Third-rate Painter

Sigh…

Because my business is slow. People keep saying my paintings can't keep up with the trend.

I can't make a living just by painting… At the end of the day, all that talk about art and spiritual gratification won't pay the bills.

I thought after graduation I could make money from painting to repay my parents for the money they'd spent to put me in art school. It seemed like I was daydreaming.

I've been thinking whether I should switch careers recently. Maybe I'm just not good at portrait painting?

Look, yesterday I went out of Jinzhou to sketch landscapes.

Do you think I should continue to paint portraits or switch to painting landscapes?

Really? Do you have any other opinions?

My style… that makes sense. Why didn't I think of that before?

Wait, an idea suddenly came to me. Quick, take a seat. Let me put it into practice.

That's it! Deconstruct the reality. Use the diversity of human minds as the lead. Leverage the collective memory and emotional resonance of humanity to create a surrealistic rendition of reality.

Well, I don't understand a word of what's coming out of my mouth. I visited the exhibitions of other renowned artists. People there all talked like this.

Maybe that's what I've been missing. Don't laugh. When I say these things, I immediately feel like I'm part of the contemporary art world.

I abstracted the subject and adopted a symbolistic approach to explicate the emotions. What do you think?

I saw that the gallery is advertising a public tender again, and I'm to try my luck again with these pieces with a new style.

Take this landscape painting as a gift. Hehe, keep it well. Who knows, maybe one day it'll be worth a few grand.

Anyway, thanks for your help! You're my muse. Wish me luck!