Posts Tagged ‘modern art’
When you tell your artist friends that their artwork is good, are you just being polite? Similarly, if your friends tell you your artwork is actually really cool, are they just being nice?
It’s all about psychology. Take it from me, a failed artist whose friends used to pick me up constantly after I produced yet another self-portrait that showed incredible resemblance to a sun-dried tomato, it’s all in the initial reaction and the way it’s said.
I struggled with stumps of charcoal for hours on end trying to draw and reproduce my imagination on a 36″ x 48″ blank canvas, and my friends used to walk into my dorm room and fall over themselves with laughter! Now, I still have some great friends, and I have never dreamed of being a world-renowned art contemporary artist because I’ve never been any good at it. I’ve had to channel my talents in all sorts of other directions. But let e tell you, it’s a telltale sign that an artwork is not the best if it gets laughed at by everybody when they first see it! Damn art school!