Made In China Copy Artists (2010)

Imagine buying the works of true masters like Renoir Da Vinci Van Gogh Rembrant Matisse and Raphael for just thirty US dollars 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 Its here where the masterpiece meets the mass market where the worlds great and notsogreat 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 US35 million in sales Thousands of painters supply 600 galleries that fill orders from around the world This documentary talks to the copyartists to find out what in the name of art is going on