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....
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...
