Write A Critique:
—If It's Real and Clear, Collect Art or $150
Write a one page essay on the art of Misha Bittleston, if your essay is honest and intelligent, you receive your choice of $150 or a signed print of one of the works you wrote about.
Open to all writers of all ages, all abilities and all levels of knowledge about art.
Selected entries and information about writers to be published on this site and in a forthcoming book derived from selected writers essays and the associated images by Misha Bittleston that writers elected to write about.
Rules:
- Your essay should reference at least one of Misha Bittleston's works.
- Your entry may be of any length.
- Your entry must be your own, in English and original.
- Only selected entries will be published. Misha Bittleston reserves the right to publish your essay.
- Your essay should have a title, and be spell and grammar checked.
- Your essay may be one or a combination of any written forms such as: analysis, criticism, critique, description, essay, evaluation, explanation, observation, ramble, rant, review, story etc.
- You may enter as many essays as you wish, but only two per month will be selected by a single author.
- You will be notified within a month if your essay has been selected. If you have not been contacted within 30 days, you may assume that your entry is not selected.
- No fee is required to enter.
- The call for essays has been open since June, 2004, and is still open now; it is ongoing until sufficient entries have been received, there is no deadline.
- Note to professional writers and editors: This is an unorthodox project for those who want to write about art, it is not a professional full or part-time writing job.
- Any of the above rules are subject to change without notice.
How to Enter:
Essays can be sent by email only to the email address below.
Type your name, address, phone number, email address, as well as your location and vocation, above your essay or in the body of the email.
Additionally, describe something notable or unusual about you, include a short bio and if possible attach your picture.
Send your entry by email, as an attachment or as text within your email, to:
To receive payment by PayPal, please indicate the email address of your PayPal account; otherwise payment will be made payable to you and sent by check to the address given in your submission.
Additional guidelines:
The essays that have not been selected have been those that were so general that they could almost have been about anything; changed the subject; were full of praise for which no bases were given; or they simply made no logical or poetic sense.
Whether you write one line or a trilogy, if you write from the heart and keep it real, structure will take care of itself; the content is more important than the wordcount or format of the writing.
This project is also about playing with a reversal of visual art illustrating ideas and histories, and discovering what happens when thoughts, opinions, theories, stories and ideas are created in response to visual art.
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