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...
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...
