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 INSPIRATIONAL GICLEE PRINT LARGE 21 x 13 Thomas Kinkade Cross on the Mountain $39.00 Time Remaining: 1d 15h 23m Buy It Now for only: $39.00 Buy It Now |
 Huge Abstract Modern Painting Hand Painted Canvas Wall Art Decor Large Framed $75.00 Time Remaining: 1h 13m Buy It Now for only: $105.00 Buy It Now |
 VINTAGE POSTER VESPA CLUB 3 FT STRETCHED CANVAS REPRO $99.99 Time Remaining: 1h 40m |
 CONTEMPORARY MODERN ABSTRACT PAINTING CANVAS WALL ART60x24x15ELOISExxx $49.00 (1 Bid) Time Remaining: 1d 13h 55m |
 Donna Summer Pop Art Canvas Print 16 x 20 $29.99 Time Remaining: 24d 6h 46m Buy It Now for only: $29.99 Buy It Now |
 LANDSCAPE SCENE WITH AN ELEPHANT BY David Shepherd FRAMED $54.75 (4 Bids) Time Remaining: 5h 13m |
 CONTEMPORARY MODERN ABSTRACT PAINTING FINE ARTXL READY TO HANGELOISExxx $49.00 Time Remaining: 1d 11h 35m |
 JAPANESE CARP Katsushika Hokusai Giclee Art Print new $17.94 Time Remaining: 30m |
 orange orange blue crimson and green Large WATERCOLOR PAINTING giclee $24.50 Time Remaining: 19d 16h 16m Buy It Now for only: $24.50 Buy It Now |
 CAUCASIAN CANYON by Lev Lagorio nature ART CANVAS PRINT new $17.94 Time Remaining: 30m |
 BATTLE BETWEEN VESTA AND TURKISH BATTLESHIP Aivazovsky new print $17.94 Time Remaining: 30m |
 THE SLEEPING GYPSY by Henri Rousseau ART CANVAS PRINT new $17.94 Time Remaining: 30m |
 Thomas Kinkade THE LITTLE MERMAID Disney Large 11x14 Dblmat Print Image 8x12 $39.00 Time Remaining: 1d 15h 23m Buy It Now for only: $39.00 Buy It Now |
 REMBRANDT AS SHEPHERD WITH STAFF AND FLUTE Govert Art new $17.94 Time Remaining: 30m |
 ISAAC NEWTON WILLIAM BLAKE Art Canvas Poster Print new $17.94 Time Remaining: 30m |
 THE DANCER Make Nude Egon Schiele Art Canvas Print new $17.94 Time Remaining: 30m |
 FAIRY MERMAID ART 8x10 PAINTING PRINT Unicorn SCHEMPP $9.95 Time Remaining: 5d 12h 5m Buy It Now for only: $9.95 Buy It Now |
 ARRIVAL OF COLUMBUS Ivan Aivazovsky art CANVAS PRINT new $17.94 Time Remaining: 30m |
 NAPOLEON I on his IMPERIAL THRONE Dominique Ingres ART new $17.94 Time Remaining: 30m |
 The BIG WAVE off Kanagawa Kaysushika Hokusai art PRINT new $17.94 Time Remaining: 30m |
 MODERN ABSTRACT PAINTING CANVAS WALL ARTELOISExxx $200.00 Time Remaining: 29d 14h 2m Buy It Now for only: $200.00 Buy It Now |
 OWL IN A GOTHIC WINDOW Caspar Friedrich David ART PRINT new $17.94 Time Remaining: 31m |
 THE GRAND DOCK AT LE HAVRE by Claude Monet ART PRINT new $17.94 Time Remaining: 31m |
 THE SHADED STREAM at the Puits Noir by Caillebotte art new $17.94 Time Remaining: 31m |
 Green Lights Motorcycle Giclee Canvas by Rodney White $189.00 Time Remaining: 25d 9h 58m Buy It Now for only: $189.00 Buy It Now |
 GRAPES IN A VASE Pierre Joseph Redoute ART CANVAS PRINT new $17.94 Time Remaining: 31m |
 INTERNAL VIEW OF THE CHURCH Max Emanuel Ainmiller art new $17.94 Time Remaining: 31m |
 CAT ON A CUSHION Franz Marc animal ART CANVAS PRINT new $17.94 Time Remaining: 31m |
 Coco Chanel Barbie Pop Art Canvas 16 x 20 CANVAS PRINT $29.99 Time Remaining: 24d 6h 42m Buy It Now for only: $29.99 Buy It Now |
 OAK FOREST by Mikhail Konstantinovich Klodt ART CANVAS new $17.94 Time Remaining: 31m |
 The Self seers II Death and Man 1911 Egon Shiele Art new $17.94 Time Remaining: 31m |
 Carnation lily lily rose JOHN Singer SARGENT art print new $17.94 Time Remaining: 31m |
 r 40 CANVAS BROWN CITY worthless to search more $79.00 Time Remaining: 28d 13h 14m Buy It Now for only: $79.00 Buy It Now |
 THE HOUSE PAINTERS Gustave Caillebotte art canvas print new $17.94 Time Remaining: 31m |
 Beach Study Henry Scott Tuke Canvas Print new $17.94 Time Remaining: 32m |
 CAPTURE OF GRIVITSKY REDOUBT AT PLEVNA Art Canvas Print new $17.94 Time Remaining: 32m |
 FIGHT FOR THE WATER HOLE Frederic Remington ART canvas print $21.99 Time Remaining: 29d 13h 53m Buy It Now for only: $21.99 Buy It Now |
