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The trope of starving artists is real, but not because people dont want to pay artists. It's because artists are retarded businessmen.

Exhibit A: I want to buy a print of "Loneliness In The Night" by Valery Rybakow. He's an excellent impressionist painter from Belorussia. I have money. I know exactly what I want. I am literally the take-my-money meme. Like most artists, this guy is a retarded businessman. If this guy made toilet plungers or bottle caps, it'd take me under 30 seconds to find a way to buy them. But he's an artist, so after THREE HOURS I have yet to find a way to buy a print of the painting.

Dear artists: stop making fifty half-assed social media accounts and make a way to take my money.

The trope of starving artists is real, but not because people dont want to pay artists. It's because artists are retarded businessmen. Exhibit A: I want to buy a print of "Loneliness In The Night" by Valery Rybakow. He's an excellent impressionist painter from Belorussia. I have money. I know exactly what I want. I am literally the take-my-money meme. Like most artists, this guy is a retarded businessman. If this guy made toilet plungers or bottle caps, it'd take me under 30 seconds to find a way to buy them. But he's an artist, so after THREE HOURS I have yet to find a way to buy a print of the painting. Dear artists: stop making fifty half-assed social media accounts and make a way to take my money.

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[–] • 2 pts

Found a few sites. This one says you can send him a message. He may be in Belarus, so time difference and all.

https://www (dot) artmajeur (dot) com/rybakow

Have had luck with doing this in the past:

There's a couple of other sites out there with direct links to his social media accounts. Insta can send private messages. I'd just ask him how to get one. Uh , maybe in English, but also in Belarusian and Russian. Google translate isn't always the best, but good luck.

[–] • 3 pts

Unfortunately artmajeur is a dead end. I saw saw it initially and it looked promising, but further digging revealed that they only license low res digital copies and not prints. 700x555 pixels is fine if I want to put it on a coffee cup or somesuch, but is nowhere near what I'd need for a painting that's 2' across.

I might have to make an instagram account since his website and most of his other social media accounts appear to have been nuked. Eesh.

[–] • 2 pts

IG is the one I had luck with finding something very obscure. Couple years ago, but hey, if there's something out there that you want, go for it.