I recently discovered that I'm being robbed... by a factory in China. Photo: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/booming-chinese-art-forging-business-hurts-us-artists/
It started when I saw this Facebook status by artist Scott Burdick :
This is nothing new; his worked has been ripped off by several different places in China for a couple of years now. This website: http://www.oilpaintings-supplier.com/ is one of many to spring up recently. It is truly disturbing how many living artists are featured on the site. In essence, these companies steal images off the internet by both dead and living artists, to be cranked out and sold by their factory artists as cheap and poorly done hand-painted copies. It is a case of mass artistic property theft, with little that can be done by the artists to stop it…
Read more »