 PEACE BURIAL AT SEA Joseph Mallord William Turner ART new $17.94 Time Remaining: 32m |
 AIVAZ THEODOSIA by Ivan Aivazovsky art CANVAS PRINT new $17.94 Time Remaining: 32m |
 FLOWERS IN A VASE Gustave Courbet Art Canvas Print new $17.94 Time Remaining: 32m |
 SEINE AT ROUEN by Claude Monet ART CANVAS PRINT $21.99 Time Remaining: 29d 13h 52m Buy It Now for only: $21.99 Buy It Now |
 NAPOLEON painting Henri de Toulouse Lautrec ART PRINT new $17.94 Time Remaining: 32m |
 The blind girl John Everett Millais art print canvas new $17.94 Time Remaining: 32m |
 THE INVATION LE GUEPIER Bouguereau ART Canvas Print new $17.94 Time Remaining: 32m |
 Marc Franz The Enchanted Mill Canvas 16 x 20 $29.99 Time Remaining: 17d 6h 25m Buy It Now for only: $29.99 Buy It Now |
 BEACH WITH BATHING BOYS Johan Krouthen ART CANVAS PRINT new $17.94 Time Remaining: 32m |
 THE ROSE TIME by Ferdinand Georg Waldmuller ART CANVAS new $17.94 Time Remaining: 32m |
 RECEPTION AT COMPIEGNE IN 1810 by Francois Flameng ART new $17.94 Time Remaining: 32m |
 LARGE SUNFLOWER beautiful ART PRINT ladybug Pretty Yellow Green and Blue 8x10 $20.00 Time Remaining: 27d 7h 43m Buy It Now for only: $20.00 Buy It Now |
 IN THE BIRCH TREE FOREST by Ivan Ivanovich Shishkin ART new $17.94 Time Remaining: 33m |
 CALAIS PIER by Joseph Mallord William Turner ART PRINT new $17.94 Time Remaining: 33m |
 HAWAIIAN FISHER BOY by Hubert Vos ART CANVAS PRINT new $17.94 Time Remaining: 33m |
 VISIT AMERICA TRAVEL TOURISM UNITED STATES REPRO POSTER $63.84 Time Remaining: 11d 4h 8m Buy It Now for only: $63.84 Buy It Now |
 THE ROSE BOWER by John WATERHOUSE art print on canvas new $17.94 Time Remaining: 33m |
 REAPER by artist Ferdinand Hodler ART CANVAS PRINT new $17.94 Time Remaining: 33m |
 AKROBATENPAAR PLASTIK Ernst Ludwig Kirchner ART canvas new $17.94 Time Remaining: 33m |
 Chanel Charms Pop Art Canvas Print 16 x 20 $29.99 Time Remaining: 24d 6h 37m Buy It Now for only: $29.99 Buy It Now |
 BRUNO LILJEFORS portrait Anders Zorn art CANVAS PRINT new $17.94 Time Remaining: 33m |
 HEAD OF CHRIST WITH CROWN OF THORNS Lucas Cranach art new $17.94 Time Remaining: 33m |
 FOG RED POND IN MOSCOW IN THE AUTUMN art canvas print new $17.94 Time Remaining: 33m |
 HUGE MODERN ABSTRACT OIL PAINTINGS ON CANVAS WALL ART PAINTING FRAMED G242 $138.00 Time Remaining: 29d 15h 11m Buy It Now for only: $138.00 Buy It Now |
 NERISSA by John William Godward female ART CANVAS PRINT new print $17.94 Time Remaining: 33m |
 THE BREAKFAST TABLE VIOLET SARGENT John Singer ART new $17.94 Time Remaining: 34m |
 YOUNG MAN HOLDING A SKULL VANITAS by Frans Hals ART new $17.94 Time Remaining: 34m |
 If By Rudyard Kipling Father To Son Poem Canvas 16 x 20 $29.99 Time Remaining: 24d 6h 58m Buy It Now for only: $29.99 Buy It Now |
 ANCIENT RUINS USED AS PUBLIC BATHS by Hubert Robert ART new $17.94 Time Remaining: 34m |
 THE RAINBOW by artist Constantin Somov ART CANVAS PRINT new $17.94 Time Remaining: 34m |
 PROVINCE by artist Boris Kustodiev ART CANVAS PRINT new $17.94 Time Remaining: 34m |
 GLENFIDDICH SCOTCH WHISKEY Large 20 x 15 Fine POP ART Giclee POSTER Eisner $24.50 Time Remaining: 4d 14h 6m Buy It Now for only: $24.50 Buy It Now |
 British flag HOT AIR BALLOON RIDE art Canvas print new $17.94 Time Remaining: 34m |
 BIRCHWOOD trees ISAAK LEVITAN nature ART CANVAS PRINT new $17.94 Time Remaining: 34m |
 THE OXBOW lake by artist Thomas Cole ART CANVAS PRINT new $17.94 Time Remaining: 34m |
 Kinkade Large 11x14 Dbl Mat Print 8x12 image Footprints in Sand Ocean Beach Pier $34.00 Time Remaining: 1d 15h 23m Buy It Now for only: $34.00 Buy It Now |
 PORTRAIT OF SIR THOMAS MOORE Hans Holbein the Younger new $17.94 Time Remaining: 34m |
 Hudson River Waterfront Colin Campbell Cooper Canvas new $17.94 Time Remaining: 35m |
 THE MONASTERY OF THE CAVES Alexei Savrasov art CANVAS new $17.94 Time Remaining: 35m |
