"By their works you will know them." Does life always have to be full of multitude of credentials? Credentials not worth the paper written on if it is not fulfilled. Do credential revel the heart and soul(life of one) of the person?
When an artistic creation is purchased, the purchaser is buying more than what is seen. The creator of artistic expression has perhaps spent hundreds of hours by thought and work, errors made and corrected, experimentation, years of frustration and moments of pure joy went in the piece comes together. These work's are not one piece of artistic creation, heart and soul has been put into the original painting. The creation of the piece, as well as in the artists inner person. So you are purchasing a small moment. of the artistic creators life. Art should never be brought on the credentials what school, who the person studied under but, only on the creative expression of the creator.