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In China, Art to Gogh The Wall Street Journal | Kristiano Ang: The southern Chinese city of Shenzhen is well known for the easy availability of cheap electronics and its bustling export-oriented economy. But when the city’s authorities mounted a pavilion at the Shanghai World Expo in 2010, they wanted to show a more cultured face. That’s when they turned to the painters of Dafen, the subject of art historian Winnie Wong’s recently published book “Van Gogh on Demand.”... Read further: blogs.wsj/scene/2014/04/24/in-china-art-to-gogh/ Image 1: from the University of Chicago Press. Image 2: Dafen painter Zhao Xiaoyong’s 30-minute process for reproducing a Van Gogh self-portrait. Reuters
Posted on: Thu, 24 Apr 2014 16:50:00 +0000

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