Nicely done. (from considerable ignorance) I think the Art is pretty much irrelevant to an artist's commercial success, as is their ability to market or anythi

Nicely done. (from considerable ignorance) I think the Art is pretty much irrelevant to an artist's commercial success, as is their ability to market or anything else about them. "Big" art seems to be some shadowy money laundering scheme between a few specialized vendors (one step off of gallery owners) and the rich people using their services for financial manipulation. "Big" artists are just tools used in this trade. Similar to the music recording industry, but with less actual product. I define "artistic success," differently; I have to or I wouldn't know any successful artists. I say that people who can make the things they feel a need to make, to express whatever impulse results in Art, have achieved success. If they're able to share it with the world, even more so. If the world rewards them for it, that's even better; but those are both later, incidental stages, not as important to the artist or to the world as the creation was in the first place.