by Alan Todd | Dec 12, 2020 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Painting, Review
Historically we can look back over the last century and see how art reflected the time in which it was made. It becomes easier in critical terms to define an era the further away we get. Given that the art world tends to think in decades in spite of artists spanning...
by Alan Todd | Dec 8, 2020 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Painting
Memory is defined in the dictionary as ‘the mental capacity or faculty of retaining and reviving facts, events, impressions, or of recalling or recognising previous experiences’. How that process works is still a mystery as is why some impressions are registered and...
by Alan Todd | Nov 30, 2020 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion
Civilisation has always been measured by its art. What we know of ancient Greece, ancient Mesopotamia, ancient Egypt, ancient Meso America comes from the monuments they left behind. All of the great civilisations rose and fell but for each there was an artistic...
by Alan Todd | Nov 16, 2020 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Painting
I hear people refer to work as abstract all the time. Sometimes it’s simply a lack of understanding and sometimes it’s a derogatory term suggesting that any work that doesn’t imitate nature in all its detail, is not art. There are two aspects to consider here. The...
by Alan Todd | Nov 9, 2020 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Painting
There are any number of terms in art that cause confusion not least of which are those that try to divide art, artists and time into clearly defined movements as you so often find in art text books. A few of the divisions have actual beginnings such as Futurism...
