[zeroecco]

is synthetic vanilla `less than` real vanilla? People are not the problem here, the product is. It lacks in the POINT of art.

Art is like going to a concert, an expression of the human condition. Why go if you can listen to a perfect mix of it at home?

How you get a painting is part of the reason you get the painting at all. The story behind it is just as much of the point as the piece itself.

To be clear: If you are in China, buy art from a Chinese artist. If you are in Brazil, buy art from a Brazilian artist.

[joosters]

Are you really saying that people buying these pictures are buying it for the wrong reason? That their point of buying it is wrong?

It sounds an awful lot like you are trying to project your values on to others. If people agreed with you, they wouldn't buy these paintings. And yet they do, in great numbers.

[genericone]

I think the downvotes are coming from the following interpretation of your comment: No true Artsman buys art internationally.

[zeroecco]

likely. but that wasn't my intent.

[Retra]

Some people just want a painting to decorate a wall somewhere, not to tell a story. And doing that, I wouldn't care one bit where it was painted or how many other copies were made.