> We are not fine with mass-producing framed paintings that are "art".
China is full of factories where exactly this is being done and people are fine with this.
China is full of factories where exactly this is being done and people are fine with this.
The cynical would dismiss the whole distinction between mass produced and unique art as arbitrary. Or worse, just as a racket to create artificial scarcity, a social kabuki show to create the pretension of high culture, or for the purpose of some sort of criminal scheme like money laundering.