{"id":89,"date":"2006-09-10T21:15:50","date_gmt":"2006-09-11T04:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/2006\/09\/10\/fauxdinsky-fauxklimt-fauxgogh-get-it\/"},"modified":"2009-03-17T07:37:48","modified_gmt":"2009-03-17T14:37:48","slug":"fauxdinsky-fauxklimt-fauxgogh-get-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/fauxdinsky-fauxklimt-fauxgogh-get-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Fauxdinsky, Fauxklimt, Fauxgogh… get it?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Americans aren’t so interested in quality, but with a standard shipping container holding 20,000 works, headed for unknown locations, some without life, who cares eh?<\/p>\n

what the hell am I talking about anyhow?<\/p>\n

The Times Online reported on a village in China<\/a> churning out incredible numbers of faux paintings.<\/p>\n

At first it sounds like the type of thing that might be expected, somewhere in this world. But the numbers are truly staggering: approximately 8,000 to 10,000 artists-assembly-workers are crammed into tenements in the Dafen ‘painting village’ in Shen Zhen (just north of Hong Kong SAR – I found it after searching all of China<\/a> using Google Earth<\/a>). somewhere around 3,000 copies of Van Gogh’s sunflowers are reproed every year, along with thousands upon thousands of other ‘masterpieces’. To give you an idea, the sunflowers generally sell for a mere £2, but somewhere it’s a profitable business: the second ‘Industry Cultural Industry Fair’ held in May of this year reported around US$1.25billion in sales<\/a>. . . . wow. And here I thought the NY art world was loaded with cash that I never get to fondle.<\/p>\n

\"Fauxrenoir<\/a>\"Fauxchagall<\/a>\"Fauxgogh\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Further google searches on Dafen lead me to here<\/a> and here<\/a> and here<\/a>. Oddly enough, google searches of Dafen pretty much return nothing but<\/em> pages referencing the Dafen oil painting village. It’s a strange and awesome world out there all right.<\/p>\n

But my interests in all of this stems from a desire to see the rooms, the ‘studios’ as they were, the warehouses even, in which all of this creation is happening. Right alongside the shop-store fronts selling to a physical clientele who travel to this place with the intent to purchase a repro Delacroix. I don’t embrace it, but I’m fascinated by the thought. And I know this might be a long shot, but if anybody out there has any photos you took of Dafen, please, contact me!<\/p>\n

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