Almighty painter

Chapter 837: Disciples' Reactions and Three Strategies
Tang Ning had been at the opera house for less than thirty minutes, but she had laughed more times than she had in the past three days in Singapore combined.

"I like him."

Ordinary people will take some human factors into consideration.

Cao Xuan was sitting next to her. No matter how low the EQ of an ordinary disciple is or how much he dislikes Gu Weijing, he still has to consider the teacher's feelings, right?
Tang Ning is different.

She laughed out loud on the spot, expressing her admiration for Rosings. It wasn't just the teacher who laughed louder. The judges and guests sitting around her who paid a little attention and had the ability to detect emotions could easily notice Tangning's gloating at the moment.

after all.

She also didn't spend even the slightest bit of energy trying to hide her emotions.

To be fair.

Tang Ning is a very smart person, he has been since he was a child, in every aspect.

She is really not a solitary artist like Van Gogh who is suspected of having certain social disorders and who always unconsciously messes up all the interpersonal relationships around him.

Kazunari Sakai, who was just over 40 years old and had a similar net worth, status and age, was still busy chewing donuts with his wife as he discussed which big gallery to sign with. Tang Ning was thinking about accomplishing something that many artists at the top of the industry, even people like Picasso, had not done. She wanted to fire the big galleries that were chasing after her, raise tens of millions of euros to open a top gallery, break free from the shackles, and become her own boss.

How could such a powerful figure be a social idiot?
In terms of marketing and social skills, Tang Ning is even better than Liu Ziming, a rich man who has been financially free since childhood, has no desires, and thinks about life while chewing grass roots on a durian tree.

She can read the air, and oftentimes—

Tang Ning was just too lazy to read.

It's not worth her energy.

Miss Elena waved her hand, signaling Cui Xiaoming to leave. She could understand Cui Xiaoming's mood, but she didn't need to care. She thought it was ridiculous that Gu Weijing wore a big gold watch that didn't match his age and style just to pretend to be mature, so she made a sharp comment and didn't bother to ask any more questions.

If this happened to an ordinary person, everyone would say that this person is extremely arrogant.

If this is applied to a rich and beautiful heiress, people would say that this woman is very strong, very sharp, and has a very "personal style".

Is there any essential difference between the two?
No.

They are the same thing.

Arrogance is arrogance. It will not become something else just because it comes from Elena's family.

The same is true for Tang Ning.

This is both her arrogance and her personal style.

Tangning and Miss Elena were both very difficult to get along with. Being around them made one feel suffocated. They were both extremely straightforward and willful, and in most situations, they were too lazy to compromise with complicated social rules.

She is the rule.

People like Cui Xiaoming who live by the looks of other people's faces need to disguise themselves as chameleons.

Tang Ning doesn't need it.

She is the most successful female artist in history. Unfortunately, this title now needs to be followed by "one of", but Tang Ning still believes that she is unique.

She is a tiger, a shark, and a giant whale.

In interpersonal relationships.

Edward Yang is a measuring stick.

Lao Yang is so good at dealing with people. No matter what the real relationship is, even if he meets the rich uncle Liu Ziming, he will call him Brother Liu on the left and Brother Liu on the right, discuss clothes, show off watches, borrow sports cars to drive, and is very good at dealing with people.

But no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't be nice in front of Anna.

Just as he showed a dog-licking smile, Miss Elena pinned him down with a look.

Among Cao Xuan's disciples, only Tang Ning has similar abilities.

Unlike Anna, Lao Yang was always very well behaved in front of Tangning. He called her Teacher Tang and Ms. Tang with great discretion.

When Tang Ning was with Cao Xuan, she was able to maintain her own style to a large extent.

The tacit understanding between a woman and a teacher, which was Tang Ning's "privilege" to have without any concealment.

Cao Xuan seems to communicate differently with each of his disciples.

He and Liu Ziming seldom spoke straightforwardly to each other; their master-disciple relationship seemed to have a set of secret words and codes that only they could understand.

Cao Xuan would simply pat Liu Ziming on the shoulder.

Cao Xuan would call Liu Ziming to go and see a certain painting.

Just as Cao Xuan wrote in that long letter: "So... I have always been concerned about your situation in my own way, silently."

The master-disciple relationship between Cao Xuan and Tang Ning presents a completely different aspect.

Straightforward and real.

