Never Touch a Painting When It's Wet: And 50 Other Ridiculous Art Rules

by Anneloes van Gaalen

Overview

Anneloes van Gaalen never stops researching ridiculous rules in creative sectors and we are thankful for that because it produces more of these wonderful and bestselling Ridiculous Design Rules books, which make perfect gifts for creative people and those who love creative work. In this series, "ridiculous" is a relative term, because what is nonsense for one can be an important guideline for another. These pleasing and educational books are not about laying down the law. For each of the fifty-one rules covered in each book, Van Gaalen refers to quotes by famous fellow creators, who either think there is something to the rule or have made a personal variation on it. Whether you agree with them or not, the Ridiculous Design books sharpen your own thoughts about the rules and the assumed truths within the creative disciplines. Each rule is convincingly illustrated, with the illustrations either confirming or disproving the rule in question.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789063692803
Publisher:	Laurence King Publishing
Publication date:	01/14/2014
Series:	Ridiculous Design Rules Series
Pages:	160
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 6.90(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Anneloes van Gaalen is a writer, editor, curator, translator, lecturer, producer
and all-round creative. Her articles have been published in a wide variety of international publications, including Wired, Dazed & Confused, I.D. Magazine and Surface. More recently she wrote Loser, a book on failure and design, and has been
working on other design-related publications.

Table of Contents

Provisional list of Rules:

1. Design isn’t art
2. Good artists copy, great artists steal
3. Use the Golden Ratio / The rule of thirds
4. Depicting objects from one viewpoint
5. Art rules the world
6. “What garlic is to food, insanity is to art.”
7. Don't Yell, 'My Kid Could Do That'
8. An artist is only appreciated after he is dead
9. Emulate, not imitate
10. Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder
11. Know your craft
12. Put everything into perspective
13. Never follow any known rules
14. Alway write an artist statement
15. Prices of your work will go up, as your coffin goes down
16. Keep it real (lifelike)
17. Don’t use black
18. The struggling artist is a myth
19. Les règles de l'art
20. All art is but imitation of nature
21. Advertising is art

And 30 other ridiculous art rules