by Alan Todd | Dec 16, 2024 | Art, Artist, Artwork, digital art, Opinion
It hadn’t occurred to me until I read an article about the slow demise of the baby boomer generation and a shift in the profile of art collectors, that I am part of that generation and all that it accomplished, not just artistically but as the motivating force behind...
by Alan Todd | Oct 19, 2024 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Painting, Sculpture
Maybe there is a logic to this process that is simply beyond me, and I suspect, to much of the art world where even dealers are mystified, while the general public are inevitably in the dark to the point where they have stopped caring. In October 2022 the...
by Alan Todd | Oct 12, 2024 | Art, Artist, Opinion
There has long been a belief that active or passive exposure to the Arts, and particularly the visual arts, as manifestations of human intellectual achievement, can shape the ideas, customs, social behaviour and culture of a particular people or society. In ancient...
by Alan Todd | Sep 28, 2024 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Painting, Sculpture
Anselm Kieffer and I grew up in the same era in the wake of WW2 but while he was surrounded by the destruction of a nation, his identity and what it meant to be a German was under question. The old order had gone and no one knew what lay ahead. For my part, I...
by Alan Todd | Sep 15, 2024 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Painting
ART IS FINISHED. OR IS IT? One of the questions frequently asked by amateur painters on FB is ‘is it finished?’ The dilemma of constant change leads to indecision and a failure of intuition. Doubt can kill the creative process. So, what in the end does ‘finished’...
