by Alan Todd | Oct 19, 2021 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Painting
This week I finished reading Bacon’s ‘Revelations’ and part of his interviews with David Sylvester. Both give a remarkable insight into his life and work of the attist but at the same time provide a level of frustration. His subject matter was not narrative or...
by Alan Todd | Oct 9, 2021 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Painting
When Atlantis sank beneath the waves, and I have no doubt that Plato was reporting an actual event however long after the event, it joined every other low lying or coastal civilisation lost to history. The Caribbean and the Mediterranean show plenty of evidence...
by Alan Todd | Oct 3, 2021 | Art, Artist, Artwork, digital art, Opinion, Painting
It all seems a bit like desperation ….or death throes. An article this week expounded new ways of promoting art – augmented reality, machine learning, interactive holography, non-fungible tokens, and digital self-determination with the prediction that next nine...
by Alan Todd | Sep 27, 2021 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Painting
There have been any number of attempts to distinguish between Art and Craft. A friend of mine goes further and divides craft into two with ‘high craft’ as a pinnacle akin to art. In one version of a comparison chart[1],Art is ‘unstructured and boundless’ while...
by Alan Todd | Sep 19, 2021 | Art, Artist, Artwork, digital art, Opinion, Painting, Review
Not that long ago I could define Abstract art as work without a formal, recognisable subject and essentially, centripetal. Dictionary.com describes it as ‘A trend in painting and sculpture in the twentieth century. Abstract art seeks to break away from traditional...
