A work that introduces a work of art or a painting.

A work of art can actually constitute a huge exhibition situation, causing a surge in the audience. Coincidentally, there are three reasons. As far as I know, besides Van Gogh's Sunflower, there are also Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa, and the German Reichstag, which is wrapped by crystal couples.

According to the research of the curator of the Louvre Art Museum, the Mona Lisa was created between 1503- 1505. This painting classic was originally a portrait entrusted to his wife by Florentine businessman Zogonda. After the work was completed, Leonardo da Vinci knew its extraordinary artistic value and deliberately said that some parts needed to be revised, but he did not hand them over to Party A as promised. He always took it with him in his turbulent life for many years. Later, he bought it to the French king Francois. Since then, the French have regarded it as a treasure of the French Republic. 1793, when the French Revolution ended, the Mona Lisa began to be exhibited in public. 1800, it fell into the hands of the French emperor Bonaparte Napoleon, and was hung in his bedroom by the French emperor to accompany him to sleep.

1804, the wandering Mona Lisa finally got her place and lived in the Louvre.

So far, in the auction market, experts have counted the ten most expensive paintings in the world for us:

1. pollock 1948 No.5 is1400,000 USD;

Second, Klimt's Adele Blochbauer I is 654.38+35 million dollars;

Third, Picasso's "The Boy with a Pipe" cost $65,438 +0.04 billion;

Four, Picasso's Dora Mar and the Cat, $95.2 million;

Verb (abbreviation of verb) Van Gogh's "Portrait of Dr. Gage" is 82.5 million US dollars;

6. Renoir's "The Ball at Moulin Rouge" is 7,865,438+10,000 USD;

Seven, Rubens "Beating the Baby" 73.5 million dollars;

8. Van Gogh's Self-portrait without a beard 710.5 million dollars;

Nine, Cezanne's Curtain, Pot, Plate, 60.5 million dollars;

Ten, Picasso's "Pierrette's Wedding" 5 1.67 million dollars.

Don't think that the above ten paintings are really the highest-priced works in human history. In fact, it can be understood that this is just a work that these artists can only circulate in the market. For example, Picasso's masterpieces "The Maiden of avignon" and "guernica" will never be sold and changed hands as commodities. If one day someone dares to send them to the auction house against the disapproval of the world, their prices are definitely not calculated with hundreds of millions of dollars. Moreover, this kind of money worship business behavior will be regarded as a blasphemy against human culture and will arouse the anger that those cultural protectors can't calm down. Not to mention the market price of Mona Lisa, which is indisputably regarded as the first painting in human history. Anyone who has a value for it will be stared crazy. This vulgar sense of business is bound to hurt the feelings of fans of this miraculous work in the history of art very deeply.

However, the French artist Marshall Duchamp seems to be deliberately using the Mona Lisa to destroy the aesthetic feelings of people all over the world. With cunning scheming, he bought a print of Mona Lisa in the shop, drew a moustache and a goatee with a pencil on the face described by art critics as having an eternal smile, and named it Mona Lisa with a beard. No one can estimate the consequences of this Dada-style work after it is made public, and any humiliation of Mona Lisa may be disastrous. Strangely, after this work was published, the world was not angry, but amazed. In fact, people have long discovered that the Mona Lisa recited by everyone has both feminine characteristics and masculine temperament. When looking at Mona Lisa with a beard, no one can deny that this western classic beauty really looks like a man. In the face of this irrefutable fact, everyone is completely convinced. Instead of being angry, people were impressed by Duchamp's wit and courage in revealing this historical secret for us. Duchamp's success did not simply come from an artist's genius inspiration, but at the beginning of the 20th century, German philosopher Nietzsche flatly declared that "God is dead", and westerners lost their care for God. 19 14 The first world war completely shattered the fantasy of "fraternity" in the West. It is with the help of the turning point of "reassessing all values" in this era that he pulsates aesthetics. Duchamp was not satisfied with his success. He made persistent efforts and went to the store to buy an identical Mona Lisa, which was directly displayed intact and called "the bearded Mona Lisa". This work once again caused a sensation, and people really regarded the beauty "Mona Lisa" as the shaved man "Mona Lisa". In the speculative clues from Mona Lisa to Mona Lisa with a beard and then to Mona Lisa with a beard, an ironic aesthetics has suddenly formed, which has opened up a road extending in all directions for contemporary art. "Mona Lisa with a beard" and "Mona Lisa with a beard" have become whimsy in the history of art. Since then, the variant art of Mona Lisa, which originated from Duchamp's spirit, has begun its noisy journey of being relegated to mental retardation.

But after all, as a masterpiece, Mona Lisa is unparalleled. Its strange experience will certainly prove this for us.

