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Discuss Chinese Oil Painting Reproductions

  China’s oil painting reproduction exports have become one of the world’s largest producers of art industries

  If you fancy an old master but don’t want to pay millions, In Dafen and wushipu oil painting village China need  a few dollars, you can hold the ‘painter workers’  The village already supplies 1200 galleries.

Just 10 years ago, Dafen and wushipu was a rural backwater. Then art entrepreneur  moved in. they needed lots of people to work for their USA custom. Here was a whole village”, They explains. By applying China’s production line techniques to art and training lots of artists, They has boosted the town’s turnover to $50 million p.a. Orders come in from around the world
  recently,I have heard from many contemporary artists wanting to expose Chinese art factories for ripping off their art and profiting from it.Most of the famous painting reproductions of new and old masters coming out of China come from Dafen and wushipu, the Art Factory Village in southern China.

  Belower  is come frome different voice:

James Fallows of the Atlantic says “in one sprawling area are many hundreds of individual art factories, in which teams of artists crank out hand-painted replicas of any sort of picture you can imagine. European old masters. Andy Warhol. Gustav Klimt. Classic Chinese landscapes. Manet. Audubon. Botero. The super-hot and faddish contemporary Chinese artist Yue Minjun, whose paintings and sculptures all feature people wearing enormous grins.”

Evan Osnos at the Chicago Tribune talks more about the art village of Dafen in China. “In tiny garrets and vast factories, a few centuries’ worth of art emerges each day in the southern Chinese town of Dafen. In barely as much time as it took Michelangelo to paint the Sistine Chapel, this village has become one of the world’s largest producers of art, shipping more than $120 million last year in copied and original oil paintings to stores near you”