Need to sync JUST album art....Is that possible?

I loaded some of my music the other day manually like I always do because do otherwise my iPhone would fill out too quickly. So I have Manually manage music and videos on and sync music off under music.
But I didn't have some album art at the time and I finally added it, but now I want to add it to my iPhone, but syncing it doesn't work.
What can I do to sync just the album art

Have you read any of what I've included in my previous posts?
Obviously not - so read it.
You don't have to include your entire music library when syncing. Under the Sync Music selection, you can choose all music and playlists, or selected playlists. I choose selected playlists and have a single primary iTunes playlists that I use for my iPhone, along with a few other playlists.
When manually managing music, you must manually delete the songs from your iPhone - open your iPhone in the iTunes source list to reveal the categories within such as music. Select music to view the music that was manually transferred to your iPhone. Select the music that you want to delete and select the delete button. This is called manually managing music, so you must do all this manually, which isn't a good idea to use with the iPhone.
If you restore your iPhone with iTunes if needed or wanted when manually managing music, you must manually re-transfer all music to your iPhone having to remember which music you had manually transferred to your iPhone before restoring. When syncing, the selected playlists chosen are re-selected automatically, or you can select the playlist or playlists yourself followed by a sync. The identical music as before will be transferred to your iPhone without having to remember anything and without having to manually do anything except for selecting the Sync button.
Don't know why I'm wasting my time with someone who chooses not to read what was already provided and learn something.
Based on all of this, why are you manually managing music again?

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