by Alan Todd | Dec 30, 2020 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Painting
John Ruskin, the English art critic spent the years 1843-1860 writing about art and architecture and producing Modern Painters, The Seven Lamps of Architecture and The Stones of Venice to try and determine what beauty is through the lens of art, religious belief and...
by Alan Todd | Dec 30, 2020 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Painting, Sculpture
I read of an artist recently on social media who stated that he had never studied the work of others and never went to exhibitions so as to maintain a state of purity wherein he could produce completely original work. He was naïve, to say the least. To think that he...
by Alan Todd | Dec 28, 2020 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion
In my ongoing reading of Marcel Proust I came across this assessment of artistic genius from the penultimate chapter of the Fugitive as interpreted by writer David Ellison. ‘The narrator hypothesises that all artists owe allegiance to a moral contract to which they...
by Alan Todd | Dec 21, 2020 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Painting
I have recently spent some time reading about the life of Proust and his great novel A la Recherche and in particular his working methods. At a point in his life after 1900 be purchased a whole load of school exercise books [cahiers] into which he recorded...
by Alan Todd | Dec 16, 2020 | Art, Artist, Artwork
