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Because this Van Gogh-style oil painting had such a huge impact on everyone, the entire salon spent the rest of the time discussing this oil painting.

Under everyone's warm invitation, Liang En also used the oil painting tools prepared by Marie Antoinette to start creating a new painting.

Considering time issues, Liang En did not paint a 98 × 69cm oil painting with the same size as this sunflower, but painted a sunflower on a 30x21cm canvas.

When he mixed the paint and picked up the brush, the scene suddenly became quiet, because they discovered that Liang En's temperament at this time was completely different from before.

If Liang En was a gentle scholar before, then the moment he stood on the drawing board wall, a fanatical artist's temperament appeared in him.

The people present also realized this. Because they felt as if they were facing a different person, and at the same time, they also felt in their hearts that this was probably the reason why Liang En could truly appreciate Van Gogh's artistic level.

In the next few hours, Liang En stood in front of the canvas and painted carefully. As he waved the brush, a golden sunflower appeared on the canvas.

Like the sunflowers on display in the salon today, this golden sunflower oil painting shows great vitality, making people feel a surging vitality after looking at it.

Many people may think that it takes a long time to draw an oil painting, but if you only draw a small oil painting without considering a series of subsequent processing, a few hours is enough to complete this work.

So a few minutes before the salon was expected to end, Liang En also successfully painted the last stroke on the canvas, bringing the painting to a smooth ending.

"Yes, that's right, that's it." When Liang En put down his brush, the art critic just walked over and said seriously.

"Although Van Gogh is far away from the era we live in, I can be sure of one fact. There is no painter closer to Van Gogh than you among the living people."

"Thank you for your compliment." After hearing what the critic said, Liang En nodded slightly to express his agreement with the critic's statement, and then pointed to his painting.

"It may take several months to process this oil painting. During this time, the oil painting will be placed in this gallery. If you want to see it, you can come and have a look."

After realizing that everyone wanted to squeeze to the front to see the painting, Liang En told everyone that he actually welcomed these professionals to see his painting because they could help him promote it.

Although Liang En is not a professional painter, and will never take this profession as his main occupation, it is always a good thing for his paintings to be appreciated by others.

It is true that after gaining Mucha's ability, he also drew many important pictures, but most of them were obviously commercial pictures.

Therefore, during this period of time, although Liang En can be regarded as slightly famous in commercial illustrations and posters, he is still an unknown person in the art world.

Yes, Mucha is indeed an artist of high standard, but he prefers purely commercial paintings, so no matter how rich he is commercially, his artistic status will not be high.

In particular, the art world itself has a chain of contempt. At the same time, this chain of written examinations can also be subdivided, and oil paintings are basically at the top of the chain of contempt.

In other words, in the eyes of many people, it is basically difficult for a painter who does not paint oil paintings to be recognized as a famous painter. This is the reason why Liang En was not recognized before.

Now that he has gained the power of Van Gogh, the oil paintings he painted will naturally change everyone's views, and from then on he will begin to be considered an important painter in the art world.

"To be honest, the effect of this salon is even better than we imagined." Mary said seriously to Liang En after hosting everyone for lunch and watching everyone leave.

"I believe that your paintings can be recognized by everyone simply based on their artistic value, but I didn't expect them to be recognized so quickly. Of course, I think this may also be related to the fact that today's artists are mainly classical artists."

"Yes, according to Chinese people, many things depend on the right time, location, and people. Today, we at least have the right location, people, and people, so the promotion effect will definitely be good."

Liang En tried his best to say this saying in French, and then explained the specific meaning of this saying, and Mary nodded repeatedly to the specific meaning of this saying.

"Yes, this is indeed an ancient wisdom. Looking back now, the reason why we got to that point is related to the fact that we lost the right time, location, and people."

The French Revolution was indeed caused by many factors, such as the famine in France at that time, the collapsed finances, the increasingly impoverished people, and so on.

If we sum up and make analogies, for the French royal family at that time, the period at the end of the 18th century could indeed be said to be faced with a terrible situation in which the right time, right place, and people were lost.

Of course, during this time, Mary also reflected on her previous actions and realized that she and the king had unshirkable responsibilities for making the country like this, and then she felt relieved about many things.

For example, she made a special trip to Madame Tussauds Wax Museum, and then carefully visited one of the earliest collections of the wax museum - a wax figure of her own head.

This kind of thing was a model specially made in a one-to-one ratio during the French Revolution for the convenience of publicity, considering that real human heads were easily rotten.

This head wax figure was also made by Madame Tussaud, whose original name was Marie Groschutz, who was born in Strasbourg, France. Her mother was the housekeeper of Dr. Philip Godesch. Dr. Philip was also a very famous wax figure craftsman, and later taught Mary the wax figure making technology.

In 1770, Dr. Philippe founded a wax museum in Paris. Eight years later, when Mary was 17 years old, she made only one wax figure of Voltaire in Paris.

In 1780, she was hired as an art tutor by a French royal family, and in 1787 she produced wax figures of King Louis XVI and Queen Marie.

In 1789, after the French Revolution began, she was forced to make models of the death heads of King Louis XVI and Queen Mary after they were beheaded on the guillotine.

Marie was imprisoned a year later, but her sculptural skills saved her from the guillotine, and she was released to make a cast of Robespierre's death head.

In 1794, Marie inherited Dr. Philippe's wax museum business, and the following year she married Francois Tussaud and gave birth to two sons. From then on, the name Madame Tussaud became famous.

In 1802, the 41-year-old Madame Tussaud seized a new opportunity to develop a career in London and never had the chance to return to France to see her husband. For the next 33 years, she has been developing her wax figure business.

Today, Madame Tussauds has become the benchmark for this type of wax museum, and has opened more than 20 branches in London, Amsterdam, Las Vegas, New York, Shanghai, Washington, Berlin, Vienna, Tokyo and other places.