Cuz, they'd not only have to produce their paintings, they'd have to produce
COLLECTORS edition paintings with paintings that show how they painted the
famous painting, and then write long narratives of them painting that
painting as commentary. Plus their painting would have to have something
that you could pop into your PC and it's a video game about the painting and
then link to a website where you can post your comments on the famous
painting and download a screen saver of the painting.
Then they'd also have to make you go into the museum and first look at a
bunch of other "featured artists" paintings before you could look at their
famous painting. And of course, if Picasso was alive, he'd have to show you
a sketch or something of his NEXT painting on the way out of the museum.
Not to mention the McDonald's toys and games, like pull the sticky thing off
your hashbrowns and if you find a miniature Guernica, you can go to the MOMA
all expenses paid, or if you find another one of his paintings, maybe you
could cash that in for a free Big Mac, with the purchase of a large fountain
drink.
That's actually quite a lot of work and maybe that's why there aren't any
famous painters alive right now, or any that I can think of, while movie
directors like Quentin Tarantino can sit in a mansion and shove white powder
up their nose all day.
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Thet'd be "outclassed" by the likes of Thomas Kincade and his "Art" (TM)
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Charles E. Montague