The Other Troper
#2: Dec 23rd 2009 at 12:16:15 AM
NO picture "needs" an illustration. Every one of them is merely an option. So stating that about a page is meaningless.
I'm on the internet. My arguments are invalid.
Zzzzzzzzzz
#3: Dec 23rd 2009 at 12:53:35 AM
Well, I agree that it's very much a bad illustration.
- First off, it doesn't illustrate the trope at all clearly. I think it's supposed to be Van Gogh, but why would a picture of him painting matter?
- Second, it's got the imprint that announces to the world that it's pirated, and we know it, and we know who we should have asked.
- Third, why not just go with
Van Gogh alive: 300 francs. Van Gogh dead: 53,900,000 dollars.
edited 15th Nov '10 7:23:17 AM by Madrugada
...if you don’t love you’re dead, and if you do, they’ll kill you for it.
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#4: Dec 23rd 2009 at 12:55:00 AM
Also, the current picture has the copyright still attached.
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Hylarn
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#5: Dec 23rd 2009 at 1:17:26 AM
I don't think we're going to be able to illustrate this with a picture.
GGCrono
Since: Jan, 2001
#6: Dec 23rd 2009 at 9:13:40 AM
What about something like this?
...not quite what we meant.
edited 15th Nov '10 7:23:00 AM by Madrugada
Some Guy
#7: Dec 23rd 2009 at 9:14:49 AM
I'm inclined to agree. About all I can think of that would work would be a picture of an artist slumping down and dying at an auction and then the auctioneer goes "...and now let's have the bidding start at a billion gazillion dollars".
See you in the discussion pages.
Zzzzzzzzzz
#8: Nov 15th 2010 at 7:25:01 AM
This was changed to the skeleton painting: are we done here?
...if you don’t love you’re dead, and if you do, they’ll kill you for it.
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I don't think the picture for Dead Artists Are Better is actually at all demonstrative of the trope; the joke in it is that as he's painting the birds, a bird is painting him - death doesn't really enter into it. I can't think of a better picture, but this isn't really a trope that needs illustration.