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9781523534180

How to Art Bringing a Fancy Subject Down to Earth

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    9781523534180

  • ISBN10:

    1523534184

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2025-09-23
  • Publisher: Workman Publishing Company
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Summary

A funny, inviting, full-color book about art for people who don’t know about “art”—featuring new artworks by David Shrigley. 

What is art, where do I find it, and once I’m in front of it, what am I supposed to think about it? Kate Bryan is a self-confessed art addict who has worked with art for over twenty years. But before she studied art history at university, she’d visited a gallery just twice in her life and had no idea she was entering an elitist world. Now, she’s on a mission to help everybody come to art.

Like playing or listening to music, or cooking and eating great food, reading or watching films, making art or looking at other people’s deserves to be an enriching part of all our lives. How to Art provides a nifty way to ingest art on your own terms. From where it is to what it is, to tips on how to actually enjoy famous artworks like the Mona Lisa, to how to own art and make art at home, to vital advice for making a career as an artist and even how to make your dog more cultural, How to Art gives art to everyone—and makes it fun. Laced throughout with original artworks by the very down-to-earth artist David Shrigley.

Author Biography

Kate Bryan is an arts broadcaster and Chief Art Director for Soho House where since 2016 she has curated and overseen a global art collection of over 10,000 artworks. She fell in love with art as a teenager from reproductions in books that she enjoyed between shifts at Burger King and Gala Bingo. She started her art career at the British Museum and has since worked in galleries in London and Hong Kong, where she completed her postgraduate degree. Kate also mentors artists from under-represented backgrounds. Passionate about demystifying the subject of ‘art’, she is friends with the artist David Shrigley, a fellow campaigner for art as a tool for well-being, and they have been plotting this book that allows everyone to come to art for the past few years. 
 

Table of Contents

Introduction: Why Art?
 
Part One: What is Art and where to find it
 
WHAT IS ART
 
HOW TO FIND ART
 
HOW TO LOOK AT ART WITH CHILDREN
 
HOW TO MAKE YOUR DOG MORE CULTURAL
 
 Part Two: What to do when you’re in front of an artwork
 
HOW TO TALK ABOUT ART YOU LIKE
 
HOW TO READ AN ARTWORK
 
HOW TO TALK ABOUT ART YOU DO NOT LIKE
 
HOW TO ENJOY ICONIC ARTWORKS
 
HOW TO ART AT HOME
 
Part Three: Why we can all make art – and ways to get started
 
WHY MAKE ART IF YOU ARE NOT AN ARTIST
 
HOW TO START DRAWING
 
HOW TO GET BETTER FASTER
 
HOW TO HOST A PAINTING PARTY      
 
HOW TO IMPROVE YOUR COMPOSITION
 
Part Four:  Taking fine art home 
 
WHY BUY ART IF YOU ARE NOT A ROCKEFELLER
 
HOW TO GET YOUR EYE IN
 
HOW ART IS PRICED
 
HOW TO BUY INEXPENSIVE ART
 
ARY BUYING NEXT LEVEL: HOW TO SURVIVE AN ART FAIR
 
HOW TO FRAME ART
 
HOW TO HANG AN EPIC SALON WALL
 
HOW TO LOOK AFTER ART
 
Part Five: Everyone can ‘art but some of us can be artists
 
WHY BE AN ARTIST (with advice from David Shrigley)
 
HOW TO FIND YOUR STYLE
 
HOW TO MAKE A LIVING AS AN ARTIST
 
HOW TO WRITE AN ARTIST STATEMENT
 
HOW TO STAY MOTIVATED
 
 
Afterword – what we can all take from this book
 
And three useful things
GLOSSARY – SOME USEFUL ART TERMS
WHAT NOT TO SAY TO AN ARTIST
HOW TO AVOID POISONING YOUR CAREER AS AN ARTIST

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