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The world's biggest art factory: Inside the Chinese village where thousands of artists recreate iconic paintings for sale overseas Dafen Oil Painting Village is a suburb of Shenzhen in China's Guangdong province
Here artists produce up to 60 per cent of the total global volume of reproduction artworks

Painters gather decorative pieces after a day's work: One artist working in Dafen says that Chinese customers prefer brighter colours than buyers in the West

 Painters work on two very different pictures, one portrait of a Japanese geisha and the other a landscape showing the undulating Great Wall of China

A painter eats his lunch in a studio

: A woman takes a moment from painting a scene of the Great Wall to playfully dab a man's nose with her brush

No-one becomes an artist to get rich... A painter squats on the floor to eat noodles for lunch in the kitchen of a rental house, which also contains his art studio

Sixteen-year-old painter Wang Jingang works on nine pieces of decorative paintings at the same time: Artists in Dafen are capable of producing dozens of paintings a day for sale in China and overseas - although these appear to be for the domestic market