by Alan Todd | Jul 14, 2023 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion
You could describe the art of today as the product of the introspective mirror. A FB friend of mine says that in fact all art is a selfie. In some ways that is true if you remove the propogandists and those who continue to hold up a mirror to nature and even...
by Alan Todd | Jun 16, 2023 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Sculpture
Recently I installed two tall wooden sculptures outside a gallery against a backdrop of endless rows of grape vines. They were there for the duration of an exhibition – a matter of six weeks. They didn’t survive. Oriented east-west to emulate the ancient stone...
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...
