Photo: Portraits of presidents Obama and Hu in Dafen Oil Painting Village, Shenzhen, by Remko Tanis
Portraits of presidents Obama and Hu in Dafen Oil Painting Village, Shenzhen, by Remko Tanis
Dafen
China to the Rescue? Not!
Thomas Friedman continues his reporting from China. Writing from Dafen, home to knock-off masterpiece paintings, Friedman looks at how the U.S.-China relationship will change in the wake of the global financial crisis: After...
China’s Factory for Fake Art Tries to Beat Slump
By Le-Min Lim for the Bloomberg News: In a village in southern China, Wu Ruiqiu is worried about the effect of an economic slump on the art market. He should be. Mr. Wu represents artists that make 60 per cent of the...
Self-portraiture and Emerging Artistic Consciousness in Dafen
Regional, “an interdisciplinary design and research network,” commissioned self-portraits from the artists at the famous painting reproduction village Dafen, outside Shenzhen: Dafen is a village surrounded by the...
Workshop of the World, Fine Arts Division – James Fallows
James Fallows writes on Atlantic.com about the “art factory village” Dafen outside Shenzhen: I had heard a lot about Dafen, including in a very good story by Evan Osnos of the Chicago Tribune early this year. (The story seems no longer to be on the Tribune’s site. For reference, it was published on February 13, […]
Mona Lisas By The Dozen At China’s Fake Art Village – The Times of India
From The Times of India: Coveting a Van Gogh but unwilling to break the bank or into a museum? Head to Shenzhen in southern China where thousands of artists churn out reproductions of masterpieces by the dozen. China’s...
Van Gogh From the Sweatshop – Martin Paetsch
From Spiegel Online: Southern China is the world’s leading center for mass-produced works of art. One village of artists exports about five million paintings every year — most of them copies of famous masterpieces....
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