Are you just being polite when you tell your friend, the artist, that his or her artwork is good? Similarly, if your friends all tell you that your art contemporary is really cool, are they simply 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!

A long pause can also say it all, just as obviously as laughter. If it takes someone more than two seconds to comment on an art contemporary piece then the artwork in question probably stinks. I apologize, but whether it’s yours or your friends, feelings are going to get shot down!

Art contemporary is for everybody, and any form of self-expression in the current day is art contemporary. However, some things just don’t make the grade on any level and nobody can really dispute that, can they? It isn’t a problem, my art was like that! Just remember that an artist shouldn’t set out to please anybody with his or her work if it is true art contemporary, because it is all about what is inside the artist’s mind. I think that producing work for someone else to buy takes away from the quality of the art, but maybe that’s just me! All artists need to make a living, right?

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