by Alan Todd | Sep 2, 2025 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion
Recently I have seen any number of artists, particularly abstract artists, asking what titles they should put on their works. The original function of a title in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries was to identify the work for sale purposes and was more often...
by Alan Todd | Aug 31, 2025 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion
YOU CAN’T BE ANY GOOD IF YOU ARE SELF-TAUGHT. GET YOURSELF TO AN ART SCHOOL! 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...
by Alan Todd | Aug 13, 2025 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Sculpture
DOWN THE DRAIN – a SALA review SALA is the annual art event in South Australia involving hundreds of exhibitions and thousands of artists One of the theoretical divisions of modern and contemporary art recognises that the object can assert its own meaning and exist as...
by Alan Todd | Jul 23, 2025 | Art, Artist, Artwork, digital art, Opinion
Decadence is an intangible and what the visual arts demonstrates repeatedly is that a highpoint is simply a cultural judgement and that all art is in a permanent state of transition often only recognised as such long after the event. What is true is that there are...
by Alan Todd | May 17, 2025 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Painting, Review
Landscape painting will never lose it allure for buyers of art. There could be a multitude of reasons for purchasing a landscape painting from nostalgia to romanticism to belief in an idyll and it was obvious from what I saw today across a number of galleries,...
