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 21, 2020 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Painting
I have recently spent some time reading about the life of Proust and his great novel A la Recherche and in particular his working methods. At a point in his life after 1900 be purchased a whole load of school exercise books [cahiers] into which he recorded...
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...
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 | Sep 14, 2020 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Painting, Sculpture
Today I re-read Joan Kee’s book on Korean contemporary abstract art in the light of seeing Jonathon Kim’s work at the West Thebarton gallery and on the back page of the recent edition of Artist Profile. What struck me was the phrase ‘activating the space...