It is this Mona Lisa, and it is no exaggeration to describe greatness and importance in any language. In the 100 years since it moved to the Louvre, it has been closely protected by French officials and has only left here four times.

first time

Italian painter Perugia once worked in the Louvre. On May 19 1 1, the careerist who knew the Louvre like the back of his hand lurked in, dragged the Mona Lisa out of the frame, rolled it up, held it in his arms and ran away with it. When the museum opened the next day, an empty picture frame was still hanging in its original position. The audience and staff mistakenly thought that the Mona Lisa had been temporarily moved, and it was 24 hours before someone reported that it had been stolen. The Louvre immediately announced its closure.

The whole Paris is boiling. On August 23, Parisian newspaper published a huge photo of Mona Lisa, with the headline "Madame Zokunda escaped from the Louvre" and the ironic sentence "... there is a photo frame under the title".

A week later, on August 30, the Louvre reopened, and nosy people first rushed to the empty photo frames. Things change, people have a kind of compassion, and even sentimental people bow their heads and sob. People seem to think that France has lost a beloved great man. In order to express their grief, tourists from all over the country and even from all over the world crowded the Louvre every day. Small traders took the opportunity to sell postcards and replicas of the Mona Lisa, thus making a fortune. Fearing that the world would not be chaotic, the media reported intensively for three weeks, making Mona Lisa the most familiar face of the French.

Mona Lisa came to Perugia's home and lived with the painter for two and a half years. In fact, it is impossible for Perugia, who is in financial difficulties, to entertain this artistic treasure of mankind with the conditions of a museum, but to claustrophobic it in the fireplace. Perhaps fortunately, the warm Mediterranean winds blew all over Paris in those two winters, making the fireplace just a decoration, so that confused Italian painters didn't use it to keep warm.

A year later, Perugia went to London to find Joseph Du Wen, an art dealer, and tried to sell him the Mona Lisa. Perugia didn't bring the original, so he didn't speak. Faced with the Italian who was driven out of his mind, Duveen firmly believed that he was either a madman or a liar and resolutely kicked him out. Therefore, the British lost a rare opportunity to play an important role in this historical event.

1913165438+1On October 29th, the Italian antique dealer Alfred Jerry opened an ordinary letter signed "Leonardo". The signer of this letter calls himself a patriot. He said that he couldn't stand the shame of being robbed of the Italian national treasure, so he decided to return the Mona Lisa to the motherland, but it would cost 50 thousand lira. Persuaded by corrado Ritchie, curator of the Louvre Art Museum, and Giovanni Poggi, curator of uffizi gallery, Jerry, an antique dealer, reluctantly promised to look at the works first. So 65438+February 65438+February, "Leonardo" took a box from Paris to Florence by train and stayed at the Tripoli-Italy Hotel. In the hotel, Jerry and Bogey arrived as promised, and the patriot "Leonardo" showed his true colors. He is a painter Perugia.

Perugia opened the box and took out a picture of a rolled egg. When Jerry and Bogey saw this portrait of a woman hidden for more than two years and slightly rolled up, they were really surprised and speechless. This painting is no different from the Mona Lisa, which shocked the world because of theft. It is absolutely forbidden for two experts to turn it over rudely and quickly. Now, highly trained experts don't care so much. They found the number of the Louvre on the back of the work. This almost confirms that the Mona Lisa is in their hands. As a precaution, they persuaded Perugia to take the painting to Uffizi for further identification. At the uffizi Gallery, Jerry and Bogey compare the original photos. Under high magnification, the paint cracks in the painting are exactly the same as those in the original Mona Lisa. This method is called "fingerprint identification" of old paintings by experts. This foolproof appraisal method of ancient paintings finally declares that this work is the original Mona Lisa!

They are very excited. They know that what they have in their hands is enough to make them famous for thousands of years. They told Perugia to go back to the hotel and wait for a reward of 50,000 lira, and then call the police.

Perugia was arrested and Mona Lisa was found. Thanks to the warm hospitality of the people of China, the legendary Mona Lisa returned to Paris gloriously after visiting several important Italian cities.

This incident made Mona Lisa and Perugia household names. Perugia was charged. He pretended to be a patriot in court from beginning to end and was punished by imprisonment for one year. Since then, Mona Lisa's resume has been filled with the names of Italian painters who were submerged in the crowd forever.

second time

1940, when the Germans broke through maginot line, the French government made a calm and wise decision in a panic: in order to avoid the ravages of the Nazis, important works of art were evacuated to the people. Therefore, the Mona Lisa once again walked out of the Louvre and was well preserved in the war.

the third time

From 65438 to 0963, the Mona Lisa went to the United States and was exhibited at the National Gallery of Washington and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in new york.

the fourth time

1974, Charles de Gaulle's successor, the President, personally signed and agreed to send Meng to Japan first, and then to Russia. This is the last time Mona Lisa has left the Louvre so far.

According to statistics, human beings invented flight less than 100 years ago, and it is difficult for any life form to survive in the event of an accident. The tourist visits of emperors and generals, talented people and beautiful women, famous politicians, super-rich people and artistic superstars will inevitably be affected by this rapid traffic. There is no doubt that the Mona Lisa is countless times more precious than these people's lives. Because this inestimable treasure is proved by the French government with such regulations: the Mona Lisa cannot be transported by air, but only by sea and land. To this end, experts have specially made a waterproof, fireproof, explosion-proof and anti-theft container, which can survive safely in case of shipwreck or any unpredictable danger. In order to prevent the destruction of mental disorders and cultural terrorists during the exhibition, the Japanese made a three-layer overlapping bulletproof glass frame for Lisa in Pamela.

