Is it possible to be truly authentic?
Authentic – adjective
. of undisputed origin and not a copy; genuine.
In my opinion, I think it is very difficult now to be truly authentic without copying something, especially now because a lot of things have been done so it’s quite hard as an artist to do something new and shocking. Unlike before the 21st century so during the 20th, a lot of artists did shocking and new things because everyone got so used to traditional styles of work so that when people did something new a lot of people hated it or rejected the idea of it.
The principles of modernism do hold value in contemporary practice because the rules of modernism are “to modernise”, “to make new”, “to start again” and “to refresh” etc. so this is the idea of making something new and to not keep repeating similar pieces of work so people may keep these principles in mind when they make their work because they want to be authentic.
I believe it is possible to be truly authentic, but like I said before this can be difficult without having something similar to someone else’s work, but to be original you don’t always have to do something completely new but you could do a piece of work on a subject that has been done, but do it differently or with a twist and in my opinion, this can make you authentic because it is almost new and not been done before.
So in conclusion it is possible to be authentic but can be very difficult to achieve.