The deal was seen by Dow Jones as "making a big bet that the future of the outsourcing industry, long associated with India, will be in China.
"[6] Art production is outsourced to China either to mass-produce thousands of paintings or execute original works based on instructions from foreign artists.
[7] A center for art outsourcing is Dafen Village in Shenzhen, well known for production of imitations of masterworks, but also home to artists who are commissioned to execute original works.
[8] At the high end of the art world, outsourcing to China is practice by Kehinde Wiley, an American portrait painter, who opened a studio in Beijing in 2006.
[9] Cost has been a motivation for outsourcing to China with an art blogger suggesting in 2007 that it allowed those with limited budgets to go from buy posters to oil paintings.