Commentary
Art is the highest form of human expression; that is, art is most effective in evoking and exploring expressions intrinsic to the human experience.
There can be no room for what you might call fake art, art that is, at its heart, inauthentic.
I examined authenticity in my Honour’s thesis, and submit that authentic art is, in both conception and inception, “honest, grounded in knowledge”.
To be dishonest as a painter, deliberately reproducing the brushwork of Rembrandt, is hardly to be an authentic creator. Similarly, to know little of the history and pioneers of one’s craft brooks no confidence that one’s work will be distinct—in fact, such ignorance would suggest insincerity, that one actually had no interest in striving towards creating authentic art in the first place….