Or 34, if you count “Always be nice, generous, and open with others and take good care of your teeth.” And No. There are 33 rules - and they really are all you need to know to make a life for yourself in art. (Everyone’s a narcissist.) I’ve even stolen a couple from my wife. Others from listening to artists talk about their work and their struggles. Most of them were simply gleaned from looking at art, then looking some more. Yet, over the years, I’ve found myself giving the same bits of advice. How do you get from there to making real art, great art? There’s no special way everyone has their own path. Today, we are all Andy’s children, especially in the age of Instagram, which has trained everyone to think visually and to look at our regular lives as fodder for aesthetic output. When, last month, Banksy jerry-rigged a frame to shred a painting just when it was auctioned, I could almost hear the whispers: “Is that art?” This fall, the biggest museum event in New York is the Whitney’s retrospective of Andy Warhol - the paradigmatic self-made, make-anything-art-and-yourself-famous artist. What they’re really asking is “How can I be an artist?” I wrote about that last year, and ever since, I’ve been beset - every lecture I give, every gallery I pop my head into, somebody is asking me for advice. I know this viscerally, as a would-be artist who burned out. Photo Illustration by Joe Darrow.Īrt is for anyone. Jerry Saltz, New York’s art critic, as Salvador Dalí, based on a photograph by Philippe Halsman.
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