"Let's see, can you choose the one that is truly valuable from these sculptures?"

Chen Rui placed the six small sculptures in a row on the desk.

"Wow, so cute!"

But Karen took a liking to the chubby sitting dog at a glance.

Then he looked around again and quickly picked out the man wearing a hat and smoking and the woman skating on one leg.

"It should be the three of them!"

Chen Rui couldn't help but his eyes lit up: "Hey! I have you! Can you pick out all these?"

Karen shook her head arrogantly: "Of course, you don't care who I am?"

"Ha, I said you're fat, but you're really out of breath! Well, can you tell me the origins of these bronze sculptures?"

Chen Rui asked Karen with a smile.

Unexpectedly, Karen rolled her eyes this time.

"Well, I don't know that."

"Then how do you know these three items are treasures?"

Chen Rui was stunned, but Karen looked at him with a smile.

"Do you think I'm stupid? These three pieces are obviously of the same style and should have been carved by one person."

"As for the other three pieces, look at them. Not to mention the styling, even in terms of temperament, they are incomparable to these three pieces!"

After hearing Karen's explanation, Chen Rui had to give her a thumbs up.

"Indeed, good vision!"

"That's it, okay, now it's your turn to introduce to me, whose works are these three sculptures?"

Karen suddenly looked at Chen Rui with big eyes and asked.

But this time, it was Chen Rui's turn to scratch his head in embarrassment: "Well, I don't know about this either..."

"What?"

Karen's face was full of surprise, but she soon felt relieved.

"You guys are always like this, maybe this is your talent!"

"Although you don't know whose works these are, the things you selected are definitely not too bad!"

When it comes to this, Chen Rui can't help but be a little arrogant.

He looked up at Karen: "Hey, I don't know whose work this is."

"But that doesn't stop us from checking it out!"

As Chen Rui spoke, he took these bronze sculptures in his hands and began to study and play with them carefully.

Soon he discovered that the wooden bases of these bronze sculptures were all installed later.

There probably weren't these wooden bases in the early stages, so he tried to remove them all.

The hollow inside the bronze sculpture was exposed, and he used a flashlight to shine inside.

Sure enough, inside these bronze sculptures, he found David Batlló's signature in Spanish letters.

Although they discovered the name of the producer, the two of them still felt confused.

"How about we take photos of these bronze sculptures and put them online to check!"

Karen made a suggestion, and Chen Rui thought about it. It seems that Google's smart search now has an image search function.

Although they don't expect to find exactly the same one, they can look for it by looking at the picture.

If you can find similar works, wouldn't it make sense to check who created the similar works?

Just as they were told, the two quickly took photos of the three bronze sculptures and uploaded them to the Internet.

Then I started searching with pictures...

As a result, after pressing the search button, dozens of photos of similar sculptures popped up in less than half a minute.

The two looked at each other and saw the joy in each other's eyes.

Chen Rui quickly clicked on a link to a picture.

"The sculptures of Mr. Fernando Batlló, a famous South American artist, are currently collected in the XX Museum in Paris, France."

After clicking on another sculpture picture with a similar style, an introduction quickly appeared below.

"An exhibition of the works of Colombia's living representational painter and great sculptor Fernando Batllo will be held at the Yinguo xxx Museum recently..."

I clicked on several pictures one after another and looked at the various text introductions below.

The two of them already knew in their minds that these three bronze sculptures should be the works of this South American art master.

The two of them quickly opened the introduction about this master. They really didn't know what to read and were shocked when they saw it.

It turns out that this master came from Ferdolan Botro, a small town on the outskirts of Medellín.

Chen Rui has heard of many European art masters before, and now he also knows a few American masters.

But he is the first person he knows who is a famous South American artist and is recognized by the world.

And judging from this guy’s introduction, this guy is by no means just an artist.

He is even called Colombia’s national treasure!

Good guy, if you are given such a title, then this man is definitely not simple.

It turns out that this guy was born in an ordinary family in a small town on the outskirts of Medellin. When he was 4 years old, his salesman father died of a heart attack on the way to work.

His mother was a tailor and barely supported him until junior high school with a meager salary.

But after graduating from junior high school, he was sent to a matador school by his uncle to learn bullfighting.

Unfortunately, after two years of training, he was injured and retired.

Later, he enrolled in a local art school and studied art for two years. Unfortunately, he failed to get good grades.

Later, he caught up with a good time, the end of World War II, and the 1950s, which was also the most turbulent era in the world.

He and some friends traveled to Europe, first to his hometown of Spain.

In Barcelona, ​​he met many local artists and painters and learned a lot from them.

This period was the initial stage of his artistic style.

In the late 1950s, he returned to Colombia.

I opened a studio in my hometown and conducted a series of artistic creations and sculpture creations.

Unfortunately, at that time, his works were not recognized by the people.

The reason is very simple, because the style of this old man's works is so unique!

You must know that in the Western art world at that time, oil paintings were mainly divided into two categories.

One is the traditional realism school, which emphasizes simplicity and realism in painting style.

The painted works are generally highly similar to the photos.

The other category is abstraction, that is, the group of Van Gogh and Picasso.

Everyone knows the painting style of this row of paintings, which are abstract and exaggerated.

Sometimes, no one even knows what they are painting.

As for the content of the painting, it can only be understood but cannot be expressed in words.

The style is similar to that of domestic landscape painting, but it emphasizes an artistic conception!

Until the emergence of Fernando Botero, a third sect appeared in the Western oil painting world, that is, the representational school!

So what is representationalism?

This can be seen from Botero's painting style. Every object he paints is plump and fat.

Both the characters and the painted fruits are round and chubby.

What do you mean by this style? Have you ever seen the cartoon illustrations in enlightenment children’s books?
Chapter completed!