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...
by Alan Todd | Dec 21, 2020 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Painting
I have recently spent some time reading about the life of Proust and his great novel A la Recherche and in particular his working methods. At a point in his life after 1900 be purchased a whole load of school exercise books [cahiers] into which he recorded...
by Alan Todd | Dec 16, 2020 | Art, Artist, Artwork
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...
