Publisher/Peperoni Books

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Real Fake Art is a collection of works by German photographer Michael Wolf (1954-2019). He began working as a journalist in the 1990s and spent several years in Hong Kong on a commission from the prestigious German magazine Stern, but gradually shifted his focus to fine art as he watched the decline of the magazine industry. He then produced significant works that depicted the landscapes, expressions, and fragments of cities around the world, especially in major cities, from various angles, with the theme of "cities." His portrait series, which uses crowded trains on the Tokyo subway as a motif, is known as Wolf's masterpiece. This book features oil painting copy art created by young Chinese people against the backdrop of Chinese cities and landscapes. Works that imitate famous Western paintings, such as Rembrandt, Van Gogh, Warhol, Ruscha, Hockney, Magritte, Hopper, Richter, and Da Vinci, are produced in large numbers in China and sold at low prices around the world. These works raise questions about the value and originality of contemporary art, as well as the nature of art in an age of technological reproduction, making this a highly significant book.