By Ross Faulds
Are you just being nice when you tell a friend that his or her artwork looks good? And are your friends just humoring you when they tell you that your work is cool?

It's about psychology. Take it from me; an awful artist whose friends used to feed me rubbish constantly after I painted another self-portrait that looked like a sun-dried tomato, the answer is in the initial reaction. It's 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!

Just as obvious as laughing, a long pause can say it all. If it takes more than two seconds between seeing an art contemporary piece and saying, "Yeah, that's really cool," then the artwork in question probably stinks. Whether it's yours or your friends, somebody is going to have to learn to lie a bit better because 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, but some things just don't make the grade on levels set out by anybody. Don't worry, my art was like that! It's important to 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 and nobody else knows that.

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Graveyard 6, by Ryan Middleton
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