kellen's manga / #Art(4)

Ch. 20 In his second to last year of high school, the dispassionate but studious, Yataro Yaguchi finally finds a calling in art. With no prior art experience, he decides to work towards to applying to an art university. A decision with potentially disastrous results.

Because she loved drawing and wanted to do something special, she went to a famous art school. And there she met...

Paris, the late 19th century. Theodorus van Gogh, renowned art dealer and branch manager of the prestigious Goupil & Cie, seeks to embrace new talent and techniques among up-and-coming painters. But this was a dark era for innovative artists in France, the field being dominated as it was by the privileged and the conservative who thought that art was the sole property of the upper echelons of society and that common folk were inherently incapable of appreciating it. Theodorus struggles to bring works which appeal to the hard-working masses into the limelight and usher in a new era. Central to his ambitions is his lifelong desire to see his brother Vincent's "god-given gift" finally being acknowledged by the world.

A meeting between a nameless marble artist and a desire-obsessed sponsor! Ian, born with an innate gift for painting but abandoned by his parents because of poverty. He is sold to a painter and raised in captivity by painting his paintings instead. One day, Raymond, an emerging merchant who came to ask for a portrait, happened to find out that the real painter was Ian, and he was there. Ian also paints a portrait of Raymond and feels an unknown feeling to him....