Home > Art & Design > Made in China
Art & Design
Made in China
See TV listings for this programme
The world's most prolific copy artists
Made in China
One of the hundreds of Chinese copy artists with their work.
Made in China
Highly skilled copy artists even work on the streets of China
Made in China
Just one example of the mass reproduction in classic paintings from China.
Made in China
One of the artist reflects on his work and the fragility of his job.
Made in China
A Dafen Village copy artist working hard on one of their amazing masterpiece copies.
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.
If you like this then try these...
* Required fields















Latest comments
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?
Report this comment