On Thu, 30 Jan 2003 19:07:03 -0600, john@stafford.net (J Stafford) wrote:

>Funny that the 'art' in the eye of the artist often isn't recognized until

>his eyes and all the rest of him has become worm food.

And the best the artist could get "pre-death" was $5,

for some of his images, but after the gallery/museum

establishment are done with the work "post-death",

the value somehow rises to the mult-million dollar

range... But, then, it can go the other way: those who

are in life good-salesmen or are in the art-establishment

(and whose work can command high prices and great

attention while such is still useful to the "artist")

may be forgotten in death, with their work considered

not very worthy, once the artificial support is gone...;-)