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...
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...
