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Wednesday, July 24, 2013

World's Biggest Art Factory



China is well known for its mass-production economy.

In Dafen, a suburb of the coastal city of Shenzhen in China's south-eastern Guangdong Province, thousands of artists labour constantly to reproduce famous paintings for the mass market
 


Known as Dafen Oil Painting Village, the district is believed to be the largest mass producer of oil paintings in the world


Artists here manufacture some 60 % of the total global volume in such knock-off canvases, according to the China Daily


Many of the artists are trained in the required techniques at Chinese art academies

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