Week 3: Breaking the rules

Rules rules rules... many artists have broken the rules.It depends, rules are meant to be broken or not. To me rules are made to put human life in a disciplined format. Without rules we humans would not be staying in a civilized society, there would be chaos and confusion everywhere. Rules makes us disciplined. But in certain cases some rules do get broken.

In certain cases we need to break certain rules just to get a taste of freedom or to break the monotony of life, for example rules like one has to come back home before evening, sometimes it is necessary to break the rule just to experience the night life.

Here are some examples of an artist breaking the rules.

Swiss performance artist Milo Moire arrived at Art Basel in Switzerland completely naked, except for her shoes, a pair of glasses and the words "pants," "bra" and "jacket" written on her body. She wasn't allowed into the event as a result. When interviewed, Moire responded that "the art market needs the peculiarity of art...without this quality, even the prestigious Art Basel only sells illusions."

Definitely breaking the rules there...

Another example would be Sebastian campo creating simple and refined erotica in 'twenty one sextury' a series of work portraying sexual encounters of all kinds of people in society.

Instead of portraying a perfect drawing of a girl in a erotic manner he used geometric shapes.

The third example is to prevent others from breaking a rule that shouldn't be broken. Three engineering students from chile designed an elegant bicycle that is ‘Unstealable’

The trio designed a bicycle that lets you “wrap” it around a pole or a tree. To use, simply slide down a tube on the bicycle frame to open it up before looping the saddle across to lock it in place. 

The whole locking procedure takes about 20 seconds, which is comparable to the time taken when a conventional lock is used.

Basically the frame is the lock.

In conclusion not only by breaking rules we can achieve a great piece of work.