by Alan Todd | Aug 26, 2022 | Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Painting
Federico Garcia-Lorca wrote that ‘at the heart of all great art is an essential melancholy’. Melancholy ……….a feeling of pensive sadness, typically with no obvious cause. He was writing as a poet, but any number of blues musicians would probably agree...
by Alan Todd | Aug 5, 2022 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Painting, Sculpture
Once a year during August every South Australian artist puts up an exhibition, takes part in a group show or opens up their studio to the public. This year i’m opening my Vanilla Sky Studio each weekend
by Alan Todd | Jul 28, 2022 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion
A recent opinion piece promoted the idea that ‘Australia could unleash a cultural renaissance by paying artists a living wage’. [Lauren Harris, July 20, 2022]. With caveats detailing just who an artist is and is not, it is an idea worth pursuing and as Harris...
by Alan Todd | Jul 16, 2022 | Opinion
I well remember the Sydney Olympics and the unlicensed use of music between every point during the beach volleyball. The much-vaunted ‘best games ever’ seemed to have a mandate to do whatever it wanted when it came to violating copyright and they were not...
by Alan Todd | Jul 13, 2022 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Painting, Review
Perhaps I should have viewed the two exhibitions in reverse order. After the scintillating colour of one I was left with the sepia toned staleness of the other and even where colour was lavishly applied with a visible brush by painterly artists, the colour took...
