Sincerity in art:

I can smell bullshit. Actually I really can't. The problem probably lies in what I like and what I don't like.

I like = good art
I don't like (or my friends don't like) = bullshit.

Anywhoo...Sincerity in art is basically the person being faithful, putting their 100% or more into an art project; but most importantly, making art that doesn't exactly undermine the audience in the most easy way.

Now don't get me wrong, effort does "sometimes" equal the sincerity I speak of, but do it wrong, then you get IMHO bullshit. But effort does not necessarily = "time put into it." It always comes down to quality vs. quantity.

Now the fact of the matter is you can never get 100% of the people to say "Wow this artwork is honest and sincere...good." Hell, you can put the sincerity I speak of into the artwork, project whatever and still get people (or even 99% of them) saying this is bullshit. That's expected. Now I'm not encouraging you to cater to the greatest common denominator cause art is usually a way to communicate on your terms, and if not to at least put your representation of what someone else's communication.

But there is this.....um...so to speak "aura" of art that people get when they take something in. That's the idea of sincerity. It's easy to do, and for me to do cause most often I have people who saw me go about the process in constructing the art. They know what effort I put into it and what I even think about it. However the general audience doesn't know that.

Now I can't really desribe how to do so, but as we can see, rushing something is sometimes not the way. The worst thing you could ever do is filler. Hell even professionally exhibiting showing exercises are bad too. I dont' know, once again that's my opinion. I'll talk more about it later.

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