OBS Chapter 1980 Modern Art (Please give me a monthly ticket!!! Please subscribe!!! Please recommend!!!)
Chapter 1980 Modern Art (Please give me a monthly ticket!!! Please subscribe!!! Please recommend!!!)
Chapter 1980 Modern Art (Please give me a monthly ticket!!! Please subscribe!!! Please recommend!!!)
To be honest, Athena is much easier to deal with than Hera!
There was no way, Athena was really inexperienced, and she wasn't the kind of goddess who was obsessed with carnal desires. Not only that, she could even be said to be a little celibate in this regard. Of course, you can't say that this experience was bad, on the contrary, Kai felt it was great.
Athena didn't pull Kai to do that all the time. On the contrary, she preferred to hug each other and talk to each other about topics that interested both of them.
If you are happy to chat, Athena might come over, but the frequency is not high.
Most of the time, Kay would either lie with Athena in the pavilion without talking, or they would lie on the blanket hugging each other, or he would accompany her to watch various arts, including sculptures, paintings, singing and dancing, especially singing and dancing.
This is Athena's favorite project.
She owns the largest open-air theater in the entire Paradise Star.
Here, there are always the best actors performing various shows, including songs, dances and dramas. There are even people giving speeches there.
In short, when she is not enjoying the quiet, that is one of the places Athena stays most often.
Another place is the military exercise room.
It is a very unique place where one can see the wars taking place among Athena's followers on various planets.
It is also through here that Athena and her staff will deduce the progress of the war while responding to the prayers of believers. If Athena sees something she likes, she will really give down revelations.
This is also Athena's favorite.
However, Athena didn't go there these days.
In short, over the past few days, Kai's life can't be said to be very good, it can be said to be extremely good.
Although he doesn't understand art or opera, to be honest, this lack of understanding is a lack of understanding of modern human art. Art is beauty, and everyone can appreciate it. Although not everyone can explain this beauty in detail, beauty is something common and the same all over the world.
Old farmers in the country can appreciate it, and so can the rich and powerful.
The terms "vulgar culture" and "elite culture" are actually false propositions, and they were added by someone.
Look at the so-called art of modern times...it takes pride in its obscurity and pride in its strangeness.
Maybe some people really express themselves in that way, but the question is, who the hell knows what your self is like? Outsiders can't understand it at all!
The older the art, the more pleasing it is to the eye. After all, the artists under Athena still have a kind of classical beauty in their art, at least it won't make people confused. Abstract art in modern art has always been praised by many people.
But in reality, there are very few people who can really appreciate it. But once it is mentioned, it seems that everyone can say something about it.
In Kai's opinion, that thing is not as good as this art with obvious ancient Greek style.
At least Kai is pleasing to the eye, whether it is a sculpture or a painting, it looks beautiful.
It looks good, and this is the most primitive expression of art.
Nothing is more important than this.
On the other side of Earth... Kai doesn't really understand those so-called arts.
The most amazing piece of art Kai has ever seen is a piece of white paper!
A blank piece of paper is the most imaginative, and no one knows what kind of valuable colors a blank piece of paper can eventually present. But even if we use up all the protein in our brains, we can't imagine that a blank piece of paper can be sold as a top-notch work of art, and it was sold for 9000 million. What's even more infuriating is that people lazily and listlessly drew a few circles on the paper, and it was sold for 4 million. Seeing that a blank piece of paper and a few circles could actually be exchanged for a long string of numbers, some people were so angry that they directly changed Deng Ziqi's "Bubble" to: It's all "hype", just a moment of "deception"...
This is not a painting at all. It is not as good as my son's graffiti. How can it be sold for 9000 million or even 9000 or 9000 million? Then the question is, how much can my son's graffiti sell for? The great god-level figure who can make a piece of white paper sell for million is not Leng Jun who is good at drawing photos, nor is he Fan Zeng who is good at assembly lines, but Robert Lehman from the United States. Lehman's best painting method is to draw as little as possible and not draw if he can. Anyway, he just wants to save trouble. It can also be said to be a lazy painting method. His works are like a piece of white paper with nothing on it. Maybe Westerners are not like us Chinese. When doing art, they also need to "follow the Qin and Han dynasties, and poetry must be prosperous in the Tang Dynasty". They are good at innovation and specialize in future science fiction attempts. Lehman's minimalism is well-known in the West. No matter what doctrine it is, we ordinary people can't figure it out anyway. It looks like that. Look at those audiences standing in front of his representative work "Untitled". Aren't they confused! But such a piece of white paper was sold for a whopping million yuan. Do you think there are really such rich and stupid people in this world? Art in the eyes of Westerners is really hard to understand. Even if you are not convinced, a piece of white paper was sold for million yuan.