Cao Xuan rarely hides his emotions in front of Tang Ning. He likes her when he likes her, is sad when he is sad, and is dissatisfied when he is dissatisfied. When Tang Ning was 20 years old, she won the gold medal of the Shanghai Biennale. The old gentleman, who was used to being frugal, actually ordered an expensive and luxurious imported sports car from the UK as a gift for Tang Ning as a congratulatory gift. When Tang Ning was 40 years old, she had just created an auction miracle and her career was a great success, but Cao Xuan would also express his disappointment in Tang Ning directly and harshly.

In return.

Tang Ning rarely concealed his attitude in front of his teachers.

It is what it is.

As a teacher, Cao Xuan could ask her to come to Singapore despite her busy schedule. As a student, Tang Ning also had the right to express her dissatisfaction.

No matter how much Cao Xuan likes Gu Weijing.

She just doesn't like it.

She was the kind of person who would not exchange works with Gu Weijing in a friendly manner. Old Yang would happily act like an obedient student and take away the "Wisteria Flower Picture" as Cao Xuan instructed.

If you think about it rationally, Gu Weijing is nothing. Is expressing ridicule towards Gu Weijing as important as trying to make the old man happy?

Maybe so.

Tangning didn't care.

People are just irrational sometimes.

Tangning could do this, but she would never do that.

So Lao Yang cannot become Tang Ning.

She appreciated Rosings's speech, so she laughed out loud and said, "I like him."

It's that simple.

The woman leaned back in her chair and relaxed, watching everything that happened on the stage, as if she were enjoying an interesting fairy tale performance, and she had just applauded and praised the child who had bravely revealed the truth about the emperor's new clothes.

Lin Tao glanced at his youngest junior sister, and then glanced at the teacher's expression.

He shook his head with a headache.

I felt that as the oldest brother, I had an obligation to say something at this moment, but I didn't know how to start.

“A critic has the obligation to reveal the truth to the public and to reveal a person’s true face to those who are deceived.”

Tangning added calmly.

"Whatever the truth is. Otherwise, all they're doing is just elaborate circumlocution."

"Whether that's what he thinks it is or not?"

During this brief silence on the stage and brief noise off the stage, someone actually responded to Tang Ning's speech.

It was Liu Ziming. While Lin Tao was still racking his brains over his words, no one expected that Liu Ziming would actually smile and ask back.

"It was a very exciting event. Oil Painting Magazine brought us a high-level academic discussion... At least it wasn't boring." Tangning's lips curled up in displeasure as he replied, "I'm very busy at work. I took a flight for over twelve hours to get to Singapore. I don't want to watch a boring, routine interview."

"It's really hard."

Liu Ziming nodded and commented seriously.

Lin Tao couldn't help but look at the two junior brothers and sisters again.

He knows a little bit about this.

Tang Ning contacted Liu Ziming some time ago and tried to seriously promote her "CDX & Tang Ning Gallery" to him, wanting to ask Liu Ziming if he was interested in investing in it.

Don’t underestimate Tang Ning’s value which has just reached a new high at the Hong Kong auction.

Tang Ning did not dare to cross the "border" and bypass the gallery to face the secondary market directly like Hirst did in 08. That auction was jointly organized by Tang Ning, the auction company and CDX Gallery.

So that money.

The commission taken by the auction house is a large sum, and the commission taken by the gallery is an even larger sum.

The remaining money can be used for personal luxury consumption, which can be squandered for a very long time. You can also use it to start a business, especially to open a top-notch gallery right away. It is still not enough.

Even with Tang Ning's savings over the years, it was still not enough.

Among their fellow brothers and sisters, if anyone could come up with a huge sum of money to build a new intercontinental gallery, it would only be Liu Ziming.

Brothers, settle accounts.

This period involves complex business operations and market assessments.

It is said that the results of the talks between the two sides were not good.

On the surface, the two of them seemed to be on good terms. However, when Lin Tao heard Tang Ning's "I'm busy" and Liu Ziming's "It's really hard work", he always felt that there was a kind of sarcastic tone in the conversation.

"Why, regarding what Rosings said, Senior Brother Liu, do you have any different opinions?"

Tangning frowned.

She insisted, and said, "Do you have any problem with me?"

"It's not really an opinion."

Liu Ziming shook his head. The perfunctory tone in his voice expressed the opposite meaning.

