Chinese Oil Painting

In the art world, people call imitates or copies of famous oil painting reproductions of original works of painting. China became the world's largest exporter of painting reproduction, the main domestic production and sales market in the village of Guangdong and Xiamen dafen areas.

Search painting sells like food market
Xiamen in a typical voyage paint shop wholesale, we surprised foreigners here are not equipped box oil painting, a stack of 2-10 their code neatly on the floor, a few hundred meters Treasury Square, the site filled with heaps of pictures. From different parts of the business through in the meantime, look at Italy thrown over the side of the passion of the owner will meet to help clean. After selecting the starting price, the cheap paint incredible, a Van Gogh "sunflower imitation goods," but ten yuan, the relative quality of some of the work called home as long as several hundred dollars. On a good price and payment, the owner will be labeled as a group of oil chosen in accordance with the requirements of customers sent to the world. In Xiamen paint shop every day from around the world to receive paint The daily turnover of at least a thousand far more than 10 million.

reproduction hand line
Guangdong and Fujian in the production line painting, painting everywhere, but nobody claims to be a painter, known as the artist's high level, the table known as the main working. Both the Academy of Fine Arts graduates and primary school, is the only copy machines at low prices for works of art. Line drawing of the production process is not so much the painting, as it is physical. A few hundred square meters of factory buildings, filled with paint and canvas, the canvas with a pin directly on the wall, each worker painting the face of tens of dozens of paintings Zhang, pursuant to procedures established in the paint smudges on the canvas, each responsible for a portion of the image, several co-workers to complete a painting works. Some of the requirements of paintings in the grand style, usually by a higher level of the artist, when asked about paint Why is it necessary to work with color, the answer is: a master's degree in education. Some just in the image pre-printed color canvas.

As long as the orders, based on prices of different levels of the artist, customers want to get a job. Chen Yifei, Chen, Yi Xuan, and other masters of the realist works are everywhere, and here the artist's works have been a large number of cloning. This will not only harm the Chinese artists in Europe and the United States and around the world of artists, art galleries and even the industry will also have a huge impact. Several arts organizations in the U.S. were concerned about this phenomenon and investigate a series of Chinese painting, it is an offense under the laws of the United States copyright law.
There are people in the village had a well-known galleries and the United States talk show copy the "Mona Lisa" super capacity, and claims that the Chinese industry of Fine Arts. When the line drawn by the Chinese oil paintings appear on the world market, China's artists face was distorted by the foreign media to describe a Chinese artist wrote: In China, only a small number of artists such Chen Yifei, Zao Wou-ki, Wu Guanzhong, and other works sold in Europe and the United States each of the hundreds of thousands of millions of dollars or even a good price, most works by Chinese artist are priced at $ 500 USD each or less, many Chinese artists have created the only source of these postcards or photos from the Internet.

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