Perhaps selling white paper directly seemed too disrespectful to the audience's intelligence. A painter named Cetompoli couldn't stand it anymore, so he also painted "Untitled". In order to show his respect for the audience's intelligence and his own professionalism, he added a few circles on the white paper.
These circles are amazing. The art world regards them as outstanding representatives of abstract art. Therefore, the circles he drew were sold for 4.5 million, which is jaw-dropping. In fact, abstract art, to put it simply, is like the painter playing hide-and-seek with you. The real thoughts in his mind are not told to you, and people have to interpret and guess in various ways. As for the circles drawn by Cetompoli, in addition to paying tribute to the audience's IQ, the professional interpretation of critics is that "the circles draw the pain of life." Unfortunately, most of the audience looked left and right, except for the pain in their eyes, and could not feel the so-called pain of life.
That's fine.
Some are even more extreme.
For example, some people call the graffiti casually drawn by an orangutan with a paintbrush a work of art.
Oh, and there are pig ones too.
These are all true stories.
Can this thing have artistic value?
Hey, don't be angry, this thing has artistic value, and it's priced sky-high because it's not for ordinary people to play with!
After all, in the art market, any piece of crappy stuff painted by someone unknown will have a minimum asking price of tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands.
That’s it, and it’s just an entry-level product for low-level players.
Art collection often gives people an unfathomable impression, and most people will be discouraged because of their lack of appreciation for the collection. In fact, art is one of the three major investment areas along with financial bonds and real estate.
In addition, it has another very important function, which is money laundering!
The characteristics of art make it one of the most convenient tools for money laundering. There is no authoritative organization or valuation standard for the value of art, so it can be easily hyped up to a sky-high price. In addition, the art transaction is not transparent, which makes art the first choice for some people to launder money.
There are usually several money laundering methods behind art auctions: First, money laundering. For example, if A needs to turn hundreds of millions of yuan of illegal money into legal income, he can buy artist B's works at the market price of 10 yuan per piece, and then hype the value of these paintings to a sky-high price, and then send the paintings to auction. Through money laundering organizations, different people are arranged to bid for them at different auction houses at a sky-high price of 1000 million yuan or even higher. This money is paid by A's illegal money, so the illegal money is laundered in the name of art investment.
The second is corruption-style money laundering. Assuming that Person A can control 1 million yuan of public assets, he can set up an art investment institution or art gallery. Next, Person A will find Person B to work together to make a scheme to increase the value of the 1000 million yuan artwork that Person B has sent for auction to 1 million yuan. Then the extra 9000 million yuan can be converted from public assets to private ones and shared by Person A and Person B through negotiation.
The third is related money laundering. Some sky-high transactions do not benefit the buyer and seller, but are used to launder money for related parties that have no social relationship with them. A buys a large number of paintings from artist B one or two years in advance, turning black money into works of art. Then the money laundering organization arranges C and D to jointly hype up the price of B. After that, A can sell B's works at auctions or galleries at any time and transfer the proceeds to related parties to achieve the purpose of money laundering.
In order to maximize the profit of money laundering, the price of goods used for money laundering is generally inflated by about 100 times, and the real price of the goods is also part of the money laundering fee. Some money laundering transactions can be divided into two parts: real transactions and virtual transactions. For example, in a transaction of 2 million, the real transaction part is 4.3 million, which needs to be paid in reality, and the virtual transaction is 3000 million, so the virtual part of 4 million is used for money laundering. If cultural relics are used for money laundering, the authenticity of the cultural relics on the auction house is not important, and it is better to be fake, because the real price of fake ones is lower, which reduces the money laundering fee. For example, a forged Han Dynasty jade stool was sold for 4 million, a fake Song Huizong Thousand Character Classic was sold for 2 million, a fake Qi Baishi shrimp was sold for more than 1 million, and a fake Xu Beihong oil painting was sold for 1.2 million.
