China's Production-Line Painting Workshop
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- Опубліковано 23 лип 2024
- Painting Village (2006): If you fancy an old master but don't want to pay millions, Dafen, China, is the place to go. For a few dollars, the 'painter workers' will whip you up whatever you fancy. The village already supplies 600 galleries.
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Just 17 years ago, Dafen was a rural backwater. Then art entrepreneur Huang Jiang moved in. "I needed lots of people to work for me. Here was a whole village", he explains. By applying China's production line techniques to art and training lots of artists, he has boosted the town's turnover to $22 million p.a. Orders come in from around the world.
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The ending is poetic.
These people are so talented, I have no problem with a great copy of an original masterpiece. People should be mroe open-minded.
I also just remembered the part of the video where the journalist asked the painter how long it would take to do him and his daughter's portrait. 10 days?! I know some people who can get that done in 2 to 3 working days or less and done with more detail and contrast in the faces. Heck, I should maybe start a business like this here with college art students. It would beat working something else an be in their field of study. The U.S. needs to start producing stuff again.
Easier said than done. Try it
Even if many of them are just copying, one can easily tell from their works that they are undeniably skilled artists. They could probably create very beautiful original art. ^^
Thanks for uploading this, journeymanpictures! :)
These people are very talented and hard-working. I know...I have purchased wll over 300 paintings in the past year from Chinese studios.They provide work that I could never afford to buy here in the States and they are pleased to do the work. It's win-win for all involved.
Are you an art seller?
They reproduce art for people who can't afford the originals. I would personally prefer a photographic print, but it's nice to have options eh? I've got a few art books I enjoy, and would certainly appreciate being able to hang my most favourite on the wall. How do you feel about cover songs?
I bought a "fake" basquiat years back, it hangs in my home office, i tell everyone its back story and they are amazed at the authentic look of it, i dont hang it trying to convince people i can afford the real thing, its just a hi quality replica i enjoy of an artist i think had cool "art" at a resonable price 80.00!!! the prices are higher now due to the market having more worldwide exposure , the one i have is like 250 now
Where did you buy the fake basquiat?
7:14 uhhh am I the only one who noticed the ending?? Kinda. Creepy.
Which store painted your daughters photo ? I would also like to have a photo painted ?
@OhMymy Ya, I always thought the stigma against reproducing visual art is kind of arbitrary, while it's okay for musicians to "interpret" existing compositions.
I think back in the old days a lot of old masters got started by copying paintings. The practice sort of died out with modern art.
No one is trying to fake them. The small-time artists are just making copies of the great master pieces. You will even have to pay for a photostat copy of any great work ,what about an honest effort to make a copy with real hard work, not to mention the money involved in buying the expensive paints?
Where can I buy online a dafen painting?
I'd say something but my jaw is still on my chest.😱
¡¡¡¡Cnongratilation to this groupe of artiste, they are realy goog!!!
i would love to come in contact with some of those painters. maybe i can bay some work. do u have any contact? mail adresse maybe?
They have so much talent & disapline.
nice
It's a different world out there, we might have the luxury to explore the world of originality. But, people in Dafen might literally starve to death attempting that. Copying arts could very much be their version of flipping burgers in Burger Kings.
the artist has made a mistake on the Mona Lisa painting. Mona Lisa was painted on poplar, not canvas!…
No one cares.
The Mona Lisa doesn't have a copyright does it?
seedouble You can copy any art, just do not forge the true artist signature.
It is disturbing just to think that the guy might have drawn a better Mona Lisa than Da Vinci himself.
Wow. Those painters have great talent. Wish I could paint that well.
Really though how can a replica be better than Da Vinci? The Mona Lisa was painted by his hand, his perception, and his emotion. What you might think are mistakes were his interpretation of the moment. True, they are artists. But even stuff I've seen come out of China as in their own anime, comics, fantasy art looks all the same and in most cases mimics the Japanese which in my opinion mind you Tokyo is the new France in art. Maybe the Chinese at some point will change that. But not now.
As if anyone can get their hands on a real Da Vinci work, or even be able to afford one.
