Can copying famous paintings be used for commercial purposes?

Look at the following article and you will know that it is possible. Just don't install the original, haha ~ ~ ~ probably impossible.

In the art world, people call those works that copy the original works of famous paintings or imitate the style of famous paintings "commercial oil paintings". China has become the largest exporter of commercial oil paintings in the world. The main domestic commercial oil painting production and sales markets are distributed in Dafen Village, Guangdong, Yiwu, Zhejiang, Qingdao, Xiamen, Putian and other places.

Buy paintings like vegetables.

Walking into a typical commercial oil painting wholesale store in Yiwu will definitely surprise foreigners. Here, the oil paintings are not mounted and neatly stacked on the ground. In a warehouse of several hundred square meters, piles of paintings are piled on the ground. Businessmen from different places walked past it and crossed it. When you see something you like, take it out and throw it aside. Enthusiastic shopkeepers will come to help clean up. After the selection, the price is calculated. The prices of those paintings are incredibly low. A copy of Van Gogh's Sunflower is only a few tens of yuan, and the so-called "original" with relatively good quality is only a few hundred yuan. After negotiating the price and paying, the shopkeeper will bundle the selected oil paintings and send them to all parts of the world according to the requirements of the merchants. In Yiwu, art shops receive art dealers from all over the world every day, and the daily turnover ranges from one to two thousand to hundreds of thousands.

Draw on the assembly line

In the commercial oil painting production bases in Guangdong and Fujian, there are painters everywhere, but no one calls himself a painter. A high-level painter is called a painter, and a low-level painter is called a painter. Whether you graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts or primary school, you can only be a cheap "art" copying machine. The production process of commercial oil painting is not so much painting as physical labor. Hundreds of square meters of factories are filled with paints and canvases, and the canvases are directly nailed to the wall with thumbtacks. Each painter faces a dozen or even dozens of canvases and paints on the canvases according to a fixed procedure. Each painter is responsible for a certain part of the picture, and several painters work together to complete a work. Some paintings with high modeling requirements are generally completed by artists with higher level. When asked why a painter uses that color, the answer is: "The master taught me." Some people just paint the canvas with pre-printed pictures.

Attract foreign attention

As long as you place an order and choose artists of different levels according to the price, customers can get any works they want. The works of Chen Yifei, Chen Danqing, Ai Xuan and other realistic masters can be seen everywhere. Here, artists' works are cloned in large numbers. This will not only affect artists in China, but also have a great impact on painters, galleries and even the art industry in Europe, America and even the whole world. Many art institutions in the United States have begun to pay attention to this phenomenon, and began to investigate whether a series of China oil paintings violated the relevant copyright laws in the United States.

Some villagers once showed off their ability to copy the Mona Lisa when negotiating with a famous American gallery, and claimed to be the representative of China's fine arts industry. When commercial oil painting appeared in the global market as China oil painting, the face of China artists was misinterpreted. When describing China artists, a foreign media wrote: "In China, only the works of a few artists such as Chen Yifei, Zhao Wuji and Wu Guanzhong can sell for hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars in Europe and America. Most China artists' works cost $500 or less each, and many China artists' creative sources are only postcards or pictures from the Internet. "

Enter the art market

Commercial oil paintings mainly meet the needs of interior decoration, but a small part also flows into the collection market. Mr. Wang (pseudonym) of a painting shop in Yiwu once went to Shanghai and found that the so-called original Italian works displayed in a gallery were actually made by them, so he talked with the gallery owner. It turned out that those works were indeed bought back from Italy by the gallery for 200 to 1000 dollars. The gallery owner was very surprised when he saw several paintings brought by Mr. Wang, so he bought them all and asked him to keep quiet. Afterwards, Mr. Wang said that he might never buy paintings abroad again in his life. There are many such stories. Some commercial oil paintings are sold at high prices as original works and even enter the auction market. In addition, Mr. Wang also revealed that some famous painters will also place orders with him, ask the painter to copy the works and then sign them for sale.