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I STARTED A JOKE – HAVEN’T I HEARD THIS ONE BEFORE?

by Alan Todd | Nov 1, 2021 | Art, Artist, Artwork, digital art, Opinion, Painting

I think, as with many people, my sense of humour is specific. Some love physical comedy, some the profane, some the referential intellectual and others …well who knows. My preference has always been towards subtle black comedy but I never did get Monty Python or the...

I MISTAKENLY THOUGHT THAT I WAS AN ORIGINAL. TURNS OUT I AM JUST A MISPLACED DERIVATIVE.

by Alan Todd | Oct 27, 2021 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Painting

  The other day I saw a questionnaire regarding the problems that artists face. The idea was to nominate the three problems that were proving most irksome. Lack of sales, lack of respect and lack of recognition all got a guernsey and its hard not to disagree....

BY CHANCE, I PRODUCED A PAINTING. AREN’T I CLEVER?

by Alan Todd | Oct 19, 2021 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Painting

  This week I finished reading Bacon’s ‘Revelations’ and part of his interviews with David Sylvester. Both give a remarkable insight into his life and work of the attist but at the same time provide a level of frustration. His subject matter was not narrative or...

TO BE OR NOT TO BE ? THE FUTURE IS WITH US WHETHER WE LIKE IT OR NOT

by Alan Todd | Oct 3, 2021 | Art, Artist, Artwork, digital art, Opinion, Painting

  It all seems a bit like desperation ….or death throes. An article this week expounded new ways of promoting art – augmented reality, machine learning, interactive holography, non-fungible tokens, and digital self-determination with the prediction that next nine...

THE ART OF CRAFT OR THE CRAFT OF ART. DOES ANYBODY REALLY CARE?

by Alan Todd | Sep 27, 2021 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Painting

  There have been any number of attempts to distinguish between Art and Craft. A friend of mine goes further and divides craft into two with ‘high craft’ as a pinnacle akin to art. In one version of a comparison chart[1],Art is ‘unstructured and boundless’ while...
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