The beginning of this "cooperative relationship" is due to two misleading ways: First, too many pot friends buy pots by looking at their professional titles, thinking that a national or senior arts and crafts artist is a "master" and their own pots are excellent, which has generated the motivation and source of using professional titles.
Second, merchants and some artists with professional titles are profitable and mutually beneficial. Marx has long said about the interest relationship of capital and the pursuit of interest by human nature. There is no doubt that the merchants give so-called "co-artists" a lot of money in exchange for their titles and seals, and unconditionally recognize the works made by the merchants (the works were not made by that artist, but they must admit that they made them themselves because they gave you money and bought your reputation and copyright).
At this time, the merchants arrived at the base camp of pot making: they hired a large number of workers in the countryside, produced 20- 100 ordinary works in a single paragraph, stamped with the teacher's seal, and asked the original holder of the seal to admit that he made it himself, and then rushed to the world through overwhelming advertisements. People who don't know really think that the teacher did it, and they don't even know that he made the pot. You just stamped it. I also bought his works at a price far higher than the quality of his works, thinking that the cost performance is really high, cheap and cost-effective!
The second method of "OEM" is: the teacher finds someone to make the pot himself, stamps it with his own seal, recognizes it as his own work and sells it to people from all walks of life. This kind of work still has to go through the author himself, and no one gives the author benefits, but it still belongs to the category of "OEM", but one is commercial OEM, and the other is to find someone to do it for himself.
So summarize the definition and types of OEM. Any work that is not made by oneself (it is normal for an artist to stamp himself, such as seal cutting or clay painting) but admits that the work belongs to himself is an OEM. In this definition, there are two kinds of OEM: one is that merchants cooperate with artists with professional titles, and the other is that artists (usually famous or professional titles) directly find workers to do OEM for themselves.
At present, what we encounter most is the first one. Commercial OEM artists only sell professional titles. This OEM artist has done nothing, and he doesn't know how his works are made. Some can't even make pots at all (such as sculpture and other majors) and there are still many branded pots.
The second kind of artist also belongs to the OEM ranks, but this kind of work is much better than that of merchants. In terms of quality control, whether to participate in the producer, or participate in the selection of lettering, clay painting and craft mud. Still much better than the first one.
The root cause of OEM is the game of interests and the strange circle of professional titles. There is still a lot to be described in detail about the casting pot. Foundry has been more and more exposed to the players' eyes, so that more pot friends can understand the foundry and really appreciate the purple sand art instead of reading the title.