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Hm... I had never heard of such a law. In Russia, you can get a special education and become an artist. But you can just draw and be a self-taught artist. By the way, self-taught people can be better than formal professionals. And if I'm self-taught, and you want to buy my painting from me (like for example), then I don't see any obstacles to that. Maybe there's something I don't know about this issue)