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...
by Alan Todd | Aug 11, 2023 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Painting
More than once I’ve described my day to non-art people and from the glazed look they adopt it leaves me in no doubt that they consider me to be eccentric, driven and absurd. As the work piles up, the only question on their minds is ‘what are you going to do...
by Alan Todd | Aug 6, 2023 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Painting, Review
There is no doubt that our lives if not governed by ritual and geared to it. Organised repetition of the same acts in the same order are part and parcel and where no ritual exists, we invent one. Some rituals are small time and domestic while others involve large...
