In the past, the most famous painters, such as Da Vinci and Rafael, achieved their fame due to their extraordinary talent. In co
ntrast, artists of today may possess very limited skills. The success of a modern artist often results from a genius for marketing or selling ideas rather than artistic ability. Which statement below best supports the claim with evidence?
This claim about artists represents modern artist mostly as talentless, as opposed to Da Vinci or Raphael, for the art itself, but talented in the area of marketing their product. Having that in mind, the statement that best supports the claim with evidence would be: For example, Damien Hirst became famous for a silver shark in a tank, preserved with formaldehyde. As Damien Hrist is the only one that has not became famous for his artistic style, like Georgia O’Keefe became famous for her delicate and unusual paintings of animal skulls and flowers, Paul Gaughin for colorful, symbolic paintings of Tahitian women or Mark Rothko for his colorful abstract paintings in which color bleeds.
