If you want to become a successful artist while alive you need connections to the criminal underworld.
That's it, it's all just money laundering.
My rich friend who organises cocaine trafficking buys my art for a hundred thousand dollars per painting, I give most of the money back, he then sells the art, now my new paintings are with a hundred thousand dollars because a handful of people paid me that much and resold the paintings for the same amount to other criminals laundering money.
That's literally it, that's how it works.
I don't think v4v will be able to change that