why most painters becom famous after their death?

Question

for example picasso! when he was alive, his paintings doesn't cost anything,, but when he died, the cost of his paintings gets increase! when he was alive, he wasn't famous like today!

Answer 1

Yes, it's true. Vincent van Gogh was another example. Artists are intellectual revolutionaires in their time. In society, unconventional thinking and behavior (or eccentricity) is normally shunned but later we realize that unconventiality equates to a masterpiece.

Answer 2

First law of economics: scarcity is the determinant of value. The more rare something is, the greater the value. When the artist dies, they can never paint again so each painting becomes more precious since it is one of a limited number. Still I wouldn't recommend this as a career move! I'd rather be an unknown artist & still living to paint my canvases than a famous dead one who can't enjoy the fruits of my labour.

Unfortunately with a lot of art, you are paying for the name. The more interesting (tragic) the story attached to the artist, often the more sought-after the name & the work. Most of the artists who are revered today & whose paintings sell for millions were poor during their lifetimes. Many great artists broke with tradition & weren't accepted in their day. It isn't until much later that their talent & genius are appreciated.

ahhh the life of an artist...vilified in life, deified in death.

Well, it doesn't stop me from painting! Now if I could just make a living at it!

Answer 3

most painters do not become famous after death, just a few have.
most of us are born in obscurity, live in obscurity and die quiet, obscure deaths, and the world is non the wiser. just a very slight few have made any fame, and that is only temporary too, surviving only the civilization inwhich they existed. like for instance, who were the artists of the pyramids and what was their backgrounds and such as that...that information is not in any art history book i ever picked up.
the Roman and Greek sculptors are just as obscure.
face it, mankind is from generation to generation an obscure being.

Answer 4

I'll tell you why,
because WE ARE SICK PEOPLE !!
when an artist dies, he defenitely can't make art anymore, so here's the plan, first we take over his work with GOOD prizes, then we glorify him to make him famous and then we start our business and get huge income! yeah yeah that's the way it is my friend. They could've pay these huge amounts of money to the new generation of artists to push them ahead and encourage them on making better and more innovative art, and they could've keep former precious art works in museums. At least, in this way you wouldn't find or find less such poor and un-famous artists like it used to be.

Answer 5

Because they're not painting anymore. Picasso won't paint a Picasso anymore.

Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) advised everyone, "Buy land. They're not making it anymore."

Answer 6

Supply and demand. Once the painter dies, his supply (works of art) becomes limited - his not making any more. Small supply makes his/her work more valuable.

Answer 7

Because that is when there paintings become invaluable pieces of art that can't be duplicated, or because we love dead people

Answer 8

i think that's because until most painters die nobody cares and when they're dead is when people start to know who they are because they are dead.

Answer 9

most?

not true the 99.9% never make it even after death

Answer 10

"You only want what you can't have." Works for just about everything.