by Alan Todd | Nov 3, 2020 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Painting
I recently read a piece of critical writing about an exhibition where the writer described the work as ‘close to illustration’. The artist had every right to be perplexed. It seemed that there was a divide between ‘real’ art and a lesser form known as illustration. In...
by Alan Todd | Oct 25, 2020 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Painting
Recently an artist on FB asked if making a study/copy of an artist’s work was a breach of copyright and someone else added that you would end up in jail if you did. This generated pages of comments which in some cases labelled every art student a forger and every...
by Alan Todd | Oct 18, 2020 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Painting, Review
I Alex Beckinsale. Fragile Bodies. Floating Goose Studios.2020 I have lost count of how many times I have gone to an exhibition and been presented at the door with a book-length explanation of the work on the walls or the floor. Picasso said in an interview...
by Alan Todd | Oct 9, 2020 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Painting
I recently spoke to a young artist, barely out of art school, who believed that her work could alter or shape people’s thinking about animals and the environment. Looking at her work consisting of animals in fields, I wondered how she could believe it when art history...
by Alan Todd | Oct 3, 2020 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Painting
“Ideally most of our waking time should be spent in a state of contemplative stillness or of acute focus and concentration which are respectively the passive and active faces of attention”. Christopher Allen, October 3 2020. In an article on...
