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Art Imitates Art

99% Invisible

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Painting in Dafen

Before two thousand eight around 80 % of the paintings made in dafen were exported to the west. The financial crisis had a severe impact on real estate development all over the world. Fewer construction projects meant there were fewer blank walls that required cheap, unobjectionable decoration. But even though business dropped a lot for dafen, it didn't disappear completely. With a chinese real estate boom, and with a rising middle class within the country, dafen had a new Chinese market to tap into.

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