordinary collector?
It doesn’t matter if ordinary collectors know about such a person. If they know it, they can’t afford it. If they don’t, it won’t affect the market. Anyway, there are only so many things, and those who are rich and knowledgeable can’t get enough of them. How can there be extra for ordinary collectors? collect.

Of course, there is no doubt about Zou Yigui's ability to attract those high-quality collectors. This person does have a set of accomplishments in flowers. The summed up "eight methods and four knowledge" include painting skills of almost all flower varieties, even Later, it was introduced into the domestic "Chrysanthemum".

Since Zou Yigui, when many painters learn to paint flowers, they start with the "eight methods and four knowledge".

These eight methods are "structure method", "brush method", "ink method", "color setting method", "spot dyeing method", "drying halo method", "tree stone method" and "moss lining method".

The four knowledges are "knowing heaven", "knowing earth", "knowing people" and "knowing things".

Among them, the "Eight Methods" is a systematic theory summed up based on the experience of predecessors, which is equivalent to summarizing various scattered art theories related to flowers into a single category, which is not easy but not too great an achievement.

But the "Four Knowledges" is Zou Yigui's original theory, which is very rare.

So to put it bluntly, Zou Yigui can be regarded as a master-level existence. Although he is nothing in the field of painting as a whole, he is a well-deserved master in the field of flower themes alone.

The work of such a master figure in the flower theme, as long as you find someone who knows the goods, you are really not afraid that you will not be able to sell the work.

Of course, Xu Jingxing didn't intend to sell it directly. This painting is worth keeping in his hands to study and observe for a while, because flower subjects are his weakness. Although he can paint, and even paint well, it's just not bad. , compared with his skill in painting landscape figures, after all, before he got Ruyi Gloves, he was just an ordinary person with limited energy, and it was not easy to learn calligraphy, freehand landscape painting and sculpture to a certain level up.

But now, he is still very young, even if it is not too late to start learning from the beginning, not to mention with his current learning ability, if he really wants to learn a craft, it will not take long to master it, just like he learned to make purple clay pots , I found the feeling as soon as I started, and the first purple clay teapot I made was praised by veteran craftsmen.

That's why he has the confidence to learn the secret of Zou Yigui's flower painting from this painting.

In fact, the so-called mystery is nothing mysterious in the eyes of experts. The process of getting started is a process of familiarity. After mastering the theoretical knowledge, it is right to find the feeling from the hands. If you accumulate it, you will definitely be able to get started.

It's just that getting started is just getting started, and if you want to go further, it depends on your talent, temperament and circumstances.

In other words, Zou Yigui's painting itself is very good.

He hadn't seen Zou Yigui's painting before, and he didn't even know that there was such a high-level painter when he was appraising Qian Weicheng's painting with Han Zhengang last summer. Later, he simply checked Zou Yigui's information on the Internet. , browsed Zou Yigui's works published on the Internet, and this is the first time I have seen Zou Yigui's authentic works with my own eyes.

After reading it, I felt nothing but admiration.

This painting is really good.

The painting is a two-foot-long coloring painting on paper. It shows a stretch of peony. The color of the peony is very bright. The branches, leaves and flowers are lifelike. The coloring is very light and the shade is just right, especially the pink on the petals, which is smudged. The effect is particularly outstanding, and it looks like a real peony flower.

The technique used is Zou Yigui's best boneless method, which is quite different from traditional Chinese painting techniques, but has a certain degree of similarity with Western art, and the simulation effect is very good. This is also one of the popular wishes of the boneless method among the people—— The profiling effect is good, it looks realistic and pleasing.

At this time, Cheng Lin leaned over and said, "How much is Zou Yigui's painting worth?"

He smiled: "Ordinary ones are only two to three million yuan, but for this one, a zero must be added."

"Ah?" Cheng Lin was stunned: "Isn't this too exaggerated? Buy it for 28 yuan and sell it for 280 million yuan? Is it ten times the profit if you change hands?"

"Yes."

"why?"

"Because this painting is relatively rare, it is on the horizontal axis."

"The horizontal axis is hard to come by?"

"It's not that the horizontal axis is hard to come by, it's that the horizontal axis for painting flowers is relatively rare," Xu Jingxing explained gently and patiently: "Flowers grow upright, so painting flowers on a vertical axis is the easiest and most suitable for layout, while the horizontal axis is just right. On the contrary, if it is so long, it is too little to paint one flower, and it is too repetitive to paint two, three, four or five, and the layout can only be laid out horizontally, without any room for display, especially this kind of painting that only paints flowers without mixing mountains, rocks, and birds. There is almost no way to open up the space for the flowers of animals and figures, and they can only be arranged horizontally with individual flowers, which will look very cramped, so few painters draw simple flowers on the horizontal axis.

