"Twelve Colors of China" ------- 212 Chen Man submitted the "Whatever the Weather" series for i-D magazine
【Chen Man's Success】
In 212, Chen Man, who debuted for 9 years, submitted the "Whatever the Weather" series of works for i-D magazine, and since then Chen Man has become famous and has become a hot and popular figure in the circle and one of the top celebrities in the circle. Chen Man's coffee position in the circle is extremely high, she is "the big coffee in the eyes of the big coffee", many stars, regardless of men and women, rush to find her to take photos, naming Chen Man as his royal photographer.
It can be exaggerated to say, "There is no big coffee that Chen Man can't shoot, only about Chen Man's big coffee", which can be described as "a date is difficult to find". This is the "insider" Chen Man.
Chen Man's personal photo
【Hong Huang's Empathy】
The Chen Man incident fermented for many days, and today's big name in the Chinese fashion industry, "insider" Ms. Hong Huang came out and wrote an article on "empathy with Chen".
Hong Huang's headline article
Hong Huang said:
"Because of this group of films, Chen Man and even China's fashion photography suddenly have a foothold in the world." I don't think this photo is beautiful, but it has enough impact that today, 10 years later, it can still rush to the hot search. Her method is to amplify Asian-American and Chinese identities. Chen Man's original intention was to debut internationally, and she did it. ”
Later, Hong Huang also gave examples of the two movies "Titanium" and "Squid Game" to defend Chen Man, such a defense is not worth refuting, here is mainly to analyze the first paragraph of a few sentences.
"Because of this set of films, Chen Man and even China's fashion photography suddenly have a foothold in the world." Here it shows Chen Man's performance, industry status, and a kind of "bathing in heavenly grace" smugness, and also tells the reason for Chen Man's success - "because of this group of films" (referring to the group of works "Twelve Colors of China"). It can be seen that thanks to the success of Chen Man's photos, even China's fashion industry has also been stained, and it is conceivable that the Chinese fashion industry before Chen Man did what it was.
"I don't think this picture is beautiful, but it has enough impact that today, 10 years later, it can still be on the hot search." This sentence can't hide his pride in admiration, and tells the method used by Chen Man to sprint to successfully target - impact photography techniques. Here people have a strong sense of "not ashamed, but proud".
"Her method is to amplify Asians and Chinese identities." This sentence really shows the specific method of Chen Man's success. Although the word Hong Huang uses is "enlargement", in the author's opinion, the so-called "amplification" is essentially "ugly". Here Hong Huang also specifically uses the word "Asian" to distract him, in fact, this group of photos is clearly named "Twelve Colors of China", which refers to China alone. Of course, China is also part of Asians, but in any case, they are ugly China, using ugliness to exchange for honor, the typical "ugly to seek glory", the word "Asian" is just a shield of public opinion.
"Chen Man's original intention was to debut internationally, and she did it." Here is an explanation of Chen Man's goal, in order to achieve this goal, Chen Man used impact photography techniques to "amplify" Asians and Chinese characteristics to create "Twelve Colors of China", full of "unscrupulous" visual sense.
Hong Huang
【The path of success in the literary and art world】
To sum up, Hong Huang's passage revealed three messages from Chen Man:
First, the career goal - "debut in the world";
Second, the status of the industry - "all of a sudden has a foothold in the world" (also won a lot of awards);
3. Successful techniques - using impact photography techniques to "amplify" Asian and Chinese characteristics;
Seeing these three messages, I always feel that this path to success is very familiar. It seems that more than Chen Man is unique, right, "Diary" big coffee Fang Fang, "magic novel" big coffee Mo Yan, the success path of these two big coffee is not the same? Taste, fine tasting. It's just that Chen Man uses photographic equipment, they use pens, that's all.
Chen Man relied on impact photography techniques to "amplify" Asian and Chinese characteristics, creating a screen full of squinting eyes of "Twelve Colors of China" works, which won many awards;
Fang Fang relied on listening and speaking skills to "amplify" China's anti-epidemic work, and created "Fang Fang's Wuhan Diary", which won many awards;
Mo Yan relied on magical reality techniques to "amplify" China's family planning work, created "Frog", and won the Nobel Prize;
Just as the so-called "all roads lead to the West", the successful path of the Chinese elite is indeed worthy of the name!
【Play ugly for entering the circle】
However, although many of China's elites have won many awards, it is not polite to say that in terms of cultural aesthetics alone, the vast majority of "insiders" in the Chinese art world lack real artistic opinions, and they are essentially a group of "cultural compradors" who wander at both ends of China and the West and then peddle Western aesthetic standards in China.
These "cultural compradors", they understand business principles, they understand industry rules, but they do not necessarily understand real art. Of course, they will in turn hysterically say that the public does not understand the aesthetics of art.
They have always been created according to the aesthetic standards formulated by Westerners based on their right to speak, whether they like it or not, whether they recognize it or not, they must do so according to the standards set by Westerners, why?
Because, the Western aesthetic standard is a kind of "circle" standard. If you don't approve, then you can't "get into the circle", you can't become a "circle person".
Therefore, they know this set of business principles and industry rules very well, in order to "enter the circle", they will go forward and desperately create those "no ugliest, only uglier" works to hand over homework, in order to get "tickets to the circle". The so-called "strong ugly for entering the circle" is also.
Therefore, this kind of ugly appearance is actually "entering the circle and casting a name".
When these "no ugliest, only uglier" submissions created by them were recognized by Westerners, they even obtained the "qualification to enter the circle" in the true sense - they dreamed of becoming real "insiders". Chen Man has become a big coffee in the Chinese fashion industry.
The Tsinghua Academy of Fine Arts is a person who has come over, Chen Man is also a person who has come over, and there are many "insiders" who say that the general public does not understand art. They all followed the path above. Therefore, it is not surprising that we can see thousands of "hades grimace squinting" jobs.
【Cultural comprador mourns rights and humiliates the country】
These "cultural compradors" themselves do not create and export artistic standards, but only blindly package and sell Western aesthetic standards to China, making the Chinese literary and art circles lack the right to speak and core competitiveness, and the nature is exactly the same as that of the "Lenovo Comprador Group".
These "cultural compradors" betray their original intentions under the aesthetic yardstick of Westerners, follow the direction of Westerners' fingers, point to deer as horses, and insist on echoing Westerners' saying that squinting is the "international face." He is not ashamed of this, but proud of it, but says that the public does not understand art. How stubborn are these people? How conceited?
There are many compradors in China who have lost power and humiliated the country. Lenovo Comprador Group interprets the loss of rights and humiliation of the country in the field of science and technology, Tsinghua Comprador University interprets the loss of rights and humiliation of the country in the cultural field, and some people write diaries to betray the country and seek glory, and some people write magic novels to sell the country and seek glory. How can China strengthen itself when traitors are in charge of compradors?
It is indeed the misfortune of the country that the "insiders" in the field of Chinese culture have lost their rights and humiliated the country in such a way. "Insiders", can we eat some calcium tablets?