No, lol I think the lemming saying we would try to nuke them is spot on but jokes aside most people wouldn’t give a rats arse about these new aliens and only a very small minority would try to create art that appeals to their tastes- just to see if they can cater to their standards.

no we would try to nuke them

Based on our human history of snob thinking they’re better and then enslave those they think are barbarian, yes, but not before they enslave most of us and then spare some.

barbarians

Their assessment would depend heavily on chance: Which continent do they look at?

For your question, would we be pretending, it is the same.

Depends. Are the aliens hot?

The aliens would judge us for torturing and murdering the animals for selfish reasons.

So yeah most people would pretend to be vegan so that the aliens may talk to them.

What would an advanced alien race even consider fine art?

Six dimensional termite mounds?

Or they could see in a smaller range of frequencies, so what looks like a plain white room to us is a masterpiece of modern art to them?

Trumpists would label them illegal intellectual elitists and hate them.

No we’d start pretending we’re even less sophisticated.

EVERYONE that claims to appreciate only fine art is already pretending to be sophisticated.

Just send them all the alien movies where humans win, call them documentaries and watch them run.

No, we would instead make interspecies pornography of humans boning the aliens and further diminish our status in their eyes. Dommy mommies scoffing at the entire planet. It would be a diplomatic catastrophe.

I’d send them a picture of my arsehole.

Cunts.

Sounds like they’re pretending to be sophisticated, too.

Doubtful but I bet a lot of people would start saying paintings don’t really exist.