by Alan Todd | Feb 17, 2022 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Painting
Would the world in fact be better off if everyone agreed on what is beautiful? There is a school of thought originating with Kant that beauty, far from being a universal concept or even ‘in the eye of the beholder’ is no more than people looking for general agreement...
by Alan Todd | Feb 11, 2022 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Painting
In the 1990s I read a book that purported to predict what the new millennium would look like. Technologically, politically, socially, it had it all wrong. Technologically you could expect and forgive. Mapping the genome and going to Mars weren’t even on the...
by Alan Todd | Feb 4, 2022 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion
A holiday in the Mediterranean some years ago coincided with the Venice Biennale and I spent a day excitedly exploring the pavilions. The Biennale alternates between themes of architecture and art, an idea that came into being in 2003, so prior to that, countries...
by Alan Todd | Jan 28, 2022 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion
It never ceases to amaze me just how much people are threatened by art. A common hyperbolic comment is ‘awesome’. Awe, according to any dictionary, is that state of mind on encountering an all-powerful being, a god-like figure. Some artists may be treated as gods by...
by Alan Todd | Jan 21, 2022 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion
Ethnographers, linguists and socio-political historians have made many attempts over the last two centuries to try to determine not just what separates groups of humankind into societies, civilisations and communities but the very definitions of those terms....
