by Alan Todd | Jul 13, 2021 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion
It has been a long time since I considered what constitutes ‘fine art’ or even ‘art’ and I’m surprised that the debate still continues or that anyone still feels the need to define either. There has always been an exclusivity to definitions that favour an academic...
by Alan Todd | Jul 3, 2021 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Painting
Why am I not surprised? Yet another attempt to sound intelligent without doing any actual work popped up in my weekend newspaper. I remember a book from the 60s that listed the ten things you should memorise about art and artists of note so that you could sound as...
by Alan Todd | Jun 28, 2021 | Art, Artist, Opinion
Questions surrounding the funding of the Arts in Australia continue to circulate with no mention of supporting the arts on a federal level in the recent budget and after the recent South Australian budget, not a cent allocated there either. Queenslanders and...
by Alan Todd | Jun 20, 2021 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion
The National Association for the Visual Arts (NAVA) in Australia, in a message to members, said that the proposed revisions to the National Arts curriculum means ‘a teacher could go an entire year without referring to a single living Australian artist’ and that...
by Alan Todd | Jun 14, 2021 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Painting
It would seem that Banksy shot himself in the foot in stating that ‘copyright Is for losers’. The European Union Intellectual Property Office also cited his anonymity as a factor in not being able to control the use and distribution of his work. If your work is...
