by Alan Todd | Feb 27, 2024 | Art
by Alan Todd | Feb 9, 2024 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Painting
Susan Sontag, American writer, critic, and public intellectual, wrote about the interpretation versus the appreciation of art. Perhaps that dilemma is inevitable when the question ‘what does it mean?’ presages any appreciation as though what is perceived is in...
by Alan Todd | Jan 30, 2024 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Painting
I grew up believing that art was based on perception and vividly recall paintings by a local artist of whipped lines synthesising what he had seen of tall grass. The multiple layers of lines created a forest that filled the canvas. I also recall sitting in the roof...
by Alan Todd | Jan 20, 2024 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Review, Sculpture
In any one year there are numerous art competitions across Australia with some thematically focussed and some medium-specific. There is never any shortage of entrants. The art competition has been a cultural staple for more than a century and is inevitably used...
by Alan Todd | Jan 7, 2024 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Painting
I had a brief discussion with some doorstep visitors a day ago. They wanted to talk about God, the bible and free will. While respecting their views I said that I didn’t deal in the supernatural and that the origins of the bible were murky and more an...
