Van Gogh Reborn!

Chapter 184: Awakening (2)

Chapter 184 Awakening (2)

Hello.

I turned on the broadcast for the first time in a long time before leaving for Europe.

I was worried that no one would come because I had been away for too long, but I was surprised that 600 people came in.

How have you been?

As I waved my hand to greet them, the chat window went up wildly.

No, Ive been miserable!

Is it true that you lost your skills for a month?

I want to eat pork belly rice.

Isnt it dereliction of duty for a streamer to not broadcast for a month?

Youre so mean

You lost subscribers.

Why didnt you turn on the broadcast

How was it when Henri Marceau saved you?

What have you been doing all this time?

They were all the same.

I wondered if the person who wanted to eat pork belly rice still hadnt eaten it, or if he always wanted to eat it.

I wanted to buy him some when I met him.

Henri Marceau seemed to have joined in too.

Ive been doing this and that. Practicing the documentary script, and, oh. Do you know the New Tate Modern Museum? I decided to exhibit there. Mask.

I decided to exhibit <Mask> at the New Tate Modern, which was the most proactive among the various museums that Bang Tae-ho introduced me to.

Documentary? What?

Did you not turn it on because you were embarrassed, not because you were busy?

You already made a self-documentary? Youre only 11 years old.

Stop wasting your time and focus on your work.

How much do you get for exhibiting Mask?

How close are you with Henri Marceau?

I ignored the smart ones in the middle.

From experience, I shouldnt give them any leeway.

The people watching the broadcast wanted to tease me.

Its made by the Van Gogh Foundation. Its a story that follows Vincents life, and I get to explain some of his works while drawing them in my own way.

When they asked me when I was filming, I added that it was after the Art Nouveau competition.

I asked the New Tate Modern to keep the contract terms confidential. I got a lot.

I agreed to receive 30,000 pounds for a one-year exhibition contract, and they also signed an insurance that would compensate me 6 million pounds if the work was damaged.

Grandpa, Bang Tae-ho, and Jang Mi-rae all said it would be hard to get better terms than that, so it wasnt bad if it was good.

And I studied. Do you remember the friend I broadcasted with before? He helped me with this and that.

I gave up on following the advanced course from the beginning, and I planned to study the regular course, but I got a lot of help from Cha Si-hyun.

It was a good lesson, except for the fact that he kept bringing up things like limits and continuity of functions and insisting that they were basic knowledge.

Oh, by the way, I have homework. I have to do it. Can you help me?

Homework?

You want us to help you with school homework?

Even if I havent studied for a long time, elementary school homework is easy.

You have to do your homework by yourself.

I want to eat pork belly rice.

I asked SNBA to promote it for me. Art Nouveau competition. I got a lot of money. 7,000 euros.

As I mentioned that Bang Tae-ho got the advertisement, the chat window was flooded with laughter.

NoThat was your homework

Oh my.

How much is 7,000 euros?

About 10 million won?

Our friend was a big company.

Did you forget how much you sold the Frosty Field for? Broadcasting is a hobby for Hoon.

Who decided the advertising fee?

But we cant go even if you advertise to us.

Was I the only one who thought of multiplication and division?

Everyone, be careful!

Oh, I have to go to Paris next week.

Yeah. I should eat some croissants while Im there. Is this how you do it?

Who decided the advertising fee?

I was about to ask why he was asking that, but I wondered how he understood Korean without subtitles.

Ill have to ask him when I go to Paris.

I donated the money I got from this. Its called the Dovin Foundation. They help children in need.

I showed the camera the donation certificate that Bang Tae-ho gave me.

You can see it even if you dont go to Paris. The Louvre Museum website has a virtual exhibition hall for the Art Nouveau competition. You can see it there. If you have something like VR, you can see it more realistically. They said they set it up exactly like the actual exhibition space, so please use it a lot.

As I turned my head, Bang Tae-ho and Grandpa, who said they would make the script for me, nodded their heads with satisfaction.

I clicked on the image provided by SNBA.

The Art Nouveau competition poster appeared on the monitor.

Its next Thursday, right? From 9 a.m. on November 30th to 10 p.m. on December 6th. Paris time. Its free.

I flipped the file and showed the first event.

There are a lot of events. The first one is finding the works. Theres an island called Cit in Paris, like Yeouido in our country.

I thought they wouldnt know, but some people seemed to know.

Thats right. Where Notre Dame Cathedral is. There will be works exhibited there, but the exhibition halls are separated. If you find 100 works in a week, they will give you prizes by lottery. The more you find, the higher the probability, so try to find as many as possible.

Isnt it too hard to find them indoors?

It sounds stressful;;

How do you prove what you found???

What about the people who watch VR?

They say if you install the Arnuvo Contest app and take a picture, it will compare and identify it for you. Dont worry if youre using VR, it will track your path.

