by Alan Todd | Jan 27, 2025 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion
The term ‘self-taught’ in art comes with any number of prejudices. One is the intimation that the only learning of value comes from close attention to the teachings of a professed expert or of established lessons of the past. In art is it a pejorative term and anyone...
by Alan Todd | Dec 29, 2024 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion
When the internet came online in the 90s there was a wide-eyed belief about the amount of space available for data storage and operation on a personal computer and what it would take to fill it. Essentially it was seen as a limitless void. As a complete...
by Alan Todd | Dec 16, 2024 | Art, Artist, Artwork, digital art, Opinion
It hadn’t occurred to me until I read an article about the slow demise of the baby boomer generation and a shift in the profile of art collectors, that I am part of that generation and all that it accomplished, not just artistically but as the motivating force behind...
by Alan Todd | Oct 19, 2024 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Painting, Sculpture
Maybe there is a logic to this process that is simply beyond me, and I suspect, to much of the art world where even dealers are mystified, while the general public are inevitably in the dark to the point where they have stopped caring. In October 2022 the...
by Alan Todd | Oct 12, 2024 | Art, Artist, Opinion
There has long been a belief that active or passive exposure to the Arts, and particularly the visual arts, as manifestations of human intellectual achievement, can shape the ideas, customs, social behaviour and culture of a particular people or society. In ancient...
