What can I do if I do not understand English?
(You can also copy the text of our rules and translate it into your language using https://translate.google.com/. If you prefer, we can send you our invitation, concept and rules in German).
We will inform all participants about the progress of our art projects. Important: Please enter our email address into your email address book or email contact list, so that all emails arrive safely! You can find your address list in the menu bar of your email software. Please also make sure that the email address is correct! Before you send us an email, please read the next paragraph!
Where can I find the most important information?
The most important information can be found on our archive website: www.enterintoart.com
Right on the first page (HOME) there is an overview of the structure of the website, so that you can find there the following information at any time:
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progress of our work and the time of publication of the books,
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deadlines for submitting images,
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current offers - call for artists,
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published books,
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buying our books.
Please find the best information on the website about the current status of our work. Should you still have any questions, then please send us an email, always contacting the respective editor of the book. (If there is a new CALL ARTISTS, please download and read carefully the rules and short guidelines.)
Sign up / registration of your images?
- Deadline for payment and reservation of your place in the book. (You will find this deadline in our invitation or in the announcement on the website.)
- Deadline for sending your images - about 4 - 6 months later. The current dates can be found on our archive website in the top menu CALL ARTIST. (Please scroll there down!)
How to register your images?
- Please read the Part 1 of our Rules - specially the point "WORKS" and all things that are important for registration.
- You are free to choose your subject according to our rules (themes), but it should be relaxing. (Please see the pictures of the participants in our ARCHIVE or book series website https://enterintoart.com/!)
We need:
- your signed user contract
- if there, your website address
- details of the images in the following form by email:
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What's new since 2020?
https://enterintoart.com/art-gift-books/
No print copies are included in the cost to publish. The artist can buy books for a reduced author price from the publisher. This has the advantage that there is no minimum purchase. You can also buy just one book and buy more at any time. (As usual, there are also postage costs / fees.)
Buy books?
You can always find the link to buy books on our archiv website in the upper menu ART BOOKS, lower menu BUY BOOKS:
For a better understanding of how we work, please be sure to read our information "The way we work" ! (Please scroll there down.)Enter into Art - LOUNGE?
Series of our art gift books:
- Enter into Art – LOUNGE 1, 2 and 3 (large format artworks)
- Art Retreat - Kunstretreat (small format pictures)
- Solo art books
Awards and Rewards?
All artists in the “Enter into Art” books are invited and nominated! There are book design awards and jury awards:
1) There are very valuable rewards in the form of your image being on the book cover, back cover, title page and other highlighted pages in the book. The prizes are divided into the following categories: 1st prize (front cover), 2nd prize (back cover), 3rd prize (title page), Honorable Mentions (chapter pages or other highlighted pages).
2) There is an annual jury competition for large format artworks (LOUNGE) and a jury competition for small format images (ART RETREAT). The prizes are divided into the following categories: 1st prize, 2nd prize, 3rd prize, Special Prize, Excellent Awards, Honorable Mentions, Amber Awards, 30 % Finalists:
a) All LOUNGE-book series are part of the additional free annual contest for large artworks (with one selected artwork)
b) The book series “ART RETREAT” is part of the contest for small pictures (miniprint and mixed media).
The total value of each award category (small-scale pictures, large artworks or book design), is about EUR 2000-3000 plus non-quantifiable value of a PR press release.
Please find detailed information about the "Enter into Art" awards on our archiv website!
Rewards for jury prizes and editorial prizes:
With regard to the awards for small-format works of art, please note the special rules for the book series “ART RETREAT – Living with pictures”.
Our free service?
Video: For the first 20 registrations per book, we create our bonus video with relaxing music once a year.
Screen presentation of our books in an exhibition center: As far as possible, we present each book on the screen in an exhibition center, whereby your pictures can be seen for several weeks.
Internet documentation: We document your participation and our projects in detail on the Internet – in both English and German, and we also publish one picture per participant in our websites. On the German website (special gallery), the images are sorted by color.
See our free online books also here!
Jury contest: Our international LOUNGE jury contest takes place once a year in summer / autumn, whereby all participants in our LOUNGE series are each represented with a picture (and also the featured artists of the book series “Art Retreat”).
Please find detailed information about the "Enter into Art" free service on our archiv website!
What is the early bird or bonus offer?
If you are among the first artists to register, your artwork will be included in the bonus video (featuring your work). The exact bonus number is determined separately for each project.
(There is not always an Early Bird offering in conjunction with a reduced participation fee, but if this is possible then the following applies: To benefit from the Early Bird rate, confirmation of your participation is required by the Early Bird deadline.)
Our Corona price reductions have nothing to do with Early Bird!
If you are among the first artists to register, your artwork will be included in the bonus video (featuring your work). The exact bonus number is determined separately for each project.
(There is not always an Early Bird offering in conjunction with a reduced participation fee, but if this is possible then the following applies: To benefit from the Early Bird rate, confirmation of your participation is required by the Early Bird deadline.)
What means "focusing on meditativ aspects"?
Meditation in the religious or esoteric sense plays no role! In our art book projects, presentations and events, we examine only the attentive and relaxing viewing of a work of art! See also AIMS AND TASKS!
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Meditation in the religious or esoteric sense plays no role! In our art book projects, presentations and events, we examine only the attentive and relaxing viewing of a work of art! See also AIMS AND TASKS!
What are the PR themes?
- The foreword in our book "KUNSTRETREAT 2019" dealt with Guillaume Apollinaire and his one-year stay in the Rhineland. It is also dedicated to the theme of "Apollinaire and Music" and the setting of his poems.
In each book of the series "Excellent Art" (LOUNGE 3) a music suggestion from the classical field will be published:
- "The Seasons" of Joseph Haydn (Excellent Art 2020)
- William Turner and the Rhine Romantic
- Ludwig van Beethoven and the poems of Johann Wolfgang Goethe
Who organizes the projects?
Please contact us for questions, applications and all other matters!
What if you don't send us pictures or don't send them on time?
Networking?
- ARCHIV website www.enterintoart.com.
- Yumpu (Leaf through our online books!)
- Facebook page, (Enter into Art - International book projects, Germany / miniprint joint art exhibitions)
- Youtube-Channel (Watch our videos with your artworks and our entertaining playlists on our book themes!)
- German online journal, in which we expanded the online show with the category “Artistic pleasure”. On this blog, we publish regularly posts, touching on the areas of travel, relaxation and mindfulness, poetry/nature, art, lifestyle and congratulations. In addition to the "Art Excellence" posts for the winners and featured artists of our international projects, we usually publish all images of our exhibitions.
About us?
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