Worth More Miserable and Dead

Artists Worth More After Death?

Usually in two parts, the pattern includes a miserable life, artistic genius, died young, and dying in poverty. Tesla, Poe, Dickinson, Modigaliani...

Tesla

"Tesla died of heart failure alone in the New Yorker hotel, some time between the evening of January 5 and the morning of January 8, 1943, at the age of 86. Despite selling his AC electricity patents, Tesla was essentially destitute and died with significant debts."

Source: Wikipedia on Tesla

Picasso

"Douglas Cooper, called them "the incoherent scribblings of a frenetic old man". Only later, after Picasso's death, when the rest of the art world had moved on from abstract expressionism, did the critical community come to see that Picasso had already discovered neo-expressionism and was, as usual, ahead of his time."

Source: -Wikipedia on Picaso

Modigliani

"In 1920, after not hearing from him for several days, his downstairs neighbor checked on the family, and found Modigliani in bed delirious and holding onto Hébuterne who was nearly nine months pregnant. They summoned a doctor, but little could be done because Modigliani had tubercular meningitis."..."Hébuterne, who had been taken to her parents' home, threw herself out of a fifth-floor window two days after Modigliani's death, killing herself and her unborn child."

Source: Wikipedia on Modigliani

Dickinson

"Though virtually unknown in her lifetime, Dickinson has come to be regarded with Walt Whitman as one of the two great American poets of the 19th century"..."She died slow from uremia, a result of renal failure at 56."

Source: Wikipedia on Dickinson

Edgar Allen Poe

"Poe died at the age of 40, the cause of his death a final mystery, although it is well-known that he had serious drug and alcohol problems, but some say he died of tuberculosis, as so many people did in his time. His exact burial location is also a source of controversy."

Source: Wikipedia on Poe

Van Gogh

"Van Gogh's depression, (one he had for quite sometime) deepened, and on July 27, 1890, at the age of 37, he walked into the fields and shot himself in the chest with a revolver. Without realising that he was fatally wounded, he returned to the Ravoux Inn, where he died in his bed two days later."

Source: Wikipedia on Van Gogh

What makes a classic?

Maybe you have to be pretty fekked up to be unique in the first place. Many of the style and writings had deep meaning and were discovered. What's to stop anyone else from writing their own poetry, that can be analyzed and reviewed as a classic? Some kind of standardization?

Give me that painting. I'll pay $2 million dollars.

Discovered does not necessarily mean just the skill. There's many talented amazing artists out there. The world has 6 billion people. They're alive today. The first thing to realize is, who has the money. "Discovery" usually occurs when a large scale publisher or a wealthy guy decides the work is of high standards and quality to throw some money at it. For example, a wealthy guy is hosting a dinner party. He shows them paintings while they're passing by. Which is more interesting.

"This painting was made by a newer artist. It's expressing the feel of society, the "x" represents this, and the colors represent "that"."

Source: Rich Guy

or how about...

"This artist died 200 years ago in pain and suffering. He had tuberculosis all his life and suffered dreadfully in poverty with his loving wife. After the mans death at an early age, his loving wife, pregnant, threw herself out a four story window... Yes. He... drew this."

Source: Rich Guy

It's not just the mastery in the art that makes the value. It's the whole. People become interested in the story, in the personality that was behind the artistic creation to further their fascination.

The same is true of publishers. They'll obviously have to pay a large part in royalty fees if the author is still living. The story is a better sale when they died alone, depressed, and miserable. Having a story behind the story adds to the likeliness for people to gain interest. Again, it's about a fascination. The living are usually envied, they seem more tangible to compete against. Only in death do they gain the unbiased respect.

Their Pain. The strong emotions were the key!

It could be they were more expressive, yes. Their emotional flair is what likely makes them much more prone to suicide and substance abuse. Prodigies that grew up out of abusive childhoods. The traumatic experiences were of great mental stimulation. The children have to question and ask themselves at a very early age, "why?". They constantly have to question to find reasons and they gain the good habit only the best of students have. The misery of having no youth, and obvious incompatibility with the other, less serious children leads to an observational life, rather than a product of socialization. It takes far more than just being an emotional person, but an obsession to ideals.

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