by Alan Todd | Jun 24, 2022 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion
This week I received a copy of Prime, The Next Generation of artists [Phaiden]. It follows the Vitamin series in canvassing the art world as a predictive summation rather than writing in retrospect as is the case for every other book on my shelves. Some 700...
by Alan Todd | Feb 17, 2022 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Painting
Would the world in fact be better off if everyone agreed on what is beautiful? There is a school of thought originating with Kant that beauty, far from being a universal concept or even ‘in the eye of the beholder’ is no more than people looking for general agreement...
by Alan Todd | Jan 7, 2022 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion
Picasso wouldn’t be the only artist who has bemoaned the addictive need for audiences to look for meaning in a painting. It has become the be-all and end-all of appreciation or at least the first port of call for audiences to not only look but to believe that it is a...
by Alan Todd | Dec 22, 2021 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Painting
Perhaps it is a moot question or at least one without an answer, but what does it take to change the course of art history. Historians tell us that it took an assassination of random royalty in Sarajevo to trigger WW1 and an unexpected invasion of Poland to...
by Alan Todd | May 2, 2021 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Review
In a recent article, Rainer Jozeps [In Daily, Adelaide], bemoaned the dearth of fearless arts critics in Adelaide. The word ’fearless’ is contentious in this context. Calling out the ‘bullshit’ is one thing but providing insight, perhaps even insight of which the...
