Copy Artists

Imagine buying the works of true artists like Renoir, Da Vinci, Van Gough, Rembrandt, Matisse and Raphael for just US$30!

Welcome to the most prolific copy artists in China. The Dafen Village, in southern China, is best described as the oil painting copy capital of the world. It’s here where the masterpiece meets the mass market, where the world’s great and not-so-great oil paintings are copied.

Thousands of artists turn out reproductions of famed European masterpieces, and the not so famous, for homes and businesses around the world. Last year, Dafen generated about US$35M in sales. Thousands of painters supply 600 galleries that fill orders from around the world. In this documentary film, copy-artists reveal what are their thoughts about what their ‘art’ is doing to the art world.

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