Southern China is the world's leading center for mass-produced works of art.
Dafen Village is the biggest oil painting base in the world. There are over 10,000 artists who toil in their factories.
Dafen is now the center of the world's reproduction-art market, with factories of artists churning out tens of thousands of fake Picassos, Rembrandts, Van Goghs and Da Vincis each year
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One village of artists exports about five million paintings every year - most of them copies of famous masterpieces.
The fastest workers can paint up to 30 paintings a day.
Each painter specializes in just one thing.
These Chinese factories account for 60% of the world's oil-painting market.
1 comment:
wow worse than I thought...dangerous ventilation.messy conditions and I bet allt his paint goes in the river i dont see a single thing i would want...where are the great master copiers? I have been to China and they will do anything to survive and dont want to think about the lead alone...
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