Some people will find those so-called artists who are not famous and spend money to promote them. As for whether those things are real works of art... it doesn't matter, as long as there is a gimmick. For example, the white paper and the gorilla painting and the pig painting mentioned just now.
As long as there is a gimmick and attention, then find art critics to start praising it!
Otherwise, how do you think those white papers and graffiti are valuable?
Also, how do you think art critics make their living? Their biggest source of income is to stir up trouble and drive up prices!
In short, it doesn’t matter whether it is art or not, and it doesn’t matter what the painting is about. They will praise the artists and the artistic value of these so-called works of art.
Then you can start the game.
Do those who buy art really like it? The answer is of course not.
The two biggest uses for buying this stuff are tax evasion and money laundering!
After all, there is no way to measure the price of this thing. As long as someone offers a price, it will be worth a certain amount of money.
This has led to the so-called modern art starting to go astray. It is either the author's extreme personal expression, or it is just something done casually, and there is no so-called artistry at all.
The only good thing is... they don't cheat the poor.
Do poor people need to avoid taxes?
Do poor people need money laundering?
So, it’s not surprising that Kai can’t understand those so-called arts. Which good person can understand that?
Kai told this to Athena, who was angry but amused at the same time. Amusing is how Kai described it, and it was indeed very funny. Especially the one about the white paper, which almost made Athena laugh to death.
Angry because art is her field.
She is the patron saint of artists. She will never be happy if art is desecrated like this.
But she soon forgot about it.
Because Kai brought something new, the smartphone.
Although there was no way to access the Internet, Kai's smartphone itself had a huge memory, and when he came, Kai asked the artificial intelligence to download countless ultra-clear photos of classic art.
Athena was delighted to see these works of art.
Athena especially likes the works of the masters of oil painting and sculpture during the Renaissance.
If Athena had to say that she had a preference, she preferred sculptures, and among paintings, she preferred natural scenery.
All in all, both parties are quite satisfied.
The only one who was unhappy was Thor. He clearly asked Kai to do the job, but what was the result?
As soon as Kai came out, he went into the women's nest. Thor hadn't seen Kai for nearly half a month.
This made Thor very unhappy.
The point is, Thor can do nothing but feel unhappy. After all, this is someone else's territory. He is not afraid of causing trouble in someone else's territory, but if this is Kai's girlfriend's territory, Thor will not be able to get angry.
Fortunately...someone is more anxious than Thor.
That was Aphrodite. She originally wanted to make Athena fall, but these two people actually played pure love with her!
This isn't right.
Aphrodite does not hate pure love. On the contrary, the goddess appreciates and even revels in pure love. But if the object is Athena, then something is wrong.
Seeing that Athena was unlikely to degenerate into a nymphomaniac, she could not wait any longer.
She has a better way, which is to make Kai fall in love with her!
Aphrodite is absolutely confident on this point!
Aphrodite has a magical artifact, a golden love belt, which contains the secret of her seduction. As long as she wears the belt around her waist, she can increase her charm and arouse the attention and lust of others.
Coupled with her unparalleled charm, no one can ignore her.
Fortunately, Athena is not really idle. She doesn't sleep for a week like Hera... That would be terrible.
Athena reluctantly bid farewell to Kay and went into her own war room, where countless wars were starting and ending, and she had to pay attention to them.
She had already agreed with Kai that she could visit him on Earth when she was free. Perhaps Kai would visit her via the Rainbow Bridge.
In short, now that we have established a connection, it won’t be so easy to break it off.
As soon as Kai walked out of Athena's domain, he was caught by Thor.
"Brother! I came to you for help! Can you please solve the problem before picking up girls? I have been waiting for half a month."
Kai smiled bitterly and said, "Brother... I'm just helping. You know the situation now, right? If the two of us really go to the Almighty City, we have almost no choice but to fight. If I don't appease these goddesses, we can't enter the Almighty City."