I am curious of the average artists & painters working here... Are they able to afford to have a lifestyle that allows them to have home, food, shelter... A phone, etc? How many hours a day are they working? They all look so young, if many students .. Unpaid internships for talented painters from throughout China? Do they leave if graduate? Or stay in area.. employed? Neat to see.
Gonna buy up the factory and turn out Picassos and Van Goghs
The ending kills it!
@medicatedsaint
I support that idea!!! I see now you wrote this two years ago, so maybe you have already started that business, if you have let me know so I can send you some employees.
"Our products"? What makes art your products? Did you make them? COPYING paintings are not illegal, it's been done everywhere around the world, Dafen just does it better, the problem is YOU, you are jealous and can't stand to see poor Chinese getting a better life.
Well I can agree to you to an extent... but... China is a very hard place to live, and this might very well be the only job they will 'slightly enjoy'. That's better then making nikies in a shoe factory :l
O nariz da Gioconda ta grande na cópia.
Those people really have a lot of talent and potential. It is really good to see the chinese people making use of their skills in creativity.
@oneblackhorse Yes, and if they've been dead for 500 years...
"It is disturbing just to think that the guy might have drawn a better Mona Lisa than Da Vinci himself."
You think so, huh? It looked pretty crappy to me.
@alyciahall
It is almost impossible to create an original piece of art without being influenced by someone. Art is not sacred art is the product of human creativity and has nothing to do with your god or gods. I believe your point of view about art needs some updating. Consider things like Dada, or post modern, or pure conceptual art and installations. There truly is nothing sacred about art.
It's a free world, if people needs money to survive, they'll try to earn it! Copying paintings is NOT "stealing"! They never said those are the originals, they sell them as what they are - REPRODUCTINOS OF THE ORIGINALS. Just because you have the luxury to have a choice, doesn't mean others do, stop being so self-righteous and pretentious please!
They have skills, they have talent and they have potential to reproduce, but I don't see creation.
thats the curse of economic system ..
bread and butter does not equal rice and tofu... so offensive
Mona Lisa with a squint 🤦♂️
Gee, maybe "whitefalcon00" should also learn how to "copy" correct spelling from an english dictionary before commenting on someone elses' work.
alyciahall - You should seriously consider first where these people are coming from. The only reason why this kind of business thrives is because of Westerners who want copies. Think about that.
4:47 i think he would be hang soon there for doing real art...LOL just a joke
It's completely missing the glimmer in the eye. The whole magic of the Mona Lisa is the personality behind the 'smirk'. Those eyes look dead even compared to the little post card he was copying from.
Haha ek dink u Afrikaans praat. U Engels soos Afrikaans kyk
Fake
they are very talented artists but i dont like what they are doing!
but we can hardly blame them doing these copies because there is such a large market for them overseas....and also jobs and money can be very hard to get in china.
it's a shame, those artists could be so brilliant, but they have nothing to show for it if all they do is copy. I know I'd want an original more then a copy
Oh please, "not difficult to copy" a Mona Lisa. Put it side by side with the original and you will see it IS difficult to do it well, if not impossible.
That place should be called the printing village, not painting. Only guys painting there are the ones doing original work.
Even the final piece at 6:39 has that cheap plastic Chinese feel to it, it just screams "table cloth" rather than painting.
My 2 cents :)
This makes me want to throw up. Copying a final work is nothing like creating it. Damn these cheap imitations. Damn these people for diminishing an artist's endeavors. Damn people for accepting cheap imitations. It is one thing for an artist to produce a mechanical reproduction of a work, but to steal an artist's work and call it painting. That was the first rule in art school, you may emulate but not steal. You may learn, but paint with your own voice. Damn the people who diminish art.
no! damn YOU these people are highly skilled painters! each one can probably produce a 3 ft by 2 ft Mona Lisa in half an hour!! could you do that!?!?! do you think these people WANT do do this all day?! Furthermore they are not claiming these are original works! and they re not stealing from anyone who could benefit from their work!! what use does a corpse have for money?!! (some might even claim that imitation is the best flattery!) at the end of the day, when the bullet hits the bone, people have bills to pay! and some of us have to eat food to survive! it's not their fault for not appealing to your delicate sensibilities!