Yes, I do.

"I just think it's very interesting. It's like a paradox. That gentleman said that The Savior is like the ancient city of Troy. The art world's treatment of its authenticity is too arbitrary and has a strong purpose, which may have destroyed the foundation of the industry. Then... isn't Gu Weijing's case also very similar to the ancient city of Troy, which may be real or fake?"

"When he is motivated by some strong purpose, some strong emotion. Let's call it a sense of justice. When he says "I don't fucking care" with this sense of justice, isn't he doing exactly what he despises, some overly arbitrary and purposeful treatment?"

"Tell me, did he really discover the ancient city of Troy? Or did he really think he discovered the ancient city of Troy?" Liu Ziming repeated Rosings' original words and spread out his hands meaningfully.

Tangning pursed her lips.

She looked very unconvinced and wanted to say something in rebuttal, but just at this moment, the female host on the stage stretched out her hand and made a gesture to press everyone down and ask them to be quiet.

The noise and agitation in the meeting hall caused by Rosings's groundbreaking speech quieted down.

Tang Ning had no choice but to shut up.

Wei Yunxian, who was sitting next to Cao Xuan, was a little confused.

She had a cold personality and didn't bother to pay attention to these things. She just noticed that Liu Ziming's reaction was a little strange.

It is hard to imagine that these words would come out of Liu Ziming's mouth.

Just a few days ago.

His attitude is just like that of another Rosings.

"Is it simply because you have a bad relationship with Tangning?"

Ms. Wei thought for a moment.
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Anna held out her palm.

The entire opera house fell into peace, and a thousand pairs of eyes looked at the scene on the stage with anticipation.

Miss Elena ignored these looks with different meanings and turned her head to look at Gu Weijing.

She had something on hand that could be useful in this situation, the only problem was that it was too early...not the right season yet.

Some ingredients, like onions, are suitable for being put into the frying pan right at the beginning.

Some ingredients are basil leaves, which are suitable as ingredients to stimulate the aroma when the steak is fried or grilled to the right degree.

Some ingredients are fresh lemons. After cooking, you can cut them open and squeeze a few drops on them to enhance the flavor.

The order is wrong.

It will not achieve the best cooking effect.

Now... it's not the time to squeeze lemons... The problem is that the first conflict between the guest and Gu Weijing broke out earlier and more violently than Anna expected.

It has not even entered the stage of subsequent academic discussion.

The issues in academic discussions can be addressed through academic research and the literature she has prepared.

But the guest didn't discuss academic issues with you at all, and directly said "don't fucking care". Although this was a very arbitrary and extremely offensive remark, it also put Gu Weijing in a very embarrassing position.

No matter how well you explain it, the other party will still understand it as an elaborate whitewash.

How should we respond to such hurtful words?
Anna is an expert in debates and has much more media experience than young people. In a short period of time, she can't think of a perfect way to respond, and any way of answering has inherent flaws.

The worst option is to remain silent.

The middle strategy is to continue to explain the motivation of his creation in a gentle voice and respond to the other party's doubts, just like Gu Weijing just did...

But some questions just can't be explained.

People don't want to listen to reason at all.

The best strategy was both the simplest and the most difficult - just ignore Rosings and not speak if he couldn't explain himself clearly. Treat this as a debate and use the logic of the debate to force Rosings to say what Liu Ziming said to Tangning. Instead of explaining whether he was innocent or not, he asked the other party if what he was doing was what he just claimed he despised.

Use his own spear to defeat his own shield.

Then we skipped the topic of Gu Weijing's failure no matter how we talked about it, and entered the part about academic research.

Anna is so experienced in arguing with people that she can think of everything Liu Ziming can think of in an instant.

The issue is.

Only Gu Weijing could say this to achieve the best effect. She didn't want to protect him under her wings like a chick right at the beginning of the conversation and directly attack other guests present.

This seems to be too biased.

It is inevitable to have a stance or tendency, but we must pay attention to the methods and approaches.

As a result of this conversation, it was no longer a conversation between Gu Weijing and her, but a conversation between Gu Weijing and the guests. It became a conversation between her, the host, and the other three guests herself.

The scene was not pretty.

Otherwise.

Miss Elena was not optimistic about the smartest way Gu Weijing could think of to deal with the situation.

(End of this chapter)