by Alan Todd | Sep 28, 2024 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Painting, Sculpture
Anselm Kieffer and I grew up in the same era in the wake of WW2 but while he was surrounded by the destruction of a nation, his identity and what it meant to be a German was under question. The old order had gone and no one knew what lay ahead. For my part, I...
by Alan Todd | Sep 15, 2024 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Painting
ART IS FINISHED. OR IS IT? One of the questions frequently asked by amateur painters on FB is ‘is it finished?’ The dilemma of constant change leads to indecision and a failure of intuition. Doubt can kill the creative process. So, what in the end does ‘finished’...
by Alan Todd | May 25, 2024 | Art, Artist, Opinion
THE DEMOCRATIC RIGHT TO SUFFER AS AN ARTIST One of the questions frequently asked by amateur artists on FB is ‘is it finished?’ They then seek advice on what to do. The best-intentioned advice though is essentially worthless. No work of art worth looking at has ever...
by Alan Todd | May 18, 2024 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Painting
It is not often that portrait painting makes the news twice in a week – albeit it for different reasons. There is nothing new about images of the ultra-rich being hung on a wall and in many historic cases, the painted portrait is the only evidence of their...
by Alan Todd | May 10, 2024 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion
Once again, I read this week of an artist suing another for using similar ideas. This time it was Anthony James and Maurizio Cattelan over sheets of metal peppered with bullet holes even though such practice has been employed by Kader Attia, Angelo Brescianini,...
