DAFEN (China), April 1 — Painters in a Chinese village once known for churning out replicas of Western masterpieces are now making original art worth thousands of dollars,...
DAFEN , April 1 — Painters in a Chinese village once known for churning out replicas of Western masterpieces are now making original art worth thousands of dollars, selling their own works in a booming domestic art market.
Exports began to dip after the 2008 global financial crisis, and all but dried up when China slammed shut its borders in 2020 because of the coronavirus pandemic. When Zhao moved to Dafen from central China in 1997, his family shared a tiny two-bedroom apartment with five other tenants. As well as immersing themselves in the artistic culture with painting lessons, many of the tourists come to buy pieces from the villagers, but their hunt for a good deal is another factor behind the fading market in handmade fakes.These are sold for a knock-down price as low as 50 yuan per piece, while a hand-painted copy costs up to 1,500 yuan.
“It takes weeks, sometimes months, to complete one painting,” the artist said as he was getting ready for exhibitions in the village and the rich industrial hub of Guangzhou.Other artists told AFP that they went back to school during the pandemic to learn how to draw mountains and weeping-willow trees seen in traditional Chinese landscape paintings.
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