[krisoft]

> By your definition, super-successful kitsch-meisters like Thomas Kinkade are great artists.

And Vincent van Gogh is not. Or was not a great artist, then he died and become a great artist somehow suddenly after his death. (at least by that definition, which just to make it clear, I don't agree with.)

[specialist]

I'm fine with "remembered somehow" as another useful definition for "a great artist".

More cynically: van Gogh was only successfully monetized posthumously.