Pour beaucoup, devenir artiste est le rêve de toute une vie. Mais comment y parvenir?? Dans son ouvrage Jerry Saltz, l'une des voix les plus célèbres et les plus passionnées du monde de l'art, propose un manuel indispensable pour les créatifs en tout genre, qu'ils soient peintres, photographes, écrivains, cinéastes, bédéistes ou chefs cuisiniers.
Depuis les premières étincelles d'inspiration - et la manière de les poursuivre sans céder au doute - Jerry Saltz offre un aperçu inestimable de ce qui compte vraiment pour les artistes émergents?: l'originalité, la persévérance, l'équilibre entre connaissance et intuition, et la plus précieuse des qualités, la confiance en soi.
Regorgeant de règles, d'incitations et de conseils pratiques, Comment devenir artiste offre aux artistes de nouvelles façons de surmonter les blocages créatifs, stimuler la motivation et vaincre les mauvaises habitudes, de tirer le meilleur parti des matériaux, de relever les défis de leur carrière et, surtout, de trouver la joie dans le travail.
Un livre destiné à aider les artistes à réaliser leurs rêves.
From the Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author of How to Be an Artist a deliciously readable survey of the art world in turbulent times.
Jerry Saltz is one of our most-watched writers about art and artists, and a passionate champion of the importance of art in our shared cultural life. Since the 1990s he has been an indispensable cultural voice: witty and provocative, he has attracted contemporary readers to fine art as few critics have. An early champion of forgotten and overlooked women artists, he has also celebrated the pioneering work of African American, LGBTQ+, and other long-marginalized creators. Sotheby's Institute of Art has called him, simply, "the art critic." Now, in Art Is Life, Jerry Saltz draws on two decades of work to offer a real-time survey of contemporary art as a barometer of our times. Chronicling a period punctuated by dramatic turning points--from the cultural reset of 9/11 to the rolling social crises of today--Saltz traces how visionary artists have both documented and challenged the culture. Art Is Life offers Saltz's eye-opening appraisals of trailblazers like Kara Walker, David Wojnarowicz, Hilma af Klint, and Jasper Johns; provocateurs like Jeff Koons, Richard Prince, and Marina Abramovic; and visionaries like Jackson Pollock, Bill Traylor, and Willem de Kooning. Saltz celebrates landmarks like the Obama portraits by Kehinde Wiley and Amy Sherald, writes searchingly about disturbing moments such as the Ankara gallery assassination, and offers surprising takes on figures from Thomas Kinkade to Kim Kardashian. And he shares stories of his own haunted childhood, his time as a "failed artist," and his epiphanies upon beholding work by Botticelli, Delacroix, and the cave painters of Niaux.
With his signature blend of candor and conviction, Jerry Saltz argues in Art Is Life for the importance of the fearless artist--reminding us that art is a kind of channeled voice of human experience, a necessary window onto our times. The result is an openhearted and irresistibly readable appraisal by one of our most important cultural observers.
