by Alan Todd | Jan 12, 2022 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Painting
Trivialisation may well become the term that best describes life in 2022. Talent is optional. Actual work is unnecessary. This is more than ever, the lottery generation – the right to something for nothing. Those with nothing to say, are saying it anyway. What set me...
by Alan Todd | Jan 7, 2022 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion
Picasso wouldn’t be the only artist who has bemoaned the addictive need for audiences to look for meaning in a painting. It has become the be-all and end-all of appreciation or at least the first port of call for audiences to not only look but to believe that it is a...
by Alan Todd | Dec 31, 2021 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Painting
As an artist, one of the aspects of daily life for me is the ongoing concern with development. The expectation of all artists is that they move on. When I look at the likes of Scully, Rothko, de Kooning, Frankenthaler and any number of other artists I see a...
by Alan Todd | Dec 22, 2021 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Painting
Perhaps it is a moot question or at least one without an answer, but what does it take to change the course of art history. Historians tell us that it took an assassination of random royalty in Sarajevo to trigger WW1 and an unexpected invasion of Poland to...
by Alan Todd | Dec 9, 2021 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Painting
In 1948 Picasso received a cable from America signed by Stuart Davis, Lipchitz and James Sweeney then head of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, asking that he be part of a protest against the attack on modern art by certain senators who considered such art as...
