Outside the black technology

Chapter 12 Art Museum

Hua Manrao couldn't wait to watch "Sleeping Beauty", but Gao Jue pouted. Seeing the endless crowds around, Hua Manrao quickly apologized and said: "Mr. Gao, I'm really sorry, I didn't pay attention to the occasion. You have worked hard all the way, right?" , Hurry up and get in the car, let's go to the art gallery!"

After saying this, Hua Manrao changed her aggressive attitude just now, and enthusiastically pulled Gao Jue towards the parking lot, Wu Xueli also hurriedly followed, the three of them walked to the airport parking lot quickly, Hua Manrao gave Step on the accelerator to the bottom, and drive towards the art gallery at high speed.

Along the way, Wu Xueli was introducing the situation of the Yecheng Art Museum to Gao Jue, while Hua Manrao didn't say a word, grabbed the steering wheel with both hands, overtook left and right, and drove quickly towards the Yecheng Art Museum.

After Wu Xueli's introduction, Gao felt that the Yecheng Art Museum was an old building with a long history, located in the downtown area of ​​Yecheng.

The art gallery looks like a large garden house from the outside. The entire art gallery is three floors high and consists of a main building and two annex buildings on the left and right. The exhibition hall is the main building in the center, and the annex buildings on both sides are the offices of the art museum. .

Hua Manrao parked the car in front of the annex building with ease, and a bald middle-aged man walked up enthusiastically.

After Wu Xueli's introduction, Gao Jue knew that this man was Chang Junshan, the curator of the Yecheng Art Museum. With a formulaic smile on his face, the curator Chang shook hands with Gao Jue enthusiastically.

Gao Jue was flattered and shook hands with Director Chang. Director Chang was very satisfied with him. This Chinese-American is quite up-to-date, not as arrogant as those foreign artists.

After leaving a good first impression, Director Chang took Gao Jue to visit the Yecheng Art Museum in person despite his busy schedule.

The annex building and the main building are connected by a long corridor. Director Chang led the way, Gao Jue walked in the middle, Wu Xueli accompanied, and Hua Manrao followed. The four walked along the corridor and walked into the central exhibition museum.

This garden house is very grand, the floor is covered with shiny marble. Although the house looks like a three-story building from the outside, it is actually only a three-story building surrounded by the main building. In the center of the whole house is a tall building. Square patio on three floors.

The edge of the patio is supported by huge ancient Roman marble columns. The sunlight is filtered through the anti-ultraviolet glass and sprinkled from the dome. The unique design ensures the lighting of the patio and prevents ultraviolet rays from damaging the artwork.

There are many modern artworks around this courtyard, which Wu Xueli spent a lot of effort negotiating.

After the Blood Butterfly incident, the reputation of the art museum was affected, and a large number of artists withdrew their works. Gao Jue looked around, and even with his poor art level, he couldn't see any good works that caught the eye.

This is also something that can’t be helped. Blood Butterfly is making a lot of noise in Yecheng. Now the major museums are panicking. All the original plans for exchange exhibitions have been suspended. It is not easy to fill up this museum. Those worlds No one dares to exhibit a well-known masterpiece in Yecheng Art Museum.

Director Chang introduced the security measures to Gao Jue while walking, but it still sounded so old-fashioned, and the camera of the museum was still very eye-catching.Although Director Chang boasted that the security measures have been strengthened, in Gao Jue's view, the security of this museum is still very lax.

This is something that can’t be helped. You can’t spend a lot of money to increase security costs because of thieves. After all, the Yecheng Art Museum is only a public welfare organization. The hair is gone, if the security measures are upgraded, then all the staff will have to drink the northwest wind.

Then again, even if Van Gogh's famous paintings were stolen here, it would not have much impact on the museum except for a little bit of reputation.After all, these famous paintings have been insured with a large amount of insurance, and if they are stolen from the art museum, the art museum does not need compensation.

Director Chang led the crowd to the largest glass booth in the center of the courtyard. He pointed to the one-meter-high booth and said to Gao Jue with a smile: "Mr. Gao, your "Sleeping Beauty" will be exhibited here. As the finale project of this exhibition, we vacated the best showcases."

Gao Jue looked at the showcase carefully. It was a three-meter-high marble wall, and at a height of one meter on the wall, was covered a huge glass showcase. The exhibits would be displayed in this showcase.

Gao Jue took a look at the glass showcase. It took three keys to open the showcase, and the glass door was very thick. Opening the glass door required not only a ladder, but also a lot of strength.

But Gao Jue has read the news. A week ago, Van Gogh's famous painting "Sunflower Cut with Two Knives" was displayed in this showcase.

As the first theft case, when the Yecheng Art Museum received threats from blood butterflies, they didn't take it seriously. The art museum received several copies of this kind of threat book from children every day.

