I doubt even then you could make a work that would be worthwhile enough that any lawyer could care, but just because you are doing it for the wrong reasons (to prove a point). You need to live a full life and have passion to make art like Van Gogh.
Its not simply that he had good technique. Its that he felt something deep down. He felt it ever since he was a child, and made constant and frustrating (to him) attempts to then manifest that feeling. He would sometimes linger by a roadside too long and become his own little philosopher, seeing a new treatise in the ebb and flow of landscape from the sky. He had loves and heartbreak and fantasies, and found no other place to recover from those things than in patient work with the canvas. His whole life was a sacrifice, a sacred devotion to the spirit of humanity only art can capture so thoroughly and universally. You can't just do that.
Its not simply that he had good technique. Its that he felt something deep down. He felt it ever since he was a child, and made constant and frustrating (to him) attempts to then manifest that feeling. He would sometimes linger by a roadside too long and become his own little philosopher, seeing a new treatise in the ebb and flow of landscape from the sky. He had loves and heartbreak and fantasies, and found no other place to recover from those things than in patient work with the canvas. His whole life was a sacrifice, a sacred devotion to the spirit of humanity only art can capture so thoroughly and universally. You can't just do that.