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COMMENTS: Painting by Numbers
China is a country that is "taking knockoffs to an art form," declared NBC's Mark Mullen as he traveled to the village of Dafen near Hong Kong. It is home to 8,000 artists who paint canvasses each year worth $35m. Almost all are handmade copies of fine art masterpieces: a Pablo Picasso portrait for $95, a Mona Lisa for $50, a Sunflowers for $25. Using production line techniques "artists paint only their specialty on part of a canvas--a flower petal, landscape or abstract--before it moves on to the next artist to fill in his portion." Mullen called the end result "masterpieces for the masses."
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