Almighty painter

Chapter 141 The Wehrlein Studio
The interview room of the Home Office is not the interrogation room of Scotland Yard, so of course it cannot be equipped with handcuffs, incandescent lamps, and restraint chairs.

After the fat assistant walked in the door,
I found that there is no essential difference from common office places except that the walls are painted whiter.In the conversation room, there was a round table with a fruit plate, and there was even a potted plant in the corner.

The Home Office didn't just ask fat assistants alone.

Deputy Director Schubert was already sitting at the table.

Seeing the fat assistant come in, Schubert just looked up at him, and then continued to silently deal with the bunch of grapes in the fruit plate.

"Director Charlie, Deputy Director Schubert, and Assistant Cole, since both sides of the interview are here, if you have no objections, let's start."

When Charlie, who was smoking a cigar, entered the room and closed the door, an old man with a square face sat at the table and looked at the three people across from him.

Because Osborne's rank is too high, unless authorized by the board of directors, the Ministry of Internal Affairs is not qualified to interview people.

"Director Charlie, regarding the illustrator Detective Cat's violation of discipline in obtaining the Scholastic Group's "Little Prince" contract and causing heavy property losses to the group, do you have anything to explain?"

The person in charge of the square face glanced at Director Charlie.

"I demand that this project be stopped and the relevant violators held accountable. Those who should be fired should be fired, and those who should be called should be called to the police."

Now that you have come to the Ministry of Internal Affairs,
Charlie didn't want to leave any room for maneuver.He expressed his appeal as coldly and fiercely as a lion king dealing with wild dogs running around in his territory.

"As for Detective Cat, I request that the related contract be revoked, and I will be added to the blacklist of painters within the group, never to cooperate."

The fat assistant shrank his neck in fear.

blacklist!
Director Charlie is obviously determined to punish anyone who dares to make trouble in his territory to death.

He must hate this detective cat very much in his heart.

This is a ban!

Generally, only bad artists who plagiarize, seriously breach contracts, or have other intolerable stains on their resumes will be added to Scholastic's blacklist.

Being added to the blacklist means that any commercial activities related to the publishing house will be closed to Detective Cat in the future, and even a piece of paper will not be handed over to the other party.

And that's not even the worst part.

It is true that the various large publishing groups are competitive, but the blacklist of bad artists within the industry is sometimes common.

Just like Silicon Valley Internet companies can easily find no jobs when they are blacklisted by the HR Alliance.

If you are not a well-known illustrator, I heard that you are on the blacklist of Scholastic, and basically other companies will also reject you for draft assignments.

The career path amounts to a straight-up death sentence.

"Mr. Charlie, do you have any evidence?"

Hearing Charlie's request, the person in charge of Guoziface neither agreed nor vetoed it, but asked blankly.

"What evidence is needed? Isn't it obvious? What kind of painter is the Wehrlein studio, and what kind of shit is the painter of Detective Cat. But if there is no insider trading, why would the contract fall into the hands of Detective Cat?"

Charlie stomped his finger with the cigar on the round table fiercely, and said mockingly, "She also deserves such a big contract?"

Wehrlein Studio is already a top-line illustration studio.

Designed posters for Hollywood A-level animated films. Because of Charlie, he has a long-term cooperative relationship with Scholastic Group. He has won a series of illustration and advertising design awards, including the Publishing Group’s own [Master Award for Outstanding Contribution to Writing and Art]. A top-notch illustration studio.

From the moment of its birth, Scholastic Group has been operating the most prestigious art awards in the United States - Scholastic Art and Writing Awards.

The history of the publishing house is built around this award. Counting from the first session in 1923, it has a history of [-] years.

This award was originally an art award exclusively for young people.

On average, more than 13 different submissions from students aged 18-30 are received every year, and the probability of winning a gold medal is only one in ten thousand. The award is presented by the head of state of the United States. It is the most gold-rich children's art competition in the world. .

Later, on the basis of the juvenile awards, the publishing group added a master group award for adult artists.

This point is somewhat similar to many international art exhibitions, but the difficulty of winning an award is not a little higher than that of ordinary art exhibitions, and the gold content is also higher.

