by Alan Todd | Apr 6, 2024 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion
AGE, RETIREMENT AND THE FALLACY OF YOUTH There are questions that recur frequently in my life and with them come inbuilt assumptions. The first is ‘when did you decide to become an artist? and the second ‘are you retired?’ Grey hair seems to prompt the latter...
by Alan Todd | Mar 17, 2024 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion
For some decades now the art world has been pondering where it is heading, if it is heading anywhere in particular or in indeed if it could ever have a singular face. When the work of artists could be compartmentalised into movements and developmental links...
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...
