Each one, he said, took about three days to paint. “Before I had some Western customers,” he told me. “Now all my clients are…

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Each one, he said, took about three days to paint.

“Before I had some Western customers,” he told me. “Now all my clients are Chinese.”

He paused, looking from the wet pink poppies to the rather depressing tones of the old school classical flowers. Was there a relationship between the shift in global purchasing power and his artist’s palette?

“There is a difference in taste,” he said at last.

“I’d say that Westerners prefer classical pictures which tend to be very dark. Chinese people like bright colours.”

–China’s oil painting village feels global shift (viaiamdanw)