by Alan Todd | Oct 22, 2023 | Art, Artist, Artwork, digital art, Opinion, Painting
This week I found myself in the middle of the Pacific on a cruise liner. Amid an endless supply of karaoke, suduku, water aerobics and guessing competitions Quantum of the Seas had its own version of Park West Gallery. As with some 100 cruise liners, the...
by Alan Todd | Oct 16, 2023 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion
The relationship between artist and gallery has been extensively documented in biographies with positive experiences, disappointment and litigation in about equal proportion and while some note a decline in the role of galleries as opposed to fairs and...
by Alan Todd | Sep 16, 2023 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Painting
How many artists will tell you that they work by intuition? Quite a few. In the last hundred years or so it has become the go-to explanation for modernism and everything that followed. In essence it defies all explanation and attempts to explain intuition in...
by Alan Todd | Sep 4, 2023 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion
Recently I have seen any number of artists, particularly abstract artists, asking what titles they should put on their works. The original function of a title in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries was to identify the work for sale purposes and was more...
by Alan Todd | Aug 27, 2023 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion
A few days ago, I received my long-awaited copy of the excellent quartet of themed books on the work of Louise Nevelson, the much-maligned American sculptor. She was criticised for being a woman who dared to live her life via an outrageous persona, for being a woman...
