"Artistic tricks divert from the effect that an artist endeavors to produce, and even excellent elements such as bullets, arrows, brackets, ornate initials, are at best superficial ornamentation unless logically employed," Mr. Rand maintained.
Remember to use line width variation and other artistic tricks.
Apart from regarding conventional linear narrative as a kind of artistic confidence trick, they were also keenly absorbed by the notion of "extending the form".
The second of our pick for the new year is the Mancunian songstress LoneLady (real name Julie Campbell), whose 'Immaterial' betrays the age-old artistic conjuring trick beloved of northern musicians of finding beauty in the everyday detail of modern life.
What happens in between is less a series of flash-backs than a series of debates about identity and artistic ownership, tricked out with enormous visual flair.
Yet by one of the more perverse tricks of artistic fate, the most popular version of it today is a Russian ballet that contains nothing of Mazilier's choreography or much of Adam's music and in which Byron's original poem, heavy with tragic emotion, is distorted into an absurd romp.
"The Muppets have always been about artistic integrity, not cheap tricks," says Kermit at one point in the film.
Anyone who saw action in the great Punk Wars will remember that it was standard practice to cover an old 60s song but preserve your artistic integrity by the simple trick of playing it at twice the speed.
"In circus, the premium is on the trick," said Sarah East Johnson, artistic director of the Bessie- and Obie-award-winning troupe, Lava, after a vigorous rehearsal in her narrow studio in the Prospect Heights section of Brooklyn.
Studio Voltaire, SW4, Sat to 24 Aug SS With promising curatorial mischief, the 2014 Liverpool extravaganza is titled A Needle Walks Into A Haystack, which seems to refer to the artistic propensity for trying old tricks in new settings.
