Fringe artists in the entertainment industry

Chapter 110 108. Chen Li'an is Chen Li'an

Spring has returned to Paris in March, the scenery is beautiful, and many cherry blossom trees have bloomed pink buds.

You can see different beautiful scenery everywhere in the romantic city. The rivers, buildings, and streets all show its unique charm.

This city has many nicknames, such as the city of art, the city of romance, the city of fashion, the city of flowers, the city of light... and so on.

It seems that literature and art are deeply embedded in every brick, every green leaf, and every flower bud.

Chen Li'an looked at the scenery outside the car window, full of expectations for this city.

"How's it going? Do you like it here?" Ji Fa turned to look at Chen Li'an and Bai Qing and asked.

"Very good, I think this city is suitable for me." Chen Li'an rolled down the window and looked at the beautiful scenery and beauties on the street.

Bai Qing, who had just come out of the airport and had not yet fully recovered, did not answer Ji Fa's question.

He just rested a little tiredly on Chen Li'an's shoulder, not showing much interest in the scenery outside.

Back in his own country and city, Ji Fa was very chatty and introduced every street and landmark building he passed to Chen Li'an.

"That's the Louvre over there. The art inside will amaze you. I hope one day your works will appear in it."

"The cherry blossoms here are not as beautiful as those under the Eiffel Tower."

“The Champs Elysées this season is not as beautiful as autumn…”

Ji Fa specially asked the driver to take a long circuit in order to show the beauty of this city to friends from China.

After a while, Ji Fa suddenly looked at Chen Li'an and asked, "What do you think of first when you think of France?"

"Napoleon..." Chen Li'an said calmly.

Ji Fa was a little surprised and said helplessly: "You actually think of a man? It's not romantic at all."

Chen Li'an thought for a while, and another word came to his mind.

French Rose!

In the 1990s, no one could ignore this delicate rose.

Chen Li'an looked at Ji Fa who was speechless and said, "Okay, I'll change it to French Rose."

Jifa was stunned after hearing this and asked: "Queen Josephine or Sophie Marceau?"

"Of course Sophie Marceau, she is a woman who can unify Eastern and Western aesthetics." Chen Li'an replied, curious about the rose.

If you ask anyone in China which French star they know, 90% of them will answer Sophie Marceau.

That photo of Sophie Marceau in popular film magazines in the 1980s. Pure and beautiful, she directly became the goddess in the hearts of countless men.

Ji Fa was not surprised that Chen Li'an was talking about Sophie Marceau. He just turned around and glanced at Bai Qing, who was dozing, and asked with a wicked smile: "Aren't you afraid that Bai Qing will be jealous?"

"Of course not." Chen Li'an looked at Ji Fa who was deliberately provoking trouble and said angrily: "Everyone has their favorite celebrity. This is normal."

"I didn't..." Bo Qing leaned on Chen Li'an's shoulder and said with eyes closed.

Chen Li'an: "..."

"Haha... Me neither!" Ji Fa laughed and looked at Chen Li'an's somewhat embarrassed face. He couldn't help but pat his head and said, "Never say you like another woman in front of a woman."

"You guys are so boring. I just like Sophie Marceau in the movie. It has nothing to do with her." Chen Li'an turned his head and was too lazy to talk to the two women who were deliberately embarrassing him.

Ji Fa raised the corner of her mouth and smiled and whispered: "I hope you can still be so confident in two days."

Chen Li'an didn't hear clearly what Ji Fa said, so he turned around and asked, "What did you say?"

"Nothing." Ji Fa smiled, then looked out the car window and said, "We're here."

"Why don't you go to the hotel?" Chen Li'an asked, looking at the villa in front of him.

"It's too troublesome to stay in a hotel." Ji Fa took the luggage from the driver and said, "If we live together, I don't have to pick you up every day."

Bai Qing also carried a box and said sleepily, "I can live anywhere. I just want to have a good sleep. Can you take me to the room to rest."

The intense work for more than ten days in a row has exhausted all Bai Qing's energy. Now she just wants to sleep well for a few days.

Chen Li'an took the initiative to take the box from Bai Qing and Ji Fa's hands, and said to Ji Fa, "Okay, let me see how your house is doing."

"I promise I won't let you down!" Ji Fa said with a smile, and ran to open the door. After opening the door, he turned to Chen Li'an and Bai Qing and said, "You are welcome to be guests. After the exhibition is over, you can go to my winery for vacation. .”

