Star Paint the Midas touch? Behind the sky-high prices of Zhao Benshan's calligraphy

Zhao Benshan (data picture) reporter Shangliang as the Spring Festival Gala, Zhao Benshan's "original text" also bullish, its time to write the "Dragon Phoenix Dance" Four characters, not long ago to take out 920,000 yuan of the sky-high price-a word worth 230,000 yuan. Journalists note that as the art market climbs, star calligraphy prices are rising.　　But how much water there is, a discerning eye to know. The great increase in market value of star calligraphy in the people sigh last year, the price of art soared, star Calligraphers are also stealing music. Zhao Benshan is now a word 230,000, but only 3 years ago, is also that a few "prosaic" word, a word but only to sell to 8500 yuan (at that time is the star calligraphy is the highest value, staggering). In such a short period of time, the value of Zhao Benshan's calligraphy has spiked 27 times times. This rise is absolutely astonishing. Even Xu Beihong, a Master of Arts, in the "rising" sound of a piece of art market, his masterpiece "Ba People Drawing" 2004 to 16.5 million, 2010 again to 171 million yuan to create a deal record, 6 years also rose 10 times times.　　Master Zhao is much more powerful than master Xu. At the end of last year Kun and famous songwriter Xu, a famous singer Junjian, held a calligraphy exhibition in the Shanghai Chinese Painting Academy. The stars hold calligraphy exhibitions for two purposes, one is to show the unknown talent, the other is to elevate the value of their calligraphy. It is understood that, like four square feet of a piece of calligraphy, Kun currently in general at about 30,000 yuan, than 3 years ago, 2600 Yuan Rose 10 times times. The scholar Yu Qiuyu four square feet calligraphy current price is about 20,000 yuan, also has the not small gain.　　The only exception is Jia Ping-ao, whose calligraphy is at the same price as Yu Qiuyu's, but he was at that price four years ago. With water on its back. Star Calligraphy is also a part of calligraphy art, in the art market under the general rise, the growth of star calligraphy seems to have its rationality. What's more, some star calligraphy itself is very artistic, such as Jiangsu's calligraphy famous Yu Jun has commented Yu Qiuyu calligraphy "natural", and Kun calligraphy "have degrees." Jia Ping-ao calligraphy is famous for the beauty of Guzhuo. Tang Guoqiang's "Mao calligraphy" is also praised for its majestic.　　Generally speaking, there are exquisite artistic works have a value and value-added functions, so like Jia Ping-ao calligraphy to maintain stability, but also reasonable. But the point is that some of the gains are outrageous. When Zhao Benshan's calligraphy works rose far beyond Xu Beihong, people should be aware that this is not an art law at work, but a commercial operation.　　In contrast, a generation of calligraphy everyone gong a calligraphy last year's market also tens of thousands of hundreds of thousands of, than Zhao Benshan far. Think of a time a bookseller told reporters, Guo's book, even if the inside are white pages, as long as the cover printed "Guo" a few words, the same will be a grab and empty. Now some star calligraphy also like this, actually sells is not the word, but the name. But if that's the case, then the star calligraphers don't have to be artistic.Self-assessment, because everything is just a game of fame and fortune.