by Alan Todd | May 20, 2023 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Painting, Sculpture
I visited an exhibition by two artists this week of small sculptures and paintings and then went to the artist talk a few days later. Whereas on first sighting I had been impressed by the tactile and whimsical use of materials for the sculptures and the use of...
by Alan Todd | May 11, 2023 | Opinion
Every time I hear that old chestnut of a cliché that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, I am left wondering. If beauty is that individual, can there ever be, not just an agreement, but a universal definition. Well, there, must be In that one is being applied...
by Alan Todd | May 5, 2023 | Art, Artist, Artwork, digital art, Opinion, Painting
One of the frequent discussions in the history of art surrounds the idea of Decadence. There is an assumption at the base of it that art is cyclic, rising to a point of major achievement and then falling away again into crudity and sentimentality. The high is...
by Alan Todd | Apr 20, 2023 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Sculpture
Just what does the ‘public’ part of public art amount to? Should the public even be involved? Public sculpture is a challenge for any artist tasked with catering for a range of tastes and opinions and seldom pleases everyone. You’d have to be really unlucky to...
by Alan Todd | Apr 12, 2023 | Art, Artist, Opinion
The idea of cultural stagnation could be said to derive from imitation and repetition without context. Recycled forms of music and art, to say nothing of ‘classic’ TV comedy keep being revived for a new generation where every day of the last century exists...