What a little rich woman, she even has her own winery. Chen Li'an has a new understanding of Ji Fa's financial resources.

"You seem surprised?" After leading Chen Li'an in, Ji Fa said with a smile: "It is normal to have a winery in France, and it is only a small winery."

Normal, you idiot... Just like Chen Li'an saying that it is normal for people in the capital to have several courtyard houses.

"After the exhibition, we went to play together, just west of Bordeaux." Speaking of this, Jifa said with some helplessness: "The wine merchants in Bordeaux often slander the wine there. In fact, the wine there is very good."

"It's normal to do business." Chen Li'an said lightly.

"Perhaps you can talk later and tell me where the bedroom is first." Bai Qing, who was following behind, couldn't help but interrupt.

Ji Fa quickly smiled and said, "I will take you there now."

When Ji Fa and Bo Qing went upstairs, Chen Li'an took a serious look at Ji Fa's home. The room was full of decorative art.

Oil paintings of different styles hung on the walls, and the ornaments next to the sofa were also sculptures. Chen Li'an also saw Chinese porcelain in a corridor, and several blue and white plates were hung on the wall as pendants.

What struck Chen Li'an the most was that so many decorations of different styles were integrated very well by Ji Fa, without any sense of fragmentation.

Ji Fa’s artistic aesthetic is really amazing! He is worthy of being an art manager.

You can't be an art manager without certain artistic accomplishments, and Ji Fa's professionalism in art has been certified in these decorations.

As for the commercial operation, it depends on whether the art exhibition held for a few days will be successful.

Chen Li'an is looking forward to this and wants his work to be recognized by more people.

All art creators hope that others can understand their works, and Chen Li'an is no exception.

It’s just that a lot of art is not accepted and understood in the contemporary era, because it is too advanced or the development of social civilization limits everyone’s imagination and aesthetics.

Just like if abstract works were brought to the Middle Ages, no one would be able to understand and accept them.

Van Gogh was not understood at that time. Art also needs a certain context. If you are too detached, you will not be able to understand it. After all, there is only one Van Gogh.

It is difficult to evaluate the quality of art, which is too high-minded and unpopular, but the same cannot be said for food. People around the world still recognize French food.

The most important thing is that there are many choices of main dishes in French food, which is almost as big as that of a province in China. This made Chen Li'an a little confused about what to eat when looking at the menu.

Bai Qing, who had slept all afternoon, now has a good appetite. He took the menu and quickly ordered what he wanted to eat. Ji Fa did the same and expertly ordered the dishes he wanted to eat without even looking at the menu.

Chen Lian made his choice after a little hesitation. He chose smoked salmon and cream soup for the appetizer, honey-glazed duck breast and pan-fried foie gras for the main course, and French Brulee for dessert.

According to French food habits, it is estimated that these dishes will take an hour to finish. Sometimes it is not good to be too particular.

For Chen Li'an, there is no difference between eating a meal for so long and not eating at all. Such a slow speed is not as fast as he can digest it.

After finishing the last dessert, Chen Li'an wiped his mouth and said, "French food is not suitable for me."

Ji Fa looked at the plate that Chen Li'an had eaten cleanly, rolled his eyes and said, "That's not what your stomach said."

"No, you misunderstood what I meant. Today's dishes are all delicious." Chen Li'an touched his stomach and said, "It's just too slow. I'm not full yet and I'm hungry."

Ji Fa: "." It's really not romantic at all! Let’s go back and eat braised pork!

"Haha. I knew you weren't full." Bai Qing pushed the uneaten macaron in front of Chen Li'an and said, "Eat it."

Chen Li'an looked at the fresh and appetizing macarons, shook his head and said, "I don't want to eat so many sweets."

"Okay." Bai Qing took the macarons back and ate them himself, no longer caring about Chen Li'an's life or death.

Ji Fa shook his head and said, "I'll ask you to eat something else later. You should order one more main dish."

"I have no experience this time, I will be fine next time." Chen Li'an did not expect that the portion of an authentic French main course would be so small.

After eating French delicacies, it's natural to go see the beautiful scenery here, but Chen Li'an and the others are too busy now, and the preliminary preparations for the exhibition have not been completed, so they don't have much time to see the scenery.