Mr. Cao made a request to Gu Weijing, hoping that he could win an award at the Lion City Art Exhibition. The harshness is a bit harsh, but it is not impossible.

Compared with the promise of "becoming the closed disciple of the master of painting Cao Xuan", if Gu Weijing is not too young, it is actually a very loose condition.

Lion City Art Exhibition, Magic City Art Exhibition, Beijing Art Exhibition, Osaka Art Exhibition, Seoul Art Exhibition... There are more than a dozen or twenty large-scale international art exhibitions in Asia alone, and each art exhibition has won awards There are only a few painters, and there are many in the whole of Asia, let alone the whole world.

For those who really have the ambition to become a great artist, winning this kind of award is just the starting point of their career.

How many Asian painters who won awards in the master category, even if they just want to ask Mr. Cao some questions in person, have no chance.

But Scholastic's writing and art master award is not a concept.

This is the sanctuary of the temple of illustration.

The top of the mountains, the king of kings.

The awards will be announced in June every year, and the best writers and illustrators will be selected for awards.

There are only five places in the world, four [Master Awards for Outstanding Contribution to Writing and Art] and the only one [Master Award for Outstanding Contribution to Writing and Art] every year.

[Outstanding Contribution Master Award] is one of the most important awards in the illustration industry. It is only slightly inferior to the old Andersen Award, but it is not far behind.

If you really want to compare, the former may not be as serious as the latter.

To give a more popular example, it is roughly similar to the literary world, the French Goncourt Prize (the oldest and most grand literary award), the Commonwealth Booker Prize (the highest honor in English literature) and the Nobel Prize for Literature. slight differences between.

For 99% of illustrators, it's just the difference between awesome incredible and awesome unimaginable.

The winners over the years include Andy Warhol, JK Rowling, Stephen King, Jane Arnold, George RR Martin and other well-known literary and art masters.

There are four places in the [Excellent Contribution Award], which is a bit short, but it is also an extremely valuable art award.

You must know that besides senior painters, there are many well-known writers competing for the four places.

Scholastic Group is a publishing group. Compared with illustrators, it is actually more inclined to award best-selling authors.

For more than half a century, only five painting artists, including Jane Arnold and Andy Warhol, have received the Outstanding Contribution Award.

Jane Arnold is the only one who has won the Andersen Award and the Master Award for Outstanding Contribution to Writing and Art at the same time.

Two people even won the Nobel Prize for Literature and the Master Award for Outstanding Contribution to Writing and Art, Patrick Modiano (Nobel Prize winner in 2014), and Heinrich Bohr (Nobel Prize winner in 1972) .

This shows how rare it is.

The Wehrlein Studio won the Outstanding Contribution Award only a few years ago on the basis of more than ten years of cooperation with the publishing house.

"Oh? The Wehrlein studio was supposed to take over this project."

The person in charge of the square face had a slight ups and downs in tone, he lowered his head and flipped through the folder in his hand.

Sure enough, he found a copy of the preliminary intention communication email submitted by Charlie between the Art Department and Wehrlein Studio on the content of the "Little Prince" project.

These letters of intent have no legal effect until a formal contract is signed, but it is enough to prove that what Director Charlie said is true.

The person in charge was originally a police detective from Scotland Yard's commercial investigation department, and was later hired by the publishing house to be in charge of the group's internal affairs department.

Even if he is not a professional artist, he still has a clear understanding of the gold content of the famous "Writing and Art Master Award" in the group.

without any exaggeration,

There is no comparison between the resume and experience of this female painter Detective Mao, who is only a little famous on the Internet, and not all of them are well-known, and the Wehrlein studio.

It's not in the same order of magnitude as children and Hercules.

It is really unreasonable for the group's senior management to hand over the contract to Detective Cat.

Only in terms of artistic attainments,
With the endorsement of the master award, Wehrlein Studio is not even much worse than top-tier illustrators like Van Dorn. What is lacking is the opportunity for Van Dorn to break through the fashion circle and make money every day.

"This is indeed suspicious. Why would the project team agree to give this opportunity to a... IMHO... There is no evidence at all to prove that she is qualified to take over such a large project?"

The person in charge of the square face leaned forward slightly, and his tone was hard and cold.

