Faking It

I had two completely different opinions on the outcome of the show “Faking It.”  For the first forty-five minutes of the show I would have really disagreed that Will would have a chance to fool the artists.  He was going through the motions and was working really hard but just was not producing the type of art that would be able to be sold for anything more than twenty dollars.  He was getting advice from his trainers but it didn’t seem like he would find his own niche in the art world in only thirty days time.  I was unable to articulate exactly the reason why he was failing but it just appeared that he was not producing art at the same caliber as others in his field.  However, just before we stopped watching the film Will had his art analyzed by a room full of art critics.  At this table where they discussed his paintings, especially the one where he was crippled, they were able to articulate the problem that I saw as the key problem in his art.  One man said that for it to be true art, we wouldn’t need to know the back story to be able to understand the meaning of the painting.  Bingo!  After hearing this man say this I began to look back throughout the sow and see that I had been having the same issue with him.  When he first had his art judged by his trainers, they had to ask him the meaning because what they interpreted was not at all the message that he was trying to get across.  Then, when they had the brutally honest art critic examine his work, Will explained to him the meaning while the critic became brutally honest saying that he didn’t see the intended meaning in the painting at all.  The problem was he was using his knowledge to aid the painting which no art critic or viewer would have.  They should not have to read his biography to get something from his work.  That being said, now that Will knows about this inherent problem with his work I think that he will be able to change up his style slightly, and possibly be able to fool the critics.