How To Art, a new book about art written by Kate Bryan with illustrations from the one and only David Shrigley, is fittingly named after the down to earth ethos of its author and illustrator. David, known for his simple satirical drawings, and Kate, who\u2019s built an extremely respectable career in arts after years of working shifts as a teenager burger flipper at Burger King and calling out numbers at Gala Bingo, make for a brilliant pairing in a book that takes a \u201cfancy subject down to earth so we can all enjoy it\u201d.<\/p>\n
Kate fell in love with art as a teenager, enamoured by the reproductions she discovered art books, eventually leading her to her current role as an arts broadcaster and chief art director for Soho House since 2016. Now, she\u2019s produced her own seminal text. It\u2019s proudly \u2018lowbrow\u2019 and sincere, just like (one could say) the majority of working class appreciators of art. There are tons of success stories of blue collar workers who made artistry their full time job, but as we all know, it\u2019s not without its perils. Phoebe Waller-Bridge blurbs How To Art as \u201cart without terror\u201d, quite rightly \u2013 the book is straight forward, joyful and never condescending.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was to demystify in an entertaining way. I wanted to remind us all that art\u2019s supposed to be joyful, we shouldn\u2019t have to get bogged down in academicism,\u201d says Kate, sharing details on how she came about creating her own kind of how-to guide. \u201cEven my 6 year old tells me the title doesn\u2019t make sense!\u201d Nonsense or otherwise, the book is undeniably accessible. This isn\u2019t a traditional guide, but it is a book in which one hopes anyone can refashion their own path with art. There is no large stretch of imagination needed to envision a future where imagination is your greatest asset.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"How To Art, a new book about art written by Kate Bryan with illustrations from the one and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38364,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[437,434,435,436,438,146,85,46],"class_list":["post-38363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}