Trope | Percentage odds (1-year) |
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Lean on alcohol for creative output | 6.4% |
Identify as nonbinary | 13% |
Sell a work for 6 figures | 0.004% |
Tragic early death | 0.00177% |
Allegations of abuse | 0.7% |
Visit foreign country for inspiration | ✅ |
Dedicate work to a lover | 33% |
Sexual harassment allegations | 0.7% |
Adopt a wild animal | 2.7% |
Substance abuse issue | 0.91% |
Cut off body part | 0.001% |
Magazine cover feature | 1.3% |
Fit of manic artistic inspiration | 27% |
Give child unorthodox name | 0.04% |
Open relationship | 2% |
Work under pseudonym | 7% |
Take teaching position | 0.1% |
Alcoholism | 0.007% |
Shoot up | 2.1% |
Find "soulmate" | 13% |
Wear a beret (in public) | 0.00000001% |
Get MFA | 0.003% |
Go on food stamps | 2.8% |
Work decried by later generations as x-ist | 0% |
Work vandalized by activists | 0.9% |
Champion a new school of art | ✅ |
Work inspired by a dream | 14% |
Outlandish facial hair | 9% |
Rejected by a gallery | 36% |
Public meltdown | 0.5% |
Have a Blue Period | 0.23% |
Nude painting/sculpture | 9% |
Psych ward stay | 0.009% |
Self-indulgent release party | ✅ |
Sleep with a gallerist | 0.0047% |
Deny paternity | 0.0006% |
Secret child | 0.001% |
On-again-off-again relationship | 3% |
Abuse partner | 0.6% |
Carry sketchbook around | 28% |
Obscenely large sculptural installation | 2.2% |
Publicly scoff at "the mainstream" | 5% |
Female alter ego | 14% |
Get canceled | 1.1% |
Retire | 0% |
Sport eyebrow-raising hair-do | 2% |
Get called "washed up" | 0.08% |
Join the 27 Club | 0.000000001% |
Collab with another artist | 82% |
Make advances on assistant | 0.66% |
Create masterpiece | 6% |
Move to Brooklyn | ✅ |
Delay release date | ✅ |
Start a commune | 0.5% |
Pretentious artist statement | 73% |
Experience unrequited love | 0.25% |
Write a manifesto | 67% |
Have an affair | 0.1% |
Secret drug habit | 0.43% |
Invited to a biennial | 1% |
Open studio | 21% |
Get a piercing | 31% |
Work inspired by tragic loss | 20% |
Exploit marginalized group for art | 17% |
Public commission | 0.035% |
Art stolen | 1.3% |
Try to get sued for publicity | 1.75% |
Mental health diagnosis | 15% |
Fall madly in love | 77% |
Get critically panned | 13% |
Work placed in the Met/MoMA | 0.09% |
Find a patron | 0.03% |
Corny protest art | 2% |
Claim not to be an artist | 40% |
Spiritual rebirth | 9% |
Start a collective | 45% |
Spiritual quest to Asia | 4% |
Die in poverty | 0.00025% |
Call yourself a "conceptual artist" | ✅ |
Live with other artists | ✅ |
Sell art on the street | 11% |
Groom a young woman | 2.4% |
Plead with friends to buy your art | ✅ |
Sell a work for 7 figures | 0.0002% |
Art Basel | 1% |
Use bodily fluids in a piece | 19% |
Auction at auction house | 7% |
Write a memoir | 0.2% |
Get called "eccentric" | 53% |
Work placed in the Louvre | 0.0001% |
Practice nudism | 5% |
Take years to finish a work | 50% |
Get STD | 0.15% |
Commit suicide | 0.001% |
Lead social justice movement | 1.1% |
Sell a work for 5 figures | 20% |
Anguished self portrait | 11% |
Hailed as creative genius | 5% |
Estrange family | 0.04% |
Portrait of a lover | 15% |
Manic episode | 1% |
Media exposé | 0.06% |
Adopt a muse | 20% |
Hiatus | 0% |
Life-changing psychedelic trip | 39% |
Experience heartbreak | 7% |
Declare sobriety | 29% |
Tormented gestural paintings | 4% |
Week with no human contact | 3% |
Gentrify a neighborhood | 24% |
Get called a sellout | 5% |
Get a tattoo | 93% |
Lash out at critics | 3.4% |
First gallery show | 35% |
Woo a lover with art | 52% |
Work made entirely by assistants | 3.7% |
Love triangle | 0.41% |
Fall in love with another artist | 0.08% |
Work placed in a museum | ✅ |
Come out of the closet | 3% |
Be told your work isn't art | 60% |
Overdose | 2% |
Flee a war | 0.75% |
Life-changing meditative experience | 65.2% |
Impregnate mistress | 10% |
Cross dress | 4.56% |
Feud with another artist | 6% |
Do commercial work | 25% |