by Alan Todd | Jan 16, 2021 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Painting
I had to laugh. An online article concerning how to tell good art from bad began with a series of cliches – beauty is in the eye of the beholder; good art will speak to you; the artwork should invite itself to you; an artist puts a lot of work into their pieces....
by Alan Todd | Jan 12, 2021 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Painting, Sculpture
Once upon a time Picasso was one of the few artists everyone knew about or at least the one artist whose name everyone knew once you got past Da Vinci and Michaelangelo. A shrewd marketing campaign and regularly signing tablecloths to pay for a meal, all helped to...
by Alan Todd | Jan 12, 2021 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Painting
The role of art and artists has altered over time. The ancient world is full of monuments to power, records of the doings of civilisations and individuals, and examples of the transmission and perpetuation of culture – the teachings and dogma of religions being...
by Alan Todd | Jan 9, 2021 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Painting
For a week I’ve manned an exhibition of my work at Port Adelaide and had only a handful of people call in. If I had to categorise them the majority were local artists intent on sharing their practice via pictures on their mobile phone. I’ve seen water colours,...
by Alan Todd | Jan 4, 2021 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion
There is an assumption that you have to be mad to want to an artist and if you succeed then the evidence of madness is obvious. You either spend incomprehensible hours locked in the solitary confinement of a studio or fill gallery spaces with equally incomprehensible...
