Chinese Mass-Produce Paintings
The biggest market for oil paintings from China turns out to be in Florida condominiums and other second homes being built as part of the global housing market boom. Hotels and restaurants also buy large numbers of Chinese paintings.
posted by Anonymous at 8:53 AM
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This has actually been happening for a very long time, but the quality has improved, a bit, recently, enough to do somewhat passable copies. In many ways I'm all for people buying inexpensive copies of great works - well done, they are much better than prints and not much more expensive. It's that well done part that's so tricky.
But if you imagine the factory life of the damned: a seascape factory. Guy 1 brushes the beach, guy 2 the wave, guy 3 the sun, guy 4 the highlight. It's what really happens.:
-Mass cultural production with expression and nuance burned out and sealed off. Nothing new about that.
Ironically, there are boatloads of skilled American students who could deliver these copies just as well and cheaply; the success is the fact that businesses like dealing with nice predictable businesses, who never challenge or annoy them or prove difficult with their musings. And it is indeed hard to actually find and hire a student.
Making it, of course, not really art at all.
On the other (rather more interesting) hand, there is a real explosion in contemporary Chinese art, with a lot of coded processing of dissent. But remember that it takes real oppression to make coded dissent interesting.
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