If you succeed, you'll be the founder of a new painting era; if you fail, you'll be nothing but a traitor and a clown.
The latter is true in most cases.
It's the same even in the early 20th century.
The most important patrons and painters of Impressionism, artists like Gustav, were disapproved by the Academic School leader Jerome, causing their lifetime works to be rejected by the official French Salon and leaving them unfulfilled.
Before his death, his last wish was to donate all his paintings and collections, including works by Monet and Degas, totaling over a hundred pieces, to the French National Art Gallery free of charge.
In the end, Jerome publicly mocked him by saying, "If the government accepts this crude nonsense, it would be a great moral degradation," and used this as a reason to reject all his works.
It should be known that unlike this African internet painter, Gustav was a person of high social status.
