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> By your definition, super-successful kitsch-meisters like Thomas Kinkade are great artists. And Vincent van Gogh is not. Or was not a great artist, then he d
by krisoft 2y ago
> By your definition, super-successful kitsch-meisters like Thomas Kinkade are great artists.
And Vincent van Gogh is not. Or was not a great artist, then he died and become a great artist somehow suddenly after his death. (at least by that definition, which just to make it clear, I don't agree with.)
- specialist 2y agoI'm fine with "remembered somehow" as another useful definition for "a great artist". More cynically: van Gogh was only successfully monetized posthumously.