You do not know whether no one else did. Art is showbusiness, and success is largely the result of flukes and many of the great names of history would easily h

You do not know whether no one else did. Art is showbusiness, and success is largely the result of flukes and many of the great names of history would easily have been unremarkable if it hadn't been for several fluke events. It's entirely possible that many did such things before, but never became famous with it, and one did, and largely became so as a fluke simply because, say, an influential critic came across it by chance, and decided to write a positive piece, after which the ball was set in motion.