Van Gogh was literally blasted by accusations of being a wannabe fake artist trying to grift off of his brother's access to the art world and leech off of real artists' fame his entire life Those were the voices in his head that drove him to suicide
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If we've supposedly learned anything from his horrible life and the ugly spectacle of people bidding millions of dollars for paintings people literally threw in the trash while he was alive it's that our system of deciding which artists deserve to make a living is bullshit
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That system was Theo Van Gogh's job, he was an art dealer, and his inability to do anything within the system to help Vincent or get him the audience he deserved haunted him for the rest of his life The utter arrogance of saying those were better times for artists
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But that's the thing, isn't it, for all he went through Vincent Van Gogh did have that one privilege A brother who worked in the industry (and a sister-in-law obsessed with his story and the idea of him as a misunderstood genius) Without Theo there'd be no Vincent
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If Vincent just never had a little brother, we wouldn't know who he was at all He'd probably have died years earlier in a mental hospital Maybe he wouldn't have even picked up a paintbrush There are probably millions of Vincents in history who've been completely forgotten
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Anyone who thinks it's "too easy" to "become an artist" these days is so full of shit You have no idea how many Picassos or Van Goghs or Da Vincis died in poverty without a single work of theirs preserved because of random chance How dare you romanticize that shit
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Like I said in the other thread there's a Van Gogh right now who's this close to just giving up because whenever she tries to offer to do commissions or set up a Patreon just to try to get started, to do *something*, she gets either silence or a torrent of mockery and abuse
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No different than Van Gogh trying to push his paintings on restaurant owners and hoteliers, just so someone will see them "There's Theo's brother again, shamelessly grubbing for attention A madman and a leech"
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"Everyone thinks they can pick up a brush these days and be Michelangelo" "The market certainly has debased the profession How far we've fallen from the days of the Renaissance, when the great masters judged who was and was not competent to be trained"
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patronage system *coughcough* patronage system
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