by Alan Todd | Nov 30, 2020 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion
Civilisation has always been measured by its art. What we know of ancient Greece, ancient Mesopotamia, ancient Egypt, ancient Meso America comes from the monuments they left behind. All of the great civilisations rose and fell but for each there was an artistic...
by Alan Todd | Nov 16, 2020 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Painting
I hear people refer to work as abstract all the time. Sometimes it’s simply a lack of understanding and sometimes it’s a derogatory term suggesting that any work that doesn’t imitate nature in all its detail, is not art. There are two aspects to consider here. The...
by Alan Todd | Nov 9, 2020 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Painting
There are any number of terms in art that cause confusion not least of which are those that try to divide art, artists and time into clearly defined movements as you so often find in art text books. A few of the divisions have actual beginnings such as Futurism...
by Alan Todd | Nov 3, 2020 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Painting
I recently read a piece of critical writing about an exhibition where the writer described the work as ‘close to illustration’. The artist had every right to be perplexed. It seemed that there was a divide between ‘real’ art and a lesser form known as illustration. In...
by Alan Todd | Oct 25, 2020 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Painting
Recently an artist on FB asked if making a study/copy of an artist’s work was a breach of copyright and someone else added that you would end up in jail if you did. This generated pages of comments which in some cases labelled every art student a forger and every...
