Download or read book Rebel Without a Palette written by Francis Rubbra and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-06-20 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A HOW-TO OF COOL ART THINK. SECRETS TO BEING AN ARTIST DRAWN FROM A MILLENNIUM OF ARTISTS' QUOTES. Rebel without a palette is a satirical 21st-century hybrid art treatise/algorithm packed with thousands of thought-provoking, comically arrogant, absurdly insightful, humorous and highly original artists' quotes. Sample from over two thousand original art aphorisms: Theory 'Reflected light is light that bounces off something and strikes something else.' 'Cast shadows are the shadows objects make when blocking the light; their shadows are the darkest where they meet the object.' 'An illusion of space can be achieved in paintings in the following ways. Contrast: Stronger contrasts in the foreground; weaker contrasts in the background. Contrast light/shade, warm/cool, bright/dull. Too much contrast is confusing, too little bland. Overlapping objects: Positioning objects in front of one another. Colour: Warm and saturated colours in the foreground, cool and non-saturated colours in the background.....' 'Black absorbs all light; it is the absence of colour. Using black in your paintings will create optically 'dead' areas, and disrupt the balance and harmony of colour, so ban it from your palette.' 'Sgraffito is the technique of scratching through a layer of paint to reveal a lower layer of paint.' 'Glazing is the technique of applying thin translucent colour to modify the colour of lower layers of dried paint. Translucent pigments allow the passage of light.' 'Alla Prima: (Italian, meaning at first attempt) or wet-on-wet refers to a popular painting technique whereby a painting is completed while the paint is still wet.' 'Imprimatura (Italian meaning, first paint layer) is an initial layer of paint applied to remove the stark white of a canvas. Burnt sienna and raw sienna are commonly used; it sets the painting's mood and should be laid down loosely with a large brush.' Humour 'You know it's the mating season when more than one person shows up to your private views.' 'Private views are where people you know realise they don't want to know you.' 'People who forget where they put themselves make the best artists.' 'Every artist plugs a creative hole that's leaking.' Serious 'The objective of art is to knock down walls that are not upholding the dignity of paintings.' 'The job of an artist is to become more like an artist, and more like their mysteries.' 'When painters run out of paint, it can be said they have run out of ammunition.' 'The mind is not a stomach, it's not a vessel to be stuffed as full as possible, it's a gallery where ideas hang, it's a place for reflection, it's a place where tears recover, it's a place to declutter, it's a creative home.' 'The highest purpose of art is to keep the positive energy of the universe flowing.' Covering all the basics of art practice, process, and theory, Rebel Without a Palette has claims to be both a go-to manual of creative thinking and a bible of technical knowledge. Brimming with humour, spunky backchat, and satire for serious ends, Rubbra's novel approach to the art didactic, sets the book apart on the art bookshelf as a refreshing and original voice. Including perhaps the longest art poem/philosophical declaration ever written, a short story about the last Romantic, an Australian artist holed up in prison in Adelaide and determined not to relinquish his rebellion and creative mischief until the bitter end, a magical surreal dream, and a preface stuffed full of inciteful observations about what art is and attempts to achieve.