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Van Gogh only ever sold one painting during his life, so he himself was a failure as a commercial artist, in the modern day hes considered to be one of the best artists of all time.
Yet during his life he was treated badly, and had a pretty horrible existance.
Of course art isn't defined as something thats sold, but commercial art is obviously, and he did try to do that, originally as an art dealer and later as an artist.
I've often heard people say that arts rubbish and they could do it themselves, but of course they end up missing the point of the piece. Theres a TV show on BBC called "faking it" where one episode takes a painter and decorator and attempts to turn him into an artist in four weeks, to fool a panel of judges that hes been doing it for years.
He too starts off with the notion that pieces he doesn't understand are rubbish, of course eventually when he learns art appreciation he sees it in a different light, he then went on to become a sucessful conceptual artist himself, some of his pieces I could definetely see people saying, i could do that, as many say about other artists such as pollock etc, but thats not the point.
He looked at damien hirsts work as something he did everyday, as a painter and decorator who traps flys and other insects in paint, but thats only the superficial.
unfortunately (or fortunately depending on how you look at it ) not all art is valuable on a simple viewing of it, sometimes you have to get inside the artists head or find the deeper meaning behind it.
whether or not you can reproduce a piece of art easily or not, has nothing to do with its value.
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