How to Fake being an Arty Person

You walk into an art gallery and freeze up not knowing where to put your hands or your thoughts.

Your friend in their thrifted jumpsuit and oversized glasses points to a large painting of swirling colours and mutters something about the surrealism, you nod politely…

They are waiting for you to input something but you bring up last Sunday’s brunch instead. Jumpsuit friend thinks your an absolute uncultured rookie. Could anything be worse.

I’M HERE TO HELP. I’m going to give you a couple artists (painters) to pull out next time jumpsuit friend is looking at you with expectant eyes. Maybe these will even be handy over a sophisticated dinner chat. I myself have faked being a woman of culture my entire life. I blame my parents they were fakers to. Now if its sculptors or photographers you are after I’m afraid I’ll have to save that for another time, WE ARE KEEPING IT BASIC.

1. GEORGIA O’KEEFFE

So If you don’t say it… I will… those flowers looks awfully like something else. Georgia O’Keeffe was famous for her close up flower depictions that look A LOT like female genitals which kind of appeared to be an act of feminism. However she denies such relations and says they are strictly floral. LOL. Her name is pronounced like Oh K EE F. Her other popular works are the skulls in the desert modeled…