I checked the chat window again, wondering if I missed anything.

Oh, all the works are on the first floor, not in the basement or above the second floor. And theres a contest logo on the door, so it shouldnt be hard to find. There are also works exhibited outdoors.

To be honest, it sounds like a hassle.

MJ, MJ, MJ

Have some manners!

Now that I think about it, its like a fairy event.

Wow, that sounds so fun.

The event that Michel Platini and several curators came up with was not as well received as I expected.

It was definitely too difficult, so I was worried, but I still had more to tell.

There are prizes, you know. Theyll draw a thousand people from among those who find more than a hundred works and give them 1,000 euros. Five hundred people who took the pictures themselves, and five hundred people who participated in VR.

???

How much is 1,000 euros?

About 1.3 million won?

She was really a fairy;;;

It seemed to go well.

Theres also an event to guess the artists. If you go to the website or the app, theres a place to enter the artists name, but you have to write it in English. Theyll give 3,000 euros to a hundred people who guess the most.

The first event was meant to make the audience find more works themselves, while the second event was meant to prevent them from just finding them.

They must have thought of a way to make them look deeper into the works, since they were exhibited anonymously.

What if more than a hundred people guess them all?

Are you kidding? There are more than 1,700 works, who would guess them all?

Dont underestimate otakus. Besides, there are a lot of people who are beyond imagination among the fans.

Theyll draw them then.

I wanted to try it too, but I didnt know much about the artists of this era, so it would probably be hard.

Grandpa and Bang Tae-ho said it was impossible to guess them all, so the viewers worries probably wouldnt happen.

Itll be fun if you visit in person, because you can get hints if you answer the quizzes. Grandpa and I will try it too. Ill sign for you if we meet, so please come a lot.

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The first Arnuvo Contest in 2028 received more attention than the Whitney Biennale that opened the same year.

It was thanks to the radical proposal of Michel Platini, the director of the Marso Gallery.

SNBA, which had initially set a global publicity budget of 20 million euros, was able to reduce it significantly.

The work-finding and artist-guessing events that Michel Platini proposed caused a global sensation with just 1.3 million euros.

They spent only 10 million euros, half of the original budget, by adding the publicity costs for famous artists and influencers and the basic publicity costs.

The information related to the Arnuvo Contest was spread by word of mouth, and even people who were not interested in art became curious.

As the related traffic increased, the media competed to publish articles.

The Arnuvo Contest official application recorded 10 million downloads just before the opening, foreshadowing the best performance of the art event.

You know.

Late at night, when Go Suyeol and Bang Tae-ho fell asleep.

Cha Si-hyun, who was lying on the bed and studying contemporary artists, opened his mouth.

How can you tell who drew it by just looking at the picture?

Cha Si-hyun, who was memorizing the names and characteristics of various artists, had a fundamental question.

Go Hoon, who was lying next to him and studying together, answered.

You look at the color, the brushstroke, what they drew. You look at it from various aspects.

They could draw something completely different.

They usually make it consistent.

Why?

Sincerity? It shows that they thought deeply about one topic for a long time. It shows in the work too.

Hmm.

Its also important to get an image. Its easier to remember if its clear who drew this work. If you were to work as a painter, the blue tree would be your symbol.

I think I get it.

Cha Si-hyun nodded and lay down again.

No. I dont get it. Isnt it boring to draw the same thing?

You only draw blue trees.

I draw them differently.

So do others. Henri Matisse drew 800 self-portraits, but theyre all different.

Cha Si-hyun nodded his head when he gave an example of Henri Matisses self-portraits.

I wish Henri would come too. Then I could guess at least one person.

He didnt say he was participating.

He could be doing it without saying anything.

But hes someone who doesnt have to go. Besides, its a contest held by SNBA. Its no different from his own contest. Do you think hell participate?

Well, maybe. He does a lot of weird things.

.

Cha Si-hyun had a point.

Go Hoon thought for a moment and shook his head.

No way.

Professor Jang Mi-rae said the same thing. She said she would have wanted to participate if she knew it would be this big.

It sounded like the best stage for Henri Matisse, who liked to be noticed.

There was no reason for Henri Matisse not to step up to the event that attracted more than 10 million people, including the virtual exhibition hall.

If you go to the contest, no one else will get the prize!

But Go Hoon chuckled as he recalled Henri Matisses chat.

He said on the broadcast before, how would he do it if he gave the opportunity to many people. Hell never go.

Uh.

Hes weird, but he keeps his word.

Cha Si-hyun believed his friend and looked at his smartphone again.

He couldnt sleep, looking forward to what works he would meet at the Arnuvo Contest tomorrow.

Blanche Fabre. Blanche Fabre. This person is very unique. Right?

Cha Si-hyun turned his head and covered Go Hoon, who had fallen asleep quickly, with a blanket.