Chapter 703 Art Gallery

Gao Fei sighed, and scolded his girlfriend with a bitter feeling: "You are a husband! Male police officers are called Sir, Lin Qi is Madam!"

"Ah! Shame on you, shame on you!" Jiang Feng covered his face with a pillow, and laughed shyly.

Gao Fei lifted her up from the sofa, hugged her in his arms and kissed her.

"Silly baby, it's past 3 o'clock in the afternoon, shall we go shopping for food, or play games at home?"

"It's too early to eat now, let's play games first, and then have a good meal in the evening! So happy decision!"

Jiang Feng said happily.

The two entered the seventh chapter of "Harbor City Heroes", and the game scene was located in a venue with artistic style.

This is the "Fin Family Contemporary Art Exhibition Hall", a holy place for literati and artists in Binhai City to gather.

In addition to fashionable painting and sculpture exhibitions, the venue also hosts singing and dancing performances - but not the kind of singing and dancing in nightclubs.

Every actor who is qualified to perform in an art gallery must be a well-known artist recognized by the upper class, and his or her status is extremely high.

However, modern art with elegant style is often too abstract and difficult to be accepted by the public. The popularity of art galleries is far less than that of mass theaters and nightclubs.

Status cannot make a living. If artists want to survive, they cannot do without the support of nobles.

In the past, when artists, including poets, painters, sculptors and composers, rarely listed the general public as their audience when they created.

Those who engage in art are either born in aristocratic families, have time and money, and are purely "art for art's sake".

Or although they are born in poverty and have a tight life, they are supported by nobles and create works specifically for noble masters or churches. There is always a dedication to thank the sponsors at the beginning of their works.

To put it bluntly, these artists are equivalent to being kept by wealthy and tasteful princes and nobles.

However, when the time came to the 1920s, with the outbreak of the magic industrial revolution, the acceleration of urbanization, the rapid rise of the new capitalists and the urban middle class, the feudal aristocracy of various countries was in a sharp decline and increasingly difficult.

Many old aristocratic families were in debt and had to auction off the artworks collected by their fathers to save the emergency. Where could they have spare money to support artists?

Artists lost their traditional sponsors and had to change the style of their works, trying to adapt to the times and please the "vulgar bourgeoisie" that they once despised from the bottom of their hearts.

Exhibition halls, as intermediaries between artists and sponsors, also fell into the same dilemma.

Adhering to the previous style and refusing to exhibit popular works, the venues were deserted and no one patronized them, and it was difficult to maintain.

But if you put aside your face and accept all popular works, you will lose your style, be despised by artists and critics, and lose your reputation.

It is of course best to take both into account, but it is not easy.

The Fein family has run this art museum for three generations. The reason why it can keep up with the trend of the times is that the third-generation heir of the family, Mr. Walter Fein, has a genius vision and has grasped the delicate balance between elegance and popularity.

Mr. Fein inherited the family's artistic taste and has considerable business talent. Since taking over the art museum, the various exhibitions he has held have always been able to bring some fresh gimmicks, trigger public opinion, become a hot topic in newspapers and social circles, and then bring hot popularity and ticket revenue to the exhibition.

For example, recently, Mr. Fein planned an exhibition with the theme of "wax figures".

This subject matter is not new.

No matter how vivid the wax figures are, they are dead objects that do not move after all, and they even look a little scary. There are not many viewers interested in this kind of exhibition.

Mr. Fein knows this well.

However, he is confident that he can make this unpopular exhibition a hot topic in Binhai City.

In order to achieve the goal of making a splash, the smart Mr. Fein broke the rigid process of traditional wax figure exhibitions and added some suspense and puzzle elements.

He arranged the venue to look like a murder scene. The wax figure of the victim was vivid, and the wounds on his body seemed to be bleeding. The men and women in the venue had different postures and expressions. Some were terrified, some were confused, and some were laughing...

All these wax figures that looked like living people seemed to be suspected of murder.

On the back of the ticket, Mr. Fein printed the word GG, claiming that the theme of the exhibition was "Wax Museum Murder Case".

Mr. Fein also made a GG in the newspaper, challenging the ladies and gentlemen in the city who claimed to be smart, thoughtful, and had detective talents, inviting them to come to the exhibition hall to track down the murderer.

Starting from the time the audience entered the museum, if they could find the real "murderer" from the 65 wax figures through logical reasoning within one hour, they would receive a beautiful gift - a ticket to the second floor.

This idea doesn't sound very reasonable.

As long as one person finds the "murderer" and spoils it, everyone else will know it, so what suspense is there?

Mr. Fein even considered this issue.

In addition to the 64 real wax figures, Mr. Finn also specially found an "actor" to pretend to be the murderer.

This actor can change his body shape and appearance at will and replace it with any wax figure in the venue.

The biggest difficulty of the so-called deduction and puzzle solving by the audience is actually to find the one pretending to be the actor from all the wax figures. Either the actor is the "murderer", or the key clues to identify the murderer can be obtained from the actor.

It doesn't sound difficult to find a living person from a group of vivid wax figures.

By observing whether there are physiological activities such as breathing and heartbeat, or simply secretly pricking with a needle, wouldn't it be possible to pull out the actor?

It's wrong to think so.

It's not that simple.

The actor carefully selected by Mr. Finn is neither a human nor a wax figure, but an existence between the two.

That's right, this is a "wax golem" that he spent a lot of money to customize!

The wax golem has a certain intelligence and is naturally good at "disguise". It can follow the master's instructions and reshape the wax appearance at will.

When it is still, it looks and feels no different from an ordinary wax figure.

It is still quite difficult to choose a deliberately disguised wax golem from 65 wax figures.

Finding the "murderer" is only the first half of the entire exhibition.

If you want to see the second half, you have to go to the small theater on the second floor and buy a separate ticket - unless you can find the "murderer" within an hour and get a free ticket to the small theater on the second floor.

The programs on the first floor have a lot of gimmicks, mainly to attract the public.

On the second floor, the artistic level suddenly rises to a higher level!