Inherit For Three Thousand Years

Cultivation items are hard to find, they may not appear in large auctions, and may not be absent in small auctions.

After hesitating for a moment, Xiao Yao still decided to participate, "There is nothing to do the day after tomorrow, so let's go and have a look."

"This magic city is the top club in the magic city. Although you, the president, do not lack connections, the entertainment facilities in this club are very complete. It is definitely a good choice to come here once in a while. Do you want to? Get a membership card?" Zheng Xiaowu suggested.

"Then make one, maybe it will be used at any time."

Xiao Yao has more and more properties in Shanghai, and with Fang Suxi as his girlfriend, it is inevitable that when entertaining guests, Shanghai should be a good choice.

With Xiao Yao's identity and Zheng Xiaowu as the introducer, Xiao Yao will naturally have no obstacles in joining the Magic City.

Zheng Xiaowu passed the news to the person in charge of the Magic City, Xiao Yao didn't even need to go to the club, the manager of the Magic City came to apply for his membership card in person.

As Xiao Yao, the clubhouse will naturally handle the highest-level vIp member for him. After all the procedures are completed, the manager of the clubhouse did not leave, but continued: "President Xiao, the day after tomorrow our clubhouse and auction company The jointly held auction is about to officially start, I heard Mr. Zheng said that you are also planning to participate, are you sure now? If you can confirm it, I will send you the invitation letter right away."

"Then you can send me the invitation letter, I should be able to participate."

"This is really great. It is definitely our honor to have a business leader like you participate in our auction." After a flattering sentence, the manager of the clubhouse changed the subject, "President Xiao, this is the first time you have participated in our auction." Auction, and you have just become our senior member, you must support us."

"Since I am already a member of your club, of course I will support your work." Xiao Yao responded casually.

"Thank you so much!" The manager of the clubhouse looked excited, "With your support, I will definitely have more face in front of other members in the future. I heard Mr. Zheng said that you are a rare collector in China. , I wonder if you have any collections that need to be exchanged and replaced? If so, can you support our auction this time? The collections collected in this auction are a bit small, especially the lack of heavyweight finale items. If Chairman Xiao can support my work, then my work will be easier."

"As soon as you open your mouth, you are the finale of the lot. Don't you think highly of me?" Xiao Yao didn't answer, but asked rhetorically.

"You are the president of the Xiaoyaohui. As you are, the item you sent for auction must be extraordinary, and the price must not be low. If I can't make the item you sent for auction the finale, then I am ignorant." The manager said seriously.

"Being so highly praised by you, if I can't bring out good things, I really lose my face. Just wait a moment, and I'll get you something."

Although the manager of the club said flattering words, but in Xiao Yao's identity, the thing he sent for the shoot really couldn't be too bad, otherwise, it would really tarnish his identity.

Not long after, Xiao Yao took out an oil painting.

The scale of this oil painting is relatively large. It looks like it is 1.8 meters wide and 2.3 meters long.

Xiao Yao hung up the painting, and only then did the manager of the club see the content of the oil painting.

Seeing this painting for the first time, the manager of the clubhouse showed surprise on his face!

This painting is so recognizable that it is "Bloodline: Big Family" by Zhang Xiaogang.

Zhang Xiaogang is one of the representative figures of modern painters. His works are the best embodiment of the sophisticated Chinese situation in contemporary art.

Since the mid-1990s, he has used the style of modern Chinese pop art to express the facial makeup portraits of the revolutionary era, conveying the collective psychological memory and emotions with the significance of the times. This typical presentation and simulation of society, collective, family, and blood relationship is a reinterpretation,

It starts from the perspective of art, emotion and life, so it has strong contemporary significance.

The portraits of the characters in this work are idealized and beautiful, and the protagonists are dignified and dignified to create an image that will be famous for future generations.

Like the portrait photos in the early studios, the blemishes and spots on each person's face are washed away to make them perfect and pure... These figures represent the masses of today. As a kind of schema, these "crowds" have surpassed the canvas and become a symbol of the changing times.

Zhang Xiaogang belongs to that era of dark blue and army green, and also represents the sharpest gaze in that era that has passed away.

"Bloodline: Big Family No. 3" happens to be the best witness of history!

The Bloodline series was born in Kunming in the summer of 1993, and its first exhibition was the "Chinese Art in the 1990s: Chinese Experience" exhibition at Sichuan Art Museum in Chengdu in December of the same year.

The exhibition is curated by critic Wang Lin, and the participating artists are Zhang Xiaogang, Mao Xuhui, Ye Yongqing, Wang Chuan and Zhou Chunya. These artists are all members of the Southwest Art Research Association, a trendy art group. In this exhibition, Zhang Xiaogang exhibited ten works, including a "Family Portrait".

The portrait of a family of three is depicted in a realistic way, which probably represents the artist's own family. The emaciated figures in this work are already similar to "Bloodline: Big Family". The blocks of light on the figures' faces also foresee the later color-changing light patterns, but the shading treatment of the background is not as detailed as in the later works. This work, which was later named "Bloodline: Family Portrait", was collected by the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum. It was the first time that Zhang Xiaogang's work was collected by an international art institution.

Xiao Yao personally likes Zhang Xiaogang's works very much. He believes that if one wants to find works that echo modern history in contemporary Chinese art, it is impossible to avoid the important position of "Bloodline: Big Family" in contemporary Chinese art.

This series represented contemporary China in important international exhibitions in the West in 1994, including the Sao Paulo Biennale and the Venice Biennale. The artist used photos from the Wen* period as a model to record a generation of Chinese people's trauma to the past. memory.

The "Bloodline: Big Family" series marks the artist's resolute abandonment of expressionism and his conscious search for a face that represents the Chinese on the canvas. From the individual to the nation, from the myth of individual existence to the gaze of the nation's history, it shows the The artist's departure from the introspective style of early expressionism and surrealism became the most important milestone in Zhang Xiaogang's creative career, and became a recurring motif in his future creations.