Trope | Percentage odds (1-year) |
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Work inspired by tragic loss | ✅ |
Tormented gestural paintings | 10% |
Anguished self portrait | 6% |
Corny protest art | 5% |
Work inspired by a dream | ✅ |
Use bodily fluids in a piece | 30% |
Be told your work isn't art | ✅ |
Create "masterpiece" | 6% |
Nude painting/sculpture | 12% |
Take years to finish a work | 60% |
Exploit marginalized group for art | 33% |
Visit foreign country for inspiration | ✅ |
Get called a sellout | 8% |
Sell art on the street | 13% |
Art Basel | 7% |
Invited to a biennial | 2% |
Flee a war | 1.75% |
Work placed in a museum | ✅ |
Work placed in the Met/MoMA | 0.1% |
Work placed in the Louvre | 0.0002% |
First gallery show | ✅ |
Auction at auction house | 17% |
Obscenely large sculptural installation | 4% |
Rejected by a gallery | 46% |
Go on food stamps | 2.4% |
Sell a work for 5 figures | 39% |
Sell a work for 6 figures | 0.03% |
Sell a work for 7 figures | 0.006% |
Magazine cover feature | 3% |
Public commission | 14% |
Work made entirely by assistants | 2% |
Open studio | 27% |
Hiatus | 0% |
Retire | 0% |
Hailed as creative genius | 20% |
Get critically panned | 25% |
Find a patron | 9% |
Write a memoir | 0.2% |
Delay release date | ✅ |
Art stolen | 16% |
Work decried by later generations as x-ist | 0% |
Self-indulgent release party | ✅ |
Get called "washed up" | 2.2% |
Die in poverty | 0.00025% |
Do commercial work | 11% |
Plead with friends to buy your art | ✅ |
Try to get sued for publicity | 17% |
Take teaching position | 3% |
Work vandalized by activists | 4% |
Media exposé | 0.1% |
Get canceled | 3% |
Overdose | 0.5% |
Substance abuse issue | 0.8% |
Shoot up | 0.07% |
Secret drug habit | 0.8% |
Life-changing psychedelic trip | 35% |
Declare sobriety | 29% |
Alcoholism | 0.006% |
Lean on alcohol for creative output | 2% |
Publicly scoff at "the mainstream" | 8% |
Write a manifesto | 55% |
Champion a new school of art | ✅ |
Pretentious artist statement | 47% |
Call yourself a "conceptual artist" | ✅ |
Allegations of abuse | 0.5% |
Estrange family | 0.008% |
Lash out at critics | 4% |
Feud with another artist | 6% |
Collab with another artist | 73% |
Secret child | 0.001% |
Week with no human contact | 3% |
Commit suicide | 0.001% |
Mental health diagnosis | 15% |
Psych ward stay | 0.01% |
Public meltdown | 0.2% |
Cut off body part | 0.001% |
Tragic early death | 0.002% |
Join the 27 Club | 0% |
Manic episode | 0.9% |
Fit of manic artistic inspiration | 25% |
Have a Blue Period | 5% |
Outlandish facial hair | 10% |
Get a tattoo | 95% |
Female alter ego | 12% |
Work under pseudonym | 9% |
Cross dress | 8% |
Sport eyebrow-raising hair-do | 6.7% |
Claim not to be an artist | 40% |
Adopt a wild animal | 4% |
Get called “eccentric” | 44% |
Carry sketchbook around | 38% |
Get MFA | 1% |
Wear a beret (in public) | 0.00000001% |
Practice nudism | 3% |
Give child unorthodox name | 0.003% |
Get a piercing | 22% |
Open relationship | 1% |
Abuse partner | 0.002% |
Fall madly in love | 77% |
On-again-off-again relationship | 2% |
Sexual harassment allegations | 1.1% |
Adopt a muse | 24% |
Have an affair | 0.1% |
Come out of the closet | 1% |
Experience heartbreak | 20% |
Get STD | 0.15% |
Dedicate work to a lover | 55% |
Portrait of a lover | 65% |
Experience unrequited love | 0.2% |
Fall in love with another artist | 3% |
Impregnate mistress | 0.1% |
Deny paternity | 0.0005% |
Groom a young woman | 1.2% |
Find "soulmate" | 18% |
Sleep with a gallerist | 0.0032% |
Love triangle | 0.17% |
Woo a lover with art | 34% |
Make advances on assistant | 0.5% |
Live with other artists | ✅ |
Start a commune | 1.6% |
Move to Brooklyn | ✅ |
Start a collective | 27% |
Lead social justice movement | 1.5% |
Identify as nonbinary | 4.2% |
Gentrify a neighborhood | 10% |
Spiritual quest to Asia | 4% |
Life-changing meditative experience | 70% |
Spiritual rebirth | 14% |