# This Guy Calls Himself The Most Famous Artist And We Spent Two Days With Him A local text copy of a third-party source linked from The Most Famous Artist headline archive. Inclusion preserves historical coverage; it does not independently confirm the source’s claims or imply that every linked source explicitly names or credits the artist. Status: available — reviewed article text. Original source URL: Retrieved source URL: Source title: This Guy Calls Himself The Most Famous Artist And We Spent Two Days With Him Publication (archive label): Buzzfeed Source author: Henry Goldman Source publication date: 2016-03-05T23:01:05.000Z Original archive label: This Guy Calls Himself The Most Famous Artist And We Spent Two Days With Him , Buzzfeed, March 2016 Original archive date label: March 2016 Archive entry: https://www.themostfamousartist.com/#press-2198f4d51100 Retrieved at: 2026-11-03T17:27:30+00:00 Body word count (whitespace-delimited): 185 Body SHA256: f4d4ff78f838c316ab0fafcd849c785a2fc540c9295cfe0c1b67f1e724658435 Republished under rights confirmed by the site owner on 2026-11-03. Text formatting is simplified; images, video, and interactive elements are not reproduced. Historical archive date labels may differ from verified publisher metadata. ## Copy notes - Captured article is a video/photo post. Complete available editorial prose and captions reviewed; restored the omitted sentence about the cursory Instagram search. Embedded media is not reproduced or transcribed. ## Article text We spent a couple days following The Most Famous Artist Around He's a 30 year-old artist, using social media and technology to try to make a name for himself in the art world. To become the most famous artist. A lot of his work looks like this, repurposing old art he finds at flea markets and estate sales... Or like this, conceptual ideas crafted relatively easily. He can sell many of these paintings-on-paintings on Instagram for around $1000. Though his more complex work will sell for much higher than that. Everything he does is geared towards being shared on social media. We filmed him putting this mural up which he made because thought people would share it online. He claims this mural he made in Venice, Ca, last year, was the most instagrammed mural of all-time. Doing a cursory search on instagram for last year, it certainly does come up. Whether you're a fan of his work or not, his approach certainly seems very suited to the current moment in the internet. And maybe he has a shot at becoming who he wants to be.