Didn't expect it! These people you know are also art lovers!

The evolution of the trend of the times, people's hearts have also followed the field of spiritual life, some collect porcelain, some collect calligraphy and painting, some collect coins, some collect various types of sculpture artworks.... Before the rise of the art market, celebrities of all kinds had already embarked on the road of collecting.

1. Zhang Guorong

As we all know, Zhang Guorong is a famous singer and movie star, but few people know that he is also a very talented art collector. His favorite works come from all over the world, each with its own style, but with the same artistic style: natural, simple, simple, elegant.

One of Zhang Guorong's favorite artists before his death is Zhu Ming from Taiwan! Zhu Ming is a hall-level master of art, his artistic style is very prominent, known for his rich traditional cultural heritage and natural and local atmosphere, known as "the most expensive Chinese sculptor", and his works are also unattainable!

2. Liu Jialing

Liu Jialing's home is impressive with the collection of many works of art and the collision of various elements.

On the marble table are sculptures from the artist Gao Xiaowu

She once revealed in an interview that "many contemporary art products are now too expensive, I can only look at it from a distance, I can't afford it." However, she has her own way of collecting, "I will pay attention to many young artists of the new generation, and I will also collect their works." ”

3. Liu Luanxiong

In his early years, he started by selling ceiling fans, and later became involved in the Hong Kong stock market and property market. In 2015, it ranked sixth in the 2015 Forbes Hong Kong Rich List with a value of US$10.9 billion.

Liu Luanxiong for about 240 million yuan

Buy Gauguin's masterpiece "Morning"

At the age of twenty-seven or eight, Liu Luanxiong had just obtained his first huge fortune, and he was a little confused, and after buying 5 Ferraris in a week, the hair stylist said to him, you are not as good as buying art, not only good looking but also appreciating. As soon as Liu Luanxiong heard it, he felt that it made sense and began to enter the collection market.

In 2006, Liu Luanxiong photographed Andy Warhol's Portrait of Mao Zedong for $17.37 million, and the following year, he photographed Gauguin's masterpiece Morning for $3,924, becoming one of the most generous Chinese collectors. Later, the American media named him the sixth top collector in the world, but he thought he was underestimated, at least in the top three.

4. Wang Zhongjun

Chairman of Huayi Brothers Media Co., Ltd., a giant in the entertainment industry in mainland China.

After founding Huayi Brothers, Wang Zhongjun gradually accumulated wealth and began to collect sculptures, paintings and antiques. In his home, he is filled with sculptures and paintings from many years of collection, like a private art museum.

To travel abroad for business, Wang Zhongjun likes to visit the ancient castle the most. Once, he saw a batch of classical furniture in France, liked it very much, bought more than twenty pieces in one go, and shipped it back to Beijing in a container.

However, Wang Zhongjun's favorite painting and calligraphy, from Xu Beihong to Zeng Fanzhi, from Van Gogh to Monet, there are collections. He has a special affection for the first artists after the resumption of the college entrance examination in 1977, and his heart is full of reverence, such as Chen Yifei and Ai Xuan. In his home, a huge painting of Chen Yifei", Juan Juan, hangs.

Zeng Gong's "Bureau Post" worth 207 million yuan

Wang Zhongjun has repeatedly made big moves in recent years. In 2014, he spent 377 million yuan to shoot Van Gogh's "Daisies and Poppies"; In 2016, he bid for 207 million yuan for the Northern Song Dynasty writer Zeng Gong's "Bureau Post".

5. Yangzi

Chairman of Juli Film and Television Media, Distinguished Researcher of the Institute of Tibetan Buddhist Cultural Relics of the Forbidden City Research Institute.

Yang Zi's favorite is to collect Dzi, from one-eyed Dzi to twelve-eyed Dzi, Dalo Dzi, Heaven and Earth Dzi and almost all kinds of collections. For more than 20 years, Yangzi has collected more than 3,300 Dzi Dzi, which can no longer be measured by specific value, and is known as the "Dzi King" by the collection community. At the Venice Film Festival, Huang Shengyi made a stunning appearance, and the string of dzi he wore around his neck was worth 100 million.

On November 19, 2015, Yang Zi auctioned Gu Jingzhou's squirrel grape ten-head set of tea sets for 92 million yuan, creating a new record for the auction of Purple Clay Pots in China.

Gu Jingzhou,000,000 yuan made squirrel grape ten-head set of tea sets

In early October 2015, the statue of the "King of the Statue of the Guru" I Karmapa was purchased by a mysterious buyer from a senior European collector for more than 400 million yuan, which caused a sensation in the collecting world, thus setting off a climax in the theme of Tibetan Buddhist statues. It was learned from insiders in the industry that this mysterious buyer was Yang Zi.

Statue of the 1st Karmapa worth 400 million yuan

6. Chen Taiming

Chairman of Guoju Group, one of the top ten wealthy businessmen in Taiwan.

At the international auction site, you can always find traces of Chen Taiming, from Bacon and Richter to Chinese modern and contemporary art.

In 1976, when he was a student, Chen Taiming bought his first collection, for which he saved money for a year and a half. Since the mid-1990s, he has mainly collected Western and Chinese modern and contemporary art, as well as Chinese official kiln porcelain.

He is currently an avid lover of Western contemporary art. Chen Taiming said that he will gradually sell some Chinese modern and contemporary oil paintings in the near future, and transfer more energy to European and American contemporary art collections.

Chen Taiming once bought a rare small-scale work by British artist Lucian Freud to paint Francis Bacon for $33 million, breaking Freud's record for the highest price of a work of this size at the time.

Rare small-scale works by Francis Bacon

Times are constantly changing, and people's pursuit of life is no longer stuck in three meals, food and clothing. In an economically prosperous society, people are more concerned about spiritual enjoyment. So the artwork intimately took off its arrogant coat, close to our lives, at this time, inappropriate attention to the artwork, what are you waiting for?

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