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Made in China

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The world's most prolific copy artists

 
 
 
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  • Artist and work

    Made in China

    One of the hundreds of Chinese copy artists with their work.

  • Street Artist

    Made in China

    Highly skilled copy artists even work on the streets of China

  • Artwork reproduction

    Made in China

    Just one example of the mass reproduction in classic paintings from China.

  • Art and the city.

    Made in China

    One of the artist reflects on his work and the fragility of his job.

  • Artist at work.

    Made in China

    A Dafen Village copy artist working hard on one of their amazing masterpiece copies.

  • Photorealistic Artwork

    Made in China

    A photorealistic work of art being meticulously and flawlessly reproduced.

Sky Arts brings the world's finest paintings to your screen, but we've found a group of artists who want to go one step further and put a masterpiece straight on your lounge wall - meet the prolific copy artists from southern China in the documentary Made in China.

 

The Dafen Village, the ‘copy capital of the world’, is host to thousands of painters who supply the world with oil painting copies of European masterpieces by Renoir, Rembrandt, Matisse, Raphael and many more.

Generating over £20million in sales in 2006, the Dafen art community supply over 600 galleries, filling homes and businesses across the globe with convincing reproductions. Want to be greeted each day by Mona Lisa’s smile? Speak to Dafen to get hold of a copy for as little as £20.

Made in China meets these prolific copy-artists to find out what in the name of art, is going on. The documentary won a Gold World Medal for Documentaries at the New York Festival's International Film and Video Awards 2009.

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K Clemmens

Mon 20 December 2010, 20:27

I looked at this website as I wanted to find out the narrator of this programme (Made in China Copy artists). The website tells me none like the information I wanted. ! THE IMDB is more helpful.Why bother creating this web page if it has no real information on it?

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