by Alan Todd | Jan 4, 2021 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion
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. You either spend incomprehensible hours locked in the solitary confinement of a studio or fill gallery spaces with equally incomprehensible...
by Alan Todd | Dec 30, 2020 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Painting
John Ruskin, the English art critic spent the years 1843-1860 writing about art and architecture and producing Modern Painters, The Seven Lamps of Architecture and The Stones of Venice to try and determine what beauty is through the lens of art, religious belief and...
by Alan Todd | Dec 30, 2020 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Painting, Sculpture
I read of an artist recently on social media who stated that he had never studied the work of others and never went to exhibitions so as to maintain a state of purity wherein he could produce completely original work. He was naïve, to say the least. To think that he...
by Alan Todd | Dec 12, 2020 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Painting, Review
Historically we can look back over the last century and see how art reflected the time in which it was made. It becomes easier in critical terms to define an era the further away we get. Given that the art world tends to think in decades in spite of artists spanning...
by Alan Todd | Dec 8, 2020 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Painting
Memory is defined in the dictionary as ‘the mental capacity or faculty of retaining and reviving facts, events, impressions, or of recalling or recognising previous experiences’. How that process works is still a mystery as is why some impressions are registered and...
