Dafen Art

Chinese oil painting reproduction attacks in Europe and American art market
In the world of art, works by copying the original painting or imitating the style of the name known works " oil painting reproduction. "These paintings because of lack of originality, production and cheap mass, lock-in a large number of works of art market in the low-end market. The World Bank painted wholesalers Maikeweida investigation, the U.S. market, a popular line of oil paintings from China, 70%, 80% of Shenzhen and Xiamen oil painting village, from which a small unknown village, became "the first Chinese oil painting village," the experts have been called "fashion dafen" and "Wu Shipu" phenomenon. "
nuncio, oil production in China started from the workshop of the successful transition to an independent business development pipeline industrial scale, the national conditions of China, is very good for the production chain mounting a large scale.
Xiamen is located in the Village Wushipu with respect to production, sales painting reproduction assembly operations to copy the way the original works, and then selling at low prices, the formation of the reproduction of the large-scale vegetable oil processing. Here, paint, brushes, canvases and other materials are extremely inexpensive, a small village there are hundreds of stores oil painting. The paintings are sold in the Chinese coastal cities such as Xiamen, this spring, based in Manchester, CEO of the Negev Qi, Ge aec Security was also where he has less than one hour on decided order a large, the painting will be completed in the fall, when the 6 full 40-foot long containers destined for Europe and the United States. Ge is that each of the framed photos to increase the price of 25 dollars to 30 dollars, and each piece of work about a dollar of goods, he was ready to sell oil to furniture stores, all in the price of 35 -40 U.S. dollars, "Oil prices at retail in Europe will reach U.S. $ 100 each to 125 U.S. dollars, while the price of retail sales to reach U.S. $ 160 U.S. each."
Chinese oil painting has the advantage of producing oil in a pipeline operation, a copy of a meticulous division of labor, not only to improve efficiency, reduce costs even lower.
Chinese artists low wages
In China, however, only a few artists like Chen Yifei, Zao Wou-Ki, Wu Guanzhong, and other works can be sold in Europe and the United States each hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars in price Most Chinese artist works are priced at $ 500 USD each or less. Many Chinese artists Creative the only sources of these postcards or photos from the Internet, and so on, Lucas copy of the 20,000 pieces of works by Van Gogh is on a roll book of Van Gogh page is they are based on the original copy of them to work to earn living expenses low.
Most artists, after two years of apprenticeship is a career that began after the oil from, they pay less than U.S. $ 200 per month "big village-fen," China is not unique to the industry the United States had a similar "model village Running fun" but now, where the paintings were absent workers and designers.
At that time, the United States met in northern New Jersey for a number of families, restaurants and hotels designed by the arts of painting, but these companies have abandoned the direction of production, main objective of the import business. Dalong to the company (daeryungcomopany), for example, 20 years ago, they have a division devoted to painting 7 painting indoor workplaces, and four years ago, the last artist left.