Inside The Fine Art Factories of Yiwu, China

Re:Inside The Fine Art Factories of Yiwu, China by 3chelon on Monday November 21, 2016 @01:13PM (#13007562)

I think most artists would agree that the line is drawn when a customer gives you a picture of their pet and says "paint that, exactly like the picture."

Certainly many, many artists throughout the centuries have painted commissioned work to survive, but when the customer demands an exact copy of the photo in another medium and the artist is allowed no subjective interpretation of the subject matter it ceases to be fine art.

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Re:Inside The Fine Art Factories of Yiwu, China by detaro on Monday November 21, 2016 @01:17PM (#13007618)

I would agree (except of course if the artist is doing exactly this on purpose...), but I wanted to make the point that a lot of the process can be factory-like, as long as that "artistic freedom" of someone, not necessarily the one actually doing the work, is expressed. Just because there is a factory doesn't mean it isn't fine art, so there could be a "fine art factory". In general, not talking about this specific service.

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Re:Inside The Fine Art Factories of Yiwu, China by 3chelon on Monday November 21, 2016 @01:26PM (#13007729)

Yes, the process is irrelevant to the "fine art" quality (whatever that is).

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