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, 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 | 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...
