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Topic: The future of Art

Just received this:

Dear Sir,

Thank you for your kind attention to this email.
We are oil painting factory in China, our factory is not far from Hong Kong.

We mainly wholesale oil paintings and frames, also retail.

They are 100% handmade oil painting on canvas.

There are a large number of excellent artists in our factory, you will be very pleased with the High quality, Fast Delivery.

Our price is very low.

We have worked with two museums in China, it witnesses our product's quality.

No minimum order quantity.

1. If you want to resell our oil paintings, please visit temporary catalogs

http://picasaweb.google.com/paint4deco

http://picasaweb.google.com/reproductivepaintings

If you are interested in some paintings, please tell us the item number and the size, we will calculate the total cost for you.

2. We can also make paintings from your any image. We can paint any size.

Looking forward to hearing from you.

Hedy

Painting factory in China

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2 Reply by Bull.ed

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Re: The future of Art

Ashley James wrote:

Just received this:

Dear Sir,

Thank you for your kind attention to this email.
We are oil painting factory in China, our factory is not far from Hong Kong.

We mainly wholesale oil paintings and frames, also retail.

They are 100% handmade oil painting on canvas.

There are a large number of excellent artists in our factory, you will be very pleased with the High quality, Fast Delivery.

Our price is very low.

We have worked with two museums in China, it witnesses our product's quality.

No minimum order quantity.

1. If you want to resell our oil paintings, please visit temporary catalogs

http://picasaweb.google.com/paint4deco

http://picasaweb.google.com/reproductivepaintings

If you are interested in some paintings, please tell us the item number and the size, we will calculate the total cost for you.

2. We can also make paintings from your any image. We can paint any size.

Looking forward to hearing from you.

Hedy

Painting factory in China

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3 Reply by One trick horse

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Re: The future of Art

Great. Art reduced to assembly line work ... sad

Sod it!

4 Reply by JCBrum

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Re: The future of Art

Or assembly line work elevated to art ?

I like the Edward Hopper's.

fakes or homage ?

affordable.

5 Reply by shenzi

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Re: The future of Art

Actually there are some days when I feel like an assembly line ... fortunately no one classes cartoons as art.

6 Reply by JCBrum

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Re: The future of Art

Give it time  smile

7 Reply by MM

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Re: The future of Art

Interesting looking at their images of the better paintings they copy/reproduce.
Looks to me as if they are showing images of the actual paintings, not copies
they have produced -- unless they've nailed them, and with my vast and tedious
experience in the field wink  it is vast actually, and terribly tedious --
I doubt they could nail them.

It's possible to copy an Ingres, Rembrandt, Raphael, or Corot and get
very very close. But in the end, it takes not only skill, but understanding.
Without the understanding, the copies will be lacking. On the other hand,
the more of us who can enjoy the most of it, that's better than nothing.

Regardless, this ain't art, it's reproduction. Nothing wrong with reproduction though.