Oil painting copy shop. Learn: masterpieces, mass-produced, replicas, revenue, original

Описание: Words in the News (10th June 2015): Oil painting copy shop

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Transcript

Could this be the most important and expensive collection of masterpieces ever?

Actually no. In fact, it's a workshop in Dafen in southern China where more than half of the world's oil paintings are mass-produced.

Millions of replicas of Van Goghs, Monets, and Picassos are exported, generating billions in revenue for these painters who were once farmers or migrant workers.

But because of online competition, these artists are starting to concentrate on producing original pieces of art.

Vocabulary

masterpieces
high quality and very valuable paintings

mass-produced
made cheaply and in very large numbers

replicas
exact copies

revenue
income or money

original
not a copy; the artist's own work