Yeah… I've known artists who created that kind of thing. In one starving artists group from back in the day (when I was in art school), we had this one guy whose paintings sold for top dollar no matter what the medium, content, or size. We joked he could slap anything on the wall with his signature and someone would buy it. He decided to put it the test. He stretched a 6 x 4.5 foot canvas, cobbled together a wood box that was about a foot tall from 1x4s with a door made of plywood, slapped another little block of wood on it for a handled, attached it in an offset position on the canvas, and painted the whole thing white. He put a price tag of $5K on it – remember, this was a student starving artists exhibit in the early 1980s. No one else's work in the exhibit was more than $1500 (and that was sculpture).

Yes. Someone actually bought it.

[sigh]