When the Mona Lisa walked out of the Louvre and aimed at Japan, its whole journey was closely watched by Japanese nationals. Adding fuel to the fire by the media, the Mona Lisa officially showed the audience every detail-getting off the wall, checking, packing, leaving the palace, transportation, boarding, temperature, wind and waves, bumps, unloading, landing, entry, quarantine and escort.

On April 17 of the same year, the Mona Lisa opened in Tokyo National Museum for 55 days. The relevant authorities stipulated in the must-read guide for the audience that each person is only allowed to watch 10 seconds. According to the statistics of Japan Times on April 28th, there were 1888 1 person every day in the first week of the exhibition. Open for 65,438+00 hours every day. According to actuarial calculations, everyone has only 1.9 seconds to visit. After waiting for several hours, the result was a brief glimpse under the interference of bulletproof glass! Although the wait-and-see time is crucial, the organizers claim that it is enough to sublimate everyone's hearts!

In order to speed up the exhibition, the exhibition Committee decided to prohibit disabled people and people with limited mobility from visiting. Does this mean that the exhibition Committee refuses to sublimate the soul of this marginalized and disadvantaged group? In fact, the exhibition committee has no such profound intention. They just think that wheelchairs, crutches, hunchbacks and fleshy bodies will affect the speed of queuing. But how difficult it is to define the degree of disability at the entrance! Some people with physical disabilities still move slowly without crutches, some people move quickly and can't stand upright, occupying a lot of space in line, and so on. Of course, many people with physical disabilities also want to see the beauty of Florence. At the entrance, no one can accurately identify the spirit that has reached that level of disability and is not allowed to sublimate. So, a busybody with perfect limbs, holding a health certificate issued by a doctor, openly provoked this absurd decision; A woman quietly took the paint to the development hall and sprayed it angrily on the protective glass to protest.

This absurd decision has also been severely criticized by a large number of human rights organizations, and the voices of condemnation from all sides are constantly rising, forcing the exhibition Committee to make a concession that it thinks is very humane: to open a day exclusively for the disabled.

On that day, the front door of the Tokyo National Art Museum was really lively, with the lame, hunchbacked, fat, Alzheimer's disease and all human beings with mobility difficulties gathered together. If we can fly like birds and look down from the sky, we can see a rare and sad landscape: a group of people who can't stand or walk normally are struggling to walk towards a work of art. This scene is definitely not a humanitarian concession, but an inhuman discrimination. It is a beautiful slogan of "equality, fraternity and freedom"-the motto of the highest state of human progress from apes to humans-and it is also a wonderful irony, which has set a new record of gross trampling on earth civilization.

Unfortunately, the entrance to China was still locked at 1974, so I didn't have a chance to visit the spectacular cultural scene of the Mona Lisa in Tokyo.

The New International Long March —— Crossing Europe in front of the Mona Lisa in the performance art of Louvre Zhang Qikai in 2002.

In the summer of 2002, at the opening ceremony of the 12th Literature Exhibition. I started my "New International Long March-Crossing Europe" activity. In this activity, I hope that with the help of the distinctive historical symbol of the Chinese Red Army of Workers and Peasants, I will carry out a new long March around the world with ancient idealistic passion, so as to take the initiative to knock on the door of other countries' culture and convey the idea that the 20th century is a century of highly developed human science and technology, the most active century of various cultural thoughts and the century of revolution. The 20th century was spent under the banner of science and democracy. It is under this banner that human beings have experienced only two world wars in history, and it is also the rapid development of science and technology that destroyed the nature on which human beings depend. The bitter experience of the 20th century made people realize that the economic differences between countries and the cultural differences between nations will lead to all kinds of military disputes in the world. Therefore, global economic and cultural integration has become a proposition that human beings urgently need to think about. Global economic integration will undoubtedly promote the free competition of the world economy under the same rule, but it may lead to huge capital monopoly and the widening gap between the rich and the poor, and there will inevitably be a huge crisis lurking in this difference; The integration of global culture will strengthen the communication between countries and nations, but it may gradually lose the uniqueness of national and national cultures, especially in the field of art, which not only completely loses the characteristics of art itself, but also keeps away from the public.

Wearing the uniform of the Red Army, I came to Paris, the birthplace of the French Revolution, and walked into the Louvre. The worship of Mona Lisa is more enthusiastic than a century ago, and the audience is so close to it as pilgrims. Right in front of it, I unfurled a banner that said "Art for the People" in Chinese and English. The accompanying photographer pressed the shutter, and my comrades-in-arms and I were fixed into an eternal image memory against the backdrop of Mona Lisa, which made up for my absence from the Mona Lisa Tokyo exhibition.