"The horizontal axis of Zou Yigui is one of the rare horizontal axis flowers, and the layout is very ingenious. It looks at a piece of peony from a relatively low angle, and presents the visual effect of the colorful flowers on the paper as it is. On the surface, borrow the perspective layout of lowering the angle of view, and simply and calmly fill the picture with blossoming or budding peony flowers. This kind of layout imitates nature, and it is very clever to draw what it looks like. .”

Cheng Lin suddenly said: "Things are rare and valuable, right?"

"That's the reason," Xu Jingxing continued to explain: "But the rare thing is not only the layout, but also because of the author of this painting."

"Didn't Zou Yigui draw it?"

"To be precise, Zou Yigui and his wife Yun Lanxi collaborated," Xu Jingxing said with a smile, "This Yun Lanxi is the younger sister of the great painter Yun Yuanjun. The painter is not famous, so it is not well known."

"Yun Yuanjun is water?" Cheng Lin was also not afraid to reveal her ignorance, and continued to ask with wide-eyed eyes. This was new knowledge that she had never been exposed to before, so she was very curious.

Naturally, Xu Jingxing was not afraid of trouble, and replied with a smile: "Yun Yuanjun, Iron Xiao Taoist, is quite capable, but he is not very famous. The reason why he is known is because he is a member of the Yun family. This Yun family is amazing and famous. Yun Shouping is the most famous painter of the Yun family, and the boneless method was created on the basis of predecessors, and since Yun Shouping, the Yun family has produced more than 50 painters, large and small, and the Yun family is a well-deserved art family.

"Among them, there are quite a few female painters. The more famous ones are Yun Bing, Yun Zhu, Yun Huai'e, Yun Huaiying, Yun Lanxi, etc. They are all good at painting flowers and using the boneless method. Among them, Yun Lanxi is Zou Yigui. Wife, I don’t know how the couple’s relationship is. I only know that they often work together, because both of them are good at using the boneless method, and their styles are very similar, so the flower paintings created by them are very harmonious, and it is almost impossible to tell that they are handwritten by two people. However, very few works created by the couple have been handed down, and even fewer have Yun Lanxi's personal logo."

Cheng Lin's eyes lit up: "It means, this one has Yun Lanxi's personal logo? Where is it?"

"Here, look at this round Zhuwen Lianzhu seal, a seal character 'Zou', and a seal character 'Yun'. This is a seal that the husband and wife only use when they collaborate to create. Most people don't know this at all. I also collected it in Han Zhengang. I saw it in a document, but I can’t find it on the Internet at all, hehehe.”

Speaking of this, Xu Jingxing was very proud. After all, this is not information that can be found by typing on the keyboard. It needs to be searched through the literature to find it on its own. It also needs to have a strong memory, otherwise, who would have nothing to do to remember these unpopular things? Knowledge.

But now, that knowledge comes in handy.

As long as Boss Sun can find the information about the "Yun Zou" Zhu Wenyuan Lianzhu in the Internet, he will not sell this painting cheaply.

So knowledge can really make money, as long as it is used on the right occasion.

A rare horizontal flower painting is a collaboration between Zou Yigui and his wife Yun Lanxi, which is worth...

Xu Jingxing said that more than 200 million is a very conservative estimate.

Cheng Lin was more interested in Yun Lanxi, a female painter, and asked Xu Jingxing a lot, not only Yun Lanxi, but also several other female painters in Yun's family.

Women, it's normal to have some admiration for legendary women.

Then, the woman happily took a few photos of this rare flower painting, and piled up the little knowledge she had just picked out from Xu Jingxing's mouth as a narration, and sent it to her circle of friends. Meimei harvested a lot Lots of compliments and compliments.

For modern people, it is normal to post a circle of friends, and it is not something shameful, right?

A guy like Xu Jingxing who is called "God Xu" is not exempt, let alone Cheng Lin.

Anyway, every time he created a proud work, or received some valuable old objects, he would post them on Moments, one to show off, and the other to spread the word.

So this painting is no exception, but he didn't accompany many words like Cheng Lin, but only accompanied the text: "Zou Yigui's horizontal axis flowers have bright spots."

What is the highlight, of course, is the "Zou-Yun" round Zhuwen Lianzhu seal, as well as the meaning and extended content represented by that Lianzhu seal.

After the meal, Cheng Lin was still in high spirits, and insisted on dragging Xu Jingxing to continue shopping in the antique market. This was a taste of the sweetness, and she wanted to go all out to get some more good things.

Sure enough, picking up leaks is addictive.

Of course Xu Jingxing would not refuse, he continued to go shopping with Cheng Lin, and he actually collected two small items, but they were not as rich as the harvest in the morning, they were a fan of Anonymous, and a small plate of pastel characters from the Daoguang period .

(End of this chapter)