However, Director Chang still sent additional guards on night shift, and specially divided the keys of the showcase into three parts, locked one in the safe, kept one on his body, and the deputy director on his body.

Even so, under the surveillance of several security guards, "Sunflower Cut with Two Knives" still disappeared from the display case.This made the Yecheng Art Museum very anxious. They reviewed all the surveillance cameras, and the police also questioned the night shift security guards. Everyone said that they didn't see a single figure. This famous painting just disappeared like this!

This incident caused a sensation in Yecheng, and everyone knows what happened later. Blood Butterfly committed crimes in Yecheng Exhibition Hall and Yecheng Modern Art Museum one after another, and stole two other precious pieces of modern art in full view. Taste.

Gao Jue looked at the showcase, and evaluated the difficulty of stealing the paintings from the showcase in his mind. What method did the blood butterfly use to steal the famous paintings from here?
Director Chang coughed lightly, and he said to Gao Jue: "Mr. Gao, don't worry about the security here. Now that we are here, can you show us the work "Sleeping Beauty", I would like to thank Adam Galloway's masterpiece has also been admired for a long time."

Gao Jue smiled, and untied the painting tube that had been carried behind his back all the time. He opened the painting tube and poured out a large rolled up photo.

The original painting of Sleeping Beauty is a one-meter-long enlarged photo. Curator Chang and Wu Xueli held the photo, and Hua Manrao opened the photo with a pilgrimage mood, and a black and white beauty's back appeared in front of everyone.

The background of this "Sleeping Beauty" is an American-style big bed, on which lies a short-haired beauty with a bare back. See the smooth back and slender neck.

As soon as Hua Manrao saw the panorama of "Sleeping Beauty", Hua Manrao's eyes lit up. It was indeed a masterpiece by Adam Galloway. This work was the best choice in terms of lighting, composition and effect. Although the beauty only shows the back, it still shows amazing beauty. This work is simply amazing.

Gao Jue smiled slightly when he saw the reaction of the three people. This work is naturally real. This is a photo reconstructed by Gao Jue using the "image completion algorithm" based on the four corners left after the burning of "Sleeping Beauty" .

According to Mei Xing's analysis, even if Adam Galloway was reborn, he would not be able to tell the difference between this work and the real one.

Wu Xueli is also immersed in the charm of artworks. Only Director Chang is very excited. His art appreciation ability is average. As a manager, Director Chang sees more benefits of the food hall.

This work is beautiful, and more importantly, it is said that the model is the wife of the former president of the United States. This gimmick alone can attract countless people to visit. Director Chang even thought up the advertising slogan, "For Art Dedication, the wife of the President of the United States is willing to be a nude model."

It doesn't matter whether she is the current president's wife or the former president's wife, whether she is naked or backless, anyway, the advertisements are advertised in an exaggerated way. Director Chang seems to have seen the crowded scene of the art museum.

Hua Manrao and Wu Xueli were immersed in the charm of the artwork. If the curator Chang hadn't coughed heavily, they wouldn't know when they would see it.

Hua Manrao blushed slightly. After all, she had been looking at the photo of the beauty for a long time, and there was still saliva on the corner of her mouth. She wiped the saliva in embarrassment, looked at Gao Jue with pleading eyes and said, "Mr. Gao, this picture The work is so beautiful, please ask my mounting company to make a frame for you!"

Director Chang usually does not suffer from Hua Manrao's benefits. He coughed and said, "Mr. Gao, our art museum has a cooperation with Ms. Hua's company. You only need to choose her exhibition frame, and our art museum will pay for it." .”

Gao Jue didn't care. After he nodded, Hua Manrao and Wu Xueli discussed it. Hua Manrao pointed to "Sleeping Beauty" and said: "Originally modern artworks use beech wood frames with wood grain, but this work It has a retro aesthetic, I think it can use a retro moiré border, what do you think Shirley?"

Xueli Wu also nodded, and she said: "Indeed, this "Sleeping Beauty" reminds me of "Mona Lisa" and Venus with a Broken Arm. It uses a modern camera to capture the beauty of classicism. Adam Galloway What a genius photographer."

Gao Jue left the matter of the picture frame to the two women to decide. He strolled outside the exhibition hall alone. In the center of the three garden houses in the shape of a Chinese character, there is a marble obelisk.

Gao Jue walked up to the obelisk. This is where the Blood Butterfly sent out the war letter. The cardboard with the butterfly seal was pasted on the obelisk.

Gao Jue looked around. This is a small square of the art museum, and there is no place to install cameras around it. That is to say, Blood Butterfly posted the gauntlet here in a grand manner.

Gao Jue turned back to look at the art gallery again, a shadow enveloped the entire art gallery, Gao Jue looked up, and a butterfly-shaped cloud floated over the art gallery, Gao Jue chuckled, and said to himself: "Just wait You're hooked, Blood Butterfly."

(End of this chapter)