by Alan Todd | Apr 25, 2021 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion
If we had to list the world’s problems we might include climate change, pollution, over population and the endless squabbles over who should be in charge but in the real world of cake manufacture and copyright the priorities are quite different. Just when you think...
by Alan Todd | Apr 18, 2021 | Art, Artist, Artwork, digital art, Opinion, Painting
Perhaps as a society we’ve actually grown up. Having seen episode one of Bridgeton and social and emotional suppression taken to extremes, lived through the sexual revolution of the late 60s when for some all ‘rules’ went out of the window, to whatever we have today...
by Alan Todd | Apr 10, 2021 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Painting
There is nothing new about artists poking the bear for a variety of causes from government inaction to government action to the need to help all-powerful godheads whose power may be waning. But then again, artists need sponsors and money to protest about...
by Alan Todd | Apr 3, 2021 | Art, Artist, Artwork, digital art, Opinion, Painting, Sculpture
We know about copyright – that’s when you get to sue the likes of a government, a big tech company or your local fish wholesaler for using one of your images without permission for up to seventy years after your death, should you have the resources or time. But moral...
by Alan Todd | Mar 28, 2021 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Painting
Is ABSTRACT art for its own sake still a valid art practice? Hasn’t it all been done? Every day I see another painting derived from the mystical connection between the inner workings of a human mind and a canvas – that endless quest for the ‘god particle’ of physics...