According to criminal psychology, such an aggressive psychological posture can increase the psychological burden of the suspect, and make many white-collar criminals with weak psychological endurance not to call themselves.

He stared closely at Deputy Director Schubert and the fat assistant at the round table,

Mostly fat assistants.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs chose the fat assistant as the conversation partner instead of the supervisor, not only because he is the first person in charge of communicating with the illustrator Detective Mao, but also because these low-level employees who have just joined the job have less social experience and are more likely to be breached. .

"I...I don't know."

Sure enough, as expected by the person in charge, the fat assistant was very nervous at this time, sweat was forming on Yuanyuan's face, and her chin was shaking.

He is not stupid.

To allow the supervisor and the vice president to operate in such an illegal manner, there is no inside information that I do not believe.

"Fat boy, the marketing department of the group expects the sales volume of "The Little Prince" to be 30 copies in the first year, and the hardcover price of each volume is around 600 euros, which is [-] million euros. This is only the expected sales volume in the first year."

Charlie stared viciously at the fat assistant: "Two years, three years, ten years? One million copies is 100 million euros, and three million copies is fucking 2000 million euros!"

"Sixty! million! euros!"

The director paused every word, and sprayed the fat assistant's face with saliva.

"The expected income of 6000 million euros was disturbed by a garbage painter. You can take the responsibility! Think about it, you will bear the blame, and how many years will you go to prison for your boss!"

The person in charge glanced at Director Charlie. He knew that the amount of commercial crimes was not calculated in this way, but the person in charge didn't mind scaring the young assistant.

The fat assistant was visibly panicked, and he lowered his head: "I didn't commit a crime, I just followed the orders of my boss."

"Oh, what did the boss tell you to do?" The person in charge asked immediately.

The fat assistant fell silent again, fighting between man and nature in his mind.

"Okay, he's just an assistant, don't frighten this young man."

Deputy Director Schubert, who had always been silent, suddenly opened his mouth at this moment.

"Why did you invite Detective Cat? You should ask President Osborne. As for the rest, we just follow the company's rules."

Charlie turned his head sharply and glared at Deputy Director Schubert.

Schubert responded by spitting out a few grape seeds in his mouth towards Charlie with no expression on his face.

If you make a fuss about the internal affairs department, otherwise the contract will continue and you will gain a firm foothold in the art department, or they will leave together, there is no way out.

The deputy director, who was willing to go all out, also stiffened.

"The sample draft stayed in the public backstage for less than ten seconds from uploading to filing, which is considered compliant. Drawing with a knife? A shitty drawing with a knife can pass the review of the art department. Is this doing things according to the rules?"

Charlie grinned sinisterly.

He originally said that he would be stuck with Detective Cat's trial draft.

As a result, as soon as the "Little Prince" project team passed the sample draft to the backstage of the art department, Schubert, a young man with authority, took the file away.

He didn't even see the fur of the Detective Cat prototype.

Charlie nearly exploded.

I only found the external notes of the sample draft in the historical records of the system background, and the subject category on it said "Painting Knife Painting".

"Drawing tricks to fool ghosts."

How long has it been since the Scholastic Group has dealt with illustrations of painting knives?
Charlie felt that even if he didn't deliberately block her, Detective Cat would not pass the review of the art department at all according to the standards.

Seeing this classification label, Charlie even equated Detective Cat's oil painting level with some half-baked liars in his heart.

As long as it is painting with a knife, her works will definitely not be much better.

This is also the reason why he dared to make a big fuss.

It is not news at all in the illustration industry that a mediocre relationship painter gets some high-quality draft contracts that do not match his ability.

The premise is, don't put it on the table.

"I have been working hard every day, and I just saw the reminder from the background message at that time."

Schubert said slowly: "As for the painting with a knife, when did the company stipulate that the painting with a knife does not belong to the category of illustration solicitation? I think she draws very well."

"Work hard every day? Is your job playing darts?" Charlie was annoyed, "Knife drawing is very good? Don't be ridiculous, how many people can draw knife drawing well."

If it is said that this sample is made by a professional knife artist like Professor Boggs of the Brooklyn Academy of Art.

Charlie turned away now.

But an online painter...

"Detective Cat draws very well, is your conscience right?" He sneered.

(End of this chapter)