by Alan Todd | Jan 20, 2024 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Review, Sculpture
In any one year there are numerous art competitions across Australia with some thematically focussed and some medium-specific. There is never any shortage of entrants. The art competition has been a cultural staple for more than a century and is inevitably used...
by Alan Todd | Jan 7, 2024 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Painting
I had a brief discussion with some doorstep visitors a day ago. They wanted to talk about God, the bible and free will. While respecting their views I said that I didn’t deal in the supernatural and that the origins of the bible were murky and more an...
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...
