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Are there non-rare paintings? Aren't they all unique?
by corecoder 9y ago
Are there non-rare paintings? Aren't they all unique?
- cheschire 9y agoI thought the same thing. I suppose there are painting factories though, where people churn out all those $20 oil paintings I've seen for sale at furniture stores. They're basically just big brush swipes and big dabs of paint making abstract flowers. Those aren't rare.
- pvaldes 9y agoThere are lots of non unique paintings. Artists often explore the same theme in steps and create several versions of the same picture. There are four paintings of "The scream" by Munch for example. Some kind of art is created to be duplicated. Videoart and computer art, by design. Painters living much before computer age still managed to create thousands of "identical" copies of their pictures as a standard procedure. Auctions are full of lithographs, sometimes painted decades after the death of the artist.