If the artist’s work features many strange markings, it is a sign of carelessness and inexperience.
HOW TO TELL GOOD ART FROM BAD : ADVICE FOR THE WARY ART BUYER
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Opinion
WHO UNDERSTANDS PICASSO?
Once upon a time Picasso was one of the few artists everyone knew about or at least the one artist whose name everyone knew once you got past Da Vinci and Michaelangelo.
REVOLUTION, THE EASEL PAINTING, THE POWER
The role of art and artists has altered over time. The ancient world is full of monuments to power, records of the doings of civilisations and individuals, and examples of the transmission and perpetuation of culture
FEAR OF THE DARK…AND THE LIGHT
For a week I’ve manned an exhibition of my work at Port Adelaide and had only a handful of people call in. If I had to categorise them the majority were local artists intent on sharing their practice via pictures on their mobile phone. I’ve seen water colours,...
MaADNESS – THE NECESSARY INGREDIENT FOR SUCCESS
There is an assumption that you have to be mad to want to an artist and if you succeed then the evidence of madness is obvious.
Ruskin, artistic virtue and a just society
There is no doubt that the art of the last century or so has reflected massive social change and that both the technology used to create art and the subject matter would be unrecognisable to Ruskin.