by Alan Todd | Dec 6, 2023 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Painting, Sculpture
EXHIBITIONS IN 2024 As 2023 comes to an end I am planning for next year. It promises to be busy. The large wooden sculptural works will be out on display for the first time as will many of the smaller pieces. Of particular note will be the installation at Palmer. It...
by Alan Todd | Nov 28, 2023 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion
In 1948 Picasso received a cable from America signed by Stuart Davis, Lipchitz and James Sweeney then head of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, asking that he be part of a protest against the attack on modern art by certain senators who considered such art...
by Alan Todd | Nov 18, 2023 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Painting
When Picasso was messing about with African masks he believed in the magical power of objects – probably a throwback to his days in Catholic Spain as well as the mystique of bullfighting and its role in reinforcing the male ego. African nations have...
by Alan Todd | Nov 10, 2023 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion
One of the more interesting aspects of 20th century pop and rock was the way the pendulum swung from the airy-fairy to the hardnosed, from the mystical search for the soul to a down in the gutter sensibility. One could be seen as the antithesis of the other and...
by Alan Todd | Nov 6, 2023 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion
Sci fi writers tell us that once you have visited a parallel world you will never be the same again and everything will be slightly dislocated when you return. Some might suggest that entering an art gallery is to enter just such a parallel world and whether the...
