On the afternoon of October 29, 2021, I picked up an oil painting on canvas, 60x50 cm, on the cover of Nirvana's album "Don't Mind". There are authors who sign "Field 2005.12", I don't know which field left behind, there are too many artists called fields.
The album cover is a baby chasing dollars in the water, which is very classic and full of irony. The dollar is not really attractive to babies, nor does it make any sense. Ai Weiwei gave my daughter a red envelope when he first met him, 800 yuan in it, and he said that the red envelopes were for parents and children did not need money.
Every adult desperately chases money under the stimulation of material desires, but all this is a dream bubble, and when Zhang Guorong jumped off the building, there were still 300 million Hong Kong dollars in his bank account. Fame and fortune do not stop a person from jumping off a building.
Coburn, the lead singer of Nirvana, has been doing rock in poverty and has released six albums with the band. After he succeeded, a large sum of money and fans surrounded him, but he shot himself. He couldn't accept that he had become the mainstream singer he hated the most, couldn't stand becoming an idol, couldn't accept the worship of many fans. He couldn't accept that he would become a rich man in the future. He committed suicide before he became a Uranus superstar... All of the above is my imagination, not what Coburn said, it is pure fiction.
For a true artist, money is not his goal.
Coburn did not expect that after his death, the torn sweater he wore before his death became the first choice for the rich to invest in financial management, and several times he reversed his hands, which has been worth more than two million yuan and will continue to appreciate in the future. The guitars he used were also appreciating. And that' really has nothing to do with his music.
In this world, you can't succeed if you don't want to succeed, you commit suicide, you may still become an idol of everyone. For example, After Haizi committed suicide, she became a poet god. For example, Van Gogh committed suicide, but his works sold more expensive than successful artists, expensive to the heavens...
Van Gogh once wrote to his brother that my paintings would be worth 500 francs. Although while he was alive, no one cared. But he did not know that his paintings were now worth half a billion francs. The madness of the world is far greater than the artist imagined.
The world has its laws, it has its laws, and the artist will never know where his true value lies.
I copied the cover of Nirvana's album "Don't Mind" in a woodcut way, paying tribute to Nirvana and Cobain!
I want to always be angry, to reject a mediocre life, to always keep the same passion as a baby pounces on that dollar.
Wu Youming
Writer, artist
Experienced legend, worked as a policeman
He is the author of "Thirteen Years from the Police" and "Interview with Twenty-Two Killers"