by Alan Todd | Jan 27, 2025 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion
The term ‘self-taught’ in art comes with any number of prejudices. One is the intimation that the only learning of value comes from close attention to the teachings of a professed expert or of established lessons of the past. In art is it a pejorative term and anyone...
by Alan Todd | Dec 28, 2020 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion
In my ongoing reading of Marcel Proust I came across this assessment of artistic genius from the penultimate chapter of the Fugitive as interpreted by writer David Ellison. ‘The narrator hypothesises that all artists owe allegiance to a moral contract to which they...
