Artists can now be employees.

[blogmatix]

Depends. Smudja's "Vincent & Van Gogh" is done in a style very close to van Gogh's, and is based on his paintings (with a generous dose of other contemporaries).

I have now almost forgotten about this, but some twenty years ago or so I saw a South African comic which set his story in modern-day Johannesburg. If memory serves, they also used a drawing style similar to his: rather rough around the edges but possessing its own charm.

So perhaps my initial take was wrong: maybe had he lived today he would have abandoned fine art for graphic art, because he was after all very much concerned about using art to send a message. He used fine art because at the time there wasn't much else (as far as I know). He couldn't get a job as illustrator because his drawing style didn't fit in with what was acceptable at the time.

[GEMMA]

We are targeting artists (painters and sculptors only) with HFA, Asperger's Syndrome, or significant executive functioning or medical challenges.

This sounds a bit iffy to me. Like they're targeting people who won't nessecarily be comfortable fighting back if they get ripped off.