by Alan Todd | Nov 20, 2025 | Art, digital art, Opinion
WHAT IS ART AND IS IT EVEN A QUESTION WORTH ASKING? One answer is that whatever an artist produces is art which begs the question as to how to define an artist in the first place particularly in 2025 when ‘everyone’ is an artist. It could be argued that the...
by Alan Todd | Oct 31, 2025 | Opinion
There have been innumerable studies connecting screen violence with social and criminal media violence as the principal cause failed to take into account the plethora of other possible reasons. Much of the early angst was aimed at television rather than film in...
by Alan Todd | Oct 20, 2025 | Art, Artist, Artwork, digital art, Opinion, Painting, Sculpture
FOCUS ON ART THE LIFE AND DEATH OF THE AVANT GARDE Art history tells us that the visual arts are both a mirror and a manifestation of the times in which they were created and yet it is the avant garde artist as creative outsider who is remembered the most fondly....
by Alan Todd | Sep 7, 2025 | Art, Artist, Artwork, digital art, Opinion
THE TINY BRUSH SYNDROME The question as to why any art style persists presumes that there is an easy answer and when it comes to Photorealism it may be less to do with art than societal expectation. On first seeing a photograph around 1840, the influential...
by Alan Todd | Sep 4, 2025 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Painting
Every time I hear that old chestnut of a cliché that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, I am left wondering. If beauty is that individual, can there ever be, not just an agreement, but a universal definition? There have been a number of philosophers who have...
