{"id":5691,"date":"2008-05-27T09:40:23","date_gmt":"2011-07-11T07:09:19","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-07-11T13:09:19","modified_gmt":"2011-07-11T07:09:19","slug":"real-fake-selfportraits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/real-fake-selfportraits\/","title":{"rendered":"Real Fake Self-Portraits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nI am a big fan of the fake-painting artists working in the city of Dafen, China. In an <a href=\"http:\/\/kk.org\/ct2\/2007\/12\/original-hyper-fake-reproducti.php\">earlier post <\/a>I raved about their hyper real fakes &#8212; which are in some ways better than the originals. Joshua Kauffman and Gwendolyn Floyd engineered a cool hack with Dafen artists. They commissioned willing artists to paint self-portraits in the style of the artists they were usually imitating. Joshua mentioned that they paid about $20 a piece for the self-portraits. And the artists were delighted with the chance to do something different.&#160; There are a few more examples <a href=\"http:\/\/www.regional-office.com\/?p=16\">here<\/a>, which will eventually be shown in a traveling exhibit.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/ct2\/dafenportraits.jpg\" height=\"223\" width=\"450\" border=\"0\" align=\"middle\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Dafenportraits\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a big fan of the fake-painting artists working in the city of Dafen, China. In an earlier post I raved about their hyper real fakes &#8212; which are in some ways better than the originals. Joshua Kauffman and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/real-fake-selfportraits\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"0","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[268],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5691"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}