 Beatles Live On Ed Sullivan Show Pop Art Canvas $29.99 Time Remaining: 24d 6h 34m Buy It Now for only: $29.99 Buy It Now |
 FOREST STREAM SPRING by Grigori Grigorievich Miasoyedo new $17.94 Time Remaining: 35m |
 NIGHT OF ENITHARMONS JOY by William Blake Art CANVAS new $17.94 Time Remaining: 35m |
 ZAPOROZHIAN COSSACKS SULTAN MEHMED IV OTTOMAN EMPIRE new $17.94 Time Remaining: 35m |
 forest goddess ivy green ghost corset fantasy art painting SIGNED 5X7 PRINT $5.00 Time Remaining: 29d 6h 32m Buy It Now for only: $5.00 Buy It Now |
 FOREST WITH A BROOK Ferdinand Hodler ART CANVAS PRINT new $17.94 Time Remaining: 35m |
 THE ORATOR by artist Ferdinand Hodler ART CANVAS PRINT new $17.94 Time Remaining: 35m |
 PORTRAIT OF LEO TOLSTOY by Ilya Repin ART CANVAS PRINT new $17.94 Time Remaining: 35m |
 night sky moon goddess star goth gothic fantasy art painting SIGNED 5X7 PRINT $5.00 Time Remaining: 29d 6h 35m Buy It Now for only: $5.00 Buy It Now |
 HOUSE OF DEATH by WILLIAM BLAKE Art canvas Reproduction new $17.94 Time Remaining: 36m |
 PORTRAIT OF A LADY art by Alphonse MUCHA canvas print new $17.94 Time Remaining: 36m |
 THE OLD BATTERSEA BRIDGE by James Abbot McNeill Whistle new $17.94 Time Remaining: 36m |
 36 BLACK WHITE CANVAS worthless to search more $79.00 Time Remaining: 17d 20h 23m Buy It Now for only: $79.00 Buy It Now |
 AMONG THE SHINGLES AT CLOVELLY Charles Napier Hemy Art new $17.94 Time Remaining: 36m |
 FOREST STREAM by Schilder Andrei Nikolaevich ART CANVAS new $17.94 Time Remaining: 36m |
Does the flood of photo realistic paintings from China on eBay help or hurt art?
Even though most of the listings claim that they are "hand painted" by Chinese artists, the works appear to be too "photo realistic" to be hand painted and are far more likely to be giclee prints made from photographs (a large proportion are female nudes).
As an eBay Superseller in the art/painting category, I believe the imported artworks you mentioned have greatly hurt the artists and art on eBay.
Before the flood of Chinese and other mass-production listings at about the year 2000, the average eBay artist had only other, similar artists as competition. Many independent artists were able to support their families with their eBay sales. Now, the independent artists on eBay are struggling to hang on. Thousands have left eBay, and these imports are one reason.
First of all, the addition of thousands of 99 cent listings by the Chinese (and similar) makes it more difficult and frustrating for the eBay buyer for find the original art piece (my auctions!) they are looking for.
Secondly, we independent artists cannot possibly compete with the importers' 99 cent pricing. The Chinese auctions make their money by adding an extra ten or twenty dollars to the shipping price. In China, the canvas and materials are much cheaper, as well as the artist's wages. In America, the stretchers for a small canvas run about 6 or 7 dollars, before canvas, paint, the artist's time, and promotion costs (eBay and Paypal take 8 to 10 percent of sale).
Thirdly, to answer your question about quality, these Chinese works are mass produced on a production line. The picture in the auction is a sample. Often the auction contains words like "your painting may differ slightly from the picture," because each painting is done in large quantities and many sizes for the American and European markets. Yes, they are "hand-painted," but the background may be done (slapped on quickly) by one artisan, the fruit by another, the vase by a third, and so on.... like the assembly lines of a car manufacturer, but without the care and quality control.
Unfortunately, we Americans like a deal and these import works look like a bargain. We are also used to mass produced objects available in our stores. However, for a few dollars more, you can get an original, one-of-a-kind painting on eBay from an independent artist using better quality materials and having a higher artistic skill level.