After dinner, I just went to admire the Eiffel Tower and the Arc de Triomphe at night, and then headed back home to prepare for a good night's rest before work officially starts tomorrow.

The exhibition was held in the cultural center hall of the Center Pompidou. This was Chen Li'an's first time here. He was very curious about this prestigious modern art center. He once wanted to drop what he was doing and go see this and the art center. A factory-like art center.

Ji Fa saw that Chen Li'an wanted to go out again, so he quickly stopped him and said, "Can you finish your own work first? It will start the day after tomorrow!"

In the exhibition hall, workers are installing shelves according to Chen Li'an's requirements. Chen Li'an's role here is to supervise the work, all he needs to do is wear a white safety helmet.

Chen Li'an looked at Ji Fa and said: "The workers are installing it now. I don't need to keep watching. I'll go and have a look and come back, in an hour at most!"

"No!" Ji Fa immediately refused: "This exhibition is very important! There can be no carelessness. You are not allowed to go anywhere before the exhibition ends."

Seeing that the managers were getting mad, Chen Li'an could only accept his fate, shoulder his responsibilities, and began to patrol the exhibition hall until the workers installed various devices.

"This mirror is a little further to the left." Chen Li'an said to the workers while standing in the exhibition hall.

Ji Fa also immediately acted as a translator to translate Chen Li'an's words. Most of these workers only knew French, and Chen Li'an did not know French.

It’s really troublesome, why can’t everyone in the world speak Chinese!

After a busy day in the exhibition hall, at six o'clock in the evening, most of the installations in the exhibition hall were completed.

Looking at the workers packing their things and leaving on time, Chen Li'an couldn't tell whether he was in a capitalist society or...

Well, this is good, it means that Chen Li'an can also get off work. The Pompidou Art Center is closed at nine o'clock in the evening, so it is just right to come back for a visit after eating.

Chen Li'an turned to look at Ji Fa and said, "Can I go visit now?"

After a busy day, Ji Fa waved to Chen Li'an tiredly and said, "You go ahead. I want to go back and have a good meal and then have a good sleep. I really envy Bo Qing to be able to rest at home."

"Okay!" Chen Li'an immediately ran to the art museum happily to visit.

The architecture of the Pompidou Center is very distinctive, especially at night, when it lights up like a huge chemical factory wrapped with colorful pipes and steel bars.

Chen Li'an walked in the long transparent passage and looked at this art palace that combines technology and art. He had mixed feelings in his heart. When will there be such an art center in China? It is not the kind of art center used for business in 798. .

There are many works of art collected here. What Chen Li'an likes most is that the person painted in Picasso's "Muse" is also his muse.

It's just that Picasso's muse is too abstract and three-dimensional, and most people can't appreciate this kind of beauty. Chen Li'an didn't like Picasso's paintings at first, but later he thought more and more about art, and became more and more interested in Picasso's paintings. Come to like it more and more.

Painting is the artist's emotional expression. Chen Li'an looked at this painting for a long time and really felt Picasso's mood at that time. The joy and excitement were mixed with a hint of calmness and restraint.

At this time, Picasso was thinking about how to educate his children after they were born.

Chen Li'an left after watching it for a while. He would be affected if he watched it for too long.

Every artist has his or her own style and artistic expression, and it would be bad if someone else influenced them.

After coming out of the "Chemical Factory", Chen Li'an found a restaurant at random. He didn't have to worry about dining etiquette and image, and had a very comfortable meal. The roast duck was very good, and the grilled fish was also great!

Chen Li'an was not so leisurely the next day. The installation had not been completed yet, and all the works had to be arranged in advance today. Even if the workers got off work after six o'clock, Chen Li'an could not go shopping elsewhere.

After working until around nine o'clock in the evening, Chen Li'an checked all the works twice before he breathed a sigh of relief.

“Finally done!”

Chen Li'an feels that decorating the exhibition hall is more tiring than painting. He must find a professional curator in the future. Ji Fa is still not professional and considerate enough.

Ji Fa looked at the fully decorated exhibition hall and the hanging paintings. He couldn't help but feel trembling in his heart. The impact and appeal of the paintings with the blessing of the device were even stronger.

"Li An, you are really a genius, you will definitely become the next Picasso!"

Chen Li'an glanced at the empty exhibition hall, couldn't help but light a cigarette and said: "Why do you want to be Picasso? Chen Li'an is Chen Li'an!"

There is one more chapter.