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...
by Alan Todd | Nov 27, 2021 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Painting
After a century of experiment in the visual arts, the dogged landscape tradition, far from giving up the ghost, is still as strong as ever. The question remains though as to why landscape painting persists as a subject in that numbers of artists, both amateur...
by Alan Todd | Nov 19, 2021 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Painting
In the early 70s musicians Georgie Fame and Alan Price came together to produce an album entitled the Price of Fame. For five minutes they were well known, failed to destroy any hotel rooms and made the papers for all the right reasons. The music was less than...
by Alan Todd | Nov 7, 2021 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Painting
In reading about the American painter Agnes Martin, I came across one of the great axioms of abstraction. Never talk about where your idea came from and if necessary, invent a past that may or may not have existed. Certainly, never admit to health problems,...
