this post was submitted on 16 Sep 2023
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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Art investors prefer art by dead artists, they can't do anything unexpected once they're dead.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

They also can't produce anything new, which means the now limited resource can only appreciate in value.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Artist: *Returns from dead*

Investors: :O

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

"Sike!"

shreds your painting

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

It's not unheard of that diaries pop up that shed a different light to a person long after their death

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

it's the same w musicians, prince, michael jackson etc all made squillions after death. being an artist is a v dangerous profession

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Alone the tickets to his last tour are worth much more even tho it didn't happen

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hp Lovecraft becoming a foundation of multiple genres....50+ years after dying in poverty.

RIP... especially his cat 🐈‍⬛️

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well he was a super-racist asshole, so I'm not too torn up that he wasn't wealthy.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Cosmic justice

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Has an artist ever faked their own death to cash in on the phenomenon?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Imagine faking your death and then seeing your art not increase in value

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Just need to wait it out a while longer... just a while longer...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

It's real annoying if you want to use art as a tax dodge/money laundering medium and the stupid artist keeps making more pieces to alter the value

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

The artists looking at the wealth on their graves be like: