by Alan Todd | May 25, 2024 | Art, Artist, Opinion
THE DEMOCRATIC RIGHT TO SUFFER AS AN ARTIST One of the questions frequently asked by amateur artists on FB is ‘is it finished?’ They then seek advice on what to do. The best-intentioned advice though is essentially worthless. No work of art worth looking at has ever...
by Alan Todd | May 18, 2024 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Painting
It is not often that portrait painting makes the news twice in a week – albeit it for different reasons. There is nothing new about images of the ultra-rich being hung on a wall and in many historic cases, the painted portrait is the only evidence of their...
by Alan Todd | May 10, 2024 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion
Once again, I read this week of an artist suing another for using similar ideas. This time it was Anthony James and Maurizio Cattelan over sheets of metal peppered with bullet holes even though such practice has been employed by Kader Attia, Angelo Brescianini,...
by Alan Todd | Apr 6, 2024 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion
AGE, RETIREMENT AND THE FALLACY OF YOUTH There are questions that recur frequently in my life and with them come inbuilt assumptions. The first is ‘when did you decide to become an artist? and the second ‘are you retired?’ Grey hair seems to prompt the latter...
by Alan Todd | Mar 17, 2024 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion
For some decades now the art world has been pondering where it is heading, if it is heading anywhere in particular or in indeed if it could ever have a singular face. When the work of artists could be compartmentalised into movements and developmental links...
