Pix2Oils is the only foreign-run business in the village. Located in Buji Subdistrict, the village is the world’s largest mass producer of oil paintings — a virtual art factory.
Portraits of Mao Zedong, Albert Einstein, Hu Jintao, George W. Bush and other famous figures peered out from galleries. Human bodies shared wall space with Chinese calligraphy, and modern graffiti contrasted with Chinese landscape paintings. It was apparent there was no limit to the genres and mediums of art one